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John Waite is a singer/songwriter hailing from Lancashire, England, who was born on July 4th, 1952. After his first band The Babys split up, he began a solo career in 1982, releasing 10 albums and scoring a number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 with 1984's “Missing You”.

Born in Lancaster, England, John Waite's first brush with rock stardom came while playing in the London based hard rock band The Babys. They came together in 1974, releasing their eponymous first album in 1977, and mere months after that album's release their single “Isn't It Time” was riding high on the Billboard charts, peaking at number 13. They managed to match that peak again with the single “Everytime I Think Of You”, but never managed to make any headway in their home country, or with all but one of their five studio albums, and the band came to an end in 1981.

Waite, who had sung lead vocals and played bass in the band, was the most recognisable member of the band by a long shot. Because of this he was snapped up by Chrysalis Records shortly after the band's break-up to release his debut solo album “Ignition” in 1982, and while the album and its lead single “Change” made huge waves on AOR radio it didn't exactly tear up the charts. That would come with Waite's second album “No Brakes”, which was a Gold certified top ten hit album powered by its number one hit lead single “Missing You”.

That wouldn't be the last time that Waite spent time at the top of the charts. In 1987, he rejoined two of his Babys band-mates to form the supergroup Bad English, and scored another number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the form of “When I See You Smile”. Waite resumed his solo career after the band came to an end in 1992 due to internal friction, and ever since then, Waite's enjoyed a great career doing exactly what he wants to do. He's worked with everyone from Alison Krauss to Ringo Starr and remains an unmissable live act to this very day. For all this, John Waite comes highly recommended.

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I saw John Waite in concert on May 27th of this year, 2014. I saw him perform at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, California.

If you don’t know who The Babys or Bad English were, then you don’t know hard rock, or this awesome musician who has the vocals of a god.

At the concert, he and the band wore casual clothes that could pass as business casual, but everything was neat and orderly. The crowd wasn’t goo energetic apart from some loud cheering that the end of ballad groups. Regardless of the crowd being quiet most of the time, there was high energy within the crowd, but no one wanted to disturb the sound coming from Waite’s mouth.

The experience of hearing John sing was pretty cool, but it could have been better. The sound quality of the performance should have been checked. The sound was scratchy and all the equalizer settings seemed to be off. Highs became bassy and lows became tinny sounding. I don’t feel like I wasted money and it could have been an incorrect setting by the soundman.

Would I see John Waite in concert again? Yes, without a doubt in my mind. One issue in a single experience doesn’t mean they’ll all be the same.

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John is perfection. There is no other way to say it. This is my 3rd year in a row seeing him at The Coachhouse and I was able to meet him this year. He is as warm, charming and kind as one would hope. His voice seems to get better and better each year. His energy and stage presence is phenomenal. His sense of humor is as strong as his song writing. I am so happy to live in Southern California so I am able to see him. I would see him daily if I could. If I could only listen to one solo artist for the rest of my life it would be John Waite. If it were a group, it would be The Killers. John's band is as fabulous as he is. I just can't say enough good about John.

Venue: Eaton's Hill Hotel, Brisbane.

John Waite was fantastic. Another of my bucket-list items achieved. I was surprised that he didn't have a keyboard player, but the bassist, guitarist and drummer provided excellent backing for John's still-strong voice, and his occasional acoustic guitar. He played all the songs I hoped for, as well as a couple of surprise covers.

The venue had good sound and stage-lighting, but the seating was squashed together in a ridiculous way. Security should have dealt with a group of unruly idiots who did their best to spoil the show for everyone else.

OH MY GOD!!!!! BEST CONCERT I EVER SEEN!!CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HIM AGAIN! He was just awesome,been wanting to see him since I was 20 something, and I am 50 now!!! He gave a great performance and I highly recommend seeing him...he sang many of the old songs and new also! GOING NEXT TIME HE IS IN AREA TO SEE HIM FOR SURE! Saw him at The coach House in San Juan Capistrano....got seating right up front at stage...couldn't believe it!

Simply Magnificent! The show was simple, 4 guys on stage, slight variation from radio play, humble, skilled, but what was the most absolutely amazing thing was his voice. Just perfection, better live then any recording. Clear, poignant, emotional, gorgeous...and he too looked gorgeous as well. Great show, so glad I went!

Wow, So happy to have seen him. The show was amazing.

John absolutely killed it. Then he did a Jimmy Hendrix Rendition of All along the watch tower... so good.

He finished with Led Zeppelin's Whole Lot of Love.

I can't say enough about his voice.... Cant wait to see him again..... YAY...

Thank You John Waite

FABULOUS as usual. I have seen John either solo or with the BABY'S 14 times. He and band always turn it out. Loved the catelog, he incorporated all the best and then some !

I hope he never stops !!

yes excellent... as good as he ever was!!! can't wait to see him again!!! brings back a lot of great memories!!!!! hope hes back in Central New york soon!!! Paula

Can't wait to see him in Austin Tx! Missing You was our wedding song 30 yrs ago. Love his voice. He is also a great artist.Vicki and Jim

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• 40 Years of Missing You  ( 34 )
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• European Tour 2010  ( 14 )
• Figure in a Landscape Tour 2001  ( 55 )
• I Want My 80s Tour  ( 1 )
• Ignition Tour 1982  ( 23 )
• Mask of Smiles 1985  ( 60 )
• No Brakes Tour 1984  ( 42 )
• Renegades & Juke Box Heroes  ( 37 )
• Rough & Tumble Tour  ( 93 )
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• The Wooden Heart Acoustic Tour  ( 63 )
• The Wooden Heart Acoustic Tour 2017  ( 5 )
• The Wooden Heart Tour 2016  ( 16 )
• US Tour 2003  ( 16 )
• When You Were Mine 1997  ( 5 )
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ABOUT JOHN WAITE

Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff. Rock n’ roll is closest thing I’ve got to a spiritual power. It’s been the higher voice in my life and it’s never let me down. - John Waite

Countless musicians of far lesser accomplishment have probably made similar statements regarding their own personal creative process, but when the confession comes from John Waite – whose been successfully writing, recording and performing some of the most listenable, enduring and appreciated popular music for more than 35 years – one cannot help but both recognize and marvel at the shimmering legacy of this British born rock star.

The ride began when Waite was tapped as bassist and lead vocalist for the Babys who rocketed to Top 20 chart positions with a pair of infections hits, “Isn’t it Time” from the band’s sophomore LP, Broken Heart in 1977 and the monster ballad, “Every Time I Think of You” off 1978’s Head First. But it was the album’s rhythmically aggressive and seductive title track where fans got their first glimpse of the authentic John Waite, a no-holds-barred rock n’ roll performer devoted heart and soul to live performance and making sure every fan in the audience left the concert hall just as elated and exhausted as the band they’d paid to see.

After John Lennon’s assassination, December 9, 1980, a bizarre thing happened during one of those furious Baby’s performances when John was pulled from the stage by an overzealous fan during an encore. The freak event seriously injured his knee and the group disbanded shortly thereafter. From the ashes of the Baby’s, however, rose an abundant and prodigious solo career, ignited by the well-received release, Ignition, that featured the single, “Change,” which rode the AOR charts for weeks in 1982, the year a new cable channel that would alter the course of popular media culture called MTV launched. At the forefront of its early play list was the video for the Holly Knight-penned track that in 1985, was included on the platinum-selling Vision Quest soundtrack.

John’s next solo effort, 1984’s No Brakes, did exactly what the title inferred, barreling at runaway train speed to international acclaim and U.S. platinum success thanks to the smash hit, “Missing You,” which did not stop until it reached Number 1 on the Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles, Album Rock Tracks and Adult Contemporary charts. The following up single, “Tears” was a top 10 hit on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts.

Continuing to evolve as both a songwriter and formidable stage presence, Mask of Smiles was released in 1985, possessing a pair of muscular hit melodies, ”Every Step of the Way,” and “If Anybody Had a Heart,” which appeared on the soundtrack to the 1986 motion picture, About Last Night starring Demi Moore. John’s fourth solo LP, Rover’s Return, highlighted by the superlative, “These Times Are Hard for Lovers.” The same season that Bon Jovi was urging two lovers to live on a prayer, John delivered an aortal anthem of timeless resonance. “Baby we can make it ‘cause our love will pull us through/ these times are hard for lovers its down to me and you/Nothing’s gonna break us if we hang on to what’s true, these times are hard for lovers, I believe I you.”

“I don’t have a plan and most of the songwriting is a knee jerk reaction of being alive. I try to speak from an honest place where the listener can both hear and feel where I’m coming from; the job is mine, to help them understand me. There’s a real need as an artist to express who you are and where you’re coming from.”

A long and prodigious career often combines composition and interpretation, like in 1990 when John recorded the Martin Page and Bernie Taupin-penned track, “Deal for Life” for the Days of Thunder soundtrack. But two years prior to that cinematic adventure, superbly performing another songwriter’s work led to one of the biggest hits on John Waite’s illustrious resume. In 1988, a reunion with former Baby’s band mates, Jonathan Cain and Ricky Phillips –along with uber-guitarist Neal Schon from Journey and drummer Deen Castronovo –resulted in the John Waite fronted supergroup, Bad English. And in 1989, the group’s ballad, “When I See You Smile,” – penned by Grammy-winning songwriter, Diane Warren – went to Number 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and was certified Gold. The album reached Top Five and sold more than two million units in the U.S. alone. Bad English released two albums before breaking up in 1992.

Since returning to the recording studio and concert trek as a solo artist in 1995, John has produced a string of solid, existentially eccentric, courageously eclectic and blisteringly electric rock n’ roll records, including 1995’s Temple Bar, 1997’s When You Were Mine, 2001’s Figure in a Landscape, 2004’s The Hard Way, 2006’s Downtown: Journey of a Heart and 2010’s In Real Time –an extraordinary live recording that featured burning in-concert realizations of the Baby’s “Change”, “Back on My Feet Again” and “Head First”, not to mention Bad English’s “Best of What I’ve Got” as well as a mind-blowing cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll.” It was this lifelong passion for original Country that inspired John’s sensational 2006 duet with bluegrass legend, Allison Krauss, where the two combined honeysweet vocal forces to remake his international hit, “Missing You.” On February 5, 2007, they performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

John teamed up with Matchbox 20 lead guitarist and songwriter, Kyle Cook in 2011 and their creative chemistry birthed the exhilarating Rough & Tumble, a long form exercise in raucous riffs and bloody truths highlighted by “Further the Sky,” “Shadows of Love” and the Classic Radio chart topping title track, a remarkable feat for any musician to reach number one airplay after three and a half decades in the music business trenches.

All-Access Live hit the streets in 2012 and delivered on all stages of John’s career–solo, The Babys and Bad English. Bearing a dynamic, stripped down sound which shows off his talented three-piece band, Waite demonstrates why he’s considered one of the great rock and roll singers, imbuing the timeless material with saber toothed vitality and kinetic power.

In 2014, Waite returned with Best. Navigating raucous rock, gut bucket blues and country, Waite’s new greatest hits album is a thrilling snapshot representing the inspired artistic breadth of this legendary artist’s entire career tallying more than 40 years on the rock and roll highway featuring re-recorded versions of signature classics, “Back on My Feet Again,” “Isn’t It Time” and “Missing You,” hard-hitting live renditions of “Head First,” “Saturday Night” and “Change” to the more introspective fare of “Suicide Life,” “Downtown” and “Bluebird Café.”

The Wooden Heart-Acoustic Anthology Volume 1 and Volume 2, released in 2015 and 2017, respectively, found Waite exploring yet another dimension to his artistry, his deep rooted appreciation of acoustic flavored music. “The Wooden Heart thing was something I’d wanted to attempt since I started making records. I wrote just about anything that was any good on the acoustic; I always had an acoustic with me wherever I went. It’s actually more of a surprise that I didn’t do something like this sooner.” Framed against stark and stripped down production showcasing only vocals and acoustic guitar, the Wooden Heart records highlighted the core essence of the songs themselves, threading newly penned original compositions, reworkings of some of Waite’s favorite material from his solo career and The Babys alongside smartly chosen covers by the likes of Bob Dylan (“Girl From The North Country”), Donovan (“Catch The Wind”) and Richard Thompson, into an authentic and soul stirring musical statement. “The first release (Volume 1) was done on the spot, a day of recording and a day of mixing. It just happened! I didn’t stop to think too much about anything but feel. It’s what I do best. It was the most natural I’d felt in a recording studio. Two years later, I wanted to record Volume 2 but this time touch on the past. We were playing Wooden Heart shows across America to sold out crowds and I wanted the new release to reflect that with songs like “Isn’t It Time” to In “God’s Shadow” and “Downtown.” I included some of the original masters to make it what it became, an anthology. The Donovan song, “Catch The Wind” was recorded in a converted cowshed in deep winter in Wales five years ago; Hawkwind’s bass player turned it into Foal Studios. The studio was miles from anywhere at the end of a lane so that’s another song I always wanted to try. The Wooden Heart-Acoustic Anthology will continue. There’s endless possibilities to it now the ice is broken.”

With more live shows and new music in the offing, John Waite continues to forge his own singularly personal path, celebrating the present and engaged by the promise of the future. The story is far from over for the Lancaster, England-born rock star/balladeer/storyteller who was inspired onto his musical path by blues, soul and country along with a deep connection to the Celtic folk music of his homeland.