The Hooters

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The Hooters are an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By combining a mix of rock and roll, ska and folk music, The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid 1980s due to heavy radio and MTV airplay of several songs including Day By Day, And We Danced and Where Do The Children Go. Their popularity resulted in the band opening the Philadelphia portion of the Live Aid benefit concert in 1985. During the late 1980s and 1990s, The Hooters found significant commercial success internationally, especially in Europe, where they played at The Wall Concert in Berlin in 1990, before they went on hiatus in 1995. Since reuniting in 2001, The Hooters have staged successful tours in Europe and 2007 saw the release of their first album of new material since 1993, Time Stand Still. Early years (1980-1984) The Hooters were formed in 1980 and played their first show on July 4 of that year. They took their name from a nickname for the melodica, a type of keyboard harmonica which is German in origin and made by Hohner. Two of the members, Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, originally played in a band in the late 1970s called Baby Grand and released two albums on Arista Records. During the 1980s, The Hooters played on the Philadelphia club scene, boosted by airplay on WMMR in Philadelphia. In 1983, The Hooters released their first independent album, Amore, which sold over 100,000 copies and introduced the original versions of songs like All You Zombies, Hanging On A Heartbeat, Fightin' On The Same Side and Blood From A Stone, all of which would reappear in different versions on later albums.

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