Making The Grade (1984) Dorian Walker, Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump

Dorian Holley, backup singer for Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, etc. Partners with his daughter Nayanna Holley, herself a veteran backup singer for Kelly Clarkson, The Weeknd, Cheryl Crow, et al, fully realizing a cross-generational musical legacy. This is the first album for the father-daughter singing tandem, a collection of favorite songs from the 70s and 80s, chosen at the height of the global pandemic to recall our ability to heal and to hope for better days ahead.

“’Loving You ‘is a reflection on the life and music of Bobbie Nelson,” says Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Shires. Shires’ mission in making ‘Loving You ‘is to pay respect to the only woman she saw working in a band and pursuing a career as a sideman. “I first saw Bobbie playing when I was 16 at some festival in Texas where I grew up,” she explains. “Much of my path seemed possible because I saw a woman working and making a career of music at a young age, and that woman was Bobbie Nelson.”

If Performance was the nadir of Eloy's artistic creativity, then Metromania represents the seeds of a resurrection with a shift to a harder rocking style blending elements of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Hawkwind with Eloy's symphonic Prog tendencies and sophisticated Stadium-AOR…