Tony Carey
Antony Laurence Carey (born October 16, 1953, Turlock, California) is a rock and heavy metal keyboardist and Hammond organ player for the band Rainbow from 1975 to 1977.
Career
With the band Rainbow, Carey appeared on the studio album Rainbow Rising (1976) and on the live albums On Stage (1977) and Live in Germany (1994). Carey performed the keyboard introduction to "Tarot Woman", the first track on the Rainbow Rising album and the keyboard solo on "A Light in the Black", the last cut on the album.
He had a minor hit in the early 1980s with "I Won't Be Home Tonight", and then a bigger hit in 1984 with "A Fine, Fine Day", which reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. A follow-up single, "The First Day of Summer", reached #33 on the Hot 100 in July 1984. Both songs are featured on the album, Some Tough City, which hit #60 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Carey opened for Night Ranger on many dates of their 1984 tour in support of this album. His 1985 follow-up album, Blue Highway, did not score a hit.
He also fronted the science-fiction-themed group Planet P Project (initially called just Planet P), which he used as a vehicle for his solo work. Planet P Project released two albums, Planet P (on Geffen Records) in 1983 and Pink World (on MCA Records) in 1984, for which he wrote the lyrics and music, sang the lead vocals, and played most of the instruments. Session performers on lead guitar, saxophones, programming, and drums on some tracks made up the rest of the group. The first album was released on CD in 1992, retitled Planet P Project.
Tony began producing and guesting on many major groups from the US and Europe in the mid 80's. Notables of the many included Jennifer Rush in 1985, John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers - Chicago Line in 1988, keyboards and producer. In 1992 with Joe Cocker - Now That You're Gone, Forest McDonald's Color Blind, and in 2006 from Dire Straits, David Knopfler - Songs For The Siren.
Discography
- 1982 Yellow Power (self-titled, instrumental)
- 1982 Heaven (self-titled, instrumental)
- 1982 No Human (self-titled, instrumental)
- 1982 Explorer (self-titled, instrumental)
- 1982 In the Absence of the Cat
- 1982 I Won't Be Home Tonight
- 1983 Planet P (self-titled)
- 1984 T.C.P. (self-titled, instrumental)
- 1984 Some Tough City
- 1984 Planet P Project - Pink World
- 1985 Blue Highway
- 1987 Bedtime Story (Soundtrack "Der Joker")
- 1988 Wilder Westen Inklusive (Soundtrack)
- 1989 For You
- 1990 Storyville
- 1992 The Long Road
- 1993 Rare Tracks
- 1994 Rose T.C. - Route 66 (separate Maxi-Single)
- 1994 Cold War Kids
- 1995 Birds in Cages (Maxi-Single from the soundtrack Die Eisprinzessin)
- 1999 Gefangen im Jemen (O.S.T.)
- 1999 The Boystown Tapes
- 2000 Retrospective 1982-1999
- 2002 Planet P Project - Go Out Dancing (only as Promo-CD)
- 2004 Planet P Project - 1931 (Go Out Dancing, Part 1) (Mailorder-release from Official Website)
- 2004 Islands and Deserts (Mailorder-release from Official Website)
- 2004 Mo Cascal & Tony Carey - Überall Du (separate Maxi-Single)
- 2007 Live in Sweden 2006 - Volume 1
- 2007 The Voyager Files
- 2007 Candlelight Concert (DVD)
- 2008 Planet P Project - 1931
- 2008 Planet P Project - Levittown (Go Out Dancing, Part 2)
- 2008 A Lonely Life - The Anthology
- 2008 "The New Machine" 12 Song Free Internet Download at truebeliever.de
- 2008 Evil Masquerade - Fade To Black
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