Formed in Calgary, Canada nearly three decades ago by vocalist Mike Reno, guitarist Paul Dean, bassist Scott Smith, keyboardist Doug Johnson and drummer Matt Frenette, the LOVERBOY sound rocked the eighties, leaving an indelible mark.

From 1980 through 1987, the band released four multi-platinum best sellers as well as many gold albums. Their hit singles are now rock classics and include Turn Me Loose, The Kid Is Hot Tonite, Working For the Weekend, Hot Girls in Love, and the power ballads When It's Over and This Could Be The Night, as well as the "Top Gun" soundtrack smash Heaven In Your Eyes, plus many more that are still concert favorites today for LOVERBOY fans around the globe.

On stage, LOVERBOY delivers an unmatched explosion of energy, skill, style and showmanship that has made the group one of rock's greatest live acts. Following a break at the end of their first decade of success, the band reformed in 1992 as part of a benefit concert. The audience of music fans and industry professionals were blown away and LOVERBOY was soon back on the road, playing 100 or more dates annually.

At the start of the new decade, the band suffered a tragic loss, when founding bassist Scott Smith lost his life in a boating accident, declared lost at sea on November 30, 2000. The surviving members came together to continue on, with the introduction of new bassist Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve, and dedicated one of their final performances to Scott on the subsequent live release Live, Loud & Loose to his memory.

All good things are not planned and that was this case with JUST GETTING STARTED. Singer Mike Reno was working on songwriting for another artist, started recording the demos, and his fellow writer- producers were stunned.

"They said they couldn't believe the sound of my voice," Mike says." "So we started writing more songs and knew it was LOVERBOY music now. I was working in the studio with these guys while also going on the road with the band, doing three, four shows a week."

The writing and recording sessions were a personal rebirth for Mike as well. "I'd been suffering writer's block for a while. So when we started work, they said, 'What do you want to write about? What's on your mind?' I said I felt stranded when it came to writing and they said, 'That's your title, your theme.' Stranded became the first song written for the album. And then, it just started coming, like being in a therapist's office."

Many of the songs came out of the end of relationships and the start of new ones, such as Fade to Black, Lost In You and I Would Die For You. It's about the past, present and the future, too," Mike says. But it's not all tears of farewell; there's love renewed and hope bursting forth, as in As Good As it Gets and the download-only bonus track, an appropriately live recording of the anthem of celebration, Alive.

The music is rich in hooks and melody, with a modern rock edge and drive that takes the LOVERBOY sound in new directions for the 21st century.

"Mike's got the fire and I say go for it," Paul says enthusiastically. "He's always been the consummate pro and his voice is stronger than ever, so much more dynamic, and that's where he's writing now, too."

The album's title JUST GETTING STARTED came from its lead track and the clear perspective that LOVERBOY is forging on ahead. It does almost feel like we're JUST GETTING STARTED again, after all we've been through together and in our personal lives as well, "Mike says

The group has already played some of the new material in concert, with magical results. "Fans are singing along with the songs, and they've never heard them before," Mike says. "That's what we did in the old days, too, try out new songs and if people got excited they'd be on the album."

One particular moving experience came while performing the first single, The One That Got Away, a truly personal work that came out of Mike's divorce. "I almost couldn't sing the song that night," Mike recalls. "There was a fan crying in audience and I was thinking she's never heard it before and she gets it. That almost made me cry. I got a chill and Paul and I just looked at each other and knew this was right."

"My life with LOVERBOY is about playing live," Paul says. "How I look at it in the end, the songs will develop and change onstage, and already have. Even Lovin' Every Minute and Take Me To The Top, after 27 years, are still evolving live."

A band of brothers who have always been in it for the long haul, LOVERBOY is reenergized more than ever with the release of JUST GETTING STARTED, looking forward to playing even more of the album in concert, reclaiming their place as one of rock's greatest groups. "We've always had the chemistry plus the history behind us as well.

We know what we can do and want to do," Paul says. "My guitar sound and playing are a lot heavier now and Mike's tone and range -- it's just amazing. People are going to be surprised. This is LOVERBOY today."

"We would not have put an album out if we thought it was getting in the way of great hits we've done," Mike says of JUST GETTING STARTED. "These new songs are respectful of our past and inspirational for our future."

For LOVERBOY info: Michael Hektoen
RockSTAR Music Corp
Direct Line: 604.960.9880
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