Winger

Genres:	Heavy Metal • Music Videos & Concerts • Musicals & The Arts • Pop / Rock
Descriptive "tags":	hard rock • hair metal • 80s • heavy metal • rock • glam metal
Decades Active:	1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	MySpace • Official Homepage • Wikipedia

Biography

This melodic US AOR/hard rock act was formed by experienced session musicians Kip Winger (22 May 1961; bass, vocals) and Paul Taylor (keyboards, guitar) following their work together on Alice Cooper’s Constrictor tour. Enlisting lead guitarist Reb Beach and drummer Rod Morgenstein (ex-Dixie Dregs), the quartet chose the name Sahara, but were forced to change to Winger at the last moment - the original name still appeared on a corner of the debut sleeve. Winger proved to be an immediate success, producing US Top 30 singles in ‘Seventeen’ (number 26, February 1989) and ‘Headed For A Heartbreak’ (number 19, June 1989), while the vocalist’s rugged good looks turned him into a major sex symbol. This rather worked against the band in press terms, and Winger were never really taken seriously by the UK rock press in particular, despite abilities which kept them in demand for musician-type magazines and a genuinely impressive debut. In The...

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