They are the Siegfried and Roy of the soft-rock music world, the perennial are-they-or-aren't-they Aussie pop duo who were once portrayed as gay lovers on Saturday Night Live.
Air Supply was on Regis and Kelly today, flogging a best-of album, 30 years after they first started filling the airwaves with songs of loving, losing and wondering if anyone could ever possibly like us and what are these feelings inside, they're so new and different and ...
OK, I admit it, when I was but a wee tyke, Air Supply was all I needed. They year was 1980. I would retire for hours at a time to our dank, smelly basement and play their songs on a rickety record player until I cried about the love I longed for.
Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock – the two Russells. A quarter of a century later, I can remember almost every lyric. To me, they were – true to their name – like the air I breathed. And I will never forgive Kim Carnes for unseating them atop the charts.
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