Tony Carey
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Tony Carey (b. October 16, 1953) was the keyboardist for the band Rainbow from 1975 to 1977, appearing on the studio album Rainbow Rising (1976) and on the live albums On Stage (1977) and Live in Germany (1994). He is particularly noted for the keyboard introduction to "Tarot Woman", the first cut on the Rainbow Rising album and the keyboard solo on "A Light in the Black" the last cut on the "Rainbow Rising" album.
He had a minor hit in the early eighties with "I Won't Be Home Tonight", and then a bigger hit with "A Fine, Fine Day", which reached #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in March 31, 1984. It also reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and a followup single, "The First Day of Summer", reached #33 in July 1984. Both 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 that album.
He also fronted the science-fiction oriented "band" Planet P Project, which was in fact merely a vehicle for Tony's more progressive solo work. Planet P Project released two albums, Planet P in 1983 and Pink World in 1984, for which Tony wrote all the words and music, sang the lead vocals, and played most of the instruments. Session men on lead guitar, saxophones, programming, and drums on some tracks made up the rest of the "band."
[edit] 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 Abscence Of The Cat
- 1982 I Won't Be Home Tonight
- 1983 Planet P Project (self-titled)
- 1984 T.C.P. (self-titled, instrumental)
- 1984 Planet P Project - Pink World
- 1984 Some Tough City
- 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)
- 2005 Planet P Project - 1931 (Go Out Dancing, part 1)
- 2007 Live in Sweden 2006 - Volume 1
- 2007 The Voyager Files
- 2007 Candlelight Concert (DVD)
- 2007 Planet P Project - Levittown (Go Out Dancing, part 2)
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