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Eric Carmen's
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Eric Carmen's newest record album,
"Tonight You're Mine," on Arista, is more
rock'n'roll than one expects from him.
He says people ask if this isn't a big
change of pace, and the answer is no. He
always has written and sung both rock and
ballads. But "All By Myself," on his first
soio aiDum, "Eric Carmen," became a big ~
hit and was a ballad, so people think of him
as a balladeer. Both LP and single are gold.
The Raspberries, the group he formed in
Cleveland in 1972, he says, "Made our first
album, which consisted of some rock'n'roll '
and mid-tempo v allads. Out of it came 'Go ,
All the Way, a three and a half-minute
rock'n'roll number. Everybody went so 1
crazy for that record.
Carmen laments that having residence in
both Beechwood, Ohio, and Los Angeles
"totally negates any possibility of a social _
life. I bounce back and forth between the
two. I'd like to be married. It gets very
lonely out on the road sometimes. But I
have to find myself in one place long enough
to cfteate some kind of relationship."
Still, he's much happier as a solo performer
than he was as a Raspberry. He's
mobbed in Japan, he says, like the Beatles
used to be. <
"The Raspberries were together two ;
years for one century. It was a very sue- i
cessful failure of a group.'' I
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road sometimes but / have 1
to find myself in one place :
long enough to create some '
kind of relationship.' J
-Eric Carmen
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When he made his first solo album in 1975, i
Arista Records sent the song "All By
Myself" to a computer testing service. >
"The results came back that no one under
30 was going to buy the record. It didn't i
have a chance," Carmen says. "I thought it ;
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Carmen, who is 30, was born and reared in
Lyndhurst, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. His
parents now live in Mayfield, another
suburb.
There was a girl in my
ninth-period art class in I
love with Paul McCartney
and / had a crush on her. /
thought I'd better form a
rock band. / might get her. i
-Eric Carmen
Carmen's father's sister was a prodigy on
violin and viola and has played viola in the
Cleveland Symphony for about 30 years. "I
kind of grew up around classical music and
never heard of pop until I was 16. I took
violin lessons from my aunt for two years,
hated it and was a dropout at 6.
"There was a girl in my ninth-period art
class in love with Paul McCartney and I had
a crush on her. I thought I'd better form a
rock band. I might get her. It was the
beginning of my illustrious career in
rock'n'roll. But for her, I might have been a
classical musician."
Carmen's second LP was "Boats Against
the Current" and his third was "Change of
Heart." His favorite of songs he has written
is "Boats Against the Current."
He says, "The album is music to hang
yourself in the closet by. I had a very
pessimistic view of the world at that point,
it's my favorite album, actually, but I
wouldn't suggest it be played in mental
nstitutions."
He says the title comes from the last
paragraph of "The Great Gatsby," adding
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iuthor or alter ego.
"I read everything he wrote the summer I
vas working on that album," Carmen adds.
'I especially loved the short stories. I
vondered how this guy could know so much
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