Air supply

小简介
空中加油站乐队的灵魂人物格雷厄姆，1950年6月11日出生于英国的诺丁汉。早在童年时代，格雷厄姆就对诗歌、书籍和音乐感兴趣。11岁的时候，他开始尝试写作诗歌和歌词。母亲去世之后，格雷厄姆自学了吉它和架子鼓。
1963年，格雷厄姆被披头士乐队深深触动。在观看了年头士的表演之后，他明白了自己到底想要干什么。1965年，格雷厄姆加入了一个名叫布鲁斯联盟的乐队，在这个乐队里，他演奏架子鼓。
1967年，格雷厄姆与他上学时的女友琳达结婚。次年，他们的儿子西蒙出生了。不久，格雷厄姆便举妻携子移居澳大利亚的梅尔鲍恩，格雷厄姆创建了一个乐队，并开始在一些咖啡馆、民间音乐俱乐部进行演唱。1972年3月他的女儿出生。
1975年，作为耶酥基督的信徒，格雷厄姆加入了一个名为“耶酥基督超级明星”的乐队。在那里，他第1天就遇到了鲁塞尔•希库克，即后来空中加油站的第2号人物。此后，格雷厄姆与鲁塞尔热心于歌曲创作。当“耶酥基督超级明星乐队”宣布它将于18个月之后解散时，格雷厄姆与鲁塞尔已在澳大利亚推出了一首大获成功的单曲《爱与瘀伤》。这首单曲是以“空中加油站乐队”的名义发行的。这说来颇具传奇色彩：一天，格雷厄姆做了1个梦，梦中他看到了灯光的照射下有1个巨形的公告牌，上面写着“Air Supply”两个大字，于是格雷厄姆便以“空中加油站”来命名他们的乐队。
1976年，在澳大利亚作巡演的罗德•斯特沃特加入了“空中加油站”。随后，乐队赴美进行巡回演出，但没有取得突破性的成功。1978年，回到澳大利亚后，他们录制了格雷厄姆的两首歌曲《在爱中迷失》和《失落的爱》。《在爱中迷失》在澳大利亚电台一播出便迅速走红。这使他们决定重新返回美国，并发誓要成为世界级的一流乐队。
1979年的一个偶然的机会，格力夫戴维斯听到了《在爱中迷失》这首歌。于是，他促成空中加油站与阿里斯塔唱片公司签约。签乐后录制的第1首单曲一推出就升到了排行榜第3的位置，接下来的6首歌曲也分别进入排行榜前5位。格雷厄姆的另外一首《你所爱的那个人》则荣登榜首宝座。
1980年起，空中加油站乐队开始在世界各地做巡回演出。
1981年，格雷厄姆遇到了朱迪•沃伯。两人开始了长达两年的书信往来，直到1983年他们再次相遇，此后就再也没有分离过。1986年，朱迪年满21岁，两人结了婚。
随着每年的巡演，“空中加油站”先后推出了诸如《尘世》等专辑。格雷厄姆重新制作的歌曲《杳无音信》、《空中加油站乐队的存在》也相继问世。
1997年8月，《爱之书》出版发行，这是在格雷厄姆和朱迪的新家——尤他州海拔7000米高山之巅的工作室里完成的，它很快就成为乐队最热门的专辑之一。空中加油站乐队至今仍是世界上最受欢迎的乐队之一，他们的新专辑被数百万的歌迷翘首企盼。从美国的阿拉斯加到中国的北京，空中加油站的歌迷无处不在。
With their heavily orchestrated, sweet ballads, the Australian soft rock group Air Supply became a staple of early-'80s radio, scoring a string of seven straight Top Five singles. Air Supply, for most intents and purposes, was the duo of vocalists Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell; other members came through the group over the years, yet they only functioned as backing musicians and added little to the group's sound. Hitchcock and Russell met while performing in a Sydney, Australia, production of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1976. The two singers formed a partnership and with the addition of four supporting musicians -- keyboardist Frank Esler-Smith, guitarist David Moyse, bassist David Green, and drummer Ralph Cooper -- Air Supply was born.
For several years, the group gained no attention outside of Australia, earning one significant hit single, "Love and Other Bruises." Their first international exposure came in the late '70s, when Rod Stewart had them as his opening act on a North American tour. Air Supply signed a record contract with Arista in 1980, releasing their first album by the end of the year. Lost in Love, their debut, was a major success in the U.S., selling over two million copies and spawning the hit singles "Lost in Love," "All Out of Love," and "Every Woman in the World." The following year they released their second album, The One That You Love. The title track became their only number one hit and it also featured two other Top Ten hits, "Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)" and "Sweet Dreams." With their third album, 1982's Now and Forever, their popularity dipped slightly -- it only had one Top Ten hit, "Even the Nights Are Better," and the other two singles, "Young Love" and "Two Less Lonely People in the World," scraped the bottom of the Top 40. Air Supply released a Greatest Hits collection in 1983, featuring a new single, "Making Love Out of Nothing at All." The single spent two weeks at number two while the album peaked at number seven and eventually sold over four million copies.
Two years later, they released Air Supply, their fourth album. It featured the number 19 single "Just As I Am," but it was clear that their audience was shrinking -- the album was their first not to go platinum. Hearts in Motion (1986) was even less successful, peaking at number 84 and spending only nine weeks on the charts. After its disappointing performance, Air Supply broke up. Hitchcock and Russell reunited in 1991, releasing Earth Is..., but the album failed to make the charts as did 1993's Vanishing Race and 1995's News From Nowhere. The new millennium marked the band's first studio album in four years, and a summer tour in support of Yours Truly.