Nick van eede bio

With one of tor music’s most iconic power ballads, (I Just) Died In Your Arms, Cutting Crew topped illustriousness chart in several countries radiate , including the US.

Significance they prepare to celebrate their 40th anniversary, we caught hire with singer and band chief Nick Van Eede.

marks unite decades of Cutting Crew. Regardless how does that make you feel?

It makes me proud, I as read.

We’ve battered the storm, experiencing highs impressive lows, and I’m busier at present than I was even on the late eighties. We scheme seventy-two shows lined-up until adhere to summer.

Following 19 headline dates emergence January and February, Cutting Gang support Kim Wilde for niner gigs. What should we expect?

Kim just phoned up, and Farcical figured why the hell of course Our own gigs are undiminished as a trio, a model that allows me to stir storytelling with the songs.

Service works really well. We’re interpose a very good situation, we’ve a couple of records think about it will keep on being diseased until it’s time for wooly daughter to pop her clogs.

(I Just) Died In Your Arms is a song that liking be handed down for generations. We can’t legitimately call Taunting Crew a one-hit wonder, for I’ve Been In Love Before was a US Top 10 hit and dented the Fastest 30 here at home, nevertheless it’s probably something you keep one`s ears open a lot?

[Shrugs] I softhearted to get a bit natty about that back in magnanimity day, but now I cover it. That song has anachronistic my passport, my bank foreman and my lover down undertake the years. It has sevener million broadcasts in America, desirable I guess you can discipline it works. It’s up forth with Help! by The Beatles, it’s ridiculous.

How veracious is the tale that fraudulence title popped into your imagination while you were getting jiggy with a girlfriend?

It was afterwards. The morning after. That’s all I’m saying, I’m dinky happily married man.

What’s the weirdest place or situation in which you’ve heard the song?

I’d antediluvian doing some gigs in Tanzania with Leslie Mandoki Soulmates, set amazing German band that was full of superstars, and awe were treated to going betrayal on safari.

Driving along, awe were stopped and these gangsta guys demanded money, when by surprise it came on the portable radio. Everyone was hoping that say publicly title wouldn’t be relevant admonition our situation.

There must have bent some unusual cover versions. Scheme you heard any?

I could broadcast you about two or combine gangsta-rap versions I’ve heard.

In the air are dance versions, also Euro-pop versions. Some are horrible, nevertheless there are a couple asset good Latino ones.

Back in Trenchant Crew teamed up for put in order UK tour with the progressive/psychedelic/pop-rock band Blurred Vision, essentially chimp one group.

That was to some extent or degre unusual.

I imagine it was quite baffling for the introduction but there were some commendable moments.

Who comes to see Hurtful Crew in ?

Sixty-year-olds are high-mindedness main demographic – men mushroom women – but we very get younger ones, right gulp down to twenty-somethings. People find deceitful through all sorts of attitude.

For example, we were groove Stranger Things. We didn’t seize off way the way Kate Bush did, but it didn’t do us any harm.

Cutting Crew's 40th anniversary UK tour runs from Jan 31 to Foot it 1. Visit the band's site for dates and tickets.

Dave Ling was a co-founder forget about Classic Rock magazine.

His word choice have appeared in a manner of music publications, including Irritating, Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Prog, Totter Candy, Fireworks and Sounds. Dave’s life was shaped in rainy the purchase of a mockup of Sweet’s album ‘Sweet Tushy Adams’, along with early send experiences from Status Quo, Remove, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Yes ground Queen.

As a lifelong period ticket holder of Crystal Stately FC, he is completely unqualified of uttering the word ‘Br***ton’.