Sound Clips   
Track 1 - Outrageous
Track 2 - You Don't Want Me
Track 3 - Come Rain Or Shine
Track 4 - You're All That Really Matters
Track 5 - Carrie Why?
Track 6 - So Cool
Track 7 - One Good Reason
Track 8 - Blame It On My Heart
Track 9 - Can't Get Enough Of You
Track 10 - Hungry Eyes

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Franke And The Knockouts Makin' The Point
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The Band :
Franke Previte - Lead & Backing Vocals
Leigh Foxx – Bass
Tommy Ayers - Keyboards & Vocals
Bobby Messano - Guitars & Vocals (Starz, Joe Lynn Turner, solo)
Tico Torres - Drums (Bon Jovi)


Franke Previte came from a musical family, his father was an opera singer and his mother a non-professional singer. They were persuaded to perform a duet together and they eventually went on to start a family.... and so Franke was born. At nine years old he began singing at local benefit shows, at thirteen he had his own band “The Intruders” and by the time he was fifteen he had recorded a couple of singles with his cousin, Joe Alessi. Franke went on to join “The Oxford Watch Band” and then recorded an album with “Bull Angus” (A band that toured with Fleetwood Mac, Rod Stewart and others). At this point he met guitarist Billy Elworthy, with whom he went on to write songs for the debut by Franke & The Knockouts. Within three weeks they were signed to RCA/Millennium and scored US hits with “Sweetheart” (reaching # 10) and “You’re my Girl”. The band recorded a second album, “Below The Belt” on the same label and scored a hit with “Without You”, they were now touring with the likes of Loverboy, Toto, April Wine and The Tubes.

In 1984 the third Knockout’s LP appeared, this time on MCA. It was called “Makin’ The Point” and is very much respected in melodic rock circles to this day. The band was also starting to become involved in film soundtracks at this point which led to Franke’s huge involvement in such songwriting. He has written songs for such movie soundtracks as “Mystic Pizza”, “Smooth Talk”, “Rude Awakening”, “Heavy Metal 2” and of course the much loved “Dirty Dancing” which starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. This was big news, the songs co-written by Franke were “(I’ve had) The time of my life” (performed by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes) and “Hungry Eyes” (performed by Eric Carmen) earned him a golden globe and an academy award, as well as two grammy nominations. It was, in his own words, “Beyond a dream”. Franke has since worked with numerous artists, many who have scored top ten hits with his composure’s both in USA and Europe, artists such as Kim Carnes, Earth Wind & Fire and Cyndi Lauper.

Moving back to Franke & The Knockouts, particularly the “Makin’ The Point” album, there are nine tracks of prime time eighties melodic rock that has most certainly stood the test of time, even before the songs were remastered! This task was carried out by Suha Gur, who also did the business on the Aviator re-issue (also for Escape Music). The icing on the cake is the addition of Franke’s own version of “Hungry Eyes”, with co-writer John DeNicola playing alongside him on bass. Interest in this reissue is at an all time high, and with the inclusion of Franke’s version of the smash hit “Hungry Eyes” the scene is set for a return to the charts.