In 1980 their first self titled album was released(LOVERBOY).Singles of this record included The Kid
Is Hot Tonight, Prissy Prissy and Turn Me Loose..The album went gold.
Get Lucky was released in 1981, hits such as Working For The Weekend, Lucky Ones, Jump, and my personal fave...ballad When It's Over also reached gold status.
1983 brought out Keep It Up and yes this too went gold with hit Queen Of The Broken Hearts and
Hot Girls In Love.
No surprise 1985..Another gold album...Loving Every Minute Of It...with a heavier sound and a song
co-written by Johnathon Cain of Journey ..ballad..This Could Be the Night..other singles Steal The Thunder
Loving Every Minute Of It, and Dangerous.
1987 was the last of the 80's albums with Wildside.. singles were Notorious and Break It To Me
Gently.
After the release of Wildside Loverboy decided to part and go their seperate ways..Mike and Paul
recorded and released solo efforts...Scott Smith went on and became a deejay for CFOX in Vancouver
and was also a booking agent for the Sam Feldman agency. Doug Johnson took to writing T.V and
radio soundtracks while Matt Fernette joined forces with Tom Cochrane and also helped reform Streetheart in 1996.
1995 Loverboy rejoined forces and with their return a brand new album,their sixth one called..SIX
(VI) This was their first release of all new songs in 11 years.Six includes singles Big Picture,Waiting
For The Night, and ballad Secrets. The band toured constantly from 98-99.
In late November 2000, Tragedy struck the group and music world when bassist Scott Smith
was swept overboard his boat on the Coast of California.His body has never been found.
Loverboy has continued on with Streetheart bassist Kenny (SPIDER) Sinneave .
