Genres: Power Pop Active: 70's Formed: in Oak Park, IL
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Off Broadway was a late-'70s power pop group from Chicago. That put them in a position roughly equivalent to that of Shaquille O'Neal's backup. In this case O'Neal was Cheap Trick and Off Broadway was doomed to obscurity. Much like Cheap Trick, Off Broadway played a quirky hopped-up blend of Beatlesque melodies and Move-like power. They didn't rock quite as hard and vocalist Cliff Johnson had nowhere near the style and range that Robin Zander did (then again, how many vocalists do?), but they wrote catchy songs and managed to sell around 200,000 copies of their 1979 debut album, On. Another album, Quick Turns, followed in 1980 and met with little acclaim or sales. Touring as an opening act for heavy metal bands did the group no favors as the audiences hated them and they became disillusioned with the music business. They soldiered on through the disappointment for a couple more years and then gave up in 1983.
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Release: October 23, 2001
Label: Crash Music, Inc., NMG Records
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Release: May 13, 1997
Label: Pavement Music
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