AIR SUPPLY
Goes Acoustic For The First Time Ever With ‘The Singer and The Song’

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After Making New CD/DVD Package Available To
“Airheads” Only, 80′s Pop Hitmaking Duo Releases
It To The General Public Via www.airsupplymusic.com

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Acoustic Project follows successful release of ‘It Was 30 Years Ago Today,’ Their Second Live CD and Very First Live DVD Recording, Which Celebrated Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock’s Three Decade Partnership

Truly living out the lyrics to their 1982 pop classic “Sweet Dreams,” Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock—principals in the famed 80′s hitmaking duo Air Supply—celebrated their 30 year partnership in 2005 with a couple of exciting firsts. Earlier in the year, they released ‘It Was 30 Years Ago Today,” their first live DVD Recording, to great acclaim. They are currently capping that off with The Singer and The Song , Air Supply’s very first all-acoustic project.

Russell and Hitchcock originally made the exclusive recording available only to “Airheads,” their affectionate term for their legions of fans worldwide. Now, it’s available to the general public via their website www.airsupplymusic.com . The Singer and The Song features the duo’s familiar cavalcade of hits (including “All Out of Love,” “Lost In Love “The One That You Love” and “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All”) done as vocal-guitar duets, recorded in one take each with no overdubs.

The collection also features “Yours Truly,” their popular crowd-pleasing song from their 2000 album of the same name, and “Love and Other Bruises,” Air Supply’s first big Australian hit from the late 70s.

The project came together very spontaneously one day last August, when Hitchcock was up in Park City, Utah (where Russell lives) and the two performed with the Utah Symphony at Deer Valley Resort. “We had never done an acoustic record before, and one afternoon we just said, ‘Why not? Let’s do it,’” says Russell. “The next day, we gathered around a microphone in my studio with my guitar and our two voices. We did all twelve tracks in one afternoon. The charm of the whole project was the spontaneity. With most projects, we talk about it and plan everything, but this time was more exciting because we had no idea what to expect.

“We titled it after what it was, The Singer and The Song, because that’s exactly what the album is, just the songs, presented live and organically,” he adds. “It’s raw, but there is a beautiful serenity to it as well.”

Inspired by the success of their just-released live DVD recording, Russell and Hitchcock thought it would be fun to give their fans a visual chronicle of the special day in the studio, so they called a friend of theirs to film four tracks in High Definition video. The resulting DVD is included in the packaging of the album.

In addition to these two new CD/DVD releases, Air Supply kept up their breakneck touring pace in 2005, performing numerous shows in the U.S., Mexico and a memorable “street scene” concert for 175,000 fans in Havana, Cuba just before the onslaught of Hurricane Dennis in July. Trapped for a few days at the Hotel Nacional, Russell performed an impromptu acoustic concert for storm evacuees in the ballroom.

Now, with the release of The Singer and The Song, “Airheads” worldwide can hear this famed duo present their hits in this unique and intimate way.