Pictured, left to right: Russell Hitchcock of Air Supply, "Don't Forget the Lyrics" Host Wayne Brady and Air Supply’s Graham Russell.

AIR SUPPLY: THE LEGENDARY LOVE SONG SINGERS/SONGWRITER/PERFORMERS
JOIN HOST WAYNE BRADY TO SURPRISE CONTESTANTS ON EPISODE OF FOX TV’S
“DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS” AIRING ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 19TH

Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock, of the hit-making group Air Supply (www.airsupplymusic.com) are known by their fans all over the world for their Love Songs / Power Rock Ballads — and TV executives know this as well.  The duo were invited to be part of a taping of Fox TV’s “Don’t Forget The Lyrics”, hosted by Wayne Brady (a fine singer in his own right).

In the episode,  airing on  the FOX Television Network this Friday December 19th, Russell and Hitchcock surprise a pair of contestants as well as Air Supply fans, who were also on a blind date,  with a live version of their hit song “Lost In Love.” Air Supply’s appearance on the program brought some good luck too as the contestants ended up big winners that night!

AIR SUPPLY

FROM “THE THRILLA IN MANILA” TO THE WAILING WALL,
THE GLOBETROTTING ’80s HITMAKING DUO’S
LATEST TOUR MIXES WORLD HISTORY WITH
SOLD OUT PERFORMANCES—
AND THEIR FIRST CONCERTS EVER IN ISRAEL!

Sat Nov 1, 08            Torrance, CA              James R Armstrong Theatre

Fri Nov 7, 08             Acoma, NM                Sky City Casino & Hotel

Sat Nov 8, 08            Durant, OK                  Choctaw Coliseum

Fri Nov 14, 08            Tour Of Mexico

Fri Nov 21, 08            Brazil

Sat Dec 6, 08            Sateline, NV              Harrah’s Lake Tahoe

Fri Dec 12, 08            Miami, FL                 James L. Knight Center

Sat Dec 13, 08           Puerto Rico, MEXICO       Coliseum of Puerto Rico

Sat Jan 31, 09            Louisville, KY           Louisville Palace Theatre

Thu Feb 5, 09              Wikes Barre, PA    FM Kirby Center

Sat Feb 07, 09           Grand Rapids, MN   Reif Center

Sun Feb 08, 09           Rochester, MN         Riverside Live!

Thur Feb 12, 09           Santa Ana, CA         Pacific Symphony

Fri Feb 27, 09              Wendover, NV          Peppermill Casino

Sat April 25, 09            Youngstown, OH       Stambaugh Auditorium

Sat May 02, 09              Australia

Wed May 20, 09           Chico, CA                  Silver Dollar Fair

GRAHAM RUSSELL

THE TALL, BLOND HALF OF POP SUPERDUO
AIR SUPPLY WILL DEBUT HIS NEW CHILDREN’S
MUSICAL ‘PETALBUMP’ OCTOBER 27-30 (31st) IN
SALT LAKE CITY, TO BE FOLLOWED BY THE PUBLICATION
OF TWO VERSIONS OF AN ACCOMPANYING STORYBOOK IN 2009
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AIR SUPPLY, WHICH JUST RELEASED ‘FREE LOVE,’
ITS DEBUT ALBUM ON VAGRANT RECORDS,
IS TOURING THIS SUMMER IN ASIA, ISRAEL,
SOUTH AMERICA AND THE U.S.

Even as he travels the globe on tour again this summer with Russell Hitchcock, the other half of his famed 80s hitmaking duo Air Supply, singer/songwriter Graham Russell is looking forward to the fall debut of “Petalbump,” his exciting new children’s musical that features six new songs, 30 cast members (all but two of whom are children), an incredible light show, a full orchestra and performers from the children’s dance company Vibe.

The world premiere of “Petalbump” is scheduled to run for five shows October 27-31 at The Rose Wagner Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 500-seat opera house is located at 138 W. Broadway. Russell envisions these performances as the first of many different productions of his show that will take place in various cities throughout the U.S.

Originally conceived as a ballet, Petalbump has been refashioned to also include elements of hip-hop, ballroom and other styles of dancing. Two of the participating dancers from Vibe recently won the national title for Under-14 Ballroom Dancing on ABC-TV’s “Dancing With The Stars.” Russell co-wrote some of the classically oriented music for the show with Jed Moss, longtime keyboardist with Air Supply who is also a concert pianist with the Utah Symphony and Ballet West.

In conjunction with the live stage show, Russell is also currently working on two versions of an accompanying storybook for “Petalbump.” The first will be a picture book for young children, with the story told in installments; it will feature beautiful artwork by up and coming San Francisco based illustrator David Habben. The second will be a version for older children up to 12 years of age. He is currently shopping for the right publisher and expects these to be published in late 2008 or early 2009.

“Petalbump’s” narrative revolves around a woman in her 30s returning to her childhood home and entering a fantasy world as a ten year old with the help of a lead fairy named Petalbump. Her childhood was cut short by the death of her parents, and as she packs up her house while preparing to sell it, she uncovers artifacts from her youth that lead her through a magic door into an idyllic world that has been waiting many years for her return. Ultimately, she decides not to sell her house.

“I really love everything about this show, from the marriage of the music and the dance element to the uplifting theme,” says Russell. “It’s a project that’s unique from any other I have worked on in my career. The story is essentially about believing in yourself. If you stop, the whole world falls apart.”

Air Supply, which just released their new album Free Love, is touring extensively this summer in Asia, Israel, South America and North America. The duo’s six week Asian tour, which began in early June, hits China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Bangkok. After several shows in Israel, they head to Buenos Aires and Chile before returning later in the summer to do a series of shows in the U.S.

RUSSELL HITCHCOCK AND GRAHAM RUSSELL OF
AIR SUPPLY,
HONORED WITH THE OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION FOR
“AIR SUPPLY DAY IN LAS VEGAS,”
AFTER THEIR CHANNEL 3, LIVE PERFORMANCE

Legendary pop icons AIR SUPPLY, (www.airsupplymusic.com) who are world-famous for such classic love songs as “Lost In Love,” “All Out Of Love,” “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All,” got a major surprise last week during an appearance on Las Vegas NBC TV affiliate Channel 3’s Noon News. After their live on-air performance, the news anchors presented Air Supply founding members Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock with the official proclamation for “Air Supply Day in the City of Las Vegas.” The duo was very thrilled to receive the honor and were surprised again later that evening when the staff at The Orleans, where they regularly perform, posted a huge congratulatory banner in their dressing room.

Air Supply recently released their latest CD, The Singer And The Song that features Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock performing acoustic versions of their hit songs. Over the years, the group has sold over 20 million albums and tours the U.S. and the world regularly.

After the successful Vegas performances, Air Supply departed for a tour of Asia where they are performing for their loyal fans in The Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

AIR SUPPLY
POP ICONS BRING THEIR LOVE SONGS TO THE DESERT
THURSDAY MAY 22ND , FRIDAY MAY 23RD ,
SATURDAY MAY 24TH AND SUNDAY MAY 25TH AT
THE ORLEANS HOTEL SHOWROOM AT 8:00 PM
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FRIDAY MAY 23RD DECLARED AIR SUPPLY DAY IN LAS VEGAS
PROCLAMATION TO BE PRESENTED ON KVBC (CH 3) NOON NEWS

WHO: Legendary pop icons Air Supply who are known for such such classic love songs as“Lost In Love,” “All Out Of Love,” “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All.” The duo recently released The Singer And The Song which features Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock performing acoustic versions of their hit songs. Over the years, the group has sold over 20 million albums.

WHAT: Live concerts featuring Russell and Hitchcock performing their legendary tunes. After each of the Shows, the duo will have meet ‘n’greets with the fans. On Friday (5/23), the anchors of the
Channel 3 news will present Air Supply with a proclamation announcing Air Supply Day In Las Vegas

WHEN: Thursday May 22nd, Friday May 23rd, Saturday May 24th & Sunday May 25th – all shows at 8:00 PM

WHERE: The Orleans Hotel Showroom
4500 West Tropicana, LV

AIR SUPPLY
POP ICONS BRING THEIR LOVE SONGS TO THE DESERT
FRIDAY MARCH 7TH , SATURDAY MARCH 8TH  & SUNDAY MARCH 9TH AT
THE SUNCOAST HOTEL SHOWROOM AT 7:30 PM

WHO:        Legendary pop icons Air Supply who recently celebrated their 30th anniversary together  performing such classic love songs as “Lost In Love,” “All Out Of Love,” “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All.” The duo recently released  The Singer And The Song   which features Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock performing acoustic versions of their hit songs.  Over the years, the group has sold over 20 million albums.

WHAT:      A live concert featuring Russell and Hitchcock performing their legendary tunes.  After the Show, the duo will have a meet ‘n’ greet with the fans.

WHEN & WHERE:   Friday March 7th , Saturday March 8th , Sunday March 9th    7:30 PM
The Suncoast Hotel & Casino/ Suncoast Showroom
9090 Alta Drive, LV

AIR SUPPLY

FAMED 80′S HITMAKING DUO GRAHAM RUSSELL AND RUSSELL HITCHCOCK
ENJOY ONE OF THEIR MOST FRENETIC TOURING YEARS YET,
HITTING LAS VEGAS, MEXICO, TAIWAN, JAPAN AND MACAU
AND PERFORMING THEIR FIRST SHOWS IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 23 YEARS
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Next Up For The Band—Which Promises To Release Their
Next Disc, A Concept Album, By Next March—Are Stops
In Ireland, England, Germany and Italy Before A Jaunt
To Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil In January 2008

With apologies to the late, great James Brown, the hardest working person in show business continues to be… Air Supply‘s travel agent! Russell Hitchcock , who with his partner Graham Russell ruled the Top 40 airwaves throughout the early to mid-80s with their timeless romantic hits “Lost In Love,” “All Out Of Love,” “The One That You Love” and “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All,” enjoys joking that “We started this tour in 1976…and never stopped!”

2007 has been a particularly frenetic year for the globetrotting duo. Stateside, in addition to their annual stops at The Orleans in Las Vegas and North Fork Theatre in Westbury, Long Island, they hit numerous Indian reservation casinos across the country. Massively popular throughout Latin America and Asia, they also performed for thousands in Mexico, Japan (doing 16 fall shows in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka) and Macau, one of two special administrative regions of the People’s Republic of China, which is 37 miles southwest of Hong Kong.

Air Supply also played in South Africa for the first time in 23 years, headlining two shows each in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Most of their tour stops are pure joy fests for Russell, Hitchcock and their three other band members, but their gig in the 3,000-seat showroom at the Johannesburg’s Carnival City casino proved slightly harrowing, after the fact. Ten minutes after they left the building, 16 men in ski masks with AK-47s stormed in and held up the casino. The casino was locked down till five a.m. the next morning, four people were shot and the papers reported that the thieves got away with “an undisclosed amount of cash.”

This wasn’t the first time Air Supply flirted with disaster. In July, 2005, Hurricane Dennis barreled into Havana just after they performed for 175,000 ecstatic fans during their first official visit to Cuba’s capital city. Their second night was canceled and they were grounded an additional 24 hours while the storm blew through. Graham Russell treated hundreds of local evacuees to an impromptu mini-concert in the ballroom of the Hotel De Nacional.

Having just completed their Asian swing in the fall, the duo heads for dates in Ireland, England, Germany and Italy as they gear up for a handful of January, 2008 dates in Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities in Brazil.

Air Supply followed up its 2005 Live CD/DVD anniversary release It Was 30 Years Ago Today with the 2006 release of the band’s first all-acoustic recording The Singer and The Song .

Russell has been opening many of their shows with acoustic renditions of several songs from his first ever solo CD, 2007′s The Future . Hitchcock promises that the next Air Supply recording—a “concept album” currently in progress—will be completed soon and ready to release in March, 2008.

“The other night, when we were doing an interview for a magazine in Macau, it hit me that it’s quite an achievement to be playing with the same partner for 33 years,” says Hitchcock. “Not many bands have been around this long, and we’re very proud of all we’ve accomplished and excited that we still have the opportunity to share our music with so many people around the world. Folks in Asia tell us that they’ve learned English from singing our songs, and we love to hear things like that. Traveling can be exhausting, but everything’s fine the minute we hit the stage and start sharing our music with the audience.”

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 hit-making 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.