Balance : BREAKING AWAY

Early '80s rockers Balance were fronted by Peppy Castro, formerly of Blues Magoos. In addition to Castro were guitarist Bob Kulick and keyboardist Doug Katsaros. The trio recorded their self-titled debut album with session musicians, one of whom, drummer Andy Newmark also co-wrote one of the songs on the album and briefly became an official member of the band. Andy was later replaced by Gregg Gerson, who departed soon thereafter to play with Billy Idol.

In 1982, after a massive house cleaning on "Black Friday," when 200 staffers at CBS, Epic, and Portrait were let go, Balance lost their label support.

Although things looked bleak at home, the band experienced one last hurrah when they were asked to write a song for a major Japanese commercial to launch a new compact car, Daihatsu's Charade.

BREAKING AWAY, Balance's most note-worthy single, peaked at #22 on the singles chart in the US and hit the top 40 in Canada. BTW the engineer on this Tony Bongiovi, was Jon Bon Jovi's cousin.

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