Streetheart is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 rock

Rock music

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 band

Rock Band

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, from Winnipeg, Manitoba that got its start in Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...

. Their best known songs include "Action", "Hollywood", "Teenage Rage", "One More Time", "Tin Soldier", "What Kind of Love is This", and their disco remake of "Under My Thumb".

Biography

Keyboard player Daryl Gutheil and bassist Spider (Ken Sinnaeve

Ken Sinnaeve

Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve is a Canadian musician, best known for playing bass with Tom Cochrane and Cochrane's earlier band Red Rider.He was a founding member of the band Streetheart prior to playing with Cochrane, making amongst others a live cover of "Under my Thumb"...

) formed a band called Wascana in Regina, and then relocated to Winnipeg

Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

, where singer Kenny Shields joined the band. After renaming the band Witness, the group finally became Streetheart when guitarist Paul Dean

Paul Dean (guitarist)

Paul Dean is the lead guitarist for the Canadian rock band Loverboy which reached huge fame in the early 1980s.-Biography:...

 and drummer Matt Frenette joined in 1977. The band released Meanwhile Back in Paris the following year and Under Heaven over Hell in 1979, after which Frenette dropped out to join Dean in Loverboy

Loverboy

Loverboy is a Canadian rock group formed in 1980 in Calgary, Alberta. Throughout the 1980s, the band accumulated numerous hit songs in Canada and the United States, earning four multi-platinum albums and selling millions of records...

. John Hannah played guitars on Under Heaven Over Hell (1979), Quicksand Shoes (1980), and Drugstore Dancer (1980). In 1980, Streetheart won the Juno Award

Juno Awards of 1980

The Juno Awards of 1980, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 2 April 1980 in Toronto at a ceremony hosted by Burton Cummings at the Harbour Castle Hilton....

 for "Most Promising Group of the Year

Juno Award for New Group of the Year

The Juno Award for the New Group of the Year has been awarded since 1974, as recognition each year for the best new group or band in Canada. The award was originally known as Most Promising Group of the Year, and from 1994–2002 it was known as Best New Group.-Most Promising Group of the Year...

".

Arguably, Streetheart's most popular single was a 1979 disco-hybrid cover version of "Under My Thumb

Under My Thumb

"Under My Thumb" is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones. Its first appearance was as an album track on 1966's Aftermath...

" by the Rolling Stones (an early Streetheart influence). Streetheart's version achieved gold single status in Canada. The extended live version is notable for its blazing bass solo, performed by Spider Sinnaeve.

For the next four years they released a string of albums: Quicksand Shoes (1980), Drugstore Dancer (1980), Action: Best of Streetheart (1981), the self-titled Streetheart (1982), Dancing with Danger (1983), and the double live album Live After Dark (1983). Record sales earned them six gold albums and four platinum albums in Canada. The band broke up in 1983, after which a collection of unreleased songs called Buried Treasures was issued in 1984.

Frehley's Comet

Ace Frehley

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 recorded their own version of "Dancing with Danger" for their 1988 album, Second Sighting

Second Sighting

Second Sighting is a studio album by American hard rock band Frehley's Comet. This is the second out of three LPs put out by Frehley in the 1980's, but the last under the band name Frehley's Comet....

. In 1991, Hardline

Hardline (band)

Hardline is an American hard rock band. Originally formed in 1991 by brothers Johnny Gioeli and Joey Gioeli, the band consisted of 5 members, Johnny Gioeli, Joey Gioeli, Neal Schon, Todd Jensen and Deen Castronovo. The bands' most recent album release is the 2009 Leaving the End Open which featured...

 recorded their own version of the Streetheart song "Hot Cherie" for their 1992 album, Double Eclipse

Double Eclipse

Double Eclipse is the first album released by the band Hardline.The first track released from the album was "Takin' Me Down", written by the Gioeli brothers with Neal Schon...

.

At the peak of their career, Streetheart toured with several rock bands. Canadian bands included Chilliwack

Chilliwack (band)

Chilliwack are a Canadian rock band that had their heyday during the 1970s and 1980s. Although they are a Canadian band, the members were all born in, as well as reside in, the United States of America. They are perhaps best remembered for their five biggest songs "My Girl ", "I Believe", "Whatcha...

, Rush

Rush (band)

Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...

, Toronto

Toronto (band)

Toronto was a Canadian rock band from the late seventies and early eighties who have been compared to Heart and Pat Benatar. They were formed in the late 1970s in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, when singer Annie "Holly" Woods met guitarist Brian Allen...

, Harlequin

Harlequin (band)

Harlequin is a Canadian rock band that formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1975 and lasted until the mid-1980s. The band is best known for their hit singles "I Did It For Love," "Thinking of You," "Superstitious Feeling," and "Innocence."...

, Max Webster

Max Webster

Max Webster was a Canadian rock band of the 1970s and early 1980s.-Career:The band was formed in 1973 in Toronto, Ontario and originally consisted of guitarist and vocalist Kim Mitchell, keyboardist Terry Watkinson, bassist Mike Tilka and drummer Paul Kersey. Mitchell and Pye Dubois would write the...

, Aldo Nova

Aldo Nova

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, April Wine

April Wine

April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969. According to the band, they chose the name 'April Wine' simply because members thought the two words sounded good together...

, Headpins

Headpins

Headpins are a Canadian rock group, founded as a side project in the late 1970s by then Chilliwack members Ab Bryant and Brian MacLeod. Macleod was impressed by the vocal talents of Vancouver rock singer Denise McCann, and asked her to join his new venture...

; American bands included Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar

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, Styx

Styx (band)

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, Kansas

Kansas (band)

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, Blue Öyster Cult

Blue Öyster Cult

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. They also toured with AC/DC.

Streetheart received a Juno Award, two Ampex

Ampex

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 Golden Reel awards, a Chimo Award from Music Express Magazine

Music Express (magazine)

Music Express was a Canadian music magazine.Founded in 1976 as Alberta Music Express by Keith Sharp, it was renamed Music Express in 1978 for most of its run, also becoming Rock Express for the duration of 1986 to 1988. Initially published in a tabloid format, it adopted the magazine format in 1982...

, and were voted the most popular Canadian act at the Peoples' Choice Awards. In 2003, Streetheart was inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

In 2008, the band released a 2 CD retrospective collection titled ...Read All About It - The Hits/Anthology. The band continues to tour and often plays shows in its native Winnipeg.

Albums

• Meanwhile Back In Paris
  Meanwhile Back In Paris
  Meanwhile Back In Paris is the debut album by Canadian rock band, Streetheart. It was released in 1978 and features the group's first two singles, "Action" and "Look at Me". The title comes from the lyrics of the album's opener...
  
  (1978)
• Under Heaven Over Hell (1979)
• Quicksand Shoes (1980)
• Drugstore Dancer (1980)
• Action: The Best of Streetheart (1981)
• Streetheart (1982)
• Dancing with Danger (1983)
• Live After Dark (1983)
• Buried Treasures (1984)
• Over 60 Minutes with... Streetheart (1989)
• The Essentials (2005)
• ...Read All About It - The Hits/Anthology (2008)

Selected singles

• "Look at Me" - 1978
• "Action" - 1978
• "Under My Thumb
  Under My Thumb
  "Under My Thumb" is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones. Its first appearance was as an album track on 1966's Aftermath...
  
  " - 1979
• "Here Comes the Night" - 1979
• "Trouble" - 1980
• "What Kind of Love is This" - 1982
• "One More Time" - 1982

Band members

• Kenny Shields - vocals
• Daryl Gutheil - keyboards
• Paul Dean
  Paul Dean (guitarist)
  Paul Dean is the lead guitarist for the Canadian rock band Loverboy which reached huge fame in the early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
   - guitar
• Ken Sinnaeve
  Ken Sinnaeve
  Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve is a Canadian musician, best known for playing bass with Tom Cochrane and Cochrane's earlier band Red Rider.He was a founding member of the band Streetheart prior to playing with Cochrane, making amongst others a live cover of "Under my Thumb"...
  
   - bass
• Matt Frenette - drums
• John Hannah - guitar
• Lou Petrovich - guitar
• Herb Ego - drums
• Jeff Neill - guitar
• Bruce Crump
  Bruce Crump
  Bruce Crump was the longtime drummer with the rock band Molly Hatchet. He left in 1982 and rejoined in 1984, and left again sometime around 1990. He also played as a member of Canadian band Streetheart in the early 80's, and appeared on their Live After Dark recording...
  
   - drums
• Billy Carmassi - drums
• Brent Fitz
  Brent Fitz
  Brent Fitz is a Canadian-born musician and recording artist known best known as a drummer, but also a multi-instrumentalist having worked with Slash, Theory of a Deadman, Alice Cooper, Vince Neil, Union, The Guess Who, Lamya, Streetheart, Harlequin, Econoline Crush, Eagle & Hawk and Indigenous.-...
  
  - drums
• Chris Sutherland - drums
• Tim Sutton - drums
• Jake Jacobs - bass guitar

External links

• Kenny Shields & Streetheart Biography — Biography of band founder and lead singer Kenny Shields
• Kenny Shields & Streetheart — Official website of Kenny Shields & Streetheart