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America is an English-American folk rock band, that originally consisted of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek.
The band suffered a heavy blow, when Dan Peek quit the group in 1977, right at the bottom of a steep decline in their popularity, but Beckley and Bunnell returned to the top 10 as a duo with " You Can Do Magic " in 1982.
Beckley and Peek had actually been born in the States and had spent some time growing up there before moving to Britain, while Bunnell was born in Britain.
Beckley, Bunnell and Peek were once again joined by Blaine on drums, while Osborn was replaced by their touring bassist, David Dickey.
Peek recently had renewed his Christian faith after years of recreational drug use and had begun to seek a different artistic direction from Beckley or Bunnell.
Meanwhile, Beckley and Bunnell decided to continue as America, ending their contract with Warner Bros. with the release of their first concert LP, Live, during October 1977.
After more than two years without new studio material, Beckley and Bunnell presented the group's new style with a cover of The Mamas & the Papas ' " California Dreamin '" in March, 1979.
For their next album, Alibi, released in August 1980, Beckley and Bunnell sought fresh personnel in the form of producers Matthew McCauley and Fred Mollin.
As with Alibi ( 1980 ), Beckley and Bunnell brought in a number of high-profile musicians, including the Beach Boys ' Carl Wilson, Toto's Jeff Porcaro, Christopher Cross and Dean Parks.
Having had some success with Ballard, Beckley and Bunnell decided to have the former Argent performer produce their next album, Your Move, in its entirety.
For the most part Beckley and Bunnell were singers on an album, that Ballard had crafted for them, although they did contribute some material of their own.
Their mainstream commercial success over, Beckley and Bunnell ended their Capitol contract with In Concert, released in July 1985.
Beckley and Bunnell spent the latter half of the 1980s focusing on their live show, which they performed well over 100 times a year around the world.
Produced primarily by Beckley and Bunnell, with help from Hank Linderman and Steve Levine, the album featured an eclectic group of songs.
Recorded the previous April in the Cayman Islands, the concert featured just Beckley and Bunnell on acoustic guitars, a throwback to the earliest days of their career.
On Peek's 1978 solo debut album, All Things Are Possible, Beckley and Bunnell sang back-up vocals on the track " Love Was Just Another Word ".
In November 1999, credible rumors began to spread, that unreleased demo recordings from the early 1980s featuring Beckley and Bunnell collaborating with Peek would be released on CD sometime in early 2000.
When asked about the prospects for a reunion in the early 1980s, Beckley and Bunnell stated, that they were happy for Peek in that he had found a new life and a new direction, but that it was unlikely there would be a reunion.
Although Beckley and Bunnell had over the years become increasingly firm in their position, that a reunion with Peek was unlikely, and could in fact be counterproductive, record companies tried to persuade them to change their minds.
" Beckley and Bunnell chose to maintain their decision to remain a duo.
Peek raised a few eyebrows both for his candid discussion of his experiences with drugs and religion and for his observations of Beckley and Bunnell.
A Rolling Stone rock music discography book, printed during the mid-1990s, contained an apocryphal entry for America stating, that Dan Peek had reunited with Beckley and Bunnell for a tour in 1993 with the Beach Boys.
This misinformation has been so widely disseminated, that the Australian rock journalist and historian Glenn A. Baker erroneously assumed this to be true in an interview question posed to Beckley and Bunnell on the Live at the Sydney Opera House DVD.
The group featured Russell Watson, Boy George, Steve Winwood, Barry Gibb, Brian Wilson, Cliff Richard, Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley and Robin Gibb on vocals ( in their order of appearance ), and featured a guitar solo by Moore.

Beckley and several
Of the 33 players who finished ahead of him in the voting, 24 have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, and several players who finished behind Lowe in the voting ( including Bobby Wallace, Jesse Burkett, Jake Beckley, Tommy McCarthy, Tim Keefe and Candy Cummings ) have also been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
The Beckley office coordinates classes at the Erma Byrd Center as well as at several other facilities in and surrounding Beckley.
The state legislature merged Hechler's district with most of the old 5th District, comprising several coal-mining counties around Bluefield and Beckley.
Beckley ( Ray J ), who face several issues which they work through together.

Beckley and tracks
On the solo front, in February 2000 Beckley released Go Man Go, an album of remixed tracks from Van Go Gan.
Included were three new tracks, including a Bunnell-penned ode to " Ventura Highway " called " Christmas in California ", featuring Beckley on lead vocals.

Beckley and 1982
" All things are possible, like says ", Beckley told radio host Lew Irwin in 1982, but " it just doesn't seem in the cards.

Beckley and .
* 1867 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player ( d. 1918 )
Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.
He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley.
He worked with Madison and his campaign manager John J. Beckley to build a nationwide network of Republican allies.
In most states the congressional elections were recognized, as Jefferson strategist John Beckley put it, as a " struggle between the Treasury department and the republican interest.
* October 7 – Tony Beckley, English character actor ( d. 1980 )
In most states, the congressional elections were recognized in some sense as a “ struggle between the Treasury department and the republican interest ,” to use the words of Jefferson strategist John Beckley.
* Cunningham, Noble E., Jr., " John Beckley: An Early American Party Manager ," William and Mary Quarterly, 13 ( Jan. 1956 ), 40-52, in JSTOR
Its county seat is Beckley.
Alfred Beckley ( 1802 – 1888 ) said he gave Raleigh County its name in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552 – 1618 ), the “ enterprising and far-seeing patron of the earliest attempts to colonize our old Mother State of Virginia ,” according to Raleigh County: West Virginia by Jim Wood.
He attended Mark Twain High School near Sophia, WV, Beckley College, among other learning institutions.
Ben Beckley took on the identity of the Skull ( not the Red Skull, as he had no idea who the Red Skull was ) and set out to conquer the world, starting with a coast-to-coast drive across America.
Beckley would later be seen in the Land of the Dead with his father, Comet Man, and would help the heroes to convince the dead that they were deceased.
Commercial air traffic can be found at in Beckley, West Virginia and at the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Tennessee.
Beckley is a city in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States, which was founded on April 4, 1838.
" The population of the Beckley area is roughly 77, 000 including Raleigh County and parts of Fayette County.
Beckley was named in honor of John James Beckley, who was the first Clerk of the House of Representatives and the first Librarian of Congress.
It was founded by his son Alfred Beckley ( US Army general and Confederate militia commander, born in Washington, D. C .).
Beckley is well known for two major tourist attractions: The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine ( which reopened to the public April 1, 2008, after being closed for renovation ) and Tamarack.
Beckley had the first " community antenna " TV system in the United States, a forerunner of cable TV.

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