MODERN MADNESS
Modern Madness is the second studio album from American singer and songwriter Robert Tepper. (More from Wikipedia)
Robert Tepper, Modern Madness – This Bayonne, NJ native began his musical career as a songwriter and bass guitarist for Benny Mardones; he co-wrote Mardones’ hit song “Into the Night”, a #11 hit on its original release in 1980 that also made the charts again a decade later. Sylvester Stallone selected the title song from Robert Tepper’s debut album No Easy Way Out, “No Easy Way Out” for the soundtrack of the 1985 film Rocky IV. This was the most successful of the Rocky films and, in fact, was the biggest selling sports movie of all time until overtaken by The Blind Side (2009), the hit movie that gave Sandra Bullock her Oscar. While “No Easy Way Out” made it to the Top 30, Robert Tepper’s album was not a big seller. His follow-up album that I have, Modern Madness (1988) is a good rocking album that is well written and performed. I have seen the record show up on the Internet in a few slots, since it features Tori Amos among the background singers. Her under-rated debut effort Y Kant Tori Read – technically an album by the rock band Y Kant Tori Read rather than an album by Tori Amos individually like all of her later records – came out in the same year.
(December 2015)
