John Waite-No Brakes (1984)

When John Waite left the band The Babys, with whom he had recorded five irregularly successful albums, in the early 1980s, he began a solo career publishing some of the best AOR albums of that decade.
Thus the song "Change" belonging to his debut album "Ignition" (1982) would be placed at the top of the charts and would draw the attention of AOR (Album-Oriented Rock) fans and broadcasters across the country to this gender.
Two years later he published his second work titled "No Brakes" (1984), this work caught the world's attention, especially in Europe and the United States, for this song "Missing you", which reached number one on the "Billboard Hot 100. " This magnificent halftime theme, performed with equal parts strength and sensitivity, sold nearly two million copies worldwide and would eventually be covered by leading performers, including Tina Turner and Rod Stewart.
In 1988 Waite brought together former members of The Babys to form the "Bad English" supergroup. In 1989, Bad English's ballad "When I See You Smile" (written by Diane Warren) also achieved significant success, although John Waite would return to solo work soon after. Since 1995, he has produced five solo albums, some of them highly celebrated by fans and critics alike.
Some of those albums such as "Temple Bar" (1995), "When You Were Mine" (1997), "The Hard Way" (2004), or "Downtown Journey of a Heart" (2007) were very well received in the field of the AOR.