Dan Seals
b. 8 February 1950, McCamey, Texas, USA. Leaving successful pop duo England Dan And John Ford Coley was, at first, a disastrous career move for Dan Seals. His management left him with unpaid tax bills and mounting debts and he lost his house, his van and his money. He says, ‘I was bankrupt, separated and living at friends’ places. My kids were with friends. It was a real bad time’. Furthermore, the two albums that he made for Atlantic Records as a solo artist, STONES and HARBINGER, meant little. However, Kyle Lehning, who produced his hits with England Dan And John Ford Coley, never lost faith and helped to establish him on the US country charts with Everybody's Dream Girl in 1983. Further country hits followed and he had a US number 1 hit with Meet Me In Montana, a duet with Marie Osmond, in 1985. Seals then had an extraordinary run of eight consecutive US number l country singles: the dancing Bop, the rodeo story Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold), You Still Move Me, I Will Be There, Three Time Loser, the wedding song One Friend, Addicted and Big Wheels In The Moonlight, many of which he wrote himself. WON'T BE BLUE ANYMORE, sold half a million copies in the USA, while another big-selling record, ON THE FRONT LINE, included an exquisite duet with Emmylou Harris, Lullaby.