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From Loudersound.
Carl Palmer and Geoff Downes will tour together as Asia for a 40th anniversary tour later this year. They will be joined by current Yes bassist Billy Sherwood and former Keith Emerson guitarist Marc Bonilla.
“We are planning an extensive tour to celebrate our 40th anniversary,” says Downes. “The music will feature all the hits the fans have embraced. 40 years of Asia is a real musical milestone for us. The success we experienced with our early albums has carried us through and gave us the foundation when we reformed in 2006. Asia has been together since, although we lost John in 2017 to cancer. Still we endured and we will carry on now with Marc Bonilla who we know will be a great addition to the band.”
“The fans have never left Asia,” adds Carl Palmer. “That first Asia album, with all the radio and MTV hits weaved the fabric of the music scene on the early 1980s. Those great sigs like Heat Of The Moment, Sole Survivor and Only Time Will Tell still hold up today. When we play those songs and our other hits, we can see the entire audience singing along.”
Asia released their self-titled debut album in 1982, which went on to become the biggest selling album of the year. They followed it up with Alpha in 1983 and Astra in 1985. Geoff Downes led a new line-up of the band through the 90s until the original four members, who also included Yes guitarist Steve Howe, reunited in 2006.
Greg Lake briefly replaced original singer and bassist John Wetton in 1983, while Steve Howe left the band prior to the Astra album, where he was replaced by former Krokus guitarist Mandy Meyer.
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- Asia - Asia - Hype Sticker - Dutch - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.35, €17.85 (New Item) (arrived 22-Jul-2024 10:20)on July 27, 2024 at 1:26 am
ASIA Asia (1982 Dutch 9-track vinyl LP, the band's eponymous debut, which hit the top of the US Billboard Chart upon its release & was the best-selling album in the US for the year, hype stickered picture sleeve with credits inner. The vintageprice-stickered sleeve shows light wear and the vinyl has light signs of play)
- Asia - XXX - Italian - 2-disc CD/DVD set - £14.99, $19.34, €17.84 (New Item) (arrived 10-Jul-2024 16:11)on July 27, 2024 at 1:26 am
ASIA XXX (2012 Italian limited edition two-disc set comprising the 11-track CD album, their twelfth studio release but also the fifth & final studio album including the single Face On The Bridge plus a Bonus Region 0 NTSC DVD containingthe The Making Of XXX [Featurette] and two music videos. Complete with the illustrated lyric booklet, the two discs come issued in the glossy tri-fold digipak picture sleeve)
- Asia - Live At The Budokan Tokyo 1983 - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £20.00, $25.80, €23.80 (New Item) (arrived 29-Jun-2024 16:26)on July 27, 2024 at 1:26 am
ASIA Live At The Budokan Tokyo 1983 - MTV Satellite Telecast To America 6 December 1983 (2022 UK 13-track double live LP pressed on Heavyweight Vinyl, housed in a deluxe gatefold picture sleeve designed by Roger Dean complete with an illustrated four-page insert. The sleeve shows minimal wear & the vinyl is Excellent with few signs of play BMGCAT527DLP)
- Asia - Aqua - German - vinyl LP - £125.00, $161.25, €148.75 (New Item) (arrived 17-Jun-2024 11:07)on July 27, 2024 at 1:26 am
ASIA Aqua (Rare 1992 German 13-track vinyl LP - This fourth studio album from the British rockers was recorded in Brighton and was the first to feature longtime vocalist and bassist John Payne following John Wetton's departure and includes thesingles Who Will Stop The Rain? and Little Rich Boy, the latter of which was omitted from inclusion on the US edition. The glossy picture sleeve has the lyrics and album credits printed across the inside spread and displays minimal signs of age with the vinyl itself looking barely played IRS951.959)
- Asia - Asia - Dutch - vinyl LP - £10.00, $12.90, €11.90 (New Item) (arrived 13-Jun-2024 10:19)on July 27, 2024 at 1:26 am
ASIA Asia (1982 Dutch 9-track LP featuring John Wetton, Steve Howe, Carl Palmer & Geoffrey Downes, glossy picture sleeve with album credits inner. The cover is EX with light general wear and small ringwear scuffing & the vinyl appears Excellent with light signs of play with no wear to the vinyl itself GEF85577)
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