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Eric Howard Carmen (August 11, 1949 – March, 2024) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead vocalist of the Raspberries , with whom he recorded the hit " Go All the Way " [ 2 ] and four albums.
When the Raspberries disbanded in 1975, Carmen, a guitarist and pianist, began his successful career as a solo artist. Carmen grew up in the Cleveland area Carmen was born in Cleveland in 1949 ...
Eric Carmen is the debut album by American rock musician and singer-songwriter Eric Carmen.It is also his first of two self-titled albums, the other released in 1984. It peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard album chart upon its release in 1975, the highest position of his career, and generated the No. 2 pop single "All by Myself" in the same year.
Carmen then launched a solo career and his self-titled debut included the soaring hit “All By Myself,” which sold more than 1 million copies in the U.S. and reached No. 2 in 1976.
Eric Carmen rose to fame with the Raspberries, famous for ‘Go All the Way,’ and enjoyed solo success with ‘All By Myself’ and ‘Hungry Eyes.’
The group disbanded in 1975 after a five-year run, and Eric Carmen proceeded to a successful career as a solo artist. Bryson and Smalley resurrected the group's name in 1999 for an album, [3] which included singer/songwriter Scott McCarl as vocalist. [8] In 2004, the original quartet reunited and undertook a well-received reunion tour in 2005. [6]
Eric Carmen, who became an icon of early ’70s power pop as the frontman of the Raspberries before achieving solo success with hits like “All By Myself” and “Hungry Eyes,” has died at age 74.
"All by Myself" is a song by American singer-songwriter Eric Carmen, released by Arista in December 1975 as the first single from Carmen's debut album, Eric Carmen (1975). The verse is based on the second movement ( Adagio sostenuto ) of Sergei Rachmaninoff 's 1900–1901 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor , Opus 18.