Even when things got tough in the ‘80s, they would always bounce back. Or Jimmy Osmond’s career as a singer and clever businessman. And we can’t talk about The Osmonds without mentioning the Donny & Marie Show. Who can forget their string of hits in the early ‘70s? On top of that, Donny’s solo career was equally successful. They wowed America during their appearances on The Andy Williams Show in the ‘60s and they’ve never really left the public eye since then. All throughout their career, their appeal has reached audiences of all ages.
From the humble barbershop beginnings of The Osmond Brothers quartet (Merrill, Jay, Alan and Wayne) in 1958 up through their Pop/Rock success in the early ‘70s with lil’ brother Donny on board, The Osmonds were far from a boyband created for teens and tweens. Not bad for a skinny kid from Gainesville, Florida with big dreams… Apart from all that success with his band as well as a solo artist, he was also a member of Pop/Rock supergroup The Traveling Wilburys (with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne). Not only did Tom Petty win multiple Grammy and MTV awards, he also received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and was inducted – with The Heartbreakers – into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2001. Over the course of his career, he became one of the biggest selling music artists of all time, shifting more than 80 million in the process. Initially lumped in with the Power Pop movement, Petty was eventually embraced by FM rock programmers and by the time of the band’s 1979 album DAMN THE TORPEDOS, he was a bona-fide Rock ‘n’ Roll star. When Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers released their self-titled debut album in 1976, there were no indications that Petty would become one of the most important and successful figures in American Rock ‘n’ Roll for the next four decades.
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