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Established in 1998,
Nostalgia Central is your one stop reference guide through five decades of music, movies, television, pop culture
and social history
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THE BAND
Dan Gilroy
Vocals, guitar
Eddie Gilroy
Guitar, vocals
Gary Burke
Bass
Steve Bray
Drums
Paul Kauk
Keyboards
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The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club's drummer, Stephen Bray, helped write and
produce several hits for his former college friend, Madonna
(including True Blue and Into the Groove).
Madonna actually played drums in an early incarnation of the band
around 1979. Yep, the band had the name long before the movie . .
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Guitarist brothers Dan and Eddie Gilroy had been fooling around
with comedy-tinged music as The Acme Band before Bray came to New
York from Detroit and added his funkier influences to the Gilroys'
artier roots.
With Steve providing the dance floor rhythms and Dan (whose
voice sounded vaguely like Elvis Costello) and Eddie
providing clever lyrics, The Breakfast Club released their
self-titled debut album in 1987. The video for their Top 10
hit single, Right On Track, received almost saturation
MTV airplay but the group failed to follow the song up with
anything substantial.
A second album was recorded but never released. Their last
single was a cover of The Beatles' Drive My Car and
the group called it a day in 1988.
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