Dan Peek
Musician
The Grand Cayman Concert (America album)...acoustic manner not seen since the early days when America performed as an acoustic trio. The concert was performed in the Cayman Islands, ironically, the longtime home of former bandmate Dan Peek, who was not involved with this recording. In this article: The Grand Cayman Concert, Dan Peek, Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Cayman Islands |
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Wikipedia | October 22, 2009
America (band)
...or gold, and it didn't have a successful single. Shortly after Harbor was released in February 1977, Dan Peek left the band. Peek recently had renewed his Christian faith after years of recreational drug use and had begun to seek a...
In this article: Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, George Martin, Russ Ballard, Ian Samwell, Beatles, and Ventura Highway
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Gerry Beckley
...in Bushey, Hertfordshire, where he played in various school bands, and met his soon-to-be band members, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. Originally the group played on Friday nights at the local American teen club, mostly doing acoustic covers...
In this article: Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, Sister Golden Hair, Carl Wilson, Ben Kweller, Chicago, A Horse with No Name, and Ventura Highway
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WNOW (AM)
...general manager, Ken Mayfield. An April sign-on date was delayed by paperwork problems. Artists included Amy Grant, Dion , Dan Peek and Deniece Williams. Russ Jones took over as manager soon after Mayfield's departure in 1989 for WTYC.
In this article: WNOW, Regional Mexican, WRCM, and Davidson Media Group
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Dan Peek
Dan Peek's first solo album became a big hit on Christian stations in 1979. Photo taken 1978 Dan Peek (born 1 November 1950, Panama City , Florida) was a member of the rock band, America from 1970 to 1977, together with Gerry Beckley and...
In this article: Gerry Beckley, All Things Are Possible, Pat Boone, Dewey Bunnell, Harbor, and Panama City
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starbulletin | August 07, 2009
America rides in on 'horse with no name'
...can't get in other places." The duo is also gearing up for the 40th anniversary of "the beginning of the band." Bunnell, Beckley and Dan Peek formed America after they graduated from high school in 1969. Bunnell anticipates that Warner...
In this article: Gerry Beckley, Michael Jackson, A Horse with No Name, Hawaii, Warner Bros, Derivative, Sister Golden Hair, and Sony Music
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MTV News | July 20, 2009
America 'Honored' By Michael Jackson's 'A Place With No Name' Sample
...though it's unclear just when he recorded the song. America - then comprised of Bunnell, Beckley and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Dan Peek - scored a massive hit in 1972 with "Horse," which went to #1 on the Billboard singles chart and...
In this article: Michael Jackson, A Horse with No Name, Gerry Beckley, Tommy Mottola, Sony Music, and Dewey Bunnell
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The Daily Progress | June 26, 2009
Another America with British roots
...nameless horse that climbed the charts in 1972 and started America down a very successful highway. America began as a trio. Dan Peek was another of the sons of American servicemen who were stationed in England. "We became friends while...
In this article: Dewey Bunnell, Here and Now, A Horse with No Name, Gerry Beckley, London, Ventura Highway, Grammy Award, and XM Radio
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Song Bird Records
...1979 , MCA briefly operated an MCA/Songbird label with new signings including Little Anthony (of Little Anthony & The Imperials) and Dan Peek (formerly of the group America), the previous rosters of both ABC-Peacock and ABC-Songbird having been...
In this article: MCA, Song Bird Records, Inez Andrews, Don Robey, Little Anthony & The Imperials, ABC, Universal Music Group, Geffen Records, and The Caravans
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Home Sweet Home Records
...Home Sweet Home held a prominent position in the Contemporary Christian music market; releasing albums by such artists as Steve Archer, Dan Peek, B.J. Thomas, White Heart and others. In 1983 Home Sweet Home released what is believed to be...
In this article: Home Sweet Home Records, Mark Heard, Steve Archer, White Heart, B.J. Thomas, Fingerprint Records, Nashville, Tennessee, and Dallas, Texas
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PR Newswire: All Releases | September 08, 2008
Spotlight 29 Casino Welcomes Creedence Clearwater Revisited and America
...with their hit "A Horse with No Name." Blending rock and folk to create their signature sound, Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek (who left the band in 1977) created an amazing blend of rock, pop, and folk sounds and created...
In this article: Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Doug "Cosmo" Clifford, Stu Cook, Coachella, California, Down on the Corner, and A Horse with No Name
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Dan Peek (born 1 November 1950, Panama City, Florida) was a member of the rock band, America from 1970 to 1977, together with Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell. He has contributed lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, and harmonica to their recordings during his tenure in the band.
Peek left America shortly after the February 1977 release of the Harbor album. He renewed his Christian faith after years of unhappy recreational drug use and a fast lifestyle, and had begun to seek a different artistic direction than Beckley or Bunnell. He went on to sign with Pat Boone's Lamb & Lion Records, and found success as a pioneering artist in the emerging Christian pop music genre. Outside of rejoining Beckley and Bunnell on stage on one spontaneous occasion several years after, Peek has not reunited with America, contrary to various inaccurate reports which have arisen over the years. Bunnell and Beckley contributed backing vocals on Peek's debut solo album in 1978, but that was in the context of Peek's solo career, and not as America.
Peek would later release an autobiography entitled An American Band, based on America's most successful period, and his own spiritual journey.
Peek's first album and single became big hits on the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) radio stations and charts. The single "All Things Are Possible" not only hit number 1 on the CCM singles chart, it also crossed over to the Billboard singles and Adult Contemporary charts - possibly becoming CCM's first crossover hit.
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