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Honeymoon Suite
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Miami Vice Performer
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Current Members
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Johnnie Dee (guitar/lead vocal)
Derry Grehan (guitar) Dave Betts (drums) Gary Lalonde (bass) Peter Nunn (keyboards) |
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Active
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1982-present
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Honeymoon Suite is a Canadian rock band, whose songs "New Girl Now" (in "One Eyed Jack"), "Feel It Again" (in "Free Verse") and "Bad Attitude" (in "Freefall") appeared in the TV show Miami Vice.
Career[]
Honeymoon Suite was formed in Canada by Johnnie Dee, Derry Grehan, and original drummer Mike Lengyell, later bringing in Ray Coburn (keyboards), Gary Lelonde (bass), and Dave Betts (replacing Lengyell on drums). They got their break performing "New Girl Now" at a Toronto radio contest for unsigned bands, and they released their debut album, Honeymoon Suite, featuring "New Girl Now", which reached the Top 50 in America. Their next album, The Big Prize, featured their only Top 40 single, "Feel It Again", and the song "Bad Attitude", and had two songs appear in the movies Wraith and Lethal Weapon. After Dee recovered from an injury sustained when he was hit by a car in Los Angeles, the band's third album was released, Racing After Midnight, which did not do well in the US, but sold well in their native Canada. Their fourth album, Monsters Under The Bed, did not chart in the US, and featured Alannah Myles ("Black Velvet") on drums. The group toured in the 1990s, changed members several times (except Dee & Grehan), but did not release any albums from 1991-2001. In 2007 the group reunited the classic lineup from the 1980s and recorded the 2008 album Clifton Hill. The group continues to tour in their native Canada and select locations in the US.