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* MAJOR UPDATE!

Tommy is staying more busy than ever...if that is possible!!!
Here is a major update finally, we're sorry for the delay but our schedules are completely nuts right now...

* LOS ANGELES

Tommy is in LA right now for a 6 week work trip.
The main focus is on song writing this time but he will do a few sessions as well, Tommy will update the site weekly himself while there with news and pictures from his trip.
He jumped straight into action by working with legendary writer Holly Knight the first day, they wrote a killer tune for a very happening Swedish band.

* DEACON STREET PROJECT II

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"Press release from MTM"
MTM Music are pleased to announce the signing of Tommy Denander's project Deacon Street 2 album for release in May.
The line-up will definitely wet every AOR / melodic rock fan's appetite!
The project Deacon Street originally started out with Tommy and his former partner Chris Demming (AOR, Spin Gallery), who had written songs together for various artists and found themselves with a lot of very good but unused AOR / melodic rock songs.
But, as Tommy points out, "Don't mistake it for a cheap and fast way to get some leftover songs out - If you're a serious fan of classy melodic rock you won't be disappointed with the quality of this release."

The new album by Deacon Street, II , now features even bigger names - Stan Bush, Christopher Cross, Jeff Watson (Night Ranger), Steve Morse (Kansas, Deep Purple), Reb Beach (Winger, Dokken), Bruce Gaitsch (Richard Marx, Madonna, Peter Cetera), Thomas Vikström (Talk Of The Town), Andreas Novak, Johan Fahlberg (Jaded Heart), Bobby Messano (Glen Burtnick, Fiona, Joe Lynn-Turner), Bill Leverty (Firehouse), Sayit and Lars Chriss (Lion's Share) among others.

II includes 14 great AOR / melodic rock songs in the vein of Journey and GIANT, enhanced by an admirable musician-ship, beautiful arrangements, and an excellent production.
This makes Deacon Street's II a definite must-have for fans of the artists mentioned above and of course for everyone who enjoys fine and well-produced AOR & melodic rock!
The release date is scheduled for May 20.

Here is the tracklist and featured vocalist:
01. Beautiful Chardaine - Peter Sundell . 02. LeAnn - Thomas Vikström . 03. When love is on the line - Johan Fahlberg . 04. Save me - Andreas Novak . 05. I Give This Promise - Chris Antblad . 06. Now We Cry For You - Stan Bush . 07. Second Comings - Andreas Novak . 08. (Kill us) On Another Day - Thomas Vikström . 09. The Promise Of Forever - Chris Antblad . 10. Misery - Andreas Novak . 11. Action - Thomas Vikström . 12. Easy As It Seems - Geir Rönning . 13. Them Changes - Tommy Denander . 14. Jason - All star.

* RADIOACTIVE UPDATE

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The new album "Taken" is selling really good and recentöy entered the Japanese charts at #11 and together with a huge amount of top reviews also ended up on many top 10 lists for 2005.
There's tons of new interviews with Tommy out all over the world, both on internet and in print magazines including the latest issue of the biggest hard rock mag in the world BURRN.

* TOMMY PLAYS GUITAR IN MAJOR HOLLYWOOD MOVIE

Tommy recently played guitar on the lead theme song for a major Hollywood movie to be released this year, more news as it becomes official.

* LATVIA EUROVISION

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FIDJI

Tommy played guitar on the song "Frozen Flower" sung by female artist Fidji in the semi final of the Eurovision contest in Latvia on febraury 4th.

* TOTO IN SWEDEN

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JOPPE FRONDA - TOMMY - STEVE LUKATHER - PETER FRIESTEDT

Tommy's old friends Toto graced Stockholm recently with an amazing concert, Tommy spent 2 great days with Steve Lukather and says himself, -

"I've known Luke for almost 20 years and we've had so many nice times together but these 2 days were absolutely killer, we spent time alone just talking about life, friends, music, guitar playing...and after the show we had a cool party where i brought along my wonderful dad in law Joppe Fronda and another close friend Peter Friestedt (LA Project).
I can't thank Luke enough for the way he took care of Joppe....you're a true friend buddy!!!"

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JOPPE & LUKE

* PAUL STANLEY LIVES TO WIN ON NEW STUDIO RELEASE:

Joop from the Kiss Kollector Fanclub - www.kisskollector.com - was kind enough to e-mail this Paul Stanley album update:

Paul Stanley recently talked to ABC Radio Network's ePrep about his forthcoming solo album. Amongst other things, he revealed the title for his album Live To Win. Paul also confirmed he still hasn't found a label. It seems the KISS frontman is forced to go for different labels in different countries in stead of one label worldwide. Says Paul: "There's nothing worse, that I've seen in the past, [than] when you have a deal, let's say in America, and the company in Germany hates your album."
While Paul is still shopping his material to various labels, he expects his album to be available in four to six months. And as KISS Kollector Online reported a while ago, Paul is planning to do a solo tour. This time he wants to bring out a bigger band than he did in 1989 "because there's a lot more going on on this album." In 2004, Paul already told the Official Authorized KISS Magazine “There's great playing on the album there's strings everything is big and powerful, it's almost epic. The songs have almost a cinematic quality.” Strings have been arranged David Campbell (the father of Beck), known to KISS fans from the KISS Symphony show of course, while Paul has been co-writing songs with people like Desmond Child and Andreas Carlsson.
The main musicians on the album are guitarist Corky James, drummer Victor Indrizzo and keyboardist Russ Irwin, while former Marilyn Manson/David Lee Roth guitarist John Lowery played guitar on two tracks and also co-wrote a few songs. Former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick played bass on 5 or 6 tracks as he recently told KISS Kollector Online, but didn't get to play guitar.

One of the guitarists playing on the title track is Swedish guitar player Tommy Denander who informed KISS Kollector Online not too long ago: “I did Wake Up Screaming at a small studio on Sunset Boulevard that they just hired for me, I did some other work for Andreas and Desmond that same day. When Paul liked what I had done he asked me to play on Live To Win and I did that at Desmond's studio... also on Sunset actually.”

Paul told ABC Radio Networks “[It's] some friends of mine - it's not a 'who's who.' I didn't want to do one of those albums where you list people and it becomes some sort of a, trying to impress everybody with names. So it's a great album. Everybody loves it." For much more details on Paul Stanley's upcoming solo album, check out the new issue of KISS Kollector magazine, out in a few days, which features part 1 of an indepth story on his solo album. It'll exclusively bring you the lowdown on Paul's album, with several of the musicians involved in the album sharing inside information on how things came about over the past three years that Paul has been working on his album. You'll find out what studios were used to record the material, how Paul hooked up with everybody involved and what the session musicians thought of working with Paul.

* TOMMY PLAYS ON 3 GREAT SINGERS NEW ALBUMS!

GARY JOHN BARDEN
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Gary John Barden - The Agony And Xtasy:
The new, second solo album by ex-MSG/Silver singer Gary Barden will once again deliver 10 fine Hard Rock tunes to you.
The band this time consists of drummer Bertram Engel (Jimmy Barnes, Bruce Springsteen) and bassist/guitarist Michael Voss (Casanova, Silver) with Michael Schenker (g., MSG), Tommy Denander, (g.), Steve Morris (g., Heartland, Shadowman), Axel Kurse (dr., Jaded Heart) and Martin Huch (g., Carl Carlton, Oni Logan) additionally guesting on various tracks.
It's realesed in Europe on April 14th

DAVID READMAN (PC 69)
The great singer of German hard rock band PC69 is recording his first solo album with Tommy as one of the guests playing on a couple of the songs.

MICHAEL BORMANN (ex Jaded Heart)
From Michael's website -
The recordings to my solo-album have started.. Following musicians will join me: Tommy Denander, Rob Marcello (Danger Danger), Jack Frost (Seven Witches), Bobby Altvater (Affair), Bobby Boebel (Frontline, Evidence One), Andreas Rippelmeier (Heavenward, Jaded Heart), Bobby Stöcker, Eric Ragno (Seven Witches, Jack Frost), Marco Grasshoff (Heavenward), Jürgen Blackmore, and Chris Ivo (Jaded Heart, Doro, The Sygnet)

* SPEEDY GONZALES UPDATE
The album has been a great success with great sales and many killer reviews, it also entered the top 30 charts in Japan.
The band has also been featured in many interviews around the world as well as on several compilation albums including Sweden Rock Magazine, Rock It and Listen Up.

* YAMAHA CLINIC

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A couple of weeks ago Tommy did his first live clinic for Yamaha guitars and amps in Sweden.
It was held at Musikbörsen in Täby who is owned by his dear long time friend Patrik Lönneman, Tommy thanks all the cool people who showed up during the 3 hour session.
Click HERE to sea a video clip from Tommy playing at the clinic (15mb mpg)

* 2 NEW TRIBUTE ALBUMS
Tommy will be featured on 2 more tribute albums soon for Kiss and Def Leppard, more about this later on.

* CHRIS CATENA TIES THE KNOT:
Tommy's friend Chris Catena got married in Las Vegas on February 8, 2006 with the beautiful Katiuscia Nardi. Congratulations guys!
His new solo album is almost done and will feature among the others, some of the finest musicians in the world such as Tommy Denander, Pat Travers, Carmine Appice, Doug Aldrich, Earl Slick, Tony Franklin, Bobby Kimball, Timothy Drury, Maurizio Solieri, Uriah Duffy, Marco Mendoza, Victor Indrizzo, Martyn Lenoble, Janne Stark, Michael Gapys, Daniel Flores, Stevie Salas and Bruce Kulick.