Air Supply

All out of love

Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock met on May 12, 1975 while rehearsing the Australian production of Jesus Christ Superstar, which toured Australia and New Zealand for eighteen months, and formed a harmony vocal group that year with Chrissie Hammond. Hitchcock sings lead; Russell writes, plays guitars and keyboards and sings co-lead, and told Songfacts that he writes and Hitchcock sings. The debut Air Supply (1976) reached 17 on the Australian chart. In 1978 they toured Australia and then North America with Rod Stewart, which helped their US breakthrough, and Clive Davis signed them to Arista the following year.

Lost in Love (March 3, 1980, Arista) was recorded in 1978 and 1979 in Sydney, California and New York, with Rick Chertoff, Charles Fisher, Harry Maslin and Robie Porter as producers and Davis as executive producer. It reached 22 on the Billboard 200 and went two-times platinum, with the singles "Lost in Love" (US 3), "All Out of Love" (US 2) and "Every Woman in the World" (US 5). Their only US number one, "The One That You Love", came in July 1981; "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" by Jim Steinman reached 2 in 1983. Their Greatest Hits (August 1983) reached 7 in the US and number one in Australia, and "I Can Wait Forever" was in Ghostbusters.

They played Havana on July 7, 2005, among the first foreign bands there, to a stated audience of 175,000. The musical All Out of Love ran in Manila in October 2018. They were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame on December 1, 2013 and are still touring, with a 50th anniversary tour in 2025 and a 2026 album, A Matter of Time. Wikipedia counts about 100 million records and eight US top-five hits.