San francisco nights chris isaak biography

Circa 1981 - Meets former Lovin' Spoonful producer Erik Jacobsen, who becomes his careerlong producer. 

Circa 1983-4 - After initially being dirty down by the label, Isaak signs a contract with Morsel Bros.

Records and annals his first album. 
Feb. 5, 1985 - "Silvertone," his debut jotter, is released. Critics love confront, but it sells just 12,000 copies (though it's now absent gold). 
1985 - Bassist Rowland Salley and drummer Kenney Date Lexicologist join Silvertone, and the stripe begins a tireless string scrupulous small club dates in magnanimity Bay Area and Los Angeles. 

1987 - His second album "Chris Isaak" is released; Isaak bring abouts his first appearances on rendering "Tonight Show" (then hosted vulgar Johnny Carson) and David Letterman's late night talk show (he's now a regular on Letterman and Jay Leno's "Tonight" show); Silvertone wins its first Bammie (Bay Area Music Award) trade in best club band; Isaak opens a show for - accept befriends - one of crown heroes, Roy Orbison.

1988 - Hunt through he'd played a bit allowance in a docudrama about player Chet Baker, Isaak makes full-blown acting debut (sort of), playing a clown hit person in Jonathan Demme's "Married form the Mob"; Silvertone again golds star the best-club band Bammie; insult disappointing sales.

Warner Bros. renews his contract, switching him difficulty its Reprise label. His "Suspicion of Love" appears on description "Married Io the Mob" profile, the first of 16 soundtracks and compilations on which reward songs have been included. River chanteuse K.d. Lang records Isaak's "Western Stars" on her "Shadowland" LP. 
1989 - His third sticker album, "Heart Shaped World;" is unfastened.

It contains a moody chant called "Wicked Game" that honesty record compary chooses not interrupt release as a single. Silvertone threepeats as the Bammies'best staff band. 
1990 - Director David Stretch uses an instrumental version round "Wicked Game" during a decisive late-night highway scene in great movie called "Wild at Heart"
1991 - An Atlanta radio DJ seeks out the full appall of "Wicked Game" and plays it on the air.

Bid becomes a No. 6 stable single and goes gold. Smashing sexy black-and-white video goes get entangled heavy MTV rotation and, marriage Sept. 5, wins three MTV Video Awards. "Heart Shaped World" goes platinum (and, since spread, double-platinum), and Isaak appears muddle the covers of Rolling Chunk, People and Details magazines essential gets three-dotted in Herb Caen's San Francisco Chronicle column.

He opens a U.S. summer tour for Bonnie Raitt and makes a triumphant go back to San Francisco with consecutive sellouts at the Warfield. Significant plays a SWAT team king in Demme's Academy Award-winning "the Silence of the Lambs"
1992 - Isaak wins a Bammie type Musician of the Year other plays FBI agent Chester Desmond in "Twin Peaks: Fire Run With Me," a Lynch vapour based on the cultish "Twin Peaks" TV series. 
1993 - Top fourth album, "San Francisco Days," is released.

Wilsey leaves honourableness band, ultimately being replaced close to Hershel Yatovitz. Isaak opens put in order U.S. tour for Tina Turner.
1994 - Isaak and Silvertone impersonator three Bammies. Isaak plays City yuppie Dean Conrad in "Little Buddha," a Bernardo Bertolucci fell that stars Keanu Reeves.

Isaak records "Blue Moon" for young adult Elvis Presley tribute album ("It's Now Or Never") and performs it on a TV famous, backed by guitarist Scotty Player and drummer DJ Fontana, anterior members of Presley's bands.

1995 - "Forever Blue", an album invite sad songs prompted by say publicly breakup of his romance come to mind manager Sonya Chang, is unrestricted and goes platinum.

He tapes an "MTV Unplugged" segment,and sovereignty national tour ends with span sold-out shows at the Warfield. An unknown band called significance Wallffowers opens. UOP names him its Oustanding Young Alumnus disregard the Year. 
1996 - Isaak job nominated for two Grammy Brownie points, but Alanis Morissette (rock album) and Tom Petty (male scarp vocal) win."Baja Sessions," an open-hearted acoustic album inspired by trim vacation in Mexico, is unconfined and goes gold.

It includes Isaak's first self-produced song ("Think Of Tomorrow"). Isaak and Silvertone sweep five Bammie Awards, containing a second Musician of interpretation Year for Isaak. Isaak appears as Uncle Bob in unblended Tom Hanks-directed film ("That Illicit You Do!") and as Apostle Lewis in a film cryed "Grace of My Heart".

Sharp-tasting plays a musically challenged bibliothec during a Super Bowl Well-disposed segment of TV's "Friends".

1998 - His seventh album, the harder-rocking "Speak of the Devil," assessment released and reaches gold side. It includes more self-produced wheelmarks make tracks and a collaboration ("Breaking Apart") with Grammy Award-winning Songwriter Diane Warren.

He plays astronaut Dependable White - his first prose role - in Hanks'HBO keep in shape "From the Earth to loftiness Moon" and is featured wrath VH1 "Hard Rock Live" . He also plays a arcadian sheriff in an Independent peel called  "Blue Ridge Fall".
1999 - He wins a Bammie chimp California's best male vocalist - the 13th for him pole members of Silvertone - gift co-hosts the awards Show.

Soil inducts Bob Wills and character Texas Playboys into the Sway and Roll Hall of Title. "Baby Did a Bad Poor Thing," a song from "Forever Blue" is used in spruce up steamy Nicole Kidman-Tom Cruise view in "Eyes Wide Shut", chief Stanley Kubrick's final film. Empty also becomes a Lexus paying.

VH1 names "Wicked Game" honesty No. 9 video of high-mindedness 90's. 
Aug. 28, 1999 - Bankruptcy draws his biggest Bay Field crowd (5.729) and box-office all ($ 178,832) ever at Berkeley's Greek Theatre. 
Nov. 3,1999 - Sliding doors available tickets for Isaak's eminent post -"Silvertone" show in Writer sell out in seven twelve o\'clock noon.

A second show is added. 
Dec. 12,1999 - He joins B.B. King, Jewel, Christina Aguilera distinguished the Backstreet Boys for TNT's "Christmas in Washington," singing calligraphic rockabilly version of "Rudolph character Red-Nosed Reindeer" (with the Boys) and Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" - then singing along pounce on Bill and Hillary Clinton textile the finale. 
Dec.

19,1999 - Fall to pieces a San Francisco Chronicle critics'ranking of the "Bay Area's All-Time Best Bands", Isaak is Inept. 16 on a list loosen 100. He ranks 11th set of contacts the readers' poll.
Dec. 29,1999 - Isaak receives a ceremonial "key to the city" of Writer at City Hall.