Their 1987 power ballad 'What Keeps Me Loving You' gave them a brief moment in the spotlight.
If you only know one XYZ song, it's 'What Keeps Me Loving You.' But 'After The Rain' gives you a better sense of their full sound.
For a certain kind of rock fan, XYZ represents that specific late-80s LA sound, hard rock with power ballads, working bands that almost made it. 'What Keeps Me Loving You' is the song that stuck, a straightforward emotional track that still gets played on classic rock stations. Their other songs like 'After The Rain' and 'Face Down In The Gutter' fill out the picture of a band that kept at it even after the spotlight moved on.
They came out of Los Angeles in the early 1980s with a lineup of Jimmy Dean, Randy Black, Larry White, and Bobby Blue. Their self-titled 1987 debut had the hit 'What Keeps Me Loving You,' but follow-up albums like 'Inside Out' and 'Pulsations' never matched that success. The band went through lineup changes and personal struggles before briefly reuniting for VH1's 'Bands Reunited' in 2003.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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