Born in the Philadelphia suburb of Springfield, Tom Keifer began playing guitar at an early age. Attracted to the blues, he also found refuge in hard rock during a troubled adolescence. Upon his high school graduation, his mother gave him a Les Paul guitar and he set out playing in a variety of bands. Addiction issues still plagued him, but he soon straightened out and turned his attention to songwriting, eventually forming Cinderella with bassist Eric Brittingham.
Cinderella first gained the attention of KISS' Gene Simmons, but his attempts to further the band's career were thwarted. The group's savior turned out to be Jon Bon Jovi, who saw them play Philadelphia's Empire Rock Club and convinced Derek Shulman to sign the group to Mercury/Polygram.

Between 1986 and 1994, Cinderella released four albums on Mercury, with their first two -- Night Songs (1986) and Long Cold Winter (1988) -- both going triple platinum; their singles "Nobody's Fool" (1986) and "Don't Know What You Got (Til It's Gone)" (1988), nearly cracked the Billboard Top 40. Heartbreak Station released in 1990 also reached Platinum. These three albums spawned the hits " Shake Me", "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)", "Nobody's Fool", "Coming Home", "Gypsy Road", "The Last Mile", "Somebody Save Me", and "Shelter Me" selling more than 15 millions of albums worldwide. Tom Keifer's 2019 solo release 'Rise' debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard Hard Rock Album Sales chart, with lead single "The Death Of Me" hitting the Top 20 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

Cinderella played regularly through 2013, the same year Keifer released his solo debut, The Way Life Goes. With a solo album to his credit, Keifer wound down Cinderella and concentrated on his solo career, releasing a deluxe edition of The Way Life Goes in 2017 and then Rise in 2019.

As the founder, lead singer, and songwriter of the metal rock band RATT, Stephen Pearcy is credited with having been a pioneer of the early 80's Sunset Strip rock scene. He was having led his creation to Mega Multi-Platinum Success Year After Year from 1984 to 1991 and capturing critical acclaim for his performances, style, and uniquely salacious vocals. Pearcy formed RATT in Los Angeles in 1982 from his previous band Mickey RATT. Known for their overtly sexual appearance, rebellious attitude, and take no prisoner approach to metal, Atlantic Records recognized RATT's potential and star power thus signing the band to a contract resulting in the 1984 album "Out of the Cellar", which became one of many multi-platinum successes. RATT climbed up the charts with singles from "Out of the Cellar", soaring past Prince's "Let's Go Crazy", Van Halen's "Panama", Madonna's "Borderline" and David Bowies's "Blue Jean".

The record generated the top ten singles followed by sold-out tours throughout the world. This momentum remained with every proceeding RATT album, including their most recent release of "Infestation" in 2010. Their last recording from that time in 1991 is Ratt "81-91" which marked the end of an era, and to the disbelief of many die-hard metal fans who seemingly could never get enough of Pearcy, it seemed to mark the end to a self-proclaimed "dynasty of rough & tough metal" that ruled the better part of the 80s. Throughout RATT's nearly four decades of success with Pearcy at its helm, they released 8 albums and played thousands of shows worldwide all the while selling over 20 million records.

He currently runs his production company, Top Fuel Entertainment of which his new docuseries "Backstage Past" is in development, as well as the Stephen Pearcy Rockumentary. The Pearcy legacy is here to stay. His fans are loyal and always want more of him...after all, he is the original "Wanted Man".

THERE'S ONLY ONE ALL-FEMALE HARD ROCK BAND FROM THE 80S WHO sold over a million albums had six number-one videos on MTV, and had four songs in Billboards' top 100.

Vixen was founded in St. Paul, MN by high-schooler guitarist Jan Kuehnemund. With the desire to achieve the rock star dreams like so many before her, Jan took her group to Hollywood but soon retooled the line-up, including vocalist Janet Gardner, drummer Roxy Petrucci and bassist Share Ross (Pedersen). In 1987 a pair of big brass balls at EMI Records decided to roll the dice with Vixen, although all the stereotypes regarding bands fronted by chicks were then initiated into the male-dominated club of hard rock. EMI released their self-named debut album "Vixen" featuring the group's first hit "Edge of a Broken Heart" penned by Richard Marx and Fee Waybill (The Tubes). MTV became Vixen's playground, and with exhaustive touring, Vixen embarked on their ride.
Piling on more hits the band charted Billboard at #22 with ballads, "Cryin' "and "Love Made Me" at #36. The road continued to call openings for Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, Eddie Money, and many others. Vixens had firmly distinguished themselves as a premiere rock act to be taken seriously