Saga will be making a stop in Thunder Bay to perform at Rockhouse on Friday October 14, 2016 (rescheduled from August 12)
Tickets $30
For over thirty-five years, SAGA has led the way in music innovation and audience interaction. Throughout this time the band has released 21 studio recorded CD’s under the umbrella of major record companies and have filmed over 20 music video’s in which MTV had the band on heavy rotation: the first ever digital live recording by a rock group, an enhanced and interactive CD ROM digital retrospective of their music catalogue, and an electronic concert ticket card with audio and visual elements for the fans to keep – all designed to engage people in new and exciting ways.
Saga have sold 10 million albums, and performed in over twenty countries to over fifteen million people. Their first album was released in 1978. The release was marked by a fortunate twist of fate – a leading Toronto record outlet exported a number of Canadian records to Germany. Within a few short weeks the album had sold 50,000 copies as an import.
With international feedback gaining momentum, SAGA returned to the studio in 1979 to record their second LP, Images at Twilight. The song It’s Time became the bands first single, and it climbed to top 10 on the Canadian music charts. The band had also mapped out the script for an eight-song science fiction story known as The Chapters. Many of the individual story parts would become some of SAGA’s best-loved hits.
After months of touring, SAGA released their ground-breaking Worlds Apart recording in 1981. The album entered the Billboard U.S. Top 10, and included 2 top 10 singles. The hit song On The Loose reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That year, SAGA also received the Juno Award for Most Promising Group of the Year in Canada. Worlds Apart became a certified Gold album in the USA selling 800,000 copies in 1983.
SAGA is: Michael Sadler, Jim Crichton, Ian Crichton, Jim Gilmour and Mike Thorne.