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| 3. Don�t Knock It 'til You Try It
3.1 Awards 3.1.1 Grammys In 1984, "Time After Time", written by Rob & Cyndi Lauper, was nominated for Song of the Year. In 1996, "One of Us", written by Eric for Joan Osborne, was nominated for Song of the Year. 3.1.2 Rolling Stone The Hooters were named Best New Band in 1985. NERVOUS NIGHT was #62 on the Top 100 Albums of 1986. 3.1.3 MTV �All You Zombies� was #57 on the Top 100 Videos of All Time, August 3, 1986. 3.1.4 Billboard At Billboard's 8th Annual Video Music Conference on Nov. 22, 1986, the Hooters won 2 awards: Best Concert Performance for 'Where Do the Children Go' video and Best Longform Program for the full length 'Nervous Night' Home video. They also placed in 5 categories in Billboard's Top 100 of 1986: Top Pop Artist, #41; Top Pop Album, #23; Top Pop Album Artists/Groups, #16; Top Pop Album Artists based on one album, #27; and Top Pop Singles Artists based on 3 singles, #73. 3.1.5 Long-term Achievement On November 17, 2000, Rob and Eric were inducted into the Philadelphia Walk of Fame on the Avenue of the Arts. See more info: http://www.geocities.com/mistresskatesutton/walkoffame.html The Hooters were presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Philly Music Awards on May, 11, 2004. 3.2 Tours From the beginning, touring and playing live shows has been the Hooters' mainstay bread-n-butter. They were on the road for practically all of the 1980's in support of their albums. Their first major overseas visit was to Australia, Christmastime, 1985. From there they've been to Japan, repeatedly to Europe, and to Canada. The 1990's saw shorter tours as their popularity grew more specialized. The last full US tour was in 1995. However, there have been summer tours in Germany since 2002 and there was a three-city US tour (Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and Meriden, CT) in June 2006. |
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