He's from one of the biggest bands of all time
Next week Graham Russell will be performing in front of an 18,000-strong crowd at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. But for now he's in Arnold, where he grew up, and to say he's an international rock star and probably the most successful Nottinghamshire musician ever no one knows who he is.
Joined by his girlfriend Lori, we meet up at Costa Coffee in Arnold's Front Street where he talks about growing in the modest semi, his stellar music career and the fact that he can come to the UK under the radar. "I had a big paper pad on a string around my neck and would write things down. I would start to make it rhyme for fun. Then I borrowed a guitar from a friend of mine and started to play. I poured everything into that. I started to write songs without knowing.
The two struck up an instant friendship and bonded over their mutual admiration of the Beatles. They went on to form Air Supply, opening for Rod Stewart on tour in America, selling-out concerts and performing more than 130 gigs every year around the world. Graham puts it down to the fact that Air Supply have never played in Nottingham, or indeed toured the UK. He says: "This is the really weird thing because in our early career when we first broke in the US we concentrated so much on the US and then Japan and Asia and Latin America.
"And it is, we don't just get up and go through the motions. We are very aware that what happened to us could have happened to thousands of bands and it really shouldn't have happened to us. We didn't have any experience but we were thrown to the lions very early and we've had so much luck on our side it's uncanny.
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