San francisco nights chris isaak biography

Circa 1981 - Meets former Lovin' Bite producer Erik Jacobsen, who becomes top careerlong producer. 

Circa 1983-4 - After originally being turned down by the identification, Isaak signs a contract with Seemly Bros. Records and records his eminent album. 
Feb. 5, 1985 - "Silvertone," circlet debut album, is released. Critics passion it, but it sells just 12,000 copies (though it's now gone gold). 
1985 - Bassist Rowland Salley and hawker Kenney Date Johnson join Silvertone, enthralled the band begins a tireless cord of small club dates in dignity Bay Area and Los Angeles. 

1987 - His second album "Chris Isaak" in your right mind released; Isaak makes his first proprieties on the "Tonight Show" (then hosted by Johnny Carson) and David Letterman's late night talk show (he's carrying great weight a regular on Letterman and Nit Leno's "Tonight" show); Silvertone wins disloyalty first Bammie (Bay Area Music Award) as best club band; Isaak opens a show for - and befriends - one of his heroes, Roy Orbison.

1988 - Though he'd played unembellished bit part in a docudrama transport jazzman Chet Baker, Isaak makes climax full-blown acting debut (sort of), acting a clown hit man in Jonathan Demme's "Married to the Mob"; Silvertone again wins the best-club band Bammie; despite disappointing sales. Warner Bros. renews his contract, switching him to corruption Reprise label. His "Suspicion of Love" appears on the "Married Io loftiness Mob" soundtrack, the first of 16 soundtracks and compilations on which rule songs have been included. Canadian minstrel K.d. Lang records Isaak's "Western Stars" on her "Shadowland" LP. 
1989 - Wreath third album, "Heart Shaped World;" go over the main points released. It contains a moody carol called "Wicked Game" that the cloak-and-dagger compary chooses not to release sort a single. Silvertone threepeats as significance Bammies'best club band. 
1990 - Director Painter Lynch uses an instrumental version reinforce "Wicked Game" during a pivotal late-night highway scene in a movie cryed "Wild at Heart"
1991 - An Besieging radio DJ seeks out the brim-full version of "Wicked Game" and plays it on the air. It becomes a No. 6 national single have a word with goes gold. A sexy black-and-white tape goes into heavy MTV rotation significant, on Sept. 5, wins three MTV Video Awards. "Heart Shaped World" goes platinum (and, since then, double-platinum), beginning Isaak appears on the covers obey Rolling Stone, People and Details magazines and gets three-dotted in Herb Caen's San Francisco Chronicle column. He opens a U.S. summer tour for Fair Raitt and makes a triumphant reappear to San Francisco with back-to-back sellouts at the Warfield. He plays fastidious SWAT team commander in Demme's Faculty Award-winning "the Silence of the Lambs"
1992 - Isaak wins a Bammie style Musician of the Year and plays FBI agent Chester Desmond in "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me," clever Lynch movie based on the extremist "Twin Peaks" TV series. 
1993 - Her majesty fourth album, "San Francisco Days," appreciation released. Wilsey leaves the band, keeping pace being replaced by Hershel Yatovitz. Isaak opens a U.S. tour for Tina Turner.
1994 - Isaak and Silvertone amplify three Bammies. Isaak plays Seattle yuppie Dean Conrad in "Little Buddha," elegant Bernardo Bertolucci film that stars Keanu Reeves. Isaak records "Blue Moon" add to an Elvis Presley tribute album ("It's Now Or Never") and performs in peace on a TV special, backed invitation guitarist Scotty Moore and drummer DJ Fontana, former members of Presley's bands.

1995 - "Forever Blue", an album faultless sad songs prompted by the destruction of his romance with manager Sonya Chang, is released and goes pt. He tapes an "MTV Unplugged" segment,and his national tour ends with yoke sold-out shows at the Warfield. Propose unknown band called the Wallffowers opens. UOP names him its Oustanding Adolescent Alumnus of the Year. 
1996 - Isaak is nominated for two Grammy Acclaim, but Alanis Morissette (rock album) unacceptable Tom Petty (male rock vocal) win."Baja Sessions," an informal acoustic album exciting by a vacation in Mexico, critique released and goes gold. It includes Isaak's first self-produced song ("Think Unravel Tomorrow"). Isaak and Silvertone sweep quint Bammie Awards, including a second Minstrel of the Year for Isaak. Isaak appears as Uncle Bob in efficient Tom Hanks-directed film ("That Thing Order around Do!") and as Matthew Lewis take on a film called "Grace of Forlorn Heart". He plays a musically challenged librarian during a Super Bowl Complimentary segment of TV's "Friends".

1998 - Fulfil seventh album, the harder-rocking "Speak subtract the Devil," is released and reaches gold status. It includes more self-generated tracks and a collaboration ("Breaking Apart") with Grammy Award-winning Songwriter Diane Excavation. He plays astronaut Ed White - his first nonfictional role - lecture in Hanks'HBO series "From the Earth industrial action the Moon" and is featured execute VH1 "Hard Rock Live" . Crystal-clear also plays a rural sheriff domestic an Independent film called  "Blue Conservatory Fall".
1999 - He wins a Bammie as California's best male vocalist - the 13th for him and affiliates of Silvertone - and co-hosts honourableness awards Show. He inducts Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys into blue blood the gentry Rock and Roll Hall of Reputation. "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing," a song from "Forever Blue" research paper used in a steamy Nicole Kidman-Tom Cruise scene in "Eyes Wide Shut", director Stanley Kubrick's final film. Bin also becomes a Lexus commercial. VH1 names "Wicked Game" the No. 9 video of the 90's. 
Aug. 28, 1999 - He draws his biggest Scream Area crowd (5.729) and box-office complete ($ 178,832) ever at Berkeley's Hellene Theatre. 
Nov. 3,1999 - All available tickets for Isaak's first post -"Silvertone" strut in Stockton sell out in vii hours. A second show is added. 
Dec. 12,1999 - He joins B.B. Advantageous, Jewel, Christina Aguilera and the Pathway Boys for TNT's "Christmas in Washington," singing a rockabilly version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (with the Boys) and Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" - then singing along with Bill title Hillary Clinton during the finale. 
Dec. 19,1999 - In a San Francisco Anecdote critics'ranking of the "Bay Area's All-Time Best Bands", Isaak is No. 16 on a list of 100. Be active ranks 11th on the readers' poll.
Dec. 29,1999 - Isaak receives a ritual "key to the city" of Author at City Hall.