Streetheart (band)

Canadian rock band

Streetheart is a Canadian rock band, originally from Regina, Saskatchewan and later based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Their best known songs include "Here Comes the Night" (Them cover), "What Kind of Love is This", and their cover of the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb".

Keyboard player Daryl Gutheil and bassist Ken "Spider" Sinnaeve formed a band called Witness Inc. in Regina, and later relocated to Winnipeg, where singer Kenny Shields joined the band. After renaming the band Wascana the group finally became Streetheart when guitarist Paul Dean and drummer Matt Frenette joined in 1977. A year later the band released Meanwhile Back in Paris , and then Under Heaven Over Hell in 1979, after which Frenette dropped out to join Dean in Loverboy. John Hannah played guitars on Under Heaven Over Hell (1979), Quicksand Shoes (1980), and Drugstore Dancer (1980). In 1980, Streetheart won the Juno Award for "Most Promising Group of the Year". Dancing with Danger (1983), and the double live album Live After Dark (1983). Record sales earned them six gold albums and four platinum albums in Canada. Streetheart received a Juno Award, two Ampex Golden Reel Awards, a Chimo Award from Music Express Magazine, and were voted the most popular Canadian act at the Peoples' Choice Awards. In 2003, Streetheart was inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame. In 2008, the band released a 2 CD retrospective collection titled Read All About It The Hits/Anthology. The band continues to tour and often plays shows in its native Winnipeg. In 2017, Kenny Shields underwent emergency surgery for a serious heart ailment, which forced the band to cancel all of its touring plans for 2017. They were to play a final farewell concert on August 29, 2017, at the Winnipeg Classic RockFest in Winnipeg, MB. However, Shields died on the morning of July 21, 2017. On October 12, 2018, Jeff Neill announced that Winnipeg native, Paul McNair, would assume the role of lead vocalist with the band.

Title YearPeak chart position Album CAN "Look at Me" 1978 — Meanwhile Back in Paris "Action" — "Here Comes the Night" 1979 60 Under Heaven Over Hell "Hollywood" "Under My Thumb" 20 "Draggin' You Down" 1980 78 Quicksand Shoes "Jokes on You" — "Tin Soldier" 1981 — Drugstore Dancer "Teenage Rage" — "What Kind of Love is This" 1982 22 Streetheart "One More Time" "Look in Your Eyes" 1983 — "Snow White" — "Comin' True" — Dancing with Danger