first album. Like much of the power-pop quartet's output, it was a joyful pastiche of radio-rocking polish and Queen-style grandeur, cited as an influence by the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. Lead singer Eric Carmen's industrial-strength pipes and boy-next-door affability drove Raspberries with some sense of humour, as heard in the self-aware "Overnight Sensation"; he scored a solo hit with "Hungry Eyes" from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack in 1987, 12 years after the band broke up.