JOHN WAITE with SPECIAL GUEST JOHN CAFFERTY & THE BEAVER BROWN BAND

Name: JOHN WAITE with SPECIAL GUEST JOHN CAFFERTY & THE BEAVER BROWN BAND
Start: 2026-11-14T20:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-11-14T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Des Plaines Theatre

November 14 @ 8:00 pm

John will be performing his catalogue of hits from his 40-year career as a solo artist, with The Baby’s and Bad English. John Waite’s catalogue of hits features some of the most loved songs of the 80s and 90s – the #1 Worldwide hit ‘Missing You’, The Baby’s ‘Isn’t It Time’ and Bad English ‘When I See You Smile’ rank amongst some of his biggest international hits and are still heard on radio today. Others include ‘Tears’, ‘Change’ and ‘These Times Are Hard For Lovers’. ‘Every Step Of The Way’ and ‘If Anybody Had A Heart’ appeared on the soundtrack to the 1986 Demi Moore film About Last Night. ‘Deal for Life’, penned by Martin Page and Bernie Taupin, was featured in the Days Of Thunder soundtrack. As a solo artist and as the lead singer of The Baby’s and Bad English, John Waite was a fixture of album-oriented rock radio stations during the ’70s and ’80s. John Waite had a talent for power ballads and driving arena rock, occasionally touching on new wave-styled power pop as well.

The legendary Rhode Island multi-platinum rock’n’roll group John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band began their career in 1973 and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s with the “Eddie & The Cruisers – Motion Picture Soundtrack”. The hit single “ON THE DARK SIDE” held the #1 position on the Billboard Rock charts and the MTV video charts for five consecutive weeks. John Cafferty’s solo track “HEARTS ON FIRE” was featured in Sylvester Stallone’s film “ROCKY IV”. Today John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band continue to tour and bring their exciting live shows to fans around the world. In 2012 they were inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall Of Fame.

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