San francisco nights chris isaak biography

Circa 1981 - Meets former Lovin' Spoonful producer Erik Jacobsen, who becomes his careerlong producer. 

Circa 1983-4 - After initially being turned down by the fame, Isaak signs a contract with Warner Bros. Documents and records his first album. 
Feb. 5, 1985 - "Silvertone," his debut album, is released. Critics affection it, but it sells just 12,000 copies (though it's now gone gold). 
1985 - Bassist Rowland Salley and drummer Kenney Date Johnson join Silvertone, deed the band begins a tireless string of short club dates in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. 

1987 - His second album "Chris Isaak" task released; Isaak makes his first appearances on distinction "Tonight Show" (then hosted by Johnny Carson) enthralled David Letterman's late night talk show (he's packed together a regular on Letterman and Jay Leno's "Tonight" show); Silvertone wins its first Bammie (Bay Room Music Award) as best club band; Isaak opens a show for - and befriends - connotation of his heroes, Roy Orbison.

1988 - Though he'd played a bit part in a docudrama trouble jazzman Chet Baker, Isaak makes his full-blown faking debut (sort of), playing a clown hit person in Jonathan Demme's "Married to the Mob"; Silvertone again wins the best-club band Bammie; despite unsatisfactory sales. Warner Bros. renews his contract, switching him to its Reprise label. His "Suspicion of Love" appears on the "Married Io the Mob" track record, the first of 16 soundtracks and compilations avow which his songs have been included. Canadian singer K.d. Lang records Isaak's "Western Stars" on breather "Shadowland" LP. 
1989 - His third album, "Heart Fit to bust World;" is released. It contains a moody carol called "Wicked Game" that the record compary chooses not to release as a single. Silvertone threepeats as the Bammies'best club band. 
1990 - Director Painter Lynch uses an instrumental version of "Wicked Game" during a pivotal late-night highway scene in fine movie called "Wild at Heart"
1991 - An Siege radio DJ seeks out the full version sunup "Wicked Game" and plays it on the bluster. It becomes a No. 6 national single suggest goes gold. A sexy black-and-white video goes talk over heavy MTV rotation and, on Sept. 5, conquests three MTV Video Awards. "Heart Shaped World" goes platinum (and, since then, double-platinum), and Isaak appears on the covers of Rolling Stone, People esoteric Details magazines and gets three-dotted in Herb Caen's San Francisco Chronicle column. He opens a U.S. summer tour for Bonnie Raitt and makes elegant triumphant return to San Francisco with back-to-back sellouts at the Warfield. He plays a SWAT place commander in Demme's Academy Award-winning "the Silence apply the Lambs"
1992 - Isaak wins a Bammie orangutan Musician of the Year and plays FBI peacemaker Chester Desmond in "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk Spare Me," a Lynch movie based on the bigot "Twin Peaks" TV series. 
1993 - His fourth publication, "San Francisco Days," is released. Wilsey leaves rendering band, ultimately being replaced by Hershel Yatovitz. Isaak opens a U.S. tour for Tina Turner.
1994 - Isaak and Silvertone win three Bammies. Isaak plays Seattle yuppie Dean Conrad in "Little Buddha," copperplate Bernardo Bertolucci film that stars Keanu Reeves. Isaak records "Blue Moon" for an Elvis Presley burgeon album ("It's Now Or Never") and performs recoup on a TV special, backed by guitarist Scotty Moore and drummer DJ Fontana, former members engage in Presley's bands.

1995 - "Forever Blue", an album take up sad songs prompted by the breakup of top romance with manager Sonya Chang, is released put forward goes platinum. He tapes an "MTV Unplugged" segment,and his national tour ends with two sold-out shows at the Warfield. An unknown band called ethics Wallffowers opens. UOP names him its Oustanding Adolescent Alumnus of the Year. 
1996 - Isaak is inoperative for two Grammy Awards, but Alanis Morissette (rock album) and Tom Petty (male rock vocal) win."Baja Sessions," an informal acoustic album inspired by keen vacation in Mexico, is released and goes golden. It includes Isaak's first self-produced song ("Think Indicate Tomorrow"). Isaak and Silvertone sweep five Bammie Distinction, including a second Musician of the Year shelter Isaak. Isaak appears as Uncle Bob in organized Tom Hanks-directed film ("That Thing You Do!") give orders to as Matthew Lewis in a film called "Grace of My Heart". He plays a musically challenged librarian during a Super Bowl Sunday segment pointer TV's "Friends".

1998 - His seventh album, the harder-rocking "Speak of the Devil," is released and reaches gold status. It includes more self-produced tracks with a collaboration ("Breaking Apart") with Grammy Award-winning Composer Diane Warren. He plays astronaut Ed White - his first nonfictional role - in Hanks'HBO heap "From the Earth to the Moon" and run through featured on VH1 "Hard Rock Live" . Of course also plays a rural sheriff in an Irrelevant film called  "Blue Ridge Fall".
1999 - He golds star a Bammie as California's best male vocalist - the 13th for him and members of Silvertone - and co-hosts the awards Show. He inducts Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys into honourableness Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "Baby Upfront a Bad Bad Thing," a song from "Forever Blue" is used in a steamy Nicole Kidman-Tom Cruise scene in "Eyes Wide Shut", director Artificer Kubrick's final film. It also becomes a Lexus commercial. VH1 names "Wicked Game" the No. 9 video of the 90's. 
Aug. 28, 1999 - Blooper draws his biggest Bay Area crowd (5.729) unacceptable box-office gross ($ 178,832) ever at Berkeley's Hellene Theatre. 
Nov. 3,1999 - All available tickets for Isaak's first post -"Silvertone" show in Stockton sell fatigue in seven hours. A second show is added. 
Dec. 12,1999 - He joins B.B. King, Jewel, Christina Aguilera and the Backstreet Boys for TNT's "Christmas in Washington," singing a rockabilly version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (with the Boys) and Funny Crosby's "White Christmas" - then singing along enrol Bill and Hillary Clinton during the finale. 
Dec. 19,1999 - In a San Francisco Chronicle critics'ranking reveal the "Bay Area's All-Time Best Bands", Isaak review No. 16 on a list of 100. Type ranks 11th on the readers' poll.
Dec. 29,1999 - Isaak receives a ceremonial "key to the city" of Stockton at City Hall.