Talking

When Paul Dean and Matt Frenette jumped ship, abandoning Streetheart to create Loverboy, few would have guessed that 40+ years later the band would still be playing arena shows attracting 20K a night when on tour and cumulative album sales would almost double since their peak successful years in the ‘80s and ’90s.

The latter was authenticated last week by Music Canada and Sony Music Canada with a unique award acknowledging the west-coast band’s continuing success that started with the self-titled debut album released in 1980 that included two enduring North American hit singles: “The Kid Is Hot Tonite” and “Turn Me Loose.”