The word is already out about former Autograph frontman Steve Plunkett’s new album Turn Up The Radio 2025, a dramatic reinvention of his band’s epochal 1985 debut Sign In Please.

“Turn Up The Radio 2025,” the album’s first video, has already topped five figures in YouTube views; and  “Friday” is certain to make just as splendid a splash.

Steve himself describes “Friday” as “One of my favorite songs on Sign in Please. It was always a great live song . I love the upbeat chorus and guitar riff, too.”  In fact, he reveals, “The opening guitar riff came first and everything else just fell into place. We demoed this one twice before recording it on Sign in Please and it was one of our main songs.”

The song itself was composed almost two years before it made it onto record.

“I wrote this in 1983, the year we formed the band – back when everybody went out to clubs every night. I used to go to the Starwood and the Whisky (in Hollywood) all the time. On Fridays and Saturdays, Sunset Blvd would be packed with rock & rollers dressed up ‘in their Sunday best.’ All the Valley kids came to Hollywood and everyone was trying to look cool and impress. That was the scene that inspired me to write the song – I lived it!

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Formed in Los Angeles in 1983, where they were discovered by famed producer Andy Johns, Autograph initially came to notice as they toured with Van Halen – in fact, the band only settled on a name on their way to Florida for the first show of the tour!

Their debut album, the epic Sign In Please, followed later in the year – a slow starter to begin with but, once it entered the Billboard chart in June 1985, it sometimes felt as though it would never leave.

“1985 was a great year for me,” reflects Plunkett today.  “Autograph released their first album and it was a hit! We toured  constantly and lived the Rock’n’ Roll dream. That album made an impact at rock radio and with the fans. 

“Now, for the 40th anniversary, I wanted to Sign in Again with all new recordings and a 2025 sonic take. Not Autograph – because I could never improve on that record, but a Steve Plunkett ‘solo’ version focused on the songs. I hope these new versions will make you rock again like we did back in the day. Turn it up!”

All ten of the original album’s tracks are here, beginning – of course! – with that unforgettable opening triptych of “Send Her To Me” (the band’s second single, in early 1985), “Turn Up The Radio” and “Nineteen and Non Stop.”

Plunkett has tinkered a little with the running order – “Cloud 10” shifts from the first half of the album to the middle of the second, and “In The Night” replaces “All I’m Gonna Take” as the closing number.  

But fresh arrangements and electrifying performances more than compensate for any unfamiliarity, Plunkett’s post-Autograph success scoring movies and TV invoking startling new dimensions and directions to the music.

Turn Up The Radio 2025 will be released on September 26. It’s time to Turn Up The Music again!

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Track List:

1. Send Her to Me
2. Turn Up the Radio
3. Nighteen and Non-Stop
4. Deep End
5. Friday
6. My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend Isn’t Me
7. All I’m Gonna Take
8. Cloud 10
9. Thrill Of Love
10. In the Night

One of the most memorable genre defining hits of 1985, Autograph’s “Turn Up The Radio,” comes in for a thorough reworking and rerecording, as the title track and first single from founder and frontman Steve Plunkett’s new album – a dramatic sonic overhaul of the band’s gold selling debut LP.

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Formed in Los Angeles in 1983, where they were discovered by famed producer Andy Johns, Autograph initially came to notice as they toured with Van Halen – in fact, the band only settled on a name on their way to Florida for the first show of the tour!

Their debut album, the epic Sign In Please, followed later in the year – a slow starter to begin with but, once it entered the Billboard chart in June 1985, it sometimes felt as though it would never leave.

“Turn Up The Radio” had a lot to do with that, dominating not only radio and MTV, but also an episode of Miami Vice – one of the key “must watch TV” shows of the day.  Wryly, Steve Plunkett later revealed that the band’s label didn’t want the song to even appear on the album, “because they thought it had no commercial value.”

Instead it became a metal classic, making VH-1’s Top 100 Hard Rock Songs, the New York Times’ Top 15 Essential Hair Metal Videos and topping Guitar Player’s Guitar Solo of the Year poll.  It is still being played today.

“1985 was a great year for me,” reflects Plunkett today.  “Autograph released their first album and it was a hit! We toured  constantly and lived the Rock’n’ Roll dream. That album made an impact at rock radio and with the fans. 

“Now, for the 40 th anniversary, I wanted to Sign in Again with all new recordings and a 2025 sonic take. Not Autograph – because I could never improve on that record, but a Steve Plunkett ‘solo’ version focused on the songs. I hope these new versions will make you rock again like we did back in the day. Turn it up!”

All ten of the original album’s tracks are here, beginning – of course! – with that unforgettable opening triptych of “Send Her To Me” (the band’s second single, in early 1985), “Turn Up The Radio” and “Nineteen and Non Stop.”

Plunkett has tinkered a little with the running order – “Cloud 10” shifts from the first half of the album to the middle of the second, and “In The Night” replaces “All I’m Gonna Take” as the closing number.  

But fresh arrangements and electrifying performances more than compensate for any unfamiliarity, Plunkett’s post-Autograph success scoring movies and TV invoking startling new dimensions and directions to the music.

It’s time to Turn Up The Music again!

CD/VINYL: https://cleorecs.com/search?q=steve+plunkett+turn+up+the+radio
DIGITAL: https://orcd.co/steveplunkett_turnuptheradio2025

Track List:

1. Send Her to Me
2. Turn Up the Radio
3. Nighteen and Non-Stop
4. Deep End
5. Friday
6. My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend Isn’t Me
7. All I’m Gonna Take
8. Cloud 10
9. Thrill Of Love
10. In the Night

The year was 1984, the year of the cassette boombox and the Sony Walkman, and the year when a little band from Los Angeles invited the world to “Turn Up The Radio.” That band was Autograph, fronted by the fiery-haired powerhouse vocalist STEVE PLUNKETT, and their single became an immediate smash hit from the debut album Sign In Please and was featured in numerous films and TV shows of that era.

But as big as Autograph was, it could not contain the creative energy of Plunkett. He soon found a new career as an in-demand songwriter for bands such as The Go-Go’s, Edgar Winter and Vixen as well as doing production work for Cyndi Lauper and Graham Nash. He released his first solo album in 1991, an album that showed Plunkett’s growing confidence in both his own songwriting and studio techniques. Now, more than 3 decades later, Plunkett is ready to release his second solo album, a smokin’ hot collection called Straight Up.

This 10-track all-killer, no-filler album cranks up the volume knob to 11 and shows that Plunkett hasn’t lost an ounce of the passion and power that made him a hard rock hero! Just check out the album’s first single, “Rock Machine,” which kicks off with a driving guitar lick and chanted lyric that lunges straight at the listener’s jugular. It’s a powerblast of pure, unfiltered rock mania as only Plunkett knows how to deliver.

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Reflecting on the album, Plunkett declares, “With Straight Up, I wanted to get back to rock basics. No parameters or targets – just the kind of real rock that got me excited back in the day. Fast, fun and loud!”

Straight Up will be available on both CD and digital July 26. Order your copy today!

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TRACK LIST:

1. Rock Machine
2. Here We Go
3. First Step
4. Six String Hero
5. Rock Star
6. We’re Gonna Jam
7. Knock Out Punch
8. On The Stage
9. Gotta Jump
10. Start It Up