Dave Sharp
Bio 2008

1989 saw the US release of coast-to-coast hit album, Change, and #1 AOR single, Sold Me Down the River from British-Rock band The Alarm. Sadly 1991 saw the surprise departure of the band’s lead singer.

Dave Sharp, co-founder of The Alarm had, that previous year, enlisted the help of legendary maverick record producer Bob Johnston (Dylan, Willie Nelson, & Leonard Cohen.) to help cut his first solo record. It was a determined young man who walked through the doors at The Hit Factory NYC in December 1990 and in under a week Sharp’s album Hard Travlin’ had been recorded, mixed and delivered for release to IRS Records.

A relentless two-year period of Stateside touring followed including appearances at Farm Aid concerts and Earth Day celebrations before Sharp returned to New York City in 1992 to perform for an audience of 25,000 gathered in Central Park to celebrate the 80th birthday of folk legend Woody Guthrie.