Welcome to my home page, I'm Jaymee. Come in and sit down and let me tell you a little bit about myself and one of my favorite all time artists....Richard Marx. I began listening to Richard Marx when I was the ripe old age of 8 years old. That was in 1987...so I will let you guess how old I am now. My Mother played a big role in me listening to him. Although I could have listened to him on my own, but it was my Mom who went to the Marx concert in '87 and played his album all the time. So it left quite an impression. Forgotten about him when I got a little older until I picked up that very same album that belonged to my mother and began playing it, (at age 15). That's when it all kicked in. I bought all the Marx albums I could find at the time. They were: Richard Marx Repeat Offender and.... Rush Street I went to see Richard Marx in concer for the very first time that year. July 26th, 1994, at the Vally Fordge Music fair in Pennsylvania. He ended up being 40 minutes late because his tour bus got lost on the way to the stadium, but one he showed up, no one cared how long they had waited... HE WAS THERE!!! It wasn't a big theatre, so the most awful seat you could have had was about 30 feet from the stage itself, so there wasn't much to complain about until someone stood up and clapped...and me being 4'9", you might as well should have considered me legally blind for those periods. But it was something i will never forget, not only was it my first "Richard Marx" concert, it was my first concert ever and it was worth it, even though a few things went wrong, hehe.
Richard Marx has been in the music biz for 28 years, but only name reconisable for the past 11 years. He got a call from pop sensation Linole Richie, who offered him a job. Marx, who thought it was a prank at first, was shocked amazed when he found out it was true, and took the job immediately! Through this, he got to work for other various artists like: Billy Joel, Cher and Madonna. (Yes, you read right, Madonna!) In 1987, after Marx was turned down by almost every record company in Los Angeles, and about to call it quits and go back home to Chicago, Capitol Record called him up and offered him a record deal. That lead Richard on to making his first album, simply titled "Richard Marx". Marx struck gold when his first single: "Don't Mean Nothing" went over big on radio air waves, and the single that followed: "Endless Summer Nights" was an equal, if not bigger, success. But Marx got his very first number one hit off that album, and it was his third single: "Hold On To The Nights". (And as I write this info for you, I'm listening to that very song now...:o) ) In the next 2 years to follow, Marx spent many months recording his second album: Repeat Offender. Through that album, Marx achieved his second number one hit, that being "Satisfied". An upbeat tune about a man not giving up until he is....well....SATISFIED!! hehe. Following the success of that single...came others such as: "Angelia", "Too Late To Say Goodbye" and "Right Here Waiting". That very year, Marx married actress/singer/dancer Cynthia Rhodes. (Dirty Dancing, Stayin' Alive, Flashdance, Runaway, The Curse Of The Cystal Eye), whom he met while working on the soundtrack on the movie "Stayin' Alive", who Rhodes starred opposite John Travolta. For Marx's Repeat Offender album, worked with Fee Waybill (The Tubes), Dave Koz and producer David Foster (produced over dozens of records, including the soundtrack for the 1984 hit movie: "Footloose"). It was an instant successful come back for Marx after the success of his first album. Could he do it again? But of course! Come 1991, After working with the great Luther Vandross and the legendary Billy Joel, Marx recorded his third, and what was to become his most successful album to date: "Rush Street". An album he dedicated to his newly born son, Brandon. What I have come to notice, is that the most successful song off the "Rush Street", titled Hazard, is a song no one, including myself, could not remember the name of. I often, almost too often, heard the song referred to as: "The River Song", or how someone would say: "That song about the girl dying." Marx struck gold yet again with this strange, but sad, little song about an outcast man blame for a girl's mysterious death. (Those of you who have seen the video for the song, know that the girl's death and why she died isn't all that mysterious at all, now is it?) With the hits to follow: "Keep Coming Back", "Take This Heart, and "Chains Around My Heart", Marx achieved yet again, great and well deserved success.