Eric Howard Carmen nació el 11 de agosto de 1949 en Cleveland, Ohio, Estados Unidos. Desde muy joven, mostró un talento notable para la música. Se le vio siempre interesado en aprender a tocar instrumentos y en componer sus propias melodías. Criado en una familia con inclinaciones musicales, Carmen recibió una formación sólida en música clásica y rock and roll.
En los años 60, Carmen se unió a su primera banda, The Choir, una banda local que tuvo cierto éxito con su sencillo “It’s Cold Outside”. Posteriormente, en 1970, Eric cofundó The Raspberries, una banda de power pop con la que alcanzaría fama nacional. La banda se distinguió por sus melodías pegajosas y armonías vocales, influenciadas por grupos británicos como The Beatles y The Who.
Con The Raspberries, Carmen y sus compañeros lanzaron éxitos como “Go All The Way”, “Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)” y “I Wanna Be With You”. Sus canciones lograron posiciones destacadas en las listas de éxitos de Estados Unidos, incrementando la popularidad de la banda en los años 70.
Después de la disolución de The Raspberries en 1975, Eric Carmen decidió lanzar su carrera como solista. En 1975, publicó su álbum de debut homónimo, Eric Carmen. En este disco se incluyen varios de sus mayores éxitos personales, como “All By Myself” y “Never Gonna Fall In Love Again”. “All By Myself” se convirtió en un gran éxito internacional, alcanzando el número 2 en las
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(Eric Carmen/John Wesley Harding)
I like the colors
I like the way they move
They're all so brilliantly realized
They just could not be improved
I love the way the sex is so overt
I love the way the violence doesn't hurt
It's a cartoon world
It's exactly as it seems
And it's bigger than life
And better than all your dreams
It's a cartoon world
It's a safer place to be
And it's better than real
A perfect facsimile
It's a cartoon world
I like the things their saying
I like the way they're said
I like to change the channels
While I'm lying in my bed
From the commercial to the anchorman
They've done research on my attention span
It's a cartoon world
It's exactly as it seems
And it's smaller than life
And better than all your dreams
It's a cartoon world
It's a safer place to be
And it's better than real
And bigger than you and me
And the stars are brighter
They've got more charisma
And more style than you and me
I watch the news on TV
It doesn't mean a thing to me
What's a little ethnic cleansing?
That's the way it's always been
I was excited when the war began
Now I've got Gameboy, I'm a happy man
It's a cartoon world
It's exactly as it seems
And it's bigger than life
And better than all your dreams
It's a cartoon world
It's a safer place to be
And it's better than real
A perfect facsimile
It's a cartoon world
It's a cartoon world
It's a cartoon world
It's a cartoon world
It's a cartoon world
It's a cartoon world