Reality-The Rock Opera by Les Fradkin

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This CD tells the story of Real Life in America as we live it today. It says thought provoking things about our society and culture, all with hummable and catchy tunes.

If you're a baby boomer- YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS ALBUM!

Check out "Rehearsals For Retirement."

Les wrote all the music and co-wrote the lyrics and co-produced the "Reality-The Rock Opera" CD with his wife, Loretta. In addition, Les sings all the vocals and plays all the instruments including his famous Rickenbacker 12-String Guitar, on this excursion into the heart and mind of American culture.

CONTAINS: a Deluxe 20 Page Booklet with all the lyrics!

A BIT OF BIO:

Les Fradkin is one of the pop legends of the 1970's. A Guitaist of 1st rank. Les Fradkin found success as an MGM/Sunflower, Arista, Bell, Congress, Pye, RCA, ESP-Disk' and Laurie Records Recording Artist, Songwriter and Producer during the 1970's. Aspiring to a solo career as a singer-guitarist, he was signed by John Hammond Sr. and Tony Orlando to Columbia Records and April-Blackwood Music in 1969. In 1970, he moved over to MGM/Sunflower Records as their first artist and debuted his first solo single "Song Of A Thousand Voices." He has written "La Chansons Des Souvenirs" for the famous Mirielle Mathieu, has been a singer, guitarist and mellotronist and recording and performing member for Edison Lighthouse and was the first musician to portray the role of "George Harrison" as one of the Original Cast members of Beatlemania, the hit Broadway show of the late 1970's.

He has played and sung as a multi-instrumentalist on many Top 40 hit records throughout the early 1970's.

Les' new recording of "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" has sold tens of thousands of copies on iTunes in the last two years and his new recordings of "Smile A Little Smile For Me and "My Baby Loves Lovin'" are iTunes hits as well.

His 12-string guitar, vocals, bass and production with legendary underground psychedelic folk- rock group,The Godz, resulted in several albums for ESP Disk among which "Pass On This Side" (featuring Les' song "God Bless California"), continues to influence and mentor generations of new musicians to this day.

Also, in the early 70's, he produced an album by The Left Banke and recorded and performed on 12-string guitar with them frequently during 1972 and 1973 and recorded with them for their reunion album in 1978. His song "I Could Make It Last Forever"on his CD "Goin' Back" is in current release and features the entire Left Banke on the recording.

In the early 80's, he played bass in a short lived group which also featured Mick Ronson on lead guitar and Hilly Michaels on drums.

In 1983, Les took up the Guitar Synthesizer and has been a prime exponent of it ever since. Using the SynthAxe, various Roland Guitar Synthesizers over the years and adding the Roland VG-8 Guitar System in 1997, Les' musical forays using this advanced guitar technology has graced dozens of commercials, soap opera and movie soundtracks and all of his solo CD's.

Les holds the distinction of being the first musician to bring the sound of guitar synthesizer and MIDI music to Soap Operas and Jingles in 1984 and was the first musician to record a solo album entirely with a guitar synthesizer in 1985- the album "Electric Swing" released on 3C/Laurie Records.

Influenced by such rock, pop and classical icons as The Byrds, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Beck, Brian Wilson, J.S. Bach,Joe Meek, and, of course,The Beatles, Les' Internet Singles have racked up over 280,000 downloads on the internet since 1999! He has enjoyed chart success on the net as well with his songs reaching mp3.com's #1 position 16 times! New Gandy Dancer Rock Magazine named "A Day At The Beach" it's 2004 Album Of The Year. In addition, Les has performed live with The Ventures as 2nd Lead Guitarist. Nokie Edwards of The Ventures has performed with Les on several occasions and is a featured guest on his "While My Guitar Only Plays" CD. In fact, Les has been acknowledged as a guitar virtuoso for over 30 years and he has been featured in issues of 20th Century Guitar Magazine, Pipeline and New Gandy Dancer Magazines.

His "Jangleholic", "Goin' Back", "If Your Memory Serves You Well", "While My Guitar Only Plays", "Something for George" and "Perfect World" CD's have proven best seller download items at Apple iTunes throughout 2005 and 2006.

Les now lives in Colorado where he produces records in his own custom built recording studio as a recording artist, composer and producer with his indie label-RRO Entertainment.

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