Triumph is a Canadian rock band that was popular in the late 1970s through the 1980s. Triumph began building their reputation across North America as a live band, peaking in the early 1980s as an import before interest gradually declined. Today, the power trio continue to receive radio airplay on Classic Rock stations and are perhaps best remembered for their positive message songs and their vibrant energetic concerts, complete with extravagant pyrotechnical light shows. Their popularity was extremely strong in Texas, where they first received strong radio attention; but, they were stellar standouts at California's US Festival, and garnered a considerable fan base and radio attention by regularly touring the world, especially throughout North America and Europe. The band was often compared to countrymen Rush, but aside from their number of members, and country of origin, the parallels were never that strong. Triumph provided a diverse progressive guitar-driven sound with two lead vocalists sharing the limelight. The band was formed by Toronto music veterans Gil Moore (b. 1951) (drums/vocals) and Mike Levine (b. 1949) (bass/keyboards), after meeting talented guitarist/singer/songwriter Rik Emmett (b. 1953) in a manager's office [Neill Dixon & Steve Propas] in Toronto in 1975. Primary songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Rik Emmett left the group in 1988, Rick Santers and Phil Xenidis were temporary membe
1 | Hold On | Classics |
2 | Fight The Good Fight | In Concert |
3 | Lay It On The Line | In Concert |
4 | Spellbound | Classics |
5 | I Live For The Weekend | In Concert |
6 | Allied Forces | In Concert |
7 | I Live For The Weekend | Classics |
8 | Drum Solo | In Concert |
9 | Hot Time In The City Tonight | In Concert |
10 | American Girls | In Concert |
11 | A World Of Fantasy | Classics |
12 | Somebody`s Out There | Classics |
13 | Rock`N`Roll Machine | Classics |
14 | Tears In The Rain | Classics |
15 | Tear The Roof Off | In Concert |
16 | Lay It On The Line | Classics |
17 | Instrumental | In Concert |
18 | Magic Power | Classics |
19 | Fight The Good Fight | Classics |
20 | Blinding Light Show / Moonchild | In Concert |