Consisting of Italian-American singer Carl Fanini and Italian keyboardist
Francesco Petrocchi, East Side Beat is first and foremost the "creature"
imagined by two producers, Bruno Guerrini and Giovanni Cinaglia, who succeeded
in signing the duo to Gianfranco Bortolotti's Media Records label. East Side
Beat's first single was released in 1991. It was a dance version of Christopher
Cross's hit "Ride Like The Wind", which rocketed up the UK charts to number
three, making it their biggest hit despite many more singles to come. These were
mostly dance versions of past hits, such as Si...