Welcome to Richie Mayer Music

Coming out of the trend-setting 1980 Chicago PowerPop / New Wave scene that included Pezband, Cheap Trick & Shoes, Richie’s group Loose Lips released their EP “Hung Up On Pop” with Grammy award-winning producer Michael Freeman. Loose Lips created its own scene for the next two years with an enthusiastic fan base, memorable shows, frequent radio play, and a number of cable and TV performances that included an AM Chicago Rate-A-Record appearance hosted by Dick Clark.

A development deal with Epic Records led to a songwriting, production and publishing deal for Mayer with BMG Music in Toronto, Canada. Many songs, recordings and productions now brings us to 2021 and the release of his first solo album, The Inn of Temporary Happiness.

Richie sings all the lead and backup vocals and plays all the instruments on sixteen tracks including acoustic, electric and bass guitars, keyboards, drum pads, percussion and Navajo flute. He also recorded and produced the album, though due to the restrictions on recording studios because of the Covid virus, he employed the remote mixing software Audiomovers to mix with engineers in Austin, Tx., Chicago, and Omaha, Ne.

The result is a ringing guitar and melody driven PowerPop road trip through love, loss, surf, sex, and surrender.

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