Ratt lead vocalist Stephen Pearcy has just signed a solo record deal with Golden Robot Records and is expected to release new material ater this year.
As the founder, lead singer, and songwriter of the metal rock band Ratt, Stephen Pearcy led the group to mega multi-platinum success year after year from 1984 – 1991.
Ratt climbed up the charts with singles from the album Out of the Cellar soaring past Prince’s ‘Lets Go Crazy‘, Van Halen’s ‘Panama‘, Madonna’s ‘Borderline’ and David Bowie’s ‘Blue Jean‘. The record generated top ten singles followed by sold out tours throughout the world. This momentum remained with every proceeding Ratt album to include their most recent release of Infestation in 2010.
Throughout the band’s nearly four decades of success with Pearcy at its helm, they released eight albums and played thousands of shows worldwide all the while selling over 20 million records.
“It is with great pleasure to announce my having signed on with Golden Robot Records. Choosing a label to handle my music spanning 40 plus years in the industry is no easy task,” said Pearcy.
Explaining why, he brought the record company’s CEO and President, Mark Alexander-Erber into the conversation: “Mark and Golden Robot have captured the modernisation of the industry and marketing, as well as, held onto the old school style that has served me well for decades, both of which are needed to handle a catalogue as mine and the new music I bring to the table.
“As an artist, songwriter, and performer, evolving is inevitable, therefore my team has to be on point & lightning quick to keep up. Mark and Golden Robot understand that concept and I look forward to our collaboration. With our first endeavour being the Stephen Pearcy Legacy album, this album will be a career retrospective from 1976 to date.
“I look forward to sharing never heard Ratt classics in their infancy, early Ratt with Jake E. Lee, live Ratt, Arcade, solo covers, the last song written with Robbin, the last song written with Warren, and so much more. This is the first time I’ve reached so deep into the archives and it’s truly been a labour of love. Cheers to Mark and Golden Robot, we are about to bring Ratt and 80s music fans the most authentic and thorough archive of music that was an intrictal part of creating the 80s Sunset Strip music scene!”
Alexander-Erber (pictured below with Pearcy) has also expressed his excitement at the finally getting Pearcy over the dotted line after years of courting: “Out of the hundreds and hundreds of signings we have had over many years, I have to say after a long while courting Stephen I’m absolutely honoured he has joined our Golden Robot Family, helping us to bring rock back to the forefront. He truly is one of the best and to be part of our roster is wonderful, we have some fabulous releases planned for 2022/23.”
