Abilene Christian College - Prickly Pear Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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Magical music aren't typically found in Moody Coliseum, but when Air Supply performed in the fall, the audience was taken to a far-away musical wonderland during a high-tech laser light show. The light show added as much to the evening as the Top Ten hits did. Among the hits performed by the Australian-based, Grammy Award-winning rock band were Lost in Love, The One That You Love, Every Woman in the World, Even the Nights Are Better, All Out of Love and Making Love Out of Nothing at All. Air Supply's lead singer Russell Hitchcock's unusually high voice never faltered as he belted out hit after hit. Hitchcock and Graham Russell, the group's lead guitarist, won the hearts of females in the audience by the end of the first number, and the males soon agreed. The Students' Association went to great lengths to bring a top-line concert to campus. After weeks of work by Mark Slough, SA entertainment director, and his committee, Air Supply was set to take the stage for a second visit to campus. The group first performed on campus in the spring of 1981. Student sentiment about the group ranged from die-hard, love 'em forever mania to passivism. Some said Air Supply wasn't the group they preferred to see but attended because the group had a lot of hits and because top-name groups didn't visit campus often. Brad Cheves, SA president, said the concert was one of the more successful on campus. More than Kir Supply