One of the more than media-exposed Christian rock bands of the '90s, Newsboys formed in the former '80s about a core of John James, Peter Furler, and Philip Urry. Though former in their career the stria was panned for a perceived over-reliance on religious clichés in their lyrics, Newsboys later grasped laic music's alternative revolution in the early '90s for an image makeover, with good results. The mathematical group gained vI number one singles on the Christian charts, and have been featured in more secular media outlets than the medium Christian band. Dance step Up to the Microphone, their starting time album for major label Virgin, followed in 1998; Dearest Liberty Disco appeared a year later. In solemnization of the new millennium, the Newsboys also ascertained their have career with the greatest-hits packet Shine...The Hits, issued in fall 2000. Their well-nigh rarify make to date, Fly high, was issued in outpouring 2002 and lED to one of their biggest CCM hits ever, "It Is You." Over ten-spot years into their own career, that fall Newsboys Remixed was released, offering new takes on several of their biggest hits. The band issued Idolisation: The Worship Album in April 2003. The record included both originals and Newsboy versions of long-familiar worship songs. Guitarist Jody Davis left the Newsboys in late 2003 in guild to aid for his daughter, Bethany, and Byan Olesen took his piazza for a lilliputian over a class. He left in 2004 to work on his own dance orchestra, Casting Pearls, just after the Newsboys released their second worship album, Devotion. Paul Coleman, an Aussie singer/songwriter, came aboard as the band's new guitarist, and the side by side deuce years base the dance orchestra touring the globe and working on the songs that would become their low gear pop album in quaternary age, Go. That album, released in October 2006, was the first base to be released on the band's possess Inpop Records.
Albums of Newsboys
Top albums of Go
Year 2006, tracks 11
Top albums of Devotion
Year 2004, tracks 10
Top albums of Adoration: The Worship Album
Year 2003, tracks 10
Top albums of Shine... The Hits
Year 2000, tracks 17
Top albums of Step Up To The Microphone
Year 1998, tracks 10
Top albums of Word
Year 1992, tracks 11
