History Shakin’ Street

La première mouture du groupe, au milieu des années 1970 est composée d'Éric Lévi à la guitare et de Fabienne Shine au chant, fondateurs du groupe. Puis se joignent à eux Louis Bertignac à la deuxième guitare et Corine Marienneau à la basse. Le groupe participe aux festivals punk de Mont-de-Marsan en 1976 et 1977. En novembre 1976, Louis Bertignac et Corine Marienneau vont rejoindre Jean-Louis Aubert et former le groupe de rock Téléphone.

Eric Levi et Fabienne Shine enregistrent leur premier Shakin' Street album aux Studios Olympic à Londres, qui sort en 1978 et s'intitule Vampire Rock.

En 1979, le groupe part aux États-Unis après avoir été signé par Sandy Pearlman, manager du Blue Oyster Cult et Black Sabbath. Le groupe effectue des tournées avec AC/DC et le Blue Öyster Cult. Il est en tournée avec Black Sabbath en 1980, lorsque le guitariste Ross the Boss les rejoint et participe à l'enregistrement de leur deuxième album de Shakin' Street, intitulé Solid As A Rock, produit par Sandy Pearlman. Cet album est entièrement réalisé aux États-Unis, où le groupe s'est expatrié.

Parmi les influences du groupe, on retrouve Aerosmith et Led Zeppelin. Shakin' Street connut un relatif succès là-bas.

Shakin' Street s'est reformé, sans son fondateur Eric Levi mais toujours avec la chanteuse Fabienne Shine, pour un concert à l'Olympia en juin 2004. En juin 2008 ils participent au Sweden Rock Festival, puis en janvier 2009 au troisième Paris Metal France Festival. Un nouvel album, intitulé 21st Century Love Channel, est sorti le 5 janvier 2009, à l'occasion de ce festival.

Shakin' Street is a French band, yes my friend ,hard to believe ? Well, it's the truth , I swear . Formed in the mid 70's by Fabienne Shine and Eric Levisalles. The first line up didn't last long . One gig at the Mont de Marsan first punk festival in France and that was it for this first “mouture” of the band . Their performance was rather poor but luckily, a good review was published in the New Musical Express, along with a photo of Fabienne on her knees ...

Back in Paris, she and Eric decided to ask Louis Bertignac (guitar) and Corinne Marienneau (Bass) to leave the band, which they did. They went their way and formed Téléphone who simply became the biggest French rock band ever.

1977, the year punk broke out, the band toured clubs in London, opening for Eddie and the Hot Rods, the Gorillas and Little Bob Story.

1978, drummer ,Jean-Lou Kalinowski gave a cassette tape recorded in a basement to a friend who happened to work for CBS. Two weeks later Shakin' Street had a record deal! That's when Mike Winter and Armik Tigranne joined the band to record what would be their first album ”Vampire Rock”. It was Recorded in the famous Olympic Studio’s in London. Ian Stewart, who they had met during the "Some girls" recording sessions in Paris laid down a great piano track on "No time to loose". The overall sound of the album could have been better, but then CBS didn't provide a real producer to do the job. Oh well!! When the album came out, they toured and toured mostly France and England.

1979 was the year the band really got into serious business. Fabienne met producer Sandy Pearlman (Blue Oyster Cult, The Clash, Pavlov's Dog) in Paris and convinced him to listen to her band which he eventually did. Sandy saw right away that this band had a great potential. He met CBS boss in Paris and got a huge budget to record the second album. One last little problem needed to be solved before they could start the recordings. Armik, the guitar player, had sold his last guitar before a gig to buy his dope supply for the day. A replacement was needed. Ross the Boss (The Dictators) got a call from Sandy and was asked to fly to France to meet a new band he was producing. The new line up was now ready to kick some ass . Later that year, they flew to N.Y. and then to San Francisco to rehearse the new songs. The Automatt Studio was chosen to record the tracks . Guests were famous: Alan Pasqua (keyboard) and Armando Perezza (Percussions) from Santana and Alen Lanier (keyboard) from BOC . During this period of time they played clubs in L.A. and S.F. to warm up for their first huge gig, the “Day on the Green” with BOC, Cheap Trick, Pat Travers and UFO .

1980: Shakin' Street's eponimous album, Shakin' Street, was released worldwide by Columbia. Numerous concerts were planned in France, England, Germany and the USA. Pearlman had become Black Sabbath's manager by then and the biggest tour of the year in the US called the “Black and Blue Tour” was to kick off soon . The album was selling well in France ,"Solid as a rock" got radio airplay but, it was poorly distributed in the US as many people couldn't buy the record there.

1981: They disbanded early 1981 after Eric Levisalles sold all their equipment while they were waiting for him in the US to record their 3rd LP and tried to continue the band with other musicians and a male singer. CBS broke the contract and showed him the way to the door. He later recorded monk music cds under the name of Era and became millionaire. Ross, on his side, founded Manowar ,no need to say more ... fast forward to ...

1995: Fabienne Shine records her first solo album in France with Jean-Lou on drums and songwriting and released in 1997, No Mad Nomad.

2004: On request of rock mag "Crossroad", Shakin' Street got back together for a unique concert with Ross the Boss and Norbert Krief (Trust) on guitar at the Olympia and released an old tape on CD recorded the Black and Blue Tour, simply called Live

2006: Ross the Boss and Jean-Lou Kalinowski record tracks on Fabienne Shine second solo album, Fabienne Shine & the Planets (Fabienne Shine & The Planets, which includes guests like Albert and Joe Bouchard (BOC) and Norbert Krief .

2007: - Music lover Phil Bonanno (ADX's manager and Paris Metal France Festival promoter) asked Jean-Loup Kalinowski, the original drummer if they would record a new CD. The answer was yes. Jean-Lou took things in hand. He wrote songs, found new guitarist, Philippe Kalfon on Myspace, called Ross to ask him to join them and he agreed.The album was recorded in Paris in December but Ross was busy in Germany recording the RTBB new CD so he recorded his tracks in March in NY. Phil Bonanno was asked to join the band on keyboards, an offer he couldn't refuse . Norbert Krief, the band old friend recorded some guitar tracks too in his home . This 2008 edition of Shakin 'Street will surprise the old fans for sure .The Led Zeppelin/Aerosmith influence is very noticeable . The Sweden rock festival will host Shakin 'Street in June along with Whitesnake ,Def Leppard ,Judas Priest ,BOC and many more.

2009 - 21st Century Love Channel is released.

2014 - Psychic is released.

2015 - Live In The 21st Century live album is released.

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