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The group, which relocated to Los Angeles in the late s, has included many members, with Hitchcock and Russell at the core. Air Supply's founding members met on 12 May , [ 2 ] while rehearsing for the Australian production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. With Hammond and Hitchcock on vocals and Russell on guitar, they formed Air Supply as a harmony vocal group in Melbourne in The group followed with their debut album, Air Supply , in December , which reached No.

It included re-recordings of tracks from their previous two albums, with Jimmy Horowitz producing, and was released later that year in the US on Columbia Records.

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Although their music had some commercial success, Russell claimed, on a DVD, that he and Hitchcock were so poor that they checked the backs of hotel sofas for change so that they could buy bread to make toast. In Australia you can hit yourself against a brick wall. In April , the band released Life Support , [ 3 ] [ 8 ] a concept album which included a picture disc on its first pressing.

It was recorded at Trafalgar Studios, Sydney. The album had a five-and-a-half-minute version of " Lost in Love ", written by Russell, which was released as a single and peaked at No. The line-up for the album kept Hitchcock, Russell, Cooper, and Moyse, and added Criston Barker bass guitar and Frank Esler-Smith keyboards with help from other session musicians.