{"id":3188,"date":"2025-06-27T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/stephen-bishop-final-album\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:01:00","slug":"stephen-bishop-final-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/stephen-bishop-final-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Bishop Jams With Yacht Rock Royalty On Final LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-480880190-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1244\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Apropos for what he says will be his final album, singer\/songwriter and yacht rock staple Stephen Bishop has rounded up Eric Clapton, Sting, Graham Nash, Jimmy Webb, Art Garfunkel, Dave Grusin, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross and the members of America for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ffm.to\/thimk\" target=\"_blank\">THIMK<\/a><\/em>, which will be released Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Clapton and Sting lend a hand on first single \u201cNow That I\u2019ve Hit the Big Time,\u201d which is out now. Among the other contributors to <em>THIMK<\/em> are former Ambrosia frontman David Pack, David Benoit, bassist Nathan East, keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, bassist Leland Sklar, drummers Steve Gadd and Nic Collins and Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/lorde-opens-glastonbury\/\">Lorde Opens Glastonbury With Surprise \u2018Virgin\u2019 Set<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/mitch-rowland-new-album\/\">Mitch Rowland Is \u2018Ready\u2019 For His Second Album<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/06\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-robin-wilson-of-gin-blossoms\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without:\u00a0Robin Wilson of\u00a0Gin\u00a0Blossoms<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAfter five decades of recording music and performing, I figured it was time to close this chapter of my music career,\u201d says the 73-year-old Bishop, who is best known for soft rock hits such as \u201cOn and On\u201d \u201cSeparate Lives,\u201d \u201cSave It for a Rainy Day,\u201d the 1982 <em>Tootsie<\/em> theme \u201cIt Might Be You\u201d and cameos in such films as <em>Animal House<\/em> and <em>The Blues Brothers<\/em>. \u201c<em>THIMK<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 my 20th and final album \u2014 is a celebration of friendship, legacy and all the people who\u2019ve been part of this long, wonderful ride. I\u2019ve developed a bit of arthritis in my hands over the past few years, so I wanted to give this last album everything I had while I still could. I\u2019m proud of it \u2014 and grateful for the chance to spend my life doing what I love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CD and vinyl editions will feature the bonus tracks \u201cDance Off the Moon\u201d and \u201cYou Can Laugh at Me,\u201d plus in-studio clips from the <em>THIMK<\/em> sessions and rare footage from throughout Bishop\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p>As for the unusual album title, Bishop reveals, \u201c<em>THIMK<\/em>, pronounced just like \u2018think,\u2019 but with an \u2018M.\u2019 Flashback to the 1980s. While out shopping, I stumbled upon a pin with the peculiar word THIMK on it. Given my penchant for collecting eccentric pins, I adorned many in those days, but this one left a lasting impression. Over the years, I considered using THIMK as a title for an album many times but ultimately decided it was too unusual. Years later, my wife found the THIMK pin. She thought it was funny and quirky, just like me, and believed it would prompt people to think about THIMK. Now, after all these years, it finally found its perfect moment. Interestingly, we recently discovered that the word THIMK also appeared in the film <em>Taxi Driver<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"cr2MlrI5u5k\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos for what he says will be his final album, singer\/songwriter and yacht rock staple Stephen Bishop has rounded up Eric Clapton, Sting, Graham Nash, Jimmy Webb, Art Garfunkel, Dave&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,2156,6,24,2157,2158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-clapton","category-michael-mcdonald","category-news","category-pushly","category-stephen-bishop","category-sting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}