Las Vegas Mixtape v2: Diving Into the City’s Culinary Gems and Top-Shelf Entertainment

Track #10: Air Supply, Orleans Showroom

How perfect that Air Supply’s walk-off music at the Orleans Showroom was The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love,” since Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell have built a sturdy career with a truckload of love-centric worldwide smashes (“All Out of Love,” “Lost In Love,” you probably know the rest).

Marking their 24th year performing at the excellent-sounding Orleans Showroom, the ‘80s Australian/English duo sang with sincerity and vigor in front of an adoring audience. Their muscular young-guns band rocked up the arrangements with searing guitar work, which kept Air Supply’s pop classics sounding fresh.

Back in the day, Air Supply, like other bands, including Chicago and REO Speedwagon, were not invited to the “cool kids club” by the guardians of taste. Not to worry—their ongoing success and growing industry respect (they headlined the Hollywood Bowl for the first time earlier this month) proves that you just can’t keep a good love song down.