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The album rose to number 1 in the Electronic charts in the US, UK and Canada. In 2018, Tim was featured, along with singer Indiana, on the British Synthwave band GUNSHIP's single 'Dark All Day' from the album of the same name. Ĭappello played saxophone on the Netflix variety show The Break with Michelle Wolf during a segment called 'Saxophone Apologies' during which Wolf addressed the lack of apologies from both Bill Clinton and the press for their treatment of Monica Lewinsky in relation to the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. Cappello also composed the score for the A&E Biography episode titled 'Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown' which first aired in 1996.

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He has worked with director Carole Langer on three occasions, composing the score for her 1987 film Radium City -a documentary about the women who worked for the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois in the 1920s -for her four-hour documentary series about the Rat Pack for the A&E channel, and for her 2001 TV documentary Lana Turner. Ĭappello has composed music for film and television. As an actor, he appeared on the television shows The Equalizer and Miami Vice in 1987, as well as in the films Hearts of Fire with Bob Dylan in 1987 and Tap with Gregory Hines in 1989. In 1987, he appeared in a musical performance in the film The Lost Boys where he both sang and played saxophone in a cover version of the song 'I Still Believe' by The Call.

Īt 6 feet tall, and reportedly 215 lbs in 1985, Cappello's size and appearance helped garner him roles in television and film. Cappello toured with Ringo Starr in 19 as a member of his All-Starr Band. Cappello performed on the 1993 soundtrack album What's Love Got to Do with It, playing saxophone as well as singing Ike Turner's vocal parts in an updated version of the song ' Proud Mary'.

Recording and touring with her over several years, Cappello's work can be heard on Turner's tracks ' We Don't Need Another Hero' and ' One of the Living' from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) in addition to appearing in the music videos for both singles. In 1984, Cappello was hired by Tina Turner as her keyboardist and saxophonist. Cappello's sexual stage presence was further cultivated during his work with The Ken Dolls-performing in a style dubbed 'porn pop', Cappello was known to perform in a g-string. 'Thunderbolt' Patterson (also of The Dictators and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom) and Joe Carroll, a composer/producer who is president and founder of the Manhattan Producer's Alliance (ManHatPro). įrom 1981 to 1982, Cappello fronted his own pop band in New York City called The Ken Dolls -a band that included drummer J.P. Cappello toured with Carly Simon later that same year, once appearing on stage in a leather g-string, as well as chains and a dog leash by which Simon pulled him onto the stage.

After struggling with heroin addiction, Cappello quit the drug ' cold turkey' in 1979 and began bodybuilding in 1980. Cappello also toured with Garland Jeffreys in 1978, playing both saxophone and keyboards. He played saxophone for Peter Gabriel on his album Peter Gabriel 2 (1978) in addition to touring with Gabriel. Career Ĭappello studied intermittently with Lennie Tristano over a four-year span between touring with performers such as musician Eric Carmen and comedian Billy Crystal. He later studied saxophone under the tutelage of jazz musician, Lennie Tristano. When he was 15 years old, Cappello dropped out of high school and was accepted at the New England Conservatory of Music, playing both drums and keyboards for his audition. The youngest of three children, his Sicilian father was a local conductor and music teacher. Cappello was born and grew up in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Harrison, New York, which, at the time, had a White Plains, New York, postal service address.