Has it really been more than twenty years since Aimee Mann left 'Til Tuesday for a solo career?
To honor her two New York shows - NY Music Hall of Williamsburg (1/27) & Carnegie Hall (1/28) - let's take a look at the singer/songwriter's early days.
After high school, Aimee Mann attended the Berklee College of Music. She didn't stay long, however, dropping out to devote herself full time to her first band, a punk rock outfit called the Young Snakes. In 1982, they released an EP, Bark Along with the Young Snakes, but the following year Mann co-founded the new wave band 'Til Tuesday with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman.
The 1985 album Voices Carry produced a hit with the title song. The video was in heavy rotation on MTV, winning the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. The band was riding the crest of success, Mann was flexing her creative muscles and on their next two albums, Welcome Home and Everything's Different Now, she wrote most of the material.
'Til Tuesday eventually broke up in 1990 when Mann left to start her solo career. Michael Hausman became her manager.
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