Place Vendome (band)

Place Vendome
Background information
Origin	Naples, Italy
Genres	Hard rock
Years active	2004-present
Labels	Frontiers Records
Associated acts	Unisonic, Pink Cream 69, Vanden Plas
Members	Michael Kiske Dennis Ward Uwe Reitenauer Gunther Werno Dirk Bruinenberg
Past members	Kosta Zafiriou

Place Vendome is a melodic hard rock project, founded in 2004 by Frontiers Records president Serafino Perugino.

Place Vendome was formed by ex-Helloween and current Unisonic vocalist Michael Kiske, Dennis Ward (bass and production), Kosta Zafiriou (drums) and Uwe Reitenauer (guitars) from the band Pink Cream 69 and Gunther Werno (keyboards) from the band Vanden Plas.

The project has released three full-length albums; Place Vendome in 2005, Streets Of Fire in 2009 and Thunder In The Distance in 2013.

Serafino Perugino devised the idea for the Place Vendome project during the winter of 2004. He approached both Michael Kiske and Dennis Ward with the proposition of recording an AOR album. According to Kiske "The whole band was an idea of Serafino Perugino from Frontiers Records...He first got into contact with Dennis Ward of Pink Cream 69 and hired him to oversee the project...He proposed the idea to me and after hearing the songs, I agreed to do the record. I was impressed by the strength of the material." The songwriting for the debut album, Place Vendome, was provided by Dennis Ward, with further contributions from David Readman and Alfred Koffler.

Place Vendome's second album was released on February 20, 2009 and featured the same line-up. The songwriting for the Streets of Fire album was provided by Torsti Spoof (Leverage), Ronny Milianowicz (Saint Deamon), Robert Sall (Work of Art) and Magnus Karlsson (Primal Fear). A video was filmed for the song "My Guardian Angel", marking Kiske's visual return since 1996.

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