The Newsboys are a Christian rock/pop band. Even for non-believers, their songs' solid morals apply to everyone. Newsboys is a five-member band. Their number has ranged from four to five members, and they've been around since 1988. They have just released their eighth album, titled Love Liberty Disco. This new album has a 1990s-rock feel, but also late 1970s and 1980s type of beat. Contrary to popular belief, the album is not really a Disco album (only one song is a disco song).

All of their lyrics have strong morals, and they avoid any anti-social ideas, profanity or negative aspects in any of their songs. This is a band the entire family can love, and a person of any age could listen to - their music is inventive, and their morals are wholesome, and should be taken to heart.

The Members

The Newsboys are:

• Peter Furler (lead vocals)
• Phil Joel (Bass, background vocals)
• Jody Davis (Guitar, background vocals)
• Duncan Phillips (percussion)
• Jeff Frankenstein¹ (keyboard)

Peter, Jody and Duncan are from Australia, and Phil and Jeff are from America.

A Little History

The Newsboys have been featured in CCM, USA Today, and other prominent magazines and newspapers. They have won several prestigious awards, such as seven Dove Awards, ten Grammy nominations, a Nashville Music Award, and a Billboard Music Award.

They made history on the Love Liberty Disco Tour by bringing along their own Airdome, a massive structure and architectural marvel. It was the first time any band had tried anything like it.

Videos

Their music videos are on the WoW 1999 and WoW 2000 video sets. Web surfers can see these awesome Newsboys videos:

• Take Me To Your Leader
• Love Liberty Disco
• Entertaining Angels
• Take Me To Your Leader press release video

As well as their music videos, there are also two other videos from the Newsboys available - their hilarious movie Down Under the Big Top (extremely hard to find), and One Night In Pennsylvania, a live concert video.

Discography

This is all their albums and the record label on which they were released - oldest to most recent:

• Read All About It (Star Song)
• Hell Is For Wimps (Star Song)
• Boys Will Be Boyz (Star Song)
• Not Ashamed (Star Song)
• Going Public (Star Song)
• Take Me To Your Leader (Star Song)
• Entertaining Angels (Maxi Single)
• Step Up To The Microphone (Star Song)
• Love Liberty Disco (Sparrow)