John Martyn

Thursday, 27 December 2012

John Martyn - Sweet Little Mystery (1987)

John Martyn - One day without you (1978)

John Martyn with Danny Thompson - Solid Air

John Martyn with Kathy Mattea - May You Never

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Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory. The London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra are based in the Barbican Centre's concert hall.
The Barbican Centre is owned, funded, and managed by the City of London Corporation, the third-largest arts funder in the United Kingdom. It was built as the city's gift to the nation at a cost of £161 million (equivalent to £400 million in 2007), and opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 3 March 1982.
The second-floor library is one of the five City of London libraries. It is one of the largest public libraries in London and has a separate arts library, a large music library and a children's library which regularly conducts free events. The Barbican Library houses the 'London Collection' of historical books and resources, some of which date back 300 years, all being available on loan. The library presents regular literary events and has an art exhibition space for hire. The music library has a free practice piano for public use.

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Bluecoat Chambers
The Bluecoat is an arts centre in School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England (grid reference SJ346901) and claims to be the oldest arts centre in Great Britain. It is a Grade I listed building and is meant to be the oldest surviving building in central Liverpool (however, buildings on the corner of Mount Pleasant and Pomona St demonstrate older characteristics as well as those in the courtyard behind the Thomas Rigby building). It was originally built as a charity school in the early 18th century. The school moved to another site in 1906, and since then the building has been used as an arts centre. It was damaged in the Liverpool Blitz in 1941 and restored after the Second World War. During the 2000s the building was further restored and a new wing was added. It was reopened in March 2008 to celebrate Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.
It was built by Bryan Blundell, a sea captain, as a residential charity school, Liverpool Blue Coat School. Construction began in 1716 and the building, though still incomplete, soon opened as a school in 1718. By the following year it had 50 children, with room for 100 more, and construction was finally completed in 1725. Originally, the rear of the school resembled the front but in 1821 it was rebuilt giving it a convex-shaped elevation. The school moved to a new site in Wavertree in 1906. The building was threatened with demolition but it was saved by the soapmaker William Lever and Charles Reilly, the head of the Liverpool School of Architecture. This school used part of the building and in 1907 the Sandon Studios Society, an arts club, occupied other parts. The School of Architecture moved out in 1925 and a charitable trust, the Bluecoat Society of Arts, was set up to run the building.

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Glasgow
Coordinates: 55°51′29″N 4°15′32″W / 55.858°N 4.259°W / 55.858; -4.259
Glasgow (ⁱ/ˈɡlɑːzɡəʊ/, locally /ˈɡlazɡo/, GLAZ-goh; Scots: Glesga listen (help·info); Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu ([ˈkɫ̪as̪əxu] listen (help·info))) is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands.
Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become one of the largest seaports in Britain. Expanding from the medieval bishopric of Glasgow and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow in the 15th century, it became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the 18th century. From the 18th century the city also grew as one of Britain's main hubs of transatlantic trade with British North America and the British West Indies. With the Industrial Revolution, the city and surrounding region shifted to become one of the world's pre-eminent centres of heavy engineering, most notably in shipbuilding and marine engineering industry, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was known as the "Second City of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era and Edwardian period. Today it is one of Europe's top ten financial centres and is home to many of Scotland's leading businesses. Glasgow is also ranked as the 57th most liveable city in the world.

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Ireland
Coordinates: 53°20′N 08°00′W / 53.333°N 8°W / 53.333; -8
Ireland (pronounced [ˈaɪrlənd] ( listen); Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen); Ulster Scots: Airlann or Airlan) is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth. To its east is the larger island of Great Britain, from which it is separated by the Irish Sea.
Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.4 million. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
Relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain epitomise Ireland's geography with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild but changeable oceanic climate, which avoids extremes in temperature. Thick woodlands covered the island until the 17th century. Today, it is one of the most deforested areas in Europe. There are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland.

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Jamaica
Coordinates: 18°10′57″N 77°19′18″W / 18.1823878°N 77.3217773°W / 18.1823878; -77.3217773
Jamaica (ⁱ/dʒəˈmeɪkə/), officially the Commonwealth of Jamaica, is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (145 mi) in length, up to 80 kilometres (50 mi) in width, and 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 191 kilometres (119 mi) west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taíno name for the island was Xaymaca, meaning the "Land of Wood and Water" or the "Land of Springs".
Once a Spanish possession known as Santiago, it became an English colony in 1655 under the name "Jamaica". It achieved full independence from Britain on August 6, 1962. With 2.8 million people, it is the third most populous anglophone country in the Americas, after the United States and Canada. It remains a Commonwealth realm in concert with the Monarchy of Jamaica holding ultimate executive power, where Queen Elizabeth II is the current head of state and Queen of Jamaica.Kingston is the country's largest city and the capital.

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Liverpool
Liverpool ( /ˈlɪvəpuːl/) is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Liverpool was 445,200 and was part of a larger urban area of 816,216.
Historically a part of Lancashire, the urbanisation and expansion of Liverpool were both largely brought about by the city's status as a major port. By the 18th century, trade from the West Indies, Ireland and mainland Europe coupled with close links with the Atlantic Slave Trade furthered the economic expansion of Liverpool. By the early 19th century, 40% of the world's trade passed through Liverpool's docks, contributing to Liverpool's rise as a major city.
Inhabitants of Liverpool are referred to as Liverpudlians but are also colloquially known as "Scousers", in reference to the local dish known as "scouse", a form of stew. The word "Scouse" has also become synonymous with the Liverpool accent and dialect. Liverpool's status as a port city has contributed to its diverse population, which, historically, were drawn from a wide range of peoples, cultures, and religions, particularly those from Ireland. The city is also home to the oldest Black African community in the country and the oldest Chinese community in Europe.

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New Malden
Coordinates: 51°24′00″N 0°15′07″W / 51.40°N 0.252°W / 51.40; -0.252
New Malden is a small town and shopping centre in the south-western London suburbs, mostly within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and partly in the London Borough of Merton, and is situated 9.4 miles (15.1 km) from Charing Cross. Nearby towns are Kingston upon Thames, Raynes Park, Surbiton, Berrylands, Tolworth and Worcester Park.
New Malden was established entirely as a result of the arrival of the railway when what is now called New Malden railway station was opened on 1 December 1846 on the main line from Waterloo. However, when Queen Victoria visited distinguished residents in the Coombe Hill area, the royal train always continued to Norbiton station where the platform was at ground level.
Building started slowly in the area north of the station, gathering pace in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with two- and three-bedroom terraced houses. Further out are larger detached and semi-detached houses from the 1930s. The road up the hill to Coombe, Traps Lane, is thought to derive from a farm owned by a Mrs Trap.

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Shawlands Academy
Coordinates: 55°49′52″N 4°17′01″W / 55.83099°N 4.2837°W / 55.83099; -4.2837
Shawlands Academy is a non-denominational secondary school on the south side of Glasgow, Scotland.
It has a roll of approximately 1,250 pupils and 90 teachers. It is south of Crossmyloof railway station, west of Queen's Park, in the south of central Glasgow, on the A77.
In 2002, some of the school buildings underwent extensive renovation with one of its most prominent features the brand new gymnasium. It is built beside the Mathematics building, offering students more space and classrooms to carry out their physical education time more effectively.
At present there are over 50 languages spoken by the school's students. The Bilingual Unit helps those not proficient in English to improve their language skills and hence access the wider curriculum.
Ann Grant is the Head Teacher who was appointed in June 2007 and joined the school in September 2007.
The school has a history of success with its cricket team, producing a number of junior representative players and winning the Glasgow Schools Junior and Senior titles on a number of occasions.^{[citation needed]} Shawlands and South Schools Under 16 Rugby Team (an amalgamation of mostly Shawlands Academy players with some players from King's Park Secondary, Hillpark Secondary and Lourdes Secondary) won the Scottish Rugby Union Under 16 Bowl in February 2012.^{[citation needed]}

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Surrey
Surrey /ˈsʌri/ is a county in the South East of England, and one of the home counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford.Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of Greater London since 1965. The London boroughs of Lambeth, Wandsworth and Southwark were considered part of Surrey until 1889; and Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Sutton, Barnes and Richmond - all now reclassified as part of Greater London - were part of Surrey until 1965.
Surrey is divided into 11 boroughs and districts: Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking. After the elections of 1 May 2008, the Conservatives are in control of 10 out of 11 councils in Surrey, with Epsom and Ewell in Residents Association control. The Conservatives hold all 11 Parliamentary constituencies within the county borders.

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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.

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Ben Harper
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances and activism. Harper's fan base spans several continents. His albums have been commercially successful in North America, Europe and Oceania. Harper is a two-time Grammy Award winner as well, winning awards for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, in 2005.
Harper was born in Claremont, in California's Inland Empire. His father, Leonard, was of African-American and Cherokee ancestry, and his mother, Ellen Chase-Verdries, is Jewish. His maternal great-grandmother was a Russian-Lithuanian Jew. His parents divorced when he was age five, and he grew up with his mother's family. Harper has two brothers, Joel and Peter.
Harper began playing guitar as a child. His maternal grandparents' music store The Folk Music Center and Museum laid a foundation of folk and blues for the artist, complemented by regular patrons Leonard Cohen, Taj Mahal and David Lindley and quotes of William Shakespeare and Robert Frost made often by his grandfather. At the age of 12, Harper played his first gig. During the '80s, in his teen years, Harper began to play the slide guitar, mimicking the style of Robert Johnson. Next, Harper refined his style, taking up the Weissenborn slide guitar. Harper broke out of the Inland Empire after being offered an invitation by Taj Mahal to tour with the artist. They recorded Taj Mahal's album Follow the Drinking Gourd, released in November 1990, and toured Hawaii.

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Beverley Martyn
Beverley Martyn (born Beverley Kutner, 1947, near Coventry) is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
While still a student, she was picked to front The Levee Breakers, a jug band who played the folk circuit in South East England. At the age of 16 recorded her first single "Babe I'm Leaving You" which was released on the Parlophone label in 1965.
Martyn was then signed as a solo artist to the Deram Records label. In 1966 she released a single, "Happy New Year" (b-side "Where The Good Times Are"), written by Randy Newman, on which she was accompanied by Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones (musician), Nicky Hopkins, and Andy White. "Happy New Year" was chosen, together with "I Love My Dog" by Cat Stevens, to launch Deram as the progressive branch of Decca Records (see references). She also recorded an unreleased single in the same year, "Picking Up The Sunshine" / "Gin House Blues". These last two tracks also featured John Renbourn and Mike Lease. During this period she was taught the guitar by the folk guitarist Bert Jansch who also encouraged her songwriting. Her follow-up single "Museum", written by Donovan was released in 1967, produced by Denny Cordell.

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Chris Blackwell
Christopher Percy Gordon "Chris" Blackwell (born 22 June 1937) is a British businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music.
Forming Island Records in Jamaica on 22 May 1959 aged 22, Blackwell was amongst the first to record the Jamaican popular music that eventually became known as ska. Returning to Britain in 1962, he sold records from the back of his car to the Jamaican community.
Backed by Stanley Borden from RKO Entertainment, Blackwell's business and reach grew substantially, and he went on to forge the careers of Bob Marley, Grace Jones and U2 amongst many other diverse high-profile acts. He has produced many seminal albums, including Marley's Catch A Fire and Uprising.
Blackwell was born in London. Blackwell's father, Joseph, who was Irish, was related to the founder of Crosse & Blackwell, purveyors of jarred foods and relishes, and had some residual wealth. He became a Major in the Jamaican Regiment.

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Danny Thompson
Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson (born 4 April 1939, Teignmouth, Devon) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman. He has had a long musical career playing with a large variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson (no relation) and John Martyn, but including many others: at various times has for example played with Nick Drake, Roy Orbison, Julie Felix, Freddie and the Dreamers, Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Tom Paxton, Donovan, Vivian Stanshall, David Sylvian, Kate Bush, Mary Hopkin, Loreena McKennitt, Tim Buckley, and Davey Graham. For five years, he was a member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, and he was a founding member of the British folk rock band Pentangle. Since 1987, he has also recorded four solo albums. He converted to Islam in 1990.
His father, a miner, joined the Royal Navy at the start of World War II and was lost in action whilst crewing submarines. When Thompson was aged 6, the family moved to London and he was brought up in the working-class area of Battersea. At school he excelled at football and played as a junior for Chelsea, the team he has supported ever since. Whilst at school he learnt guitar, mandolin, trumpet and trombone before settling on the Upright bass as his instrument of choice.

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David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour,CBE (born 6 March 1946) is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It is estimated that as of 2010, the group have sold over 250 million records worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States.
In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of artists, and has enjoyed a successful career as a solo artist. Gilmour has been actively involved with many charities over the course of his career.
In 2003, he was appointed CBE for his charity work and was awarded with the Outstanding Contribution title at the 2008 Q Awards. In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him number 14 in their list of the greatest guitarists of all time.
Gilmour was born in Cambridge, England. His father, Douglas Gilmour, was a senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Cambridge and his mother, Sylvia (née Wilson), was a teacher and film editor who raised her family at Grantchester Meadows, later immortalised by a Roger Waters song on Pink Floyd's Ummagumma. He has a younger brother who is also a musician.

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Eddi Reader
Eddi Reader MBE (born Sadenia Reader; 29 August 1959) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts. In 2003 she showcased the works of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.
Reader was born in Glasgow, the daughter of a welder, and the eldest of seven children (her brother, Francis, is vocalist with the band The Trash Can Sinatras). She was nicknamed Edna by her parents. Living at first in the district of Anderston, Glasgow, in a tenement slum demolished in 1965, The young Reader family moved to a two-bedroomed flat in the estate of Arden, Glasgow.
In 1976, due to overcrowding the family was re-housed 25 miles from Glasgow, in the council development of Irvine, Ayrshire; however, Eddi returned to Glasgow (where she lived with her grandmother) in order to finish her compulsory schooling. She began playing the guitar at the age of ten, and started her musical career busking, first in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street, then in the early 1980s in London and around Europe (where she also worked with circus and performance artists).

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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand". Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.

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Hamish Imlach
Hamish Imlach (10 February 1940 - 1 January 1996) was a folksinger. He was born in Calcutta but claimed to have been conceived in Glasgow, Scotland. Although his commercial success was limited he influenced many other artists, including most notably John Martyn and Billy Connolly. In Central and Northern Europe Imlach enjoyed a strong reputation as a vivid live artist. Particularly in Scandinavia (Denmark) and Germany his live performances were much cherished.
He had his biggest hit in the late 1960s with "Cod Liver Oil and the Orange Juice," a scurrilous and hilarious take on the American gospel standard "Virgin Mary Had a Little Baby" written by Ron Clark and Carl MacDougall. The song was for a time banned by the BBC as it was assumed to be full of double meanings, but at one point became the most requested song on British Forces Radio.
He was described by Ewan McVicar, the Scottish storyteller and singer, as "a raconteur who taught Billy Connolly, a singer who taught Christy Moore, a blues guitarist who taught John Martyn". Imlach was invited to join the Irish trad and folk group The Dubliners. He was also an early anti-nuclear protestor and wrote and performed protest songs as well as comic ones. After recovering from a serious illness in the 1970s he regularly toured with Iain MacKintosh as well as doing solo tours. For the last 18 months of his professional life his stage partner was Kate Kramer, an American fiddle player and singer living in Scotland, with whom he recorded his last CD, More and Merrier (1996).

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Jimmy Page
James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
Jimmy Page is viewed by critics, fans and fellow musicians alike as one of the most influential and important guitarists and songwriters in rock music.Rolling Stone magazine has described him as "the pontiff of power riffing & probably the most digitally sampled artist in pop today after James Brown." In 2010, Jimmy Page was ranked No.2 in Gibson's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" and, in 2007, No.4 on Classic Rock Magazine's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes". Page was ranked third in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2011. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice; once as a member of The Yardbirds (1992), and once as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995).

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John Martyn
John Martyn OBE (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009) was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40 year career he released 20 studio albums, working with artists such as Eric Clapton and David Gilmour. He has been described by The Times as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".
Martyn was born in Beechcroft Avenue, New Malden, Surrey, England. Martyn's parents, both opera singers, divorced when he was five and he spent his childhood alternating between Scotland and England. Much of this was spent in the care of his grandmother. His strongest ties were in Glasgow, and he attended Shawlands Academy there.
Mentored by Hamish Imlach, Martyn began his professional musical career when he was 17, playing a blend of blues and folk resulting in a distinctive style which made him a key figure in the British folk scene during the mid-1960s. He signed to Chris Blackwell's Island Records in 1967 and released his first album, London Conversation, the following year.

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John Neil Munro
John Neil Munro, author of The Sensational Alex Harvey (Firefly Publishing, 2002) and Some People Are Crazy - The John Martyn Story (Birlinn Publishing 2007), was born in Campbeltown and grew up in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. He studied Modern and Economic History at Glasgow University and then postgraduate journalism in Cardiff.

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Kathy Mattea
Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea (pronounced ma-TAY-a) (born June 21, 1958, in South Charleston, West Virginia) is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. This total includes the number one hits "Goin' Gone", "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", "Come From the Heart" and "Burnin' Old Memories", as well as twelve additional Top Ten singles.
Mattea was born in South Charleston, West Virginia, because it had the nearest hospital to her parents' home in Cross Lanes, where she grew up, graduating from nearby Nitro High School. She discovered her love of singing at Girl Scout camp. In 1976, while attending West Virginia University, she joined the bluegrass band Pennsboro, and two years later dropped out of school to move to Nashville. She worked as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame, did backup vocal work for Bobby Goldsboro, and sang demos for several Nashville songwriters and publishers including Nashville songwriter/producer Byron Hill who brought her to the attention of Frank Jones (then head of Mercury Records), who signed her to her first record deal in 1983.

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Mike Harding
Mike Harding (born 23 October 1944, Crumpsall, Manchester, Lancashire) is an English singer, songwriter, comedian, author, poet and broadcaster. He is known as 'The Rochdale Cowboy' after one of his hit records. In addition, at various times of his life, Harding has been a stand-up comic, photographer, traveller, filmmaker, playwright and musician.
Harding's father, Louis Arthur "Curly" Harding, was a navigator in the RAF. who was killed during World War II, a few weeks before his son's birth. Harding is of Irish descent on his mother's side.
He was educated at St Anne's, Crumpsall, and St Bede's, Manchester. After a varied career as a road digger, dustbin man, schoolteacher, steel erector, bus conductor, boiler scaler and chemical factory worker, he took a degree in English and Education at the University of Manchester.
Harding began performing as a folk singer and as a member of several local Manchester bands in the 1960s, making his first recordings for the Topic label. He began telling jokes between songs, eventually extending them into longer humorous anecdotes which became the main focus of his act. He released his first album, A Lancashire Lad, in 1972, followed by Mrs 'Ardin's Kid in 1974. In 1975, the single release of "The Rochdale Cowboy", reached number 22 in the UK Singles Chart, brought him national attention.

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Neil Ardley
Neil Richard Ardley (1937–2004) was a prominent English jazz pianist and composer, who also made his name as the author of more than 100 popular books on science and technology, and on music.
Ardley was born on 26 May 1937 in Wallington, Surrey. He attended Wallington County Grammar School and at the age of thirteen started to learn the piano and later the saxophone. He read Chemistry at Bristol University, where he also played both piano and saxophine in jazz groups, and from which he graduated in 1959 with a B.Sc.. He developed dual careers in music and in writing and publishing, both of which he continued until his death on 23 February 2004.
Having moved to London, Ardley studied arranging and composing with Ray Premru from 1960 to 1961. He joined the John Williams Big Band as pianist, writing both arrangements and new compositions, and from 1964 to 1970 was the director of the newly formed New Jazz Orchestra, which employed some of the best young musicians in London, including Ian Carr, Jon Hiseman, Barbara Thompson, Dave Gelly, Mike Gibbs, Don Rendell, and Trevor Tomkins.

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Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician who was known for his sombre guitar-based songs. He failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime but his work has gradually achieved wider notice and recognition. Drake signed to Island Records when he was 20 years old and released his debut album, Five Leaves Left, in 1969. By 1972, he had recorded two more albums—Bryter Layter and Pink Moon. Neither sold more than 5,000 copies on initial release. Drake's reluctance to perform live, or be interviewed, contributed to his lack of commercial success.
Drake suffered from depression and insomnia throughout his life and these topics were often reflected in his lyrics. On completion of his third album, 1972's Pink Moon, he withdrew from both live performance and recording, retreating to his parents' home in rural Warwickshire. There is no known footage of the adult Drake; he was only ever captured in still photographs and in home footage from his childhood. On 25 November 1974, Drake died from an overdose of amitriptyline, a prescribed antidepressant; he was 26 years old.

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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
Collins sang the lead vocals on several chart hits in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1975 and 2010, either as a solo artist or with Genesis. His singles, sometimes dealing with lost love, ranged from the drum-heavy "In the Air Tonight", dance pop of "Sussudio", piano-driven "Against All Odds", to the political statements of "Another Day in Paradise".
Collins's professional music career began as a drummer, originally in a band called The Real Thing with Andrea Bertorelli, who later became his first wife. Collins played drums and shared lead vocals (with Brian Chatton) in Flaming Youth which recorded one album, (Ark II). In 1970, he took over drums for Genesis, which had already recorded two albums. In Genesis, Collins originally supplied backing vocals for front man Peter Gabriel, singing lead on only two songs: "For Absent Friends" from 1971's Nursery Cryme album and "More Fool Me" from Selling England by the Pound, which was released in 1973. Following Gabriel's departure in 1975, Collins became the group's lead singer.

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Sister Bliss
Sister Bliss (real name Ayalah Bentovim, born 30 December 1970) is a British keyboardist, record producer, DJ, composer and songwriter. In the studio she is best known for her work with Rollo Armstrong, particularly as part of the now disbanded dance group Faithless.
She started music at the age of five, when she learned how to play the piano. She eventually moved on to the violin, saxophone and then bass.
She formed Faithless in 1995 with Rollo, Jamie Catto and Maxi Jazz. Bliss constructed most of the music of Faithless herself electronically, but also played the piano, violin, saxophone and bass guitar. Various others have been members and collaborators over the years including Zoë Johnston and, frequently, Rollo's sister Dido, who began her musical career providing backing vocals for the band. Faithless toured extensively, and while Rollo preferred to stay in the studio, Sister Bliss could be seen on stage with Maxi Jazz.
She released a two-disc compilation entitled Headliners: 02 in 2001.

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For other people named John Martyn, see John Martyn (disambiguation).

John Martyn
Martyn onstage at the Cropredy Festival, 11 August 2006
Background information
Born	(1948-09-11)11 September 1948 New Malden, Surrey, England
Died	29 January 2009(2009-01-29) (aged 60) Ireland
Genres	Folk rock, folk jazz
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1965–2009
Labels	Island, WEA
Website	www.johnmartyn.com

John Martyn OBE (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009) was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40 year career he released 20 studio albums, working with artists such as Eric Clapton and David Gilmour. He has been described by The Times as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".^[1]

1 Biography
2 Discography
3 References
4 Further reading
5 External links

Biography [link]

Early life [link]

Martyn was born in Beechcroft Avenue, New Malden, Surrey, England.^[2] Martyn's parents, both opera singers, divorced when he was five and he spent his childhood alternating between Scotland and England. Much of this was spent in the care of his grandmother. His strongest ties were in Glasgow, and he attended Shawlands Academy there.^[1]

Late 1960s and collaborations with Beverley Martyn [link]

Mentored by Hamish Imlach, Martyn began his professional musical career when he was 17, playing a blend of blues and folk resulting in a distinctive style which made him a key figure in the British folk scene during the mid-1960s. He signed to Chris Blackwell's Island Records in 1967 and released his first album, London Conversation, the following year.

This first album was soon followed by The Tumbler, which was moving towards jazz. By 1970 Martyn had developed a wholly original and idiosyncratic sound: acoustic guitar run through a fuzzbox, phase shifter and Echoplex. This sound was first apparent on Stormbringer! in 1970, which was written and performed by both John and Beverley Martyn, his then wife, who had previously recorded solo as Beverley Kutner and had worked with artists such as Nick Drake and Jimmy Page. Her second album with Martyn was The Road to Ruin, also released in 1970. However, Island Records felt that it would be more successful to market Martyn as a solo act and this was how subsequent albums were produced, although Beverley Martyn continued to make appearances as a background singer as well as continuing as a solo artist herself.^[1]

1970s [link]

	"Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail" noicon "Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail" (1973), built around a traditional tune, was featured on Inside Out. It typifies Martyn's unique use of the echoplex effect, coupled with a fuzzbox and phase-shifter.
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In 1973, Martyn released one of the defining British albums of the 1970s, Solid Air, the title song a tribute to the singer-songwriter Nick Drake, a close friend and label-mate, who died in 1974 from an overdose of antidepressants. In 2009 a double CD Deluxe edition of Solid Air compiled, with John Martyn's blessing, by John Hillarby from the official John Martyn website and with sleeve notes by Record Collector's Daryl Easlea was released featuring unreleased songs and out-takes. On Solid Air, as with the one that preceded it, Bless the Weather, Martyn collaborated with jazz bassist Danny Thompson, with whom he proceeded to have a fruitful musical partnership which continued until his death. He also developed a new, slurred vocal style, the timbre of which resembled a tenor saxophone.

Martyn in 1978

Following the commercial success of Solid Air, Martyn quickly recorded and released the experimental Inside Out, a more difficult album with emphasis placed on feel and improvisation rather than song structure. In 1974, he followed this with Sunday's Child. In September 1975 he released a live album, Live at Leeds—Martyn had been unable to convince Island to release the record, and resorted to selling individually signed copies by mail from home. Live at Leeds features Danny Thompson and drummer John Stevens. In 2010 Universal Music released a 2CD Deluxe version of Live at Leeds researched and compiled by John Hillarby. Whilst researching the release Hillarby discovered that not all of the songs on the original album were from the Leeds concert. After releasing Live at Leeds, Martyn took a sabbatical, including a visit to Jamaica, spending time with famous reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry.

In 1977, he released One World, which led some commentators to describe Martyn as the "Father of Trip-Hop".^[3] It included tracks such as "Small Hours" and "Big Muff", a collaboration with Lee "Scratch" Perry. One World was recorded outside; the album's lush soundscapes are partly the result of microphones picking up ambient sounds, such as geese from a nearby lake.^[4] In 1978 he played guitar on album Harmony of the Spheres by Neil Ardley.

1980s and marriage breakup [link]

Martyn's marriage to Beverley broke down at the end of the 1970s and "John hit the self destruct button" (although other biographers, including The Times obituary writer, attribute the break-up of his marriage to his already being addicted to drink and drugs).^[1] Out of this period, described by Martyn as "a very dark period in my life",^[5] came the album Grace and Danger.

Released in October 1980, the album had been held up for a year by Chris Blackwell. He was a close friend of John and Beverley, and found the album too openly disturbing to release. Only after intense and sustained pressure from Martyn did Blackwell agree to release the album. Commenting on that period, Martyn said, "I was in a dreadful emotional state over that record. I was hardly in control of my own actions. The reason they finally released it was because I freaked: Please get it out! I don't give a damn about how sad it makes you feel—it's what I'm about: the direct communication of emotion. Grace and Danger was very cathartic, and it really hurt."^[5]

In the late 1980s Martyn would cite Grace and Danger as his favourite album, and said that it was "probably the most specific piece of autobiography I've written. Some people keep diaries, I make records."^[5] The album has since become one of his highest-regarded, prompting a deluxe double-disc issue in 2007, containing the original album remastered.

Phil Collins played drums and sang backing vocals on Grace and Danger and subsequently played drums on and produced Martyn's next album, Glorious Fool, in 1981.

Martyn left Island records in 1981, and recorded Glorious Fool and Well Kept Secret for WEA, the label clearly aiming to bring him mainstream success, and achieving his first Top 30 album.^[1] Glorious Fool was a sharp departure from Martyn's 70s sound and at the time was regarded as something of a sell-out by his die-hard fans, but time has revealed it to be a much stronger album than it seemed at the time, with some fine songwriting and vocals. Well Kept Secret (1982) was less successful. Martyn released a live album, Philentropy, in 1983.

Returning to Island records, Martyn recorded Sapphire (1984), Piece by Piece (1986) and the live Foundations (1987) before leaving the label in 1988.

1990s and 2000s [link]

John Martyn performs at the Barbican Centre, London 2008.

Martyn released The Apprentice in 1990 and Cooltide in 1991 for Permanent Records, and then rerecorded many of his "classic" songs for No Little Boy (1993). The similar 1992 release Couldn't Love You More was unauthorised by and disowned by Martyn. Material from these recordings and his two Permanent albums has been endlessly recycled on many releases. Permanent Records also released a live 2 CD set called "Live" in 1994.

And (1996) came out on Go!Discs and saw Martyn draw heavily on hip-hop textures while blending a sound still distinctively Martyn, a direction which saw more complete expression on 2000's Glasgow Walker ; The Church with One Bell (1998) is a covers album taking in material from Portishead to Ben Harper.

In 2001 Martyn appeared on the track Deliver Me by Faithless keyboard player and DJ Sister Bliss.

In July 2006 the documentary Johnny Too Bad was screened by the BBC.^[6] The programme documented the period surrounding the operation to amputate Martyn's right leg below the knee (the result of a burst cyst) and the writing and recording of On the Cobbles (2004), an album described by Peter Marsh on the BBC Music website as "the strongest, most consistent set he's come up with in years." Much of Cobbles was a revisiting of his acoustic-based sound.

He continued to write and collaborate with various artists up until his death whilst living in Ireland. He recorded a ballad entitled "Really Gone" with Irish group UltanJohn featuring John Conneely & Ultan Conlon which was released in November 2006.^{[citation needed]}

On 4 February 2008, Martyn received the lifetime achievement award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards. The award was presented by his friend Phil Collins. The BBC website says of Martyn, "his heartfelt performances have either suggested or fully demonstrated an idiosyncratic genius." Eric Clapton was quoted as saying that Martyn was, "so far ahead of everything, it's almost inconceivable."^[7] Martyn performed "Over the Hill" and "May You Never" at the ceremony, with John Paul Jones accompanying on mandolin.^{[citation needed]}

To mark Martyn's 60th birthday, Island released a career-spanning 4CD boxed set, Ain't No Saint on 1 September 2008. The acclaimed set includes unreleased studio material and rare live recordings.

Martyn was appointed OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours.^[8]

John Martyn was born Iain David McGeachy; and the OBE was cited under that name. The presentation by the Queen at Buckingham Palace was made to his partner Teresa and his daughter, Mhairi McGeachy.^{[citation needed]}

Death [link]

Martyn died on 29 January 2009, in hospital in Ireland, as a result of double pneumonia.^[9]^[10] His death was announced by his friend John Hillarby on the official website: "With heavy heart and an unbearable sense of loss we must announce that John died this morning."^[9]

Phil Collins paid tribute, saying: "John's passing is terribly, terribly sad. I had worked with and known him since the late 1970s and he was a great friend. He was uncompromising, which made him infuriating to some people, but he was unique and we'll never see the likes of him again. I loved him dearly and will miss him very much." ^[11] English rock band Keane included a dedication to Martyn at their Glasgow concert.^[when?] On 31 January 2009, Liverpool-based folk-singer/guitarist John Smith, who had previously supported Martyn on tour, performed "Spencer The Rover", from Martyn's Sunday's Child album, at The Bluecoat in Liverpool, announcing the song "For John".^{[citation needed]}

At the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, on the evening of Martyn's death, Kathy Mattea and a band including Eddi Reader played "May You Never". Martyn and Danny Thompson had featured in the BBC television series "Transatlantic Sessions".^{[citation needed]}

Danny Baker devoted an entire radio programme to Martyn's music on the day he died.

Paying tribute to Martyn, BBC Radio 2's folk presenter Mike Harding said: "John Martyn was a true original, one of the giants of the folk scene. He could write and sing classics like 'May You Never' and 'Fairy Tale Lullaby' like nobody else, and he could sing traditional songs like Spencer The Rover in a way that made them seem new minted." ^[12] Harding introduced an hour-long tribute to Martyn in his Radio 2 programme on 25 February 2009.

Paying further tribute to McGeachy, Bob Cunningham commented: "Iain loved life and music, particularly Debussy. He'll be sadly missed amongst all his mates in Scotland; and our condolences go to his children; Wesley, Mhairi and Spenser; and his partner Teresa."

A tribute album entitled Johnny Boy Would Love This was released on 15 August 2011, comprising cover versions of his songs by various artists.

Discography [link]

Singles [link]

John The Baptist / The Ocean (Island WIP 6076, January 1970)
Anni Part 1 / Anni Part 2 (with John Stevens' Away) (Vertigo 6059 140, 1976)
Over The Hill / Head And Heart (Island WIP 6385, February 1977)
Dancing / Dealer (version) (Island WIP 6414, January 1978)
In Search Of Anna / Certain Surprise (Island K7450, 1979)
Johnny Too Bad / Johnny Too Bad (version) Island WIP 6547, October 1980)
Johnny Too Bad (extended dub version) / Big Muff (extended remix) (Island IPR 2047, March 1981)
Sweet Little Mystery / Johnny Too Bad (Island WIP 6718, June 1981)
Please Fall In Love With Me / Don't You Go (WEA K 79243, August 1981)
Hiss On The Tape / Livin' Alone (WEA K 79336, October 1982)
Gun Money (U.S. remix) / Hiss On The Tape (live) (WEA 259987-7, November 1982)
Over The Rainbow / Rope Soul'd (Island IS 209, October 1984)
Angeline / Tight Connection To My Heart (Island IS 265, February 1986)^[13]
Classic John Martyn (Island CID 265, February 1986)
Angeline / Tight Connection To My Heart / May You Never / Certain Surprise / One Day Without You (Island 12 IS 265, February 1986)
Lonely Love / Sweet Little Mystery (live) (Island IS 272, October 1986)
Send Me One Line / Patterns In The Rain (Hypertension HYS 100 102, May 1990)
Deny This Love (remix) / The Apprentice (live) (Permanent S12, August 1990, 7 inch vinyl)
Deny This Love (remix) / The Apprentice (live) / Deny This Love (album version) (Permanent CD Perm 1, August 1990)
Jack The Lad / Annie Sez / The Cure / Jack Sez (Permanent CD Perm 3, April 1992)
Sweet Little Mystery / Head and Heart (Permanent, Perm 6, September 1982)
Lonely Love / May You Never (Permanent, Perm 8, December 1992)
Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Voiceprint, JMCD001 1998)
Excuse Me Mister / God Song (live) / Rock, Salt & Nails (live) / John Wayne (live) (Independiente, ISOM14MS CD May 1998)
Deliver Me (with Sister Bliss) (Multiply Records], CDMULTY72, March 2001)

Other [link]

Live at Leeds (September 1975)
So Far So Good (1977)
Philentropy (November 1983)
Foundations (October 1987)
BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert (1992)
Couldn't Love You More (October 1992)
No Little Boy (July 1993)
Sweet Little Mysteries: The Island Anthology (1994)
Live (1994)
Serendipity — An Introduction To John Martyn (1998)
Solid Air - Classics Re-visited (2002) (compilation of previously released tracks)
Late Night John (2004)
In Session (live) (2006) (BBC sessions recorded for the John Peel and Bob Harris programs between 1973 and 1978)
The Battle of Medway: 17 July 1973 (live) (2007)
Anthology (2007)
The Simmer Dim (2008)
The July Wakes (2008)
Ain't No Saint (2008) 40-year anthology
May You Never — The Very Best Of (2009)

DVD [link]

Live in Concert (with Danny Thompson) (2005)
John Martyn at the BBC (2006)
The Apprentice In Concert (with Dave Gilmour) (2006)
Empty Ceiling (2007) (recorded in 1986)
The Man Upstairs (2008)

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e John Martyn: guitarist and singer. The Times, 30 January 2009, p.75, Obituaries.
^ Some People Are Crazy — the John Martyn Story — John Neil Munro (Polygon 2007)
^ His obituary in The Times states that "The record's dubby, echoing soundscapes have been claimed as the forerunner of the 'trip-hop' style that emerged in the 1990s."
^ Munro JN (2008): Some People Are Crazy — The John Martyn Story, p. 125, Polygon. ISBN 978-1-84697-058-0
^ ^a ^b ^c John's Diary 1980s — Martyn's biography on his website
^ Johnny Too Bad
^ Folkaward's winner page
^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58929. p. 11. 31 December 2008.
^ ^a ^b Songwriter Martyn dies, aged 60 BBC News, 29 January 2009
^ [1] The Sun, 29 January 2009
^ Shaw, Vicky (29 January 2009). "Singer John Martyn dies aged 60". The Independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/singer-john-martyn-dies-aged-60-1519948.html.
^ "Guitar legend Martyn dies - News - QTheMusic.com". News.q4music.com. http://news.q4music.com/2009/01/guitar_legend_martyn_dies.html. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
^ The 1986 single Angeline single was the world's first ever CD single

External links [link]

Official website - johnmartyn.com

v t e John Martyn

John Martyn studio albums	London Conversation (1967) The Tumbler (1968) Bless the Weather (1971) Solid Air (February 1973) Inside Out (October 1973) Sunday's Child (1975) One World (1977) Grace and Danger (1980) Glorious Fool (1981) Well Kept Secret (1982) Sapphire (1984) Piece by Piece (1986) The Apprentice (1990) Cooltide (1991) Couldn't Love You More (1992) No Little Boy (1993) And (1996) The Church with One Bell (1998) Glasgow Walker (2000) On the Cobbles (2004) Heaven and Earth (2011)

Albums with Beverley Martyn	Stormbringer! (February 1970) The Road to Ruin (October 1970)

Live albums	Live at Leeds (1976) Philentropy (1983) Foundations (1987) Live (1994) The Battle of Medway: 17 July 1973 (2007) The Simmer Dim (2008) The July Wakes (2008; recorded 1986)

Compilations	So Far So Good (1977) The Electric John Martyn (1982) Sweet Little Mysteries: The Island Anthology (1994) Late Night John (2004) Anthology (2007) Ain't No Saint (2008)

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Alternative names	McGeachy, Iain David (real name)
Short description	British singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Date of birth	11 September 1948
Place of birth	New Malden, Surrey, United Kingdom
Date of death	29 January 2009
Place of death	Ireland

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Danny Thompson
Thompson backing Martin Simpson in 2008 Folk by the Oak Festival Photo: David Laws
Background information
Birth name	Daniel Henry Edward Thompson
Born	(1939-04-04) 4 April 1939 (age 73) Teignmouth, Devon England, United Kingdom
Genres	skiffle, folk rock, jazz
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, record producer
Instruments	Upright bass, guitar, mandolin, trumpet, trombone, tea chest bass
Labels	Island Records
Associated acts	Pentangle, Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated,
Website	Danny Thompson.co.uk
Notable instruments
"Victoria", a double bass built in 1865

Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson (born 4 April 1939, Teignmouth, Devon) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman. He has had a long musical career playing with a large variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson (no relation) and John Martyn, but including many others: at various times has for example played with Nick Drake, Roy Orbison, Julie Felix, Freddie and the Dreamers, Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Tom Paxton, Donovan, Vivian Stanshall, David Sylvian, Kate Bush, Mary Hopkin, Loreena McKennitt, Tim Buckley, and Davey Graham. For five years, he was a member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, and he was a founding member of the British folk rock band Pentangle. Since 1987, he has also recorded four solo albums. He converted to Islam in 1990.^[1]

1 Biography and career
2 "Victoria"
3 Partial discography
4 References
5 External links

Biography and career [link]

His father, a miner, joined the Royal Navy at the start of World War II and was lost in action whilst crewing submarines. When Thompson was aged 6, the family moved to London and he was brought up in the working-class area of Battersea. At school he excelled at football and played as a junior for Chelsea, the team he has supported ever since. Whilst at school he learnt guitar, mandolin, trumpet and trombone before settling on the Upright bass as his instrument of choice.

While he has his own album releases Thompson is predominantly a session musician contributing to other artists, his highest profile recordings are currently with Richard Thompson e.g. Mirror Blue, The Old Kit Bag, and the concert DVD release Richard Thompson Live in Austin Texas, from the Austin City Limits televised concerts.

Like many musicians, Danny Thompson's life has featured brushes with substance abuse. During his partnership with John Martyn, their drinking and the excessive behaviour it spawned became the stuff of legend. In one incident related by Martyn, he woke up after passing out on a hotel room floor, to find himself under a rug which Thompson had nailed down, leaving only Martyn's head exposed. Thompson went about his business, eating breakfast etc., ignoring Martyn's pleas to let him loose.

Danny Thompson spent some time living in Clopton, Suffolk in Suffolk during the late 1970s early 80's with his wife Daphne and son Dan (Danny Junior who went on to be the drummer with Hawkwind) The lifestyle was that of a rock star with a country manor and a Bentley and eventually a recording studio in the grounds of Manor House. Thompson loved the fame and fortune but made time for everyone he encountered and spent time socializing with the parishioners of The Clopton Crown and The Otley, Suffolk White Hart. Early in the 1980s he moved away from Suffolk and back to London as a base to work from. Thompson regularly watches Watford F.C. with his friend Ralph McTell.

Thompson received a Lifetime achievement award in the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. An acclaimed biography of Thompson was written by John Hillarby.

"Victoria"[link]

Danny Thompson's initial experience of bass playing was with a skiffle group, with whom he played a tea chest bass (a bass he built himself out of a tea chest, which folded up so he could carry it). In the early 1960s he bought a second-hand double bass from an old man in Battersea who let him have the instrument for £5 (despite the fact that it was worth much more than that), on the basis of his keenness to play it. He christened the instrument "Victoria" and it has remained his instrument of choice ever since. The bass was built by Gand, a French luthier, in 1865.

Victoria has been Thompson's sole instrument for the majority of his career, aside from three tours playing bass guitar for Roy Orbison in 1963.^[2] In response to increasingly stringent airline luggage regulations, Danny acquired a Czech-Ease travel bass in early 2007. Victoria is now used for all his work in the UK, with the new bass, named "Alfie", used for all international engagements.^[2]

In the early part of the 1980s he worked closely with documentary film-maker, Roy Deverell and composed music for two of his award-winning films, Echo of the Wild and A Passion to Protect. The films are about John Aspinall's pioneering work with endangered mammals.

Partial discography [link]

Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated [link]

Red Hot From Alex (1964)
Live at the Cavern (1964)
Sky High (1966)
Blues Incorporated (1967 - re-issue of Sky High)
I Wonder Who (1967)
'A New Generation of Blues (1968)

Pentangle [link]

The Pentangle (1968)
Sweet Child (1968)
Basket of Light (1969)
Cruel Sister (1970)
Reflection (1971)
Solomon's Seal (1972)
Open the Door (1985)

Danny Thompson [link]

Whatever (1987)
Whatever Next (1989)
Elemental (1990)
Whatever’s Best (1995)
Danny Thompson & Peter Knight (1995)

Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson [link]

Live At Crawley (1995)
Industry (1997)

Others [link]

Danny Thompson has played on dozens of albums and singles during his career. The following is only a small selection.

Vic Abram: The Folk Singer (1980)
ABC (band): Alphabet City (1987)
Mike Lindup: Changes (1990)
Richard Barbieri: Stranger Inside (2008)
The Blind Boys of Alabama: Spirit of the Century (2001)
Tim Buckley: Dream Letter: Live in London (1968)
Kate Bush: The Dreaming (1982); Hounds of Love (1985); 50 Words for Snow (2011)
Christine Collister: The Dark Gift Of Time (1998); An Equal Love (2001)
Graham Coxon: The Spinning Top (2009)
Barbara Dickson: Don’t Think Twice (1992); Dark End of The Street (1995)
Donovan: There Is a Mountain (single) (1967)
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left (1969)
Marvin Etzioni: Marvin The Mandolin Man (1992)
Everything But The Girl: Amplified Heart (1994)
Marianne Faithfull: North Country Maid (1966); The World of Marianne Faithfull (1970)
Peter Gabriel: Up (2002)
Davey Graham: Folk Blues & Beyond (1965); Large As Life & Twice As Natural (1968); Hat (1969); Fire In The Soul (1999)
Boo Hewerdine: Baptist Hospital (1995)
Mary Hopkin: Earth Song / Ocean Song (1971); Live at The Royal Festival Hall 1972 (2005)
Hunter Muskett: Every Time You Move (1970)
The Incredible String Band: The 5000 Spirits (1967); Hard Rope & Silken Twine (1973)
Bert Jansch: Birthday Blues (1969); Moonshine (1972); L.A. Turnaround (1974); Avocet (1979); Sketches (1990)
John Martyn: Bless the Weather (1972); Solid Air (1973); Inside Out (1973); Sunday's Child (1975); Live At Leeds (1975); One World (1977); On the Cobbles (2004)
Magna Carta: Lord of the Ages (1973)
John & Beverley Martyn: The Road To Ruin (1970)
Loreena McKennitt: The Book of Secrets (1997)
Ralph McTell: Easy (1974)
Alison Moyet: Hoodoo (1991)
Deva Premal: Dakshina (2005)
Cliff Richard: Congratulations (1968)
Darrell Scott: Theater of the Unheard (2003)
Ayuo: Songs from a Eurasian Journey (1997)
Songhai. Collaboration with Flamenco group Ketama and Kora player Toumani Diabate: Songhai (1988); Songhai 2 (1994)
S. E. Rogie: Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana (1997)
Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story (1971)
David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees (1984)
Talk Talk: The Colour of Spring (1986); Spirit of Eden (1988)
Richard Thompson: Amnesia (1988); Mirror Blue (1994); Live At Crawley (1995); You? me? us? (1996); Two Letter Words (1996); Celtschmerz (1998); Mock Tudor (1999); Semi-detached Mock Tudor] (2002); The Old Kit Bag (2003); Ducknapped (2003); [Live From Austin (2005); [Sweet Warrior] (2007)
Thunderbirds (TV series): (theme tune) (1964)
Kathryn Tickell: Common Ground (1988)
T Rex: Light of Love (1974); Zinc Alloy & The Hidden Riders (1974)
Loudon Wainwright III: I’m Alright (1985); More Love Songs (1986); Therapy (1989)
Dawud Wharnsby: Vacuous Waxing (2004)

References [link]

^ [1] "In 1999 Danny was interviewed for the BBC TV series Faces of Islam in which he discussed becoming a Muslim and his realisation of the fact that whilst he had only converted to Islam in 1990, the muslim faith had always been within him."
^ ^a ^b The Real Danny Thompson

External links [link]

v t e Pentangle

Jacqui McShee Gerry Conway Spencer Cozens Alan Thomson Gary Foote Bert Jansch Terry Cox Danny Thompson John Renbourn Mike Piggott Nigel Portman Smith Rod Clements Peter Kirtley Jerry Underwood

Studio albums	The Pentangle Basket of Light Cruel Sister Reflection Solomon's Seal Open the Door In the Round So Early in the Spring Think of Tomorrow One More Road

Live albums	Sweet Child Live 1994

Compilation albums	This is Pentangle History Book Pentangling The Pentangle Collection Anthology At Their Best Essential Vol 1 Essential Vol 2 Collection A Maid That's Deep in Love Early Classics Anniversary People on the Highway, 1968–1971 Light Flight The Pentangle Family Light Flight: The Anthology Pentangling: The Collection The Time Has Come

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Name	Thompson, Danny
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	4 April 1939
Place of birth	Teignmouth, Devon England, United Kingdom
Date of death
Place of death

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Kathy Mattea

Background information
Birth name	Kathleen Alice Mattea
Born	(1959-06-21) June 21, 1959 (age 53) South Charleston, West Virginia, United States
Origin	Cross Lanes, West Virginia, USA
Genres	Country
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals Guitar
Years active	1975–present
Labels	Mercury Nashville MCA Narada
Associated acts	Tim O'Brien
Website	mattea.com

Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea (pronounced ma-TAY-a)^[1] (born June 21, 1958, in South Charleston, West Virginia) is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. This total includes the number one hits "Goin' Gone", "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", "Come From the Heart" and "Burnin' Old Memories", as well as twelve additional Top Ten singles.

1 Life & career
2 Social activism
3 Discography
4 Further reading
5 References
6 External links

Life & career [link]

This section requires expansion with:
Critical reception, info on each album, vocal and musical stylings.

Mattea was born in South Charleston, West Virginia, because it had the nearest hospital to her parents' home in Cross Lanes, where she grew up, graduating from nearby Nitro High School. She discovered her love of singing at Girl Scout camp. In 1976, while attending West Virginia University, she joined the bluegrass band Pennsboro, and two years later dropped out of school to move to Nashville. She worked as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame, did backup vocal work for Bobby Goldsboro, and sang demos for several Nashville songwriters and publishers including Nashville songwriter/producer Byron Hill who brought her to the attention of Frank Jones (then head of Mercury Records), who signed her to her first record deal in 1983.

Mattea's third album, 1986's folky Walk the Way the Wind Blows, proved to be her breakthrough both critically and commercially. Her cover of Nanci Griffith's "Love at the Five and Dime" was her first major hit, reaching #3 (and in addition, earned Griffith notice as a songwriter), and the album produced three other top ten songs: "Walk the Way the Wind Blows" (#10), "You're the Power"(#5), and "Train of Memories" (#6). "Love at the Five and Dime" also drew attention because well-known country singer Don Williams sang harmony vocals on the track.

Further hit songs include her first #1, "Goin' Gone"; the truck-driving song "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" (1988); "Come From the Heart" and "Burnin' Old Memories" (both #1 hits in 1989); "She Came From Fort Worth" (1990); "Lonesome Standard Time" (1992); "Walking Away a Winner" (1994); "Nobody's Gonna Rain on Our Parade" (1994); "Maybe She's Human" (1994); and "455 Rocket" (1997, written by Gillian Welch^[2]). "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" in late May 1988, became the first single by a solo female to spend multiple weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart since Dolly Parton's "You're the Only One" in August 1979; both singles were on top of that chart for two weeks.

The heartrending "Where've You Been," which Mattea's husband Jon Vezner co-wrote with singer/songwriter Don Henry, reached #10 on the country chart and won her a 1990 Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal. Mattea is a repeat winner of the County Music Associations Female Vocalist of the Year, which she won on the success of "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" and "Where've You Been."

Mattea won another Grammy in 1993 for her gospel-oriented Christmas album, Good News. Her first single from the album, "Mary, Did You Know?," went on to be covered by Kenny Rogers with Wynonna Judd, as well as Reba McEntire.

In 1994, Mattea collaborated with Suzy Bogguss, Alison Krauss, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash to contribute "Teach Your Children" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. Also on that album, Mattea teamed up with Jackson Browne to contribute "Rock Me on the Water". Also through the '90s, she often collaborated with Scottish folksinger songwriter Dougie MacLean.

Mattea subsequently moved to MCA Nashville^[3] and, in 2000, released the ballad-heavy The Innocent Years, a heartfelt tribute to her ailing father. Wanting to explore her taste for Celtic folk, Mattea hopped labels to Narada, for whom she debuted in 2002 with the eclectic Roses.

With her social activism and her taste for songs with introspective lyrics, it has been often said that Mattea owes as much to the traditions of folk music as mainstream country.

Her 2008 release, Coal, combined her social activism with songs about coal-mining. It debuted at #64 on the country albums chart, and was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Traditional Folk category.

Kathy Mattea was honored as a member of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame 2011 class of inductees. She enjoys strong support from a very active fan club, whose members refer to themselves as Matteaheads, and critical acclaim for her albums as she continues to tour and perform.

Social activism [link]

Mattea has been heavily involved in HIV/AIDS-related charities, beginning in the early 1990s, and is often credited with being among the first to champion this cause among the country music community. She is the recipient of the Minnie Pearl Humanitarian Award, and the Harvard AIDS Institute Leadership Award for this work.

She performed with Mary Chapin Carpenter on VH1's very first Save The Music concert, which also starred Bette Midler.

In 1991, Mattea took part in Voices That Care, a multi-artist project that featured other top names in music for a one-off single to raise money for the allied troops in the Gulf War. The project included Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis, and introduced Celine Dion to the American audience.

Mattea currently travels the country presenting Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and speaking to crowds about the importance of fighting global warming and the environmental and physical devastation of mountaintop removal coal mining.

Discography [link]

Main article: Kathy Mattea discography

References [link]

^ Joe Edwards, "Kathy Mattea Is Former Tour Guide," The Free Lance-Star, Aug 11, 1984, p. 35.
^ Wilkinson, Alec (September 20, 2004). "The Ghostly Ones". The New Yorker. pp. 78. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/09/20/040920fa_fact_wilkinson. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
^ The Innocent Years at AOL.com

External links [link]

v t e Kathy Mattea

Studio albums	Kathy Mattea From My Heart Walk the Way the Wind Blows Untasted Honey Willow in the Wind Time Passes By Lonesome Standard Time Walking Away a Winner Love Travels The Innocent Years Roses Right Out of Nowhere Coal

Christmas albums	Good News Joy for Christmas Day

Compilation albums	A Collection of Hits The Definitive Collection

Notable singles	"Love at the Five and Dime" "Walk the Way the Wind Blows" "You're the Power" "Train of Memories" "Goin' Gone" "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" "Untold Stories" "Life as We Knew It" "Come from the Heart" "Burnin' Old Memories" "Where've You Been" "She Came from Fort Worth" "The Battle Hymn of Love" "A Few Good Things Remain" "Time Passes By" "Whole Lotta Holes" "Lonesome Standard Time" "Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)" "Walking Away a Winner" "Nobody's Gonna Rain on Our Parade" "Clown in Your Rodeo" "455 Rocket"

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Date of birth	June 21, 1959
Place of birth	South Charleston, West Virginia, United States
Date of death
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This article is about the British, rock guitarist. For the American, jazz guitarist, see David Gilmore.

For other people named David Gilmour, see David Gilmour (disambiguation).

David Gilmour
Gilmour playing his trademark black Fender Stratocaster in concert in Munich, Germany on 29 July 2006
Background information
Birth name	David Jon Gilmour
Also known as	Dave Gilmour
Born	(1946-03-06) 6 March 1946 (age 66) Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Genres	Rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, art rock, blues rock, experimental rock
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter, Producer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, saxophone, harmonica, slide guitar, programming
Years active	1963–present
Labels	Capitol, Columbia, Sony, EMI
Associated acts	Pink Floyd, Jokers Wild, Deep End, Richard Wright
Website	www.davidgilmour.com
Notable instruments
'The Black Strat' Fender Stratocaster 'The Red Strat' Fender Stratocaster 'The 0001 Strat' Fender Stratocaster Fender Telecaster

David Jon Gilmour,^[1] CBE (born 6 March 1946) is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It is estimated that as of 2010, the group have sold over 250 million records worldwide^[2]^[3], including 74.5 million units sold in the United States.

In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of artists, and has enjoyed a successful career as a solo artist. Gilmour has been actively involved with many charities over the course of his career.

In 2003, he was appointed CBE for his charity work and was awarded with the Outstanding Contribution title at the 2008 Q Awards.^[4] In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him number 14 in their list of the greatest guitarists of all time.^[5]

Early life [link]

Gilmour was born in Cambridge, England. His father, Douglas Gilmour, was a senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Cambridge and his mother, Sylvia (née Wilson), was a teacher and film editor who raised her family at Grantchester Meadows, later immortalised by a Roger Waters song on Pink Floyd's Ummagumma.^[6] He has a younger brother who is also a musician.

Gilmour attended The Perse School on Hills Road, Cambridge, and met future Pink Floyd guitarist and vocalist Syd Barrett, along with bassist and vocalist Roger Waters who attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, also situated on Hills Road. He studied modern languages to A-Level and, along with Barrett, spent his lunchtime learning to play the guitar. They were not yet bandmates however, and Gilmour started playing in the band Joker's Wild in 1962. Gilmour left Joker's Wild in 1966 and busked around Spain and France with some friends. However, they were not very successful, living virtually a hand-to-mouth existence. In July 1992, Gilmour stated in an interview with Nicky Horne on BBC radio that he ended up being treated for malnutrition in a hospital.^[7] In 1967, they returned to England.

Pink Floyd [link]

Gilmour was approached in late December 1967 by drummer Nick Mason, who asked if he would be interested in joining Pink Floyd, which he did in January 1968, making Pink Floyd briefly a five-piece band. He filled in for Syd Barrett's guitar parts when the frontman was unable to take a consistent part in Floyd's live performances. Syd Barrett "left" the group due to his erratic behaviour—commonly believed to have been caused by excessive use of LSD—when the band chose not to pick Barrett up one night for a gig; and Gilmour by default assumed the role of the band's lead guitarist. He took over most of the band's lead vocal duties with bassist Roger Waters and keyboard player Richard Wright also occasionally singing in Barrett's stead. However, after the back-to-back successes of The Dark Side of the Moon and then Wish You Were Here, Waters took more control over the band, writing much of Animals and The Wall by himself. Wright was fired during The Wall sessions and the relationship between Gilmour and Waters would further deteriorate during the making of The Wall film and the 1983 Pink Floyd album The Final Cut.

Gilmour, in the early 1970s with Pink Floyd

After recording Animals, Gilmour thought that his musical talents were being underused, and channelled his ideas into his self-titled first solo album (1978), which showcases his signature guitar style, as well as underscoring his songwriting skills. A tune written during the finishing stages of this album, but too late to be used, became "Comfortably Numb" on The Wall.^[8]

The negative atmosphere surrounding the creation of The Wall album and subsequent film, compounded by The Final Cut's virtually being a Roger Waters solo album, led Gilmour to produce his second solo album About Face in 1984.^[9] He used it to express his feelings about a range of topics, from the murder of John Lennon,^[9] to his relationship with Waters. He has since admitted that he also used the album to distance himself from Pink Floyd. He toured Europe and the US along with support act The Television Personalities,^[9] who were promptly dropped from the line-up after revealing Syd Barrett's address on stage.^[9] Mason also made a guest appearance on the UK leg of the tour,^[9] which despite some cancellations eventually turned a profit.^[10] When he returned from touring, Gilmour played guitar with a range of artists, and also produced The Dream Academy, who had a top ten hit with "Life in a Northern Town".^[11]

In 1985, Waters declared that Pink Floyd were "a spent force creatively".^[9]^[12] In 1986, Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason issued a press release stating that Waters had quit the band and they intended to continue without him.^[9]^[12] Gilmour assumed full control of the group and produced A Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987 with some contributions from Mason and Richard Wright.^[9] Wright officially rejoined the band after the release of the album for a lengthy world tour and helped create 1994's The Division Bell.^[9] Gilmour explained:

I had a number of problems with the direction of the band in our recent past, before Roger left. I thought the songs were very wordy and that, because the specific meanings of those words were so important, the music became a mere vehicle for lyrics, and not a very inspiring one. Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here were so successful not just because of Roger's contributions, but also because there was a better balance between the music and the lyrics than there has been in more recent albums. That's what I'm trying to do with A Momentary Lapse of Reason; more focus on the music, restore the balance.

In 1986, Gilmour purchased the houseboat Astoria which is moored on the River Thames near Hampton Court, and transformed it into a recording studio.^[12] The majority of the two most recent Pink Floyd albums, as well as Gilmour's 2006 solo release On an Island, were recorded there.^[12]

Gilmour at Live 8 in July 2005

On 2 July 2005, Gilmour played with Pink Floyd—including Roger Waters—at Live 8. The performance caused a temporary 1343% sales increase of Pink Floyd's album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.^[13] Gilmour donated all of his resulting profits to charities that reflect the goals of Live 8 saying:

Though the main objective has been to raise consciousness and put pressure on the G8 leaders, I will not profit from the concert. This is money that should be used to save lives.^[13]

Shortly after, he called upon all artists experiencing a surge in sales from Live 8 performances to donate the extra revenue to Live 8 fund-raising. After the Live 8 concert, Pink Floyd were offered £150 million to tour the United States, but the band turned down the offer.^[14]

On 3 February 2006, he announced in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica^[15]^[16] that Pink Floyd would most likely never tour or write material together again. He said:

I think enough is enough. I am 60 years old. I don't have the will to work as much any more. Pink Floyd was an important part in my life, I have had a wonderful time, but it's over. For me it's much less complicated to work alone.

Regarding agreeing to play at Live 8, he said:

There was more than one reason, firstly to support the cause. The second one is the energy consuming an uncomfortable relationship between Roger and me that I was carrying along in my heart. That is why we wanted to perform and to leave the trash behind. Thirdly, I might have regretted it if I declined.

On 20 February 2006, Gilmour commented again on Pink Floyd's future when he was interviewed by Billboard.com, stating, "Who knows? I have no plans at all to do that. My plans are to do my concerts and put my solo record out."

In December 2006, Gilmour released a tribute to Syd Barrett, who had died on 7 July of that year, in the form of his own version of Pink Floyd's first single "Arnold Layne".^[12] Recorded live at London's Royal Albert Hall, the CD single featured versions of the song performed by Pink Floyd's keyboard player (and Gilmour's band member) Richard Wright and special guest artist David Bowie.^[12] The single entered the UK Top 75 charts at number nineteen and remained steady for three weeks.^[17]

Since their Live 8 appearance in 2005, Gilmour has repeatedly said that there will be no Pink Floyd reunion. With the death of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright in September 2008,^[12] another reunion of the core group members became impossible. Gilmour said of Wright

In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick's enormous input was frequently forgotten. He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound. Like Rick, I don't find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously. I have never played with anyone quite like him.^[18]

In May 2010 Roger Waters told the Associated Press that Gilmour "is completely disinterested in anything like [another reunion]. After Live 8, I could have probably gone for doing some more stuff, but he's not interested, so it is what it is."^[19]

Solo projects [link]

David has recorded four solo albums, all four of which charted in the US Top 40 (2006's On an Island peaked at No. 6 in 2006, 2008's Live in Gdansk peaked at No. 26, his 1978 self-titled solo debut peaked at No. 29 in 1978 and 1984's About Face peaked at No. 32 in 1984).

The 1970s & 1980s [link]

Gilmour performing in Brussels in 1984, on his About Face tour

Taking time off from Pink Floyd's schedule, Gilmour also took up various roles as a producer, sideman and even concert sound engineer^[9] for a wide variety of acts which included^[9] former bandmate Syd Barrett, Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Berlin, Grace Jones, Tom Jones, Elton John, Eric Clapton, B. B. King, Seal, Sam Brown, Jools Holland, Bob Dylan, Pete Townshend, The Who, Supertramp, Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Alan Parsons, and various charity groups among others.

In 1985, Gilmour was a member of Bryan Ferry's band. He played on Ferry's album Boys and Girls, as well as the song "Is Your Love Strong Enough" for the US release of the Ridley Scott-Tom Cruise film Legend. A music video for the latter was created, incorporating Ferry and Gilmour into footage from the film^[9] (released as a bonus on the 2002 "Ultimate Edition" DVD release). Later that year, Gilmour played with Ferry at the London Live Aid concert;^[9] his first meeting with Ferry's keyboard player Jon Carin, later to tour with Pink Floyd.

David Gilmour also took part in a comedy skit titled "The Easy Guitar Book Sketch" with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow British musicians Mark Knopfler, Lemmy from Motorhead, Mark King from Level 42, and Gary Moore. Guitar tech Phil Taylor explained in an interview that Knopfler used Gilmour's guitar rig and managed to sound like himself when performing in the skit.^[20]

The 1990s [link]

In 1994, Gilmour played guitar for the video game Tuneland, along with the additional saxophonist for Pink Floyd, Scott Page.

On 14 December 1999, Gilmour played a show at the Cavern Club in Liverpool with Paul McCartney, Mick Green, Ian Paice & Pete Wingfield.

The 2000s [link]

In 2001 and 2002, he performed a small number of acoustic solo concerts in London and Paris, along with a small band and choir, which was documented on the In Concert release.^[12] In 2003, Rolling Stone placed Gilmour at number 82 in a list of the hundred greatest guitarists of all time.^[21]

On 24 September 2004, Gilmour performed a three song set (tracks 28–30) at The Strat Pack concert at London's Wembley Arena, marking the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster guitar.

Gilmour in performance, Frankfurt 2006

On 6 March 2006, his 60th birthday, he released his third solo album, On an Island,^[12] and a day later it was released in the US; it debuted at No. 1 in the UK charts.^[22] The album reached the top five in Germany and Sweden, and the top six in Billboard 200.^[23]^[24] Produced by Gilmour along with Phil Manzanera and Chris Thomas, the album features orchestrations by renowned Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner.^[12] The album features David Crosby and Graham Nash performing background vocals on the title track, Robert Wyatt on cornet and percussion, and Richard Wright on Hammond organ and vocals.^[12] Other contributors include Jools Holland, Phil Manzanera, Georgie Fame, Andy Newmark, B. J. Cole, Chris Stainton, Willie Wilson, Rado ‘Bob’ Klose on guitar and Leszek Możdżer on piano.^[12] The album also features Gilmour's debut with the saxophone.^[12]

Gilmour toured Europe, US and Canada from 10 March to 31 May 2006 to promote On an Island. There were 10 shows in the US and Canadian leg of the tour. Pink Floyd alumnus Richard Wright, and frequent Floyd collaborators Dick Parry, Guy Pratt and Jon Carin, also accompanied him on the tour. More shows took place in Europe from July to August in 2006.

In a press release to promote the tour, David Gilmour stated:

I'm rather hoping that with this tour announcement, people will believe me when I say, honestly, this is the only band I plan to tour with!

On an Island reached number one on the UK charts. On 10 April 2006, the album was certified platinum in Canada, with sales of over 100,000 copies. The album also gave Gilmour his first US Top 10 album as a solo artist.

A video recording of a show from Gilmour's solo tour, titled Remember That Night – Live At The Royal Albert Hall^[25] was released on 17 September 2007.^[12] The double DVD, directed by David Mallet, contains over five hours of footage, including an on-the-road documentary and guest appearances by David Bowie and Robert Wyatt.^[12] The two and a half hour concert features band members Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music, Steve DiStanislao on drums, and various Pink Floyd regulars such as Dick Parry, Guy Pratt and Jon Carin.^[12] The 20-page booklet accompanying the DVD, features over 80 photos selected from studio recording and touring.^[12]

The final show of David Gilmour's On an Island tour took place at the Gdańsk Shipyard on 26 August 2006.^[12] The concert was held before a crowd of 50,000, and marked the twenty-sixth anniversary of the founding of the Solidarity trade union.^[12] The concert was notable for the inclusion of "A Great Day For Freedom" as part of the encore.^[12]

The show was recorded, resulting in a live album and DVD release: Live in Gdańsk.^[12] The concert was the only occasion on which Gilmour performed the tour material with an orchestra, using the 40-strong string section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, who was responsible for On An Island's orchestral arrangements.^[12]

On 25 May 2009, he participated in a concert at the Union Chapel in Islington, London. The concert was part of the 'Hidden Gigs' campaign against hidden homelessness, which is organised by Crisis, a UK-based national charity campaigning against homelessness. In the concert he collaborated with the Malian musicians Amadou and Mariam.^[26]

On 4 July 2009, he joined his friend Jeff Beck onstage at the Royal Albert Hall. David and Jeff traded solos on Jerusalem and closed the show with Hi Ho Silver Lining.

In August 2009, he released an online single, Chicago – Change the World, on which he sang and played guitar, bass and keyboards, to promote awareness of the plight of Gary McKinnon. A re-titled cover of the Graham Nash song Chicago, it featured Chrissie Hynde and Bob Geldof, plus McKinnon himself. It was produced by long-time Pink Floyd collaborator Chris Thomas.^[27] A video was also posted on-line.^[28]

The 2010s [link]

On 11 July 2010, Gilmour gave a performance for the charity Hoping Foundation with Roger Waters in Oxfordshire, England.^[29] Also performing were Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Nick Cage and Tom Jones. The performance was presented by Jemima Khan and Nigella Lawson. According to onlookers, it seemed clear that Gilmour and Waters had ended the their long-running feud and seemed to be the best of friends, laughing and joking together along with their respective partners. Waters subsequently confirmed via his Facebook page that Gilmour would play "Comfortably Numb" with him during one of his shows on his upcoming The Wall Live tour – Gilmour performed the guitar solo on 12 May 2011 at the O2 Arena, London and, with Nick Mason, played with the rest of the band playing "Outside The Wall" at the conclusion of the show.

Gilmour released an album with The Orb in 2010 entitled Metallic Spheres,^[30] on which he co-wrote every track and their subsequent parts, and produced, played guitar and sang.

Personal life [link]

Gilmour in 2005

Gilmour's first marriage was to American-born model and artist Virginia "Ginger" Hasenbein, on 7 July 1975.^[31] He had four children from this union, Alice (born 1976), Clare (born 1979), Sara (born 1983, a fashion model^[32]), and Matthew (born 1986). The children originally attended a Waldorf School, but Gilmour called their education there "horrific".^[33] In 1994, he married journalist Polly Samson, and the couple have four children, Charlie (Samson's son with Heathcote Williams whom Gilmour adopted), Joe, Gabriel and Romany. Charlie's voice can be heard on the telephone to Steve O'Rourke, at the end of "High Hopes" (The Division Bell).

Gilmour has been associated with various charity organisations. In May 2003, Gilmour sold his house in Little Venice to the ninth Earl Spencer and donated the proceeds worth £3.6 million to Crisis to help fund a housing project for the homeless. He has been named a vice president of the organization.^[34] Other charities to which Gilmour has lent support include Oxfam, the European Union Mental Health and Illness Association, Greenpeace, Amnesty International,^[9] The Lung Foundation, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy,^[9] Teenage Cancer Trust, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).^[35] He also donated £25,000 to the Save the Rhino foundation in exchange for Douglas Adams's name suggestion for the album that became The Division Bell.^[12]

Gilmour is also an experienced pilot and aviation enthusiast. Under the aegis of his company, Intrepid Aviation,^[9] he had amassed a collection of historical aircraft. He later decided to sell the company, which he had started as a hobby, feeling that it was becoming too commercial for him to handle. In a BBC interview, he stated:

Intrepid Aviation was a way for me to make my hobby pay for itself a little bit, but gradually over a few years Intrepid Aviation became a business because you have to be businesslike about it. Suddenly I found instead of it being a hobby and me enjoying myself, it was a business and so I sold it. I don't have Intrepid Aviation any more. I just have a nice old biplane that I pop up, wander around the skies in sometimes...^[36]

On 22 May 2008, Gilmour won the 2008 Ivor Novello Lifetime Contribution Award.^[37]

In autumn 2008, he was awarded for outstanding contribution for music by the Q Awards. He dedicated his award to his bandmate Richard Wright, who died in September 2008.^[4]

On 11 November 2009, Gilmour received an honorary doctorate from the Anglia Ruskin University.^[38]

Musical style [link]

Gilmour on piano, in Düsseldorf during his About Face tour in 1984

Gilmour is best known for his lead guitar work. Gilmour's solo style is often characterised by blues-influenced phrasing, expressive note bends and sustain. In 2011, Gilmour was rated the 14th greatest guitarist by Rolling Stone. In January 2007, Guitar World readers voted Gilmour's solos, "Comfortably Numb", "Time" and "Money" into the top 100 Greatest Guitar Solos ("Comfortably Numb" was voted the 4th, "Time" was voted the 21st and "Money" was voted the 62nd greatest solo of all time).^[39]

In his early career with Pink Floyd, Gilmour played a multitude of Fender Stratocasters. One of his popular guitar solos ("Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2") was played on a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top guitar equipped with P-90 pick-ups.^[40]^[41] In 1996, Gilmour was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd. Gilmour's solo on "Comfortably Numb" was voted as one of the greatest guitar solos of all time in several polls by listeners and critics.^[42]

Although mainly known for his guitar work, Gilmour is also a proficient multi-instrumentalist. He also plays bass guitar (which he did on some Pink Floyd tracks),^[12]^[43] keyboards, synthesiser, banjo, harmonica, drums (as heard on the Syd Barrett solo track "Dominoes",^[12] and other songs where he opted to play all the instruments) and lately, the saxophone.^[44]

Music equipment [link]

Some of the equipment Gilmour has used either on his solo or Pink Floyd records and tours.

Main electric guitars [link]

Gilmour playing a Fender Stratocaster in 1984

Fender
- Stratocaster
  - Gilmor's main stage and studio guitar is a 1969 Fender Stratocaster. Black with a black pickguard, it has white pick-up covers and knobs. It does not have the original neck. The guitar has a added switch that combines the neck and bridge pick-ups. It has a Seymour Duncan SSL-1C (SSL-5 Prototype) bridge pick-up. The guitar strap that Gilmour pairs with this instrument once belonged to Jimi Hendrix.
  - His main guitar for the post-Roger Waters era Pink Floyd tours was a red 1984 '57 Stratocaster reissue. It had a set of EMG SA active pick-ups. This guitar still continues to be used for specific songs during Gilmour's live performances.
  - David Gilmour owns Stratocaster # 0001. This is not the first model made.
  - Cream coloured '57 reissue Stratocaster. This guitar was used on Gilmour's 1984 solo tour and also during the early part of the 1987–1990 Pink Floyd tour. During the 1994 Pink Floyd tour it was used as a spare guitar. During Pink Floyd's Live 8 set sidesman Tim Renwick was seen playing it. It has the same EMG setup as his red '57 Reissue model. After it was used for Live 8 the neck from the cream Stratocaster was transferred to Gilmour's main black Stratocaster.
  - '57 Lake Placid Blue. (Serial number #0040). This guitar was used during The Wall recording sessions.
  - Double-neck Stratocaster. Custom made body by guitar builder Dick Knight and using standard Fender necks. It was used in the early 1970s.
  - 1959 sunburst Stratocaster body with a 1963 neck with a rosewood fingerboard. This guitar was given to Gilmour by Steve Marriott. David didn't like the guitar enough to use it for very long but did like the neck better than the original one on his black Stratocaster and the two were switched. The sunburst model was used as A spare and for slide guitar in subsequent years.
  - White with white pickguard. Used in the late 1960s. Received as a gift from the rest of the band.^[45] It was stolen in 1970.
  - Gilmour used a Stratocaster equipped with the Doug Wilkes 'Answer' sliding pick-up system on the 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' recording.
- Telecaster
  - Blonde body with white pickguard. Used on the On an Island tour.
  - '52 Butterscotch Reissues with black pickguard. Used between 1987 and 1995. The first guitar was tuned in Dropped D rather than a standard tuning and was used for "Run Like Hell". The second served as a backup instrument and had a regular guitar tuning. Gilmour used this guitar for Astronomy Domine.
  - '59 Custom Telecaster with sunburst ash body, white binding on the body, rosewood fingerboard, and a white pickguard. A Gibson Humbucker was briefly placed in the neck position but this was removed before it was used on the Animals' recording sessions. Last seen at rehearsals during the On an Island tour.
  - '61 Telecaster used during The Wall recording sessions. Also used live in the post-Waters era for "Run Like Hell". Last seen on the Syd Barrett memory concert in 2007.
  - 1960s brown-faded body. Used in the late 1960s.
  - 1960s blonde ash body with white pickguard. This was Gilmour's main guitar during his first year with Pink Floyd, but it was lost by an airline company in 1968, prompting Gilmour to buy the brown-faded Telecaster.^[46]
- Esquire '55 Sunburst body a.k.a. "The workmate Tele". Neck pick-up added. Used at the recording sessions for his first solo album, and The Wall recording sessions and subsequent tour. Also seen when Gilmour performed with Paul McCartney in the late 1990s.

Other electrics [link]

Along with the Fender models (his primary choice for electrics), Gilmour has also used: a Gibson Les Paul goldtop model with P-90 pick-ups and a Bigsby vibrato bridge. It was used for the guitar solo on 'Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2' and the solo in 'Comfortably Numb.' Gilmour also plays a Gretsch Duo-Jet and a Gretsch White Falcon (as well as a 'White Penguin'), a Bill Lewis 24-fret Guitar (used during Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon recording sessions) and a Steinberger GL model which was his main guitar during A Momentary Lapse of Reason recording sessions.

Acoustics [link]

Gilmour has used many different acoustic guitars throughout his career including a Gibson "Chet Atkins" classical model, a Gibson J-200 Celebrity acoustic guitar.^[47] Gilmour's list of Ovation models including a Legend 1619-4, a Legend 1613-4 nylon string guitar, both used during The Wall recording sessions.^[47]^[48] Martin models used include: a D-35.^[47]^[48] a D12-28 12-string.^[47] and a D-18.^[47] Gilmour's large acoustic collection also includes many models from Taylor, Takamine and Guild.

Steel guitar [link]

Gilmour playing lap steel guitar, 26 January 1977

Throughout his recording career David Gilmour has added a different element to his guitar style with his use of steel guitars. A 1950s Fender 1000 twin neck pedal steel guitar was used frequently in the early 1970s. Originally purchased from a pawn shop while Gilmour was in Seattle in 1970, it was used during recording of "One of These Days" from "Meddle" and "Breathe" and "Great Gig in the Sky" from The Dark Side of the Moon.^[49] Other Fenders owned by Gilmour include a Deluxe lap steel (seen during The Division Bell tour in 1994.^[49] ) and also a Champ lap steel model. Along with the Fender steel models Gilmour has also used: a Gibson EH150, and two Jedson models: one red (1977-tuned D-G-D-G-B-E for Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 6–9, 1987–2006: Tuned E-B-E-G-B-E for High Hopes) and one blonde.^[49] He also uses a ZB steel model.^[48]

Bass guitars [link]

Gilmour has played bass both in the studio and onstage at different times and has played many different bass models including: an Ovation Magnum, a Fender Bass VI, Fender Precision and Jazz bass models and a Charvel fretless.(all used during The Wall recording sessions.^[48] ). He also has a Doug Wilkes built Precision-style single pick-up bass which was used on the 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' sessions. During the 1991 Amnesty International concert Gilmour used a Music Man Fretless Stingray bass while conducting the house band and again during Spinal Tap's performance of "Big Bottom". (All guitarists played bass on this song, and Gilmour played the solo)

Fender Signature Stratocaster [link]

David Gilmour Signature Stratocaster NOS in its case

In November 2006, Fender Custom Shop announced two reproductions of Gilmour's "Black" Strat for release on 22 September 2008. Gilmour's website states the release date was chosen to coincide with the release of his Live in Gdansk album.^[50] Both guitars are based on extensive measurements of the original instrument, each featuring varying degrees of wear. The most expensive is the David Gilmour Relic Stratocaster^[51] which features the closest copy of wear on the original guitar. A pristine copy of the guitar is also made, called the David Gilmour NOS Stratocaster.^[52]

Discography [link]

Pink Floyd [link]

Pink Floyd portal

A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
More (1969)
Ummagumma (1969)
Atom Heart Mother (1970)
Meddle (1971)
Obscured by Clouds (1972)
The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Wish You Were Here (1975)
Animals (1977)
The Wall (1979)
The Final Cut (1983)
A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)
The Division Bell (1994)
P•U•L•S•E (1995)

For the full discography, see Pink Floyd discography.

Solo [link]

Main article: David Gilmour discography

Albums [link]

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions			Certification (Sale Threshold)
Year	Album details	UK Album Chart	US Billboard 200	Canadian Albums Chart	Certification (Sale Threshold)
1978	David Gilmour Label: Harvest Records (UK)/Columbia Records (US)	17	29	—	US: Gold
1984	About Face Label: Harvest Records (UK)/Columbia Records (US)	21	32	—	US: Gold
2006	On an Island Label: EMI (UK)/Columbia Records (US)	1	6	1	UK: Platinum CAN: Platinum
2008	Live in Gdańsk Label: EMI (UK)/Columbia Records (US)	10	26	19	UK: Gold

Soundtracks [link]

Fractals: The Colours of Infinity, Documentary (1994)^[53]

Singles [link]

"There's No Way Out of Here" (1978)
"Blue Light" (March 1984)
"Love on the Air" (May 1984)
"On an Island" (6 March 2006)
"Smile" (13 June 2006)
"Arnold Layne" (Live) (26 December 2006)

Filmography [link]

David Gilmour Live 1984 (VHS) – September 1984
David Gilmour in Concert (DVD) – October 2002
Remember That Night (DVD/BD) – September 2007
Live in Gdańsk (DVD) – September 2008

Collaborations and work for other artists [link]

Year	Artist	Album / Work
1970	Syd Barrett	The Madcap Laughs^[9]
	Syd Barrett	Barrett^[9]
	Ron Geesin and Roger Waters	"Give Birth to a Smile" on Music from the Body^[9]
1974	Unicorn^[54]^[55]	Blue Pine Trees (producer)^[9]
1975	Roy Harper	"The Game" from HQ^[9]
1976	Unicorn^[54]	Too Many Crooks (US title Unicorn 2, features the song "There's No Way Out of Here") (producer)
1978	Kate Bush	Executive producer for two tracks on The Kick Inside^[9]
1978	Unicorn^[54]	One More Tomorrow (Harvest Records) (producer, shared with Muff Winwood)
1979	Wings	Back to the Egg^[9]
1980	Roy Harper	"Playing Games", "You (The Game Part II)", "Old Faces", "Short and Sweet" and "True Story" on The Unknown Soldier, credited to Harper/Gilmour.^[9]
1982	Kate Bush	Vocals on "Pull Out The Pin" in The Dreaming^[9]
1983	Atomic Rooster	Headline News^[9]
1984	Paul McCartney	No More Lonely Nights in Give My Regards to Broad Street^[9]
1985	Supertramp	"Brother Where You Bound"
	Bryan Ferry	"Is Your Love Strong Enough?" in Legend^[9]
	Bryan Ferry	Boys and Girls^[9]
	Bryan Ferry	Live Aid (Played with Bryan Ferry's band)^[9]
	Nick Mason and Rick Fenn	"Lie for a Lie" (vocals) in Profiles^[9]
	Pete Townshend	"Give Blood" and "White City Fighting" in White City: A Novel "White City Fighting" credited to Townshend/Gilmour. Also performed live as Deep End.^[9]
	Arcadia	So Red the Rose^[9]
	The Dream Academy	Co-produced The Dream Academy^[9]
	Roy Harper and Jimmy Page	"Hope" on Whatever Happened to Jugula?, credited to Harper/Gilmour.^[9]
1986	Berlin	Count Three & Pray^[9]
	Liona Boyd	Electric guitar on "L'Enfant", "Sorceress" and "Persona" from Persona
	Pete Townshend	lead guitar in Pete Townshend's Deep End Live!^[9]
1987	Dalbello	"Immaculate Eyes" in she^[9]
1988	Peter Cetera	"You Never Listen To Me" in One More Story^[9]
1988	Sam Brown	Guitar on "This Feeling" and "I'll Be In Love" in Stop!^[9]
1989	Kate Bush	"Love and Anger" and "Rocket's Tail" in The Sensual World^[9]
	Paul McCartney	"We Got Married" in Flowers in the Dirt^[9]
	Rock Aid Armenia	Smoke on the Water in The Earthquake Album^[9]
	Warren Zevon	Transverse City^[9]
1990	Roy Harper	"Once" in Once (w/Kate Bush on backing vocals)^[9]
	Propaganda	"Only One Word" in 1234^[9]
	Sam Brown	April Moon, vocals on "Troubled Soul"^[9]
	Michael Kamen and David Sanborn	Concerto For Saxophone, guitar on "Sasha"^[9]
	The Dream Academy	A Different Kind of Weather (co-producer on all but one track, co-wrote and sang backing vocals on "Twelve-Eight Angel")
1991	All About Eve	"Are You Lonely" and "Wishing the Hours Away" in Touched by Jesus^[9]
1991	Hale and Pace	Lead guitar on "The Stonk"^[9]
1992	Elton John	"Understanding Women", in The One^[9]
1992	Mica Paris	I Put a Spell on You on Later With Jools Holland^[9]
1993	Paul Rodgers	"Standing Around Crying" in Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters^[9]
1994	Snowy White	"Love, Pain and Sorrow" in Goldtop: Groups & Sessions '74–'94
1995	Guy Pratt	Soundtrack to Hackers; according to Pratt on Twitter,^[56] features uncredited guitar performance by Gilmour.
1996	The Who	Quadrophenia (1996 Hyde Park concert)
1997	B. B. King	"Cryin' Won't Help You Babe" in Deuces Wild
1999	Paul McCartney	Run Devil Run
2001	The Triumph of Love soundtrack	Plays guitar over several chamber orchestra pieces
2003	Ringo Starr	Ringo Rama
2004	Alan Parsons and Simon Posford	"Return to Tunguska" in A Valid Path
2005	Various artists	"Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)"
2006	Chris Jagger	"It's Amazing (What People Throw Away)" and "Junkman", in Act of Faith
2009	Nick Laird-Clowes	"Mayday" documentary, 'A Time Comes' (Free download from nicklairdclowes.com )
2010	The Orb	Metallic Spheres, contributes guitars and vocals to the album, as well as co-writing every track. The album is released as "The Orb featuring David Gilmour"

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Blake, Mark (2008). Comfortably Numb – The Inside Story of Pink Floyd. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81752-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=2I0eaxtu6HEC.

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Eddi Reader

Background information
Birth name	Sadenia Reader
Born	(1959-08-29) 29 August 1959 (age 52)
Origin	Glasgow, Scotland
Genres	Pop, Folk
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, musician, record producer
Instruments	vocals, acoustic guitar, concertina, harmonica, piano, ukulele
Years active	1984–present
Labels	RCA Blanco y Negro Rough Trade Compass
Associated acts	Fairground Attraction
Website	Official Website

Eddi Reader MBE (born Sadenia Reader; 29 August 1959)^[1] is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts.^[2] In 2003 she showcased the works of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.

1 Early career
2 Fairground Attraction
3 Solo career
4 Awards
5 Discography
6 References
7 External links

Early career [link]

Reader was born in Glasgow, the daughter of a welder, and the eldest of seven children^[3] (her brother, Francis, is vocalist with the band The Trash Can Sinatras). She was nicknamed Edna by her parents. Living at first in the district of Anderston, Glasgow, in a tenement slum demolished in 1965, The young Reader family moved to a two-bedroomed flat in the estate of Arden, Glasgow.

In 1976, due to overcrowding the family was re-housed 25 miles from Glasgow, in the council development of Irvine, Ayrshire; however, Eddi returned to Glasgow (where she lived with her grandmother) in order to finish her compulsory schooling.^[4] She began playing the guitar at the age of ten, and started her musical career busking, first in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street, then in the early 1980s in London and around Europe (where she also worked with circus and performance artists).

Back in Scotland, while finding factory work in Irvine and working part-time in Sirocco Recording Studio in Kilmarnock, she answered an advert in the music press and travelled to London to audition and join the punk band Gang of Four, who needed a backing singer for their appearance on British television music show The Old Grey Whistle Test and for their UK tour. This led to her first US tour with the band. After returning to the UK and leaving the band, she started working as a session vocalist in London, picking up work singing jingles for radio advertisements and singing with such acts as Eurythmics, The Waterboys, Billy MacKenzie and Alison Moyet.^[5]

Fairground Attraction [link]

Main article: Fairground Attraction

In 1984, Reader returned to the UK from Paris, where she had been working as a singer for the composer Vladimir Cosma. Through her contact with the brass section session players The Kick Horns in London, she signed a contract with EMI, and recorded two singles with the disco group Outbar Squeek. Around the same time, she met and asked Mark E. Nevin, a guitarist and songwriter from the band Jane Aire and the Belvederes to write for her and they recorded two songs as The Academy of Fine Popular Music. They subsequently formed Fairground Attraction, together with Simon Edwards (guitarrón — a Mexican acoustic bass guitar) and Roy Dodds (drums & percussion). In 1988 the band signed to RCA/BMG records and released their first single, "Perfect", which became a UK number one, winning best single at the 1989 BRIT Awards. Their first album, The First of a Million Kisses, was also a success, reaching number two in the UK Albums Chart, and winning best album at the 1989 Brits.

This success was short-lived, however. In November 1989, after a break, during which Reader had her first child, Charlie, with her French-Algerian partner Milou, arguments arose within the group, and Nevin abandoned a recording session for the second album, which eventually led to the splitting of the band. A makeshift second album, a collection of B-sides and live tracks, Ay Fond Kiss, was rushed out the following year.

Solo career [link]

Reader returned to Scotland, but before she embarked on her solo career she took a temporary detour into acting. She played Jolene Jowett, a singer and accordionist, in John Byrne's Your Cheatin' Heart,^[2] a comedy-drama series for BBC Television, set in the country music scene in Scotland. Her other acting credits include playing the part of Joy 3 from the Michael Boyd (artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company) production of Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing. This was a BBC Radio 4 production in 1996, Also a Tron Theatre production the same year.

Returning to London, Reader worked on new material with a backing band calling itself The Patron Saints of Imperfection (made up of Roy Dodds, Neill and Calum MacColl, and Phil Steriopoulos). This became her first solo album, recorded for RCA Records: 1992's Mirmama. She met Geoff Travis who signed her to Warner Brothers subsidiary label, Blanco Y Negro, The managing director Rob Dickens executively produced her second solo album Eddi Reader (1994), which won her the "Best female singer" BRIT Award that year,^[2] followed by Candyfloss and Medicine (1996), and Angels & Electricity (1998). She parted from Warner Brothers and continued her work on Geoff Travis' Rough Trade label when she recorded Simple Soul (2001) and Driftwood (2002) - a "homegrown" release of songs recorded during the Simple Soul sessions. During this time, Reader also recorded the song "Ocean Love" for the soundtrack of the animated Danish film Help! I'm a Fish (2001).^{[citation needed]} Reader also contributed vocals to one of Big Country's final singles before Stuart Adamson's death, "Fragile Thing."

Reader continued to tour (England, Scotland, Japan, Australia, Spain, the United States, and Ireland). In 2003, she recorded her album of material by Robert Burns, with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, leading to good reviews and an international resurgence in interest in Scotland's "bard".^[6]^[7]

She spent April 2006 touring Australia with Boo Hewerdine and Alan Kelly, following the release of St Clare's Night Out: Live at The Basement, with Australian acts such as David Hosking invited to open the concerts.

Reader's eighth studio album, Peacetime, was released in 2007 on the Rough Trade record label. Produced by fellow Scottish folk musician, John McCusker, the album features a few Burns composed songs, alongside original material with longtime collaborator Boo Hewerdine and The Trash Can Sinatras' John Douglas.

In spring 2008, Reader was a special guest at the Hotel Cafe Tour hosted by Tom McRae. In 2009, she performed in period-drama Me and Orson Welles,^[8] directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay and Claire Danes.^[9] Reader performed re-arranged 1930s standards, with Jools Holland, with whom she had previously collaborated on the single "Waiting Game".

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth, Reader released The Songs of Robert Burns Deluxe Edition in January 2009.^[2] The new release brought together the original Burns album with seven additional songs, two from the original 2003 sessions ("Green Grow the Rashes O", "Of A' the Airts"), three from 2007's Peacetime ("Ye banks and Braes", "Aye Waukin O" and "Leezie Lindsay") the unreleased "Dainty Davie", also from that session, and a brand new recording, "Comin' Thro the Rye/Dram Behind the Curtain". The new album was promoted, like the original release, with two sold-out shows at the annual Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.

In 2009 Reader released her ninth studio album, Love is the Way, which was self-produced. In a special arrangement with record label Rough Trade she sold an exclusive, pre-released and minimally-packaged version of the disc on her 19-date autumn 2008 UK tour.^[10]

In early 2010, Reader appeared on the Irish language album Ceol '10 Súil Siar, singing an Irish language version of the Fairground Attraction song "Perfect" called "Foirfe". In December she released a live album on her own label and sold exclusively via her online store, Live in Japan. Recorded from the sound desk at her Japan shows in September 2009, it was mastered and mixed by Mark Freegard who had worked on the 2009 album Love is the Way.

Awards [link]

The Robert Burns project saw Reader awarded an MBE for outstanding contributions to the arts in the New Year's honours list of 2006.^[11]

In May 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Strathclyde.^[12] Later that year she was recognised for her contributions to music and to the education and encouragement of young musicians with an honorary doctorate and a Doctor of Letters from Glasgow Caledonian University.^[13]

In June 2008 she received another doctorate for her musical work, this time from the University of Stirling.^[14]

Discography [link]

Fairground Attraction [link]

The First of a Million Kisses (1988)
Ay Fond Kiss (1990)
Kawasaki - Live In Japan 02.07.89 (2003)
The Very Best of Fairground Attraction (2004)

Film Soundtracks [link]

Batman Forever: Music from the Motion Picture (1995)
- "Nobody Lives Without Love"^[16]
Bed of Roses (1996)
- "The Right Place"^[17]
Love & Sex (2000)
- "Honeychild"^[18]
My First Mister (2001)
- "Bell, Book and Candle" (1999)^[19]

References [link]

^ Biography page at Eddi Reader.net
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dingwall, John (9 January 2009). "Eddi Reader: I can't wait to pay tribute to Robert Burns". Daily Record (Scotland). http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/showbiz-news/celebrity-interviews/2009/01/09/eddi-reader-i-can-t-wait-to-pay-tribute-to-robert-burns-86908-21026935/. Retrieved 2009-04-25. ^{[dead link]}
^ O'Rourke, Lynn (1 April 2007). "Q & A with Eddi Reader". The Scotsman. http://living.scotsman.com/features/Q--A-with-Eddi.3359115.jp. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
^ "Sings the songs of Robert Burns". 12 May 2003. http://www.eddireader.co.uk/discs/eddi_burns.pdf. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
^ Eddi Reader at NME
^ Hodgkinson, Will (16 May 2003). "Life performers". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2003/may/16/artsfeatures.robertburns. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
^ White, Bill (3 February 2004). "'Songs of Robert Burns' a magnificent gift from the heart of Scotland". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. http://www.seattlepi.com/pop/159017_hotcd03.html. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
^ "Filmography by year for Eddi Reader". IMDb.com. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 18 February 2012.
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^ University of Strathclyde
^ "Nicola’s degree of success". Evening Times. 28 November 2007. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1864203.0.nicolas_degree_of_success.php. Retrieved 2009-04-25.
^ University of Stirling: Dr Eddi Reader MBE
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 452. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
^ "Soundtracks for Batman Forever (1995)". IMDb.com. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 18 February 2012.
^ "Soundtracks for Bed of Roses (1996)". IMDb.com. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 18 February 2012.
^ "Soundtracks for Love & Sex (2000)". IMDb.com. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 18 February 2012.
^ "Soundtracks for My First Mister (2001)". IMDb.com. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 18 February 2012.

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