name	PJ Harvey
landscape	no
background	solo_singer
birth name	Polly Jean Harvey
birth date	October 09, 1969
birth place	Bridport, Dorset, England
origin	Yeovil, England
instrument	Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, organ, keyboards, autoharp, saxophone, trumpet, violin, harmonica, percussion
genre	Alternative rock, indie rock, experimental rock, folk rock, art rock, punk blues
occupation	Musician, singer-songwriter, composer, artist
years active	1988–present
label	Too Pure, Island
associated acts	Automatic Dlamini, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tricky, Sparklehorse, Thom Yorke, John Parish, Desert Sessions, Marianne Faithfull, Mark Lanegan, Mick Harvey
website	www.pjharvey.net
notable instruments	Gretsch Broadkaster Gibson Firebird VIIEastwood Airline '59 Custom EPOscar Schmidt 12 bar autoharp }}

Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occasional artist. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, harmonica, and most recently, the autoharp.

Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini, whose vocalist and saxophone player, John Parish, would become her long-term collaborator. In 1991, she formed an eponymous trio and subsequently began her professional career. The trio released two studio albums, ''Dry'' (1992) and ''Rid of Me'' (1993) before disbanding, after which Harvey continued as a solo artist. Since 1995, she has released a further six studio albums with collaborations from various musicians including John Parish, former bandmate Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, and Eric Drew Feldman and has also worked extensively with record producer Flood.

Among the accolades she has received are the 2001 and 2011 Mercury Prize for ''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'' (2000) and ''Let England Shake'' (2011) respectively—the only artist to have been awarded the prize twice—eight BRIT Award nominations, six Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Prize nominations. ''Rolling Stone'' awarded her 1992's Best New Artist and Best Singer Songwriter and 1995's Artist of the Year, and listed ''Rid of Me'' and ''To Bring You My Love'' (1995) on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. In 2011, she was awarded for Outstanding Contribution To Music at the NME Awards.

Early life[link]

Harvey was born in Bridport, Dorset, on 9 October 1969 as the second child to Ray and Eva Harvey, a stonemason and sculptor respectively, and grew up on the family's farm in Corscombe. During her childhood, she attended school in nearby Beaminster and her parents introduced her to music that would later influence her work, including blues music, Captain Beefheart and Bob Dylan.

As a teenager, Harvey began learning saxophone and joined an eight-piece instrumental group Boulogne, based in Somerset. She was also a guitarist with folk trio The Polekats, with whom she wrote some of her earliest material, and played as a rhythm guitarist in The Three Stoned Weaklings, a three-piece band formed by Paddy Ashdown, Gus Mackinlay and Graeme White. After finishing school, Harvey attended Yeovil College and studied a visual arts foundation course.

Music career[link]

Automatic Dlamini: 1988–1991[link]

In July 1988, Harvey became a member of Automatic Dlamini, a band based in Bristol with whom she gained extensive ensemble-playing experience. Formed by John Parish in 1983, the band consisted of a rotating line-up that at various times included Rob Ellis and Ian Olliver, two later members of the PJ Harvey Trio. Harvey had met Parish in 1987 through a mutual friend—Jeremy Hogg, the band's slide guitarist. Providing saxophone, guitars and background vocals, she travelled extensively during the band's early days, including performances in West Germany, Spain and Poland to support the band's debut studio album, ''The D is for Drum''. A second European tour took place throughout June and July 1989. Following the tour, the band recorded ''Here Catch, Shouted His Father'', their second studio album, between late 1989 and early 1990. This is the only Automatic Dlamini material to feature Harvey and remains unreleased; however, bootleg versions of the album are circulating. In January 1991, Harvey left the band to form her own band with former bandmates Ellis and Olliver; yet she had formed lasting personal and professional relationships with certain members, especially Parish, whom she has referred to as her "musical soulmate." Parish would subsequently contribute to, and sometimes co-produce, Harvey's solo studio albums and tour with her a number of times. As a duo, Parish and Harvey have recorded two collaborative albums where Parish composed the music and Harvey penned the lyrics. Additionally, Parish's girlfriend in the late 1980s was photographer Maria Mochnacz. She and Harvey became close friends and Mochnacz went on to shoot and design most of Harvey's album artwork and music videos, contributing significantly to her public image.

Harvey said of her time with Automatic Dlamini: "I ended up not singing very much but I was just happy to learn how to play the guitar. I wrote a lot during the time I was with them but my first songs were crap. I was listening to a lot of Irish folk music at the time, so the songs were folky and full of penny whistles and stuff. It was ages before I felt ready to perform my own songs in front of other people," and she also credits Parish for teaching her how to perform in front of audiences, saying "after the experience with John's band and seeing him perform I found it was enormously helpful to me as a performer to engage with people in the audience, and I probably did learn that from him, amongst other things."

PJ Harvey Trio: 1991–1993[link]

In January 1991, following her departure from Automatic Dlamini, Harvey formed her own band with former bandmates Rob Ellis and Ian Olliver. Harvey decided to name the trio PJ Harvey after rejecting other names as "nothing felt right at all or just suggested the wrong type of sound" and also to allow her to continue music as a solo artist. The trio consisted of Harvey on vocals and guitars, Ellis on drums and backing vocals, and Olliver on bass. Olliver later departed to rejoin the still-active Automatic Dlamini and then went on to form the Dub Liberators. He was subsequently replaced with Steve Vaughan. The trio's "disastrous" debut performance was held at a skittle alley in Sherborne's Antelope Hotel in April 1991. Harvey later recounted the event saying: "we started playing and I suppose there was about fifty people there, and during the first song we cleared the hall. There was only about two people left. And a woman came up to us, came up to my drummer, it was only a three piece, while we were playing and shouted at him 'Don't you realize nobody likes you! We'll pay you, you can stop playing, we'll still pay you!'" The band relocated to London in June 1991 when Harvey applied to study sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, still undecided as to her future career. During this time, the band recorded a set of demo recordings and distributed them to record labels. Independent label Too Pure agreed to release the band's debut single "Dress" in October 1991 and later signed PJ Harvey. "Dress" received mass critical acclaim upon its release and was voted Single of the Week in ''Melody Maker'' by guest reviewer John Peel, who admired "the way Polly Jean seems crushed by the weight of her own songs and arrangements, as if the air is literally being sucked out of them ... admirable if not always enjoyable." However, Too Pure provided little promotion for the single and critics claim that "''Melody Maker'' had more to do with the success of the "Dress" single than Too Pure Records." A week after its release, the band recorded a live radio session for Peel on BBC Radio 1 on 29 October and recorded "Oh, My Lover," "Victory," "Sheela-Na-Gig," and "Water."

The following February, the trio released "Sheela-Na-Gig" as their equally-acclaimed second single and their debut studio album, ''Dry'' (1992), followed in March. Like the singles preceding it, ''Dry'' received an overwhelming international critical response. After the release of the album Harvey suffered a near nervous breakdown. The album was cited by Kurt Cobain of Nirvana as his sixteenth favourite album ever in his posthumously-published ''Journals''. ''Rolling Stone'' also named Harvey as Songwriter of the Year and Best New Female Singer. A limited edition double LP version of ''Dry'' was released alongside the regular version of the album, containing both the original and demo versions of each track, called ''Dry Demonstration'', and the band also received significant coverage at the Reading Festival in 1992.

Island Records signed the trio amid a major label bidding war in mid-1992 and in December 1992, the trio travelled to Cannon Falls, Minnesota in the United States to record the follow-up to ''Dry'' with producer Steve Albini. Prior to recording with Albini, the band recorded a second session with John Peel on 22 September and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited," and two new songs "Me Jane" and "Ecstasy." The recording sessions with Albini took place at Pachyderm Recording Studio and resulted in the band's major label debut ''Rid of Me'' in May 1993. ''Rolling Stone'' wrote that it "is charged with aggressive eroticism and rock fury. It careens from blues to goth to grunge, often in the space of a single song." The album was promoted by two singles, "50ft Queenie" and "Man-Size." To promote the release of the album, the band began touring in the United Kingdom in May and then in the United States in June, continuing there during the summer. However, during the American leg of the tour, internal friction started to form between the members of the trio. Deborah Frost, writing for ''Rolling Stone'', noticed "an ever widening personal gulf" between the band members, and quoted Harvey as saying "It makes me sad. I wouldn't have got here without them. I needed them back then – badly. But I don't need them anymore. We all changed as people." Despite the tour's personal downsides, footage from live performances was compiled and released on the long-form video ''Reeling with PJ Harvey'' (1993). The band's final tour was to support U2 in August 1993, after which the trio officially disbanded. In her final appearance on American television in September 1993, on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', Harvey performed a solo version of "Rid of Me." As ''Rid of Me'' sold substantially more copies than ''Dry'', ''4-Track Demos'', a compilation album of demos for the album was released in October and inaugurated her career as a solo artist. In early 1994, it was announced that U2's manager, Paul McGuinness, had become her manager.

Solo career: 1993–present[link]

''To Bring You My Love'' and ''Is This Desire?'': 1993–1999[link]

As Harvey embarked on her solo career, she explored collaborations with other musicians. In 1995, she released her third studio album, ''To Bring You My Love'', featuring former bandmate John Parish, Bad Seeds multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and Belgian drummer Jean-Marc Butty; all of whom would continue to perform and record with Harvey throughout her career. The album was also her first material to be produced by Flood. Both a more blues-influenced and more futuristic record than its predecessors, ''To Bring You My Love'' showcased Harvey broadening her musical style to include strings, organs and synthesisers. ''Rolling Stone'' said in its review that "Harvey sings the blues like Nick Cave sings gospel: with more distortion, sex and murder than you remember. ''[To Bring You My] Love'' was a towering goth version of grunge." The record generated a surprise modern rock radio hit in the United States with its lead single, "Down by the Water." Three consecutive singles—"C'mon Billy", "Send His Love to Me" and "Long Snake Moan"—were also moderately successful. During the successive tours for the album, Harvey also experimented with her image and stage persona, a style she later dubbed "Joan Crawford on acid." The album was a commercial success selling one million copies worldwide including 370,000 in the United States. It was also certified Silver in the United Kingdom within seven months of its release, having sold over 60,000 copies. In the United States, the album was voted Album of the Year by ''The Village Voice'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''USA Today'', ''People'', ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''. ''Rolling Stone'' also named Harvey 1995's Artist of the Year and ''Spin'' ranked the album third in The 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s, behind Nirvana's ''Nevermind'' (1991) and Public Enemy's ''Fear of a Black Planet'' (1990).

In 1996, following the international success of ''To Bring You My Love'' and other collaborations, Harvey began composing material that would end up on her fourth studio album, during what she referred to as "an incredibly low patch." The material diverged significantly from her former work and introduced electronica elements into her song-writing. During recording sessions in 1997, original PJ Harvey Trio drummer Rob Ellis rejoined Harvey's band and Flood was hired again as producer. The sessions, which continued into April the following year, resulted in ''Is This Desire?'' (1998). Though originally released to mixed reviews in September 1998, the album was a success and received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Alternative Music Performance. The album's lead single, "A Perfect Day Elise," was moderately successful in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 25 on the UK Single Chart, her most successful single to date.

''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'' and ''Uh Huh Her'': 2000–2006[link]

In early 2000, Harvey began work on her fifth studio album, ''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'' with Rob Ellis and Mick Harvey. Written in her native Dorset, Paris and New York, the album showcased a more mainstream indie rock and pop rock sound to her previous albums and the lyrics followed on themes of love that tied into Harvey's affection for New York City. The album also featured Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on three tracks and performed lead vocals on "This Mess We're in." Upon its release in October 2000, the album was a critical and commercial success, selling over one million copies worldwide and charted in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The album's four singles—"Good Fortune," "A Place Called Home," "This is Love" and "You Said Something"— were moderately successful. The album also received a number of accolades including a BRIT Award nomination for Best Female Artist and two Grammy Award nominations for Best Rock Album and Best Female Rock Performance for the album's third single, "This Is Love." However, most notably, Harvey was nominated for, and won, the 2001 Mercury Music Prize. The awards ceremony was held on the same day as the 11 September attacks on the United States and Harvey was on tour in Washington, D.C., one of the affected cities, when she won the prize. Reflecting on the win in 2011, she said: "quite naturally I look back at that and only remember the events that were taking place across the world and to win the prize on that day—it didn't have much importance in the grand scheme of things" and noted "it was a very surreal day." The same year, Harvey also topped a readers' poll conducted by ''Q Magazine'' of the 100 Greatest Women in Rock Music.

During three years of various collaborations with other artists, Harvey was also working on her sixth studio album, ''Uh Huh Her'', which was released in May 2004. For the first time since ''4-Track Demos'' (1993), Harvey played every instrument—with the exception drums provided by Rob Ellis—and was the sole producer. The album received "generally favourable reviews" by critics, though its production was often criticised. It was also a commercial success, debuting and peaking at number 12 in the UK Albums Chart and being certified Silver by the BPI within a month of its release. Harvey also did an extensive world tour in promotion of the album, lasting seven months in total. For the tour, she formed a backing band consisting of Rob Ellis, bassist Dingo and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and performed at various European summer festivals, including Glastonbury, and opened two shows for Morrissey. Selected recordings from the tour were included on Harvey's first live DVD, ''On Tour: Please Leave Quietly'', directed by Maria Mochnacz, released in 2006.

''White Chalk'' and ''Let England Shake'': 2007–present[link]

During her first performance since the ''Uh Huh Her'' tour, at the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts on 26 May 2006, Harvey revealed that her next studio album would be almost entirely piano-based and in October, released ''The Peel Sessions 1991–2004''; a compilation of songs recorded from 1991 to 2000 during her radio sessions with John Peel. In November, she began recording her seventh studio album, ''White Chalk'', with Flood, John Parish, and Eric Drew Feldman in a studio in West London. ''White Chalk'' was released in September 2007 and marked a radical departure from her usual alternative rock style, consisting mainly of piano ballads. The album received favourable reviews despite its style, which was described in one review as containing "pseudo-Victorian elements—drama, restraint, and antiquated instruments and sounds." Harvey herself said of the album: "when I listen to the record I feel in a different universe, really, and I'm not sure whether it's in the past or in the future. The record confuses me, that's what I like—it doesn't feel of this time right now, but I'm not sure whether it's 100 years ago or 100 years in the future" and summed up the album's sound as "really weird." During the tour for the album, Harvey performed without a backing band and also began performing on an autoharp, which continues to be her primary instrument after guitar and influenced her material after ''White Chalk''.

In April 2010, Harvey appeared on ''The Andrew Marr Show'' performing a new song titled "Let England Shake." In a pre-performance interview with Marr, she stated that new material she had written had been "formed out of the landscape that I've grown up in and the history of this nation" and as "a human being affected by politics." Her eighth studio album, ''Let England Shake'', was released in February 2011, and received universal critical acclaim from critics. ''NME'''s 10/10 review summarised the album as "a record that ventures deep into the heart of darkness of war itself and its resonance throughout England's past, present and future" and other reviews also noted its themes and writing style as "bloody and forceful," mixing "ethereal form with brutal content," and "her most powerful." Dealing with the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan and other episodes from English history, the album featured John Parish, Mick Harvey and Jean-Marc Butty as Harvey's backing band and the quartet toured extensively in its promotion. Following the release of the album's two well-received singles—"The Words That Maketh Murder" and "The Glorious Land"— and the collection of short films by Seamus Murphy accompanying the album, Harvey won her second Mercury Music Prize on 6 September. The award marked her as the first artist to receive the award twice and following her win, sales of ''Let England Shake'' increased 1,190% overnight. On 23 September, ''Let England Shake'' was certified Gold in the United Kingdom and was listed as album of the year by ''MOJO'' and ''Uncut''.

Collaborations and projects[link]

thumb|left|John Parish and Harvey performing live in 2009. Parish – who Harvey describes as her "musical soulmate" – has been working with Harvey for over 20 years.Besides her own work, Harvey has also collaborated with a number of other artists. In 1995, she recorded a duet of American folk song "Henry Lee" with partner Nick Cave and was also featured on the Bob Dylan cover "Death is Not the End," both released on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' ''Murder Ballads'' (1996) and in the same year, sang the theme song, "Who Will Love Me Now?", to Philip Ridley's film ''The Passion of Darkly Noon''. In May 1998, before the release of ''Is This Desire?'', she was featured on Tricky's ''Angels with Dirty Faces'', performing lead vocals on "Broken Homes" and also contributed to Sparklehorse's 2001 album ''It's a Wonderful Life'' performing guitar, piano, and background vocals on two songs, "Eyepennies" and "Piano Fire." Following the tour in promotion of ''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'', she contributed vocals to eight tracks on ''Volume 9: I See You Hearin' Me'' and ''Volume 10: I Heart Disco'' by Josh Homme's side project ''The Desert Sessions'' and appeared in the music video for "Crawl Home." Throughout 2004, Harvey produced Tiffany Anders' album ''Funny Cry Happy Gift'', also produced, performed on and wrote five songs for Marianne Faithfull's album ''Before the Poison'', and contributed background vocals on "Hit the City," "Methamphetamine Blues" and "Come to Me" on Mark Lanegan's album ''Bubblegum''. Harvey contributed the song "Slow-Motion Movie-Star", an outtake from ''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'', to Mick Harvey's fourth studio album, ''Two of Diamonds'', released in 2007.

Harvey has also recorded two studio albums with long-time collaborator John Parish. ''Dance Hall at Louse Point'' (1996) was written collectively with Parish with the exception of the song "Is That All There Is?", written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The album also listed her as Polly Jean Harvey, which in part affected the album's sales. The album also received little promotion as Harvey was "exhausted" from the tour of ''To Bring You My Love'' although it received positive reviews from critics. Harvey has also reflected on how the album was "an enormous turning point" and "lyrically, it moved me into areas I'd never been to before." In 1998, she also performed lead vocals on "Airplane Blues," as a soundtrack accompaniment to the ''Wingwalkers'' art exhibition by Rebecca Goddard and Parish's wife, Michelle Henning. In 2002, it was released as the closing song on Parish's second solo album, ''How Animals Move''. Following the release of ''White Chalk'', Harvey reunited with Parish to record ''A Woman a Man Walked By'', released in March 2009. Like ''Dance Hall at Louse Point'', the album received positive reviews but also was a moderate commercial success, peaking at number 25 in the UK Albums Chart.

Aside from collaborations, Harvey has also embarked on a number of projects as a composer. In January 2009, a new stage production of Henrik Ibsen's ''Hedda Gabler'' opened on Broadway. Directed by Ian Rickson and starring Mary-Louise Parker in the title role, the play featured an original score of incidental music written by Harvey. The production was poorly received and critics made little mention of Harvey's score. In November 2011, Harvey also composed part of the score for the Young Vic's long-running production of ''Hamlet'' in London. In May 2012, Harvey composed two songs, "Horse" and "Bobby Don't Steal," for Mark Cousins' film ''What is This Film Called Love?'', which also features "To Bring You My Love."

Non-musical endeavours[link]

Outside her better-known music career, Harvey is also an occasional artist and actress. In 1998, she appeared in Hal Hartley's film ''The Book of Life'' as Magdalena—a modern-day character based on the Biblical Mary Magdalene— and had a cameo role as a Playboy Bunny in ''A Bunny Girl's Tale'', a short film directed by Sarah Miles, in which she also performs "Nina in Ecstasy," an outtake from ''Is This Desire?'' (1998). Harvey also collaborated with Miles on another film, ''Amaeru Fallout 1972'', which includes Harvey performing a cover of "When Will I See You Again." Harvey is also an accomplished sculptor who has had several pieces exhibited at the Lamont Gallery and the Bridport Arts Centre. In 2010, she was invited to be the guest designer for the summer issue of Francis Ford Coppola's literary magazine ''Zoetrope: All-Story''. The issue featured Harvey's paintings and drawings alongside short stories by Woody Allen. Speaking of her artistic contributions to the magazine in 2011, Harvey said: "the first opportunity I ever had to show any work was in this magazine. They were drawn while I was writing and recording the record [''Let England Shake'']. It does relate to the record in the way the cycle keeps happening."

Musical style and influences[link]

Harvey has been noted to dislike repeating herself in her music, resulting in very different-sounding albums. In an interview with ''Rolling Stone'' in October 2004, she said: "when I'm working on a new record, the most important thing is to not repeat myself ... that's always my aim: to try and cover new ground and really to challenge myself. Because I'm in this for learning." Among the musical genres she has experimented with are alternative rock, pop, electronica, and, most recently, folk. She is also known for changing her physical appearance for each album by altering her mode of dress or hairstyle, creating a unique aesthetic that extends to all aspects of the album, from the album art to the live performances. She works closely with friend and photographer Maria Mochnacz to develop the visual style of each album. Around the time of ''To Bring You My Love'', for example, Harvey began experimenting with her image and adopting a theatrical aspect to her live performances. Her former fashion style, which consisted of simple black leggings, turtleneck sweaters and Doc Martens boots, was replaced by ballgowns, catsuits, wigs and excessive make-up. She also began using stage props like a witch's staff and a Ziggy Stardust-style flashlight microphone. She denied the influence of drag, Kabuki or performance art on her new image, a look she affectionately dubbed "Joan Crawford on acid" in an interview with ''Spin'' in 1996, but admitted that "it's that combination of being quite elegant and funny and revolting, all at the same time, that appeals to me. I actually find wearing make-up like that, sort of smeared around, as extremely beautiful. Maybe that's just my twisted sense of beauty." However, she later told ''Dazed & Confused'' magazine, "that was kind of a mask. It was much more of a mask than I've ever had. I was very lost as a person, at that point. I had no sense of self left at all", and has never repeated the overt theatricality of the ''To Bring You My Love'' tour.

At an early age, she was introduced by her parents to blues music, jazz and art rock, which, she told ''Rolling Stone'' in 1995, would later influence her: "I was brought up listening to John Lee Hooker, to Howlin' Wolf, to Robert Johnson, and a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart. So I was exposed to all these very compassionate musicians at a very young age, and that's always remained in me and seems to surface more as I get older. I think the way we are as we get older is a result of what we knew when we were children." During her teenage years, she began listening to new wave and synthpop bands such as Soft Cell, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet though later stated that it was phase when she was "having a bit of a rebellion against my parents' record collection." In her later teenage years, she became a fan of American indie rock bands including Pixies, Television and Slint, though not as many critics have suspected, Patti Smith; a frequent comparison that Harvey dismisses as "lazy journalism." However, recently Harvey has said that Smith is "so energising to see and so passionate with what she's doing" and has also drawn inspiration from Russian folk music, Italian soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone, classical composers like Arvo Pärt, Samuel Barber and Henryk Górecki, and Neil Young. As a lyricist, Harvey has cited numerous poets, authors and lyricists as influences on her work including Harold Pinter, T.S Eliot, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Ted Hughes and contemporaries such as Shane MacGowan and Jez Butterworth.

Personal life[link]

Harvey describes herself as "an extremely quiet person, who doesn't go out much, doesn't talk to people" and has also acquired a reputation for eccentricity to match her music; for example, Steve Albini claimed she ate nothing but potatoes while making ''Rid of Me''. She also rejects the notion that her song lyrics are autobiographical. In 1998, she told ''The Times'': "the tortured artist myth is rampant. People paint me as some kind of black witchcraft-practising devil from hell, that I have to be twisted and dark to do what I am doing. It's a load of rubbish" and later told ''Spin'': "some critics have taken my writing so literally to the point that they'll listen to 'Down by the Water' and believe I have actually given birth to a child and drowned her."

From 1996 to 1997, following their musical collaborations, Harvey had a relationship with Nick Cave. Their subsequent break-up influenced Cave's follow-up studio album, ''The Boatman's Call'' (1997), with songs such as "Into My Arms," "West Country Girl" and "Black Hair" being written specifically about her. She was also rumoured to be romantically involved with musician and actor Vincent Gallo, though both denied the claims.

Harvey has one older brother, Saul, and four nieces and nephews through him. She has in 1995 said she would like to have children stating: "I wouldn't consider it unless I was married. I would have to meet someone that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. That's the only person who I would want to be the father of my children. Maybe that will never happen. I obviously see it in a very rational way but I'd love to have children."

Awards and nominations[link]

;Mercury Music Prize |- | 1993 || ''Rid of Me'' || Album of the Year || |- | 1995 || ''To Bring You My Love'' || Album of the Year || |- | 2001 || ''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'' || Album of the Year || |- | 2011 || ''Let England Shake'' || Album of the Year || |-

;Grammy Awards |- | || "Down by the Water" || Best Female Rock Vocal Performance || |- | || ''To Bring You My Love'' || Best Alternative Music Album || |- | || ''Is This Desire?'' || Best Alternative Music Album || |- | || "This is Love" || Best Female Rock Vocal Performance || |- | || ''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea''|| Best Rock Album || |- | || ''Uh Huh Her'' || Best Alternative Music Album || |-

;BRIT Awards |- | 1994 || PJ Harvey || Best British Female || |- | 1996 || PJ Harvey || Best British Female || |- | 1999 || PJ Harvey || Best British Female || |- | 2001 || PJ Harvey || Best British Female || |- | 2002 || PJ Harvey || Best British Female || |- | 2005 || PJ Harvey || Best Female Solo Artist || |- | 2008 || PJ Harvey || Best Female Solo Artist || |- | 2012 || ''Let England Shake'' || Best British Album ||

;Q Awards |- | 2001 || ''Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea'' || Album of the Year || |- | 2011 || PJ Harvey || Best Female Artist || |- | 2011 || ''Let England Shake'' || Album of the Year || |-

;NME Awards |- | 2001 || PJ Harvey || Best Solo Artist || |- | 2011 || PJ Harvey || Outstanding Contribution to Music || |- | 2012 || ''Let England Shake'' || Best Album || |-

;South Bank Sky Arts Awards |- | 2012 || ''Let England Shake'' || Best Pop Music Album ||

;Ivor Novello Awards |- | 2012 || ''Let England Shake'' || Album of the Year ||

Discography[link]

{| style="width:100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" |- valign="top" |style="width:50%"| ;Studio albums

''Dry'' (1992)

''Rid of Me'' (1993)

''To Bring You My Love'' (1995)

''Is This Desire?'' (1998)

''Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'' (2000)

''Uh Huh Her'' (2004)

''White Chalk'' (2007)

''Let England Shake'' (2011)

;Compilation albums

''4-Track Demos'' (1993)

''The Peel Sessions 1991–2004'' (2006)

;Collaborations with John Parish

''Dance Hall at Louse Point'' (1996)

''A Woman a Man Walked By'' (2009)

|}

References[link]

Further reading [link]

External links[link]

PJ Harvey official site

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Name	P.J. Jones
Birth date	April 23, 1969
Birth place	Torrance, California, United States
Achievements	1993 24 Hours of Daytona Winner
Total cup races	33
Years in cup	13
Prev cup pos	80th
Previous year	2011
Best cup pos	42nd - 1993
First cup race	1993 Save Mart Supermarkets 300K (Sonoma)
Last cup race	2011 Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Sonoma)
Cup wins	0
Cup top tens	2
Cup poles	0
Total busch races	32
Years in busch	6
Best busch pos	38th - 2000
First busch race	2000 NAPA Auto Parts 300 (Daytona)
Last busch race	2008 Zippo 200 at the Glen (Watkins Glen)
Busch wins	0
Busch top tens	1
Busch poles	0
Total truck races	18
Years in truck	4
Best truck pos	17th - 1995
First truck race	1995 Copper World Classic (Phoenix)
Last truck race	2008 Sam's Town 400 (Texas)
Truck wins	0
Truck top tens	4
Truck poles	0
Updated	March 9, 2012 }}

Total champ races	58
Years in champ	4
Champ car team	All American Racers (1996-1998)Patrick Racing (1999)
Best champ pos	17th - 1999
First champ race	1996 Miller Genuine Draft 200 (Milwaukee)
Last champ race	1999 Marlboro 500 (Fontana)
Champ wins	0
Champ podiums	1
Champ poles	0
Total irl races	2
Years in irl	2
Irl car team	Team Menard (2002)CURB/Agajanian/Beck Motorsports (2004)Beck Motorsports (2006-2007)
Best irl pos	33rd - 2006
First irl race	2004 Indianapolis 500 (Indy)
Last irl race	2006 Indianapolis 500 (Indy)
Irl wins	0
Irl podiums	0
Irl poles	0 }}

P. J. Jones (born April 23, 1969) is a race car driver. He has raced in NASCAR, Indycar, IMSA GT, ALMS, and Champ Car. He is the son of racing legend Parnelli Jones, and brother of Page Jones.

NASCAR career[link]

Sprint Cup Series[link]

He first ran in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 1993 for Harry Melling. Driving the #9 Melling Auto Products Ford in six races, his best finish was an eighth at Watkins Glen. He again returned to the series in 1994 for two races with a best finish of 29th in the Ultra Motorsports' #06 Ultra Racing Wheels Ford. Jones returned to the series in 2000 with Chip Ganassi and Ganassi Racing. His best finish, a 21st, came at Watkins Glen in the #01 BellSouth Chevrolet. He raced again in 2002 for A.J. Foyt Racing at Watkins Glen where he would have his first career top five, a fourth place finish. In 2003, he drove the historic #4 Kodak Pontiac for Morgan-McClure Motorsports. Racing at Watkins Glen he would finish 24th. For the 2004 season, Jones would move to Arnold Motorsports for five races, where his best finish would be a 22nd at Pocono. Jones drove the road courses for Morgan-McClure Motorsports in 2005 and also competed in races for MACH 1 Motorsports and Front Row Motorsports. His best finish that season would be a 32nd at Infineon. In 2006, he competed in one race with Morgan-McClure Motorsports at Infineon Raceway, where he finished 36th after a rear end failure. Jones raced again at Infineon in June 2007, driving the #00 Toyota owned by Michael Waltrip Racing and normally driven by David Reutimann. He finished 12th after starting 43rd. Jones also received an unexpected chance to race in the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway after Robby Gordon was suspended for the race by NASCAR following the events of the NAPA Auto Parts 200 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal the previous week. Jones started the race in 30th position and posted a 37th place finish. He would again pilot the MWR #00 in place of Reutimann in the August 12th race at Watkins Glen were he would then finish in the 20th position. In 2008, Jones raced at Watkins Glen in the # 96 Hall of Fame Racing Toyota. In 2009, Robby Gordon Motorsports announced that PJ Jones would attempt to make the Toyota/Save Mart 350 in the #04 Jim Beam/Menards Toyota. He qualified 37th and parked, finishing 43rd. Jones also made the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen and would park it after eleven laps, finishing 41st. In 2010, PJ Jones made the Toyota Save Mart 350 qualifying 35th and finishing 41st with electrical problems in the #07 Speedfactory.tv Toyota, a 2nd Robby Gordon Motorsports entry. PJ next appeared at Pocono Raceway in the Pennsylvania 500 in the #7 Speedfactory.tv Toyota, after wrecking the primary car in practice the team went to a back up and finished 35th. PJ then came back the next week back in the #07 Toyota at the Helluva Good 350 at Watkins Glen and qualified 39th and finished 41st. Jones will make his 4th start of the year in the #7 Toyota at the Carfax 400 at Michigan International Speedway. He will start 41st.

Nationwide Series[link]

Jones would make his debut in the Nationwide Series in 2000 for BACE Motorsports. After struggling through the first seven races, he would move to David Ridling's team for twelve races. His first top ten in the Busch Series would come at Watkins Glen where he would finish 9th. He would also compete in one race for Phoenix Racing at Homestead. In 2001, he would return to Phoenix Racing for the first four races and post a best finish of 17th at Atlanta. For 2002, Jones competed in one race for Tuttle Motorsports where he would finish 35th at Phoenix. He returned to the series in 2006 to race at Daytona for the Curb Agajanian Performance Group. He would finish 13th in his first start of the season. He would make another start at California Speedway in September in the Washington Mutual sponsored car, where he started 39th and finished 22nd. In 2007, Jones ran at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City for Richard Childress Racing in the #21 AutoZone Chevrolet, finishing 24th. He made one start in 2008 at Watkins Glen for MacDonald Motorsports. He dropped out of the race with overheating problems and finished 38th.

Camping World Truck Series[link]

Jones would first compete in the Camping World Truck Series in 1995 with the #1 Sears DieHard Chevrolet. His best finish in 13 races came at Tucson where he would finish 2nd. He returned to the series in 2003 for Ultra Motorsports for a race at Homestead where he would finish 9th. In 2004, he would compete in two races for Ultra Motorsports and post a best finish of 8th at Phoenix. In 2008, Jones made two starts in the #63 for MB Motorsports. He had a best finish of 23rd at Texas.

Champ Car Career[link]

Jones began his Champ Car career in 1996 with All American Racing. Out of ten races in 1996, his best finish would be a 9th in the ITT Automotive Detroit Grand Prix. He would end the season 27th in the standings. In 1997, he would compete in 17 races with a best finish of 10th and an overall points finish of 28th. For the 1998 season, he would compete in 15 races and post a best finish of 11th with an overall points position of 26th. The 1999 season would be Jones best as he would finish in the top ten four times on route to a points finish of 17th for Patrick Racing.

IMSA GT Career[link]

Jones drove in the IMSA GT Championship for All American Racers in 1993. His #98 team won the 24 Hours of Daytona and at Laguna Seca and Phoenix International Raceway and he finished second in the championship to fellow All American Racers driver Juan Manuel Fangio II.

Indy Racing League Career[link]

After failing to qualify for the 2002 Indianapolis 500 for Team Menard, Jones drove in the 2004 and 2006 Indianapolis 500 races for CURB/Agajanian-Beck/Team Leader Motorsports with a best finish of 19th in 2006. Jones had planned to compete in the 2007 Indy 500, this time for Team Leader/Dollander Racing in a car owned by Kent Baker, but was unable to find enough speed to attempt a qualification.

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Indy 500 results[link]

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	Panoz	Honda	32nd	19th
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name	Nick Cave
background	solo_singer
birth date	September 22, 1957
Birth place	Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
instrument	Guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals
genre	Post-punk, gothic rock, alternative rock, garage rock
occupation	Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, writer, actor, composer
years active	1973–present
label	Mute
associated acts	Boys Next Door, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Grinderman, The Birthday Party
notable instruments	}}

Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor.

He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1983, a group known for its eclectic influences and musical styles. Before that, he had fronted the group The Birthday Party in the early 1980s, a band renowned for its highly gothic, challenging lyrics and violent sound influenced by free jazz, blues, and post-punk. In 2006, he formed the garage rock band Grinderman that released its debut the following year. Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with religion, death, love and violence.

Upon Cave's induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, ARIA Awards committee chairman Ed St John said, “Nick Cave has enjoyed—and continues to enjoy—one of the most extraordinary careers in the annals of popular music. He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist—beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute."

Youth, education and family[link]

Cave was born in the small town of Warracknabeal in the state of Victoria, Australia, to Dawn Cave (née Treadwell) and Colin Frank Cave. He has two brothers: Tim (b. 1952) and Peter (b. 1954), and a sister, Julie (b. 1959). As a child, he lived in Warracknabeal and then Wangaratta in rural Victoria. His father was an English teacher and administrator, with a love of literature, and his mother was a librarian. Cave's paternal grandfather's surname was originally Landvoigt, he later in his life became known as Frank Jason Cave.

Raised as an Anglican, Cave sang in the boys choir at Wangaratta Cathedral. He grew to detest the attitudes of small-town Australia, and he was often in trouble with the local school authorities, so his parents sent him to boarding school at Melbourne's Caulfield Grammar School in 1970. Cave joined the school choir under choirmaster Norman Kaye, and also benefited from having a piano in his home. The following year he became a "day boy" when his family moved to Murrumbeena, a suburb of Melbourne. Cave was 19 when his father was killed in a car accident; at the moment he was informed of this, his mother Dawn Cave was bailing him out of a St Kilda police station for a charge of burglary. Cave would later recall that his father "died at a point in my life when I was most confused", and "the loss of my father created in my life a vacuum, a space in which my words began to float and collect and find their purpose".

After his secondary schooling, Cave studied painting (Fine Art) at the Caulfield Institute of Technology (now Monash University, Caulfield campus) in 1976, but dropped out in 1977 to pursue music. He also began using heroin around this time. On 28 March 2008, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from this university.

Music career[link]

Early years and The Birthday Party (1973–83)[link]

In 1973, Cave met Mick Harvey (guitar), Phill Calvert (drums), John Cochivera (guitar), Brett Purcell (bass), and Chris Coyne (saxophone); fellow students at Caulfield Grammar. They founded a band with Cave as singer. Their repertoire consisted of proto-punk cover versions of songs by Lou Reed, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Roxy Music and Alex Harvey, among others. Later, the line-up slimmed down to four members including Cave's friend Tracy Pew on bass. In 1977, after leaving school, they adopted the name The Boys Next Door and began playing predominantly original material. Guitarist and songwriter Rowland S. Howard joined the band in 1978, expanding to five members.

From 1977 until their dissolution in 1983 (by which time they were known as The Birthday Party) the band explored various styles. They were a part of Melbourne's post-punk music scene in the late 1970s, playing hundreds of live shows in Australia before changing their name to the Birthday Party in 1980 and moving to London, then West Berlin. Cave's Australian girlfriend and muse Anita Lane accompanied them to London. The band were notorious for their provocative live performances which featured Cave shrieking, bellowing and throwing himself about the stage, backed up by harsh pounding rock music laced with guitar feedback. Cave utilised old testament imagery with lyrics about sin, curses and damnation. The lyrics were full of "American gothic imagery", talking about horror stories. The single "Release the Bats" with its story about "vampire sex" was "influential" in the emerging "gothic scene". At that time, Cave also became a regular member of a gothic club in London called The Batcave.

After establishing a cult following in Europe and Australia, The Birthday Party disbanded in 1984. Howard and Cave found it difficult to continue working together and both were rather worn down from alcohol and drug use.

Cave and the Seeds (1984-present)[link]

The band with Cave as their leader and frontman has released fourteen studio albums. Their most recent album, ''Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!'' was released on 8 April 2008. Though their sound tends to change considerably from one album to another, the one constant of the band is an unpolished blending of disparate genres, and song structures which provide a vehicle for Cave's virtuosic, frequently histrionic theatrics. ''NME'' used the sentence "gothic psycho-sexual apocalypse" to describe the "menace" present in the lyrics of the title track.

Critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Steve Huey write, "With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with a bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk, although in a more subdued fashion than his work with the Birthday Party". Pitchfork Media calls the group one of rock's "most enduring, redoubtable" bands, with an accomplished discography. A documentary film about the band ''The Road to God Knows Where/Life at paradiso'' directed by Uli M Schueppel, about their 1989 tour, was voted in the year 2008, under the ''20 best musicmovies of all the time'' of the reader and journalists of Total Film.

Cave and the band curated an edition of the famous All Tomorrow's Parties music festival, the first in Australia, throughout the country in January 2009.

Solo work and Grinderman[link]

In addition to his performances with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave has, since the 1990s, performed live 'solo' tours with himself on piano/vocals, Warren Ellis on violin/accordion and various others on bass and drums. The current trio are Bad Seeds' Martyn P. Casey, Jim Sclavunos and Ellis (nicknamed the ''Mini-Seeds''). In 2006, this line-up, now including Cave on electric guitar, continued his 'solo' tours performing Bad Seeds material.

In the same year three other Bad Seeds, Mick Harvey, Thomas Wydler and James Johnston, undertook Harvey's first 'solo' tours of Europe and Australia performing material from his own albums. Melbourne double bassist Rosie Westbrook completed the quartet.

An album of new material by Cave's 'solo' quartet, now named Grinderman, was released in March 2007.

Nick Cave 'solo' and Grinderman both played at the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in April 2007. This was Grinderman's first public performance. Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream accompanied Grinderman on backing vocals and percussion.

In December 2011, after performing at Meredith Music Festival, Cave announced that Grinderman were over.

Soundtrack involvement[link]

Many of Nick Cave's songs have found their way into movie soundtracks. One of the earliest to feature Cave's distinctive style by incorporating him as part of the movie's music scene—circa 1979—was ''Dogs in Space'', a film by Richard Lowenstein. Cave performed parts of the Boys Next Door song "Shivers" twice during the film, once on video and once live.

Another early fan of Cave's was German director Wim Wenders, who lists Cave, along with Lou Reed and Portishead, as among his favorites. Two of Cave's songs were featured in his 1987 film ''Wings of Desire''. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds also make a cameo appearance in this film. Two more songs were included in Wenders' 1993 sequel ''Faraway, So Close!'', including the title track. The soundtrack for Wenders' 1991 film ''Until the End of the World'' features Cave's "(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World." His most recent production, ''Palermo Shooting'', also contains a Nick Cave song, as does his 2003 documentary ''The Soul of a Man''.

Cave's songs have also appeared in a number of Hollywood blockbusters and major TV shows. For instance, his "There is a Light" appears on the 1995 soundtrack for ''Batman Forever'', and "Red Right Hand" appeared in a number of films and TV shows, including ''The X-Files'', ''Dumb & Dumber''; ''Scream'', its sequels ''Scream 2'' and ''3'', and ''Hellboy'' (performed by Pete Yorn). In ''Scream 3'', the song was given a reworking with Cave writing new lyrics and adding an orchestra to the arrangement of the track. This version appears on The Bad Seeds B-Sides and Rarities album. The song "People Ain't No Good" was featured in the animated movie ''Shrek 2'', as well as in one of the episodes of the television series ''The L Word''. Cave also sang a cover of The Beatles' "Let It Be," for the 2001 film ''I Am Sam''.

Original material written for movie productions includes the song "To Be By Your Side," for the soundtrack of the 2001 French documentary ''Le Peuple Migrateur'' (called ''Winged Migration'' in the US). Cave composed the soundtrack for the 2005 film ''The Proposition'' with fellow Australian and Bad Seed Warren Ellis. Cave and Ellis once again collaborated on the music for the 2007 film ''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford''. Also in 2007, Cave and Ellis wrote the soundtrack for the feature documentary ''The English Surgeon''. The duo also provided original music for ''The Road'' in 2009 and the soundtrack for the audiobook of Cave's novel ''The Death of Bunny Munro''.

Most recently, his song "Up Jumped the Devil" was featured in the Remedy-developed 2010 video game Alan Wake.

Cave's song "O Children" was featured in the 2010 movie, though not in the official soundtrack, of ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1.''

Work with other artists[link]

Nick Cave has also played with Shane MacGowan, in a cover version of Bob Dylan's "Death is Not the End", and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". Cave has also performed "What a Wonderful World" live with The Flaming Lips. Cave recorded a cover version of the Pogues song "Rainy Night in Soho", written by MacGowan. MacGowan also sings a version of "Lucy", released on ''B-Sides and Rarities''. On 3 May 2008, during the ''Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!'' tour Shane MacGowan joined Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds on stage to perform "Lucy" at Dublin Castle in Ireland. Pulp's single "Bad Cover Version" includes on its B-side a cover version by Cave of that band's song "Disco 2000". On the Deluxe Edition of Pulp's ''Different Class'' another take of this cover can be found.

In 2000, one of Cave's heroes, Johnny Cash, covered Cave's "The Mercy Seat" on the album ''American III: Solitary Man'', seemingly repaying Cave for the compliment he paid by covering Cash's "The Singer" (originally "The Folk Singer") on his ''Kicking Against the Pricks'' album. Cave was then invited to be one of many rock and country artists to contribute to the liner notes of the retrospective ''The Essential Johnny Cash'' CD, released to coincide with Cash's 70th birthday. Subsequently, Cave cut a duet with Cash on a version of Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" for Cash's ''American IV: The Man Comes Around'' album (2002). A similar duet, the American folk song "Cindy", was released posthumously on the "Johnny Cash: Unearthed" boxset. Cave's song "Let the Bells Ring" is a posthumous tribute to Cash. Cave has also covered the song "Wanted Man" which is best known as performed by Johnny Cash but is a Bob Dylan composition.

In 2004, Cave gave a hand to Marianne Faithfull on the album, ''Before the Poison''. He co-wrote and produced three songs ("Crazy Love", "There is a Ghost" and "Desperanto"), and the Bad Seeds are featured on all of them. He is also featured on "The Crane Wife" (originally by The Decemberists), on Faithfull's 2008 album, ''Easy Come, Easy Go''.

Cave collaborated with the band Current 93 on their album ''All the Pretty Little Horses'', where he sings the title track, a lullaby. For his 1996 album ''Murder Ballads'', Cave recorded "Where The Wild Roses Grow" with Kylie Minogue, and "Henry Lee" with P.J. Harvey.

Cave also took part in the "X-Files" compilation CD with some other artists, where he reads parts from the Bible combined with own texts, like "Time Jesum...", he outed himself as a fan of the series some years ago, but since he does not watch much TV, it was one of the only things he watched. He collaborated on the 2003 single "Bring It On", with Chris Bailey, formerly of the Australian punk group, The Saints. Cave contributed vocals to the song "Sweet Rosyanne", on the 2006 album ''Catch That Train!'' from Dan Zanes & Friends, a children's music group.

In 2011, Cave recorded a cover of the Zombies' "She's Not There" with Neko Case, which was used at the end of the first episode of the fourth season of True Blood.

Literary career[link]

Cave released his first book, ''King Ink'', in 1988. It is a collection of lyrics and plays, including collaborations with Lydia Lunch. In 1997, he followed up with ''King Ink II'', containing lyrics, poems, and the transcript of a radio essay he did for the BBC in July 1996, "The Flesh Made Word," discussing in biographical format his relationship with Christianity. While he was based in West Berlin, Cave started working on what was to become his debut novel, ''And the Ass Saw the Angel'' (1989). Significant crossover is evident between the themes in the book and the lyrics Cave wrote in the late stages of the Birthday Party and the early stage of his solo career. "Swampland", from ''Mutiny'', in particular, uses the same linguistic stylings ('mah' for 'my', for instance) and some of the same themes (the narrator being haunted by the memory of a girl called Lucy, being hunted like an animal, approaching death and execution). On 21 January 2008, a special edition of Cave's novel ''And the Ass Saw the Angel'' was released. Cave's second novel ''The Death of Bunny Munro'' was published on 8 September 2009 by Harper Collins books. It tells the story of a sex-addicted salesman, was also released as a binaural audio-book produced by British Artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard and an iPhone app. The book originally started as a screenplay Cave was going to write for John Hillcoat.

As proof of his interest in scripture, so evident in his lyrics and his prose writing, Cave wrote the foreword to a Canongate publication of the ''Gospel according to Mark'', published in the UK in 1998. The American edition of the same book (published by Grove Press) contains a foreword by the noted American writer Barry Hannah.

Cave and Ellis composed scores for a production by the Icelandic theatre company Vesturport of ''Woyzeck'' by Georg Büchner, performed at the Barbican Theatre in the Barbican Arts Centre in London in 2005, and a stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's ''The Metamorphosis'' at the Lyric Hammersmith in London in 2006.

Cave is a contributor to the 2009 rock biography on The Triffids ''Vagabond Holes: David McComb and the Triffids'', edited by Australian academics Niall Lucy and Chris Coughran.

Acting and screenwriting[link]

Cave has made occasional appearances as an actor, most prominently in the 1989 film ''Ghosts ... of the Civil Dead'', written and directed by John Hillcoat, and in the 1991 film ''Johnny Suede'' with Brad Pitt.

Cave appeared in the 2005 homage to Leonard Cohen, ''Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man'', in which he performed "I'm Your Man" solo, and "Suzanne" with Julie Christensen and Perla Batalla. He also appeared in the 2007 film adaptation of Ron Hansen's novel ''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'', where he sings a song about Jesse James. Cave and Warren Ellis are credited for the film's soundtrack.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are also featured in Wim Wenders' 1987 film ''Wings of Desire''.

Displaying a keen interest in other aspects of film, Cave wrote the screenplay for ''The Proposition'', a film set in the colonial Australian Outback. Directed by John Hillcoat and filmed in Queensland in 2004, it premiered in October 2005 and has since been released worldwide to critical acclaim. The movie reviewer for British newspaper ''The Independent'' called it "peerless," "a star-studded and uncompromisingly violent outlaw film." It even features on a website promoting tourism to the area. The generally ambient soundtrack was recorded by Cave and Warren Ellis.

At the request of friend Russell Crowe, Cave wrote a script for a proposed sequel to ''Gladiator'' which was rejected by the studio.

His interest in the work of Edward Gorey led to his participation in the BBC Radio 3 programme, guest+host=ghost, featuring Peter Blegvad and the radiophonic sound of the Langham Research Centre.

Cave has also lent his voice in narrating an award winning animated film called ''The Cat Piano''. It was directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson (of The People's Republic Of Animation), produced by Jessica Brentnall and has music by Benjamin Speed.

Cave wrote the screenplay for ''The Wettest County in the World''., which has been renamed "Lawless", and has completed the script for a new film titled ''Death of a Ladies' Man'' and will rewrite the script of ''The Crow'' remake.

Currently, Cave is collaborating with Andy Serkis to develop a screen version of the Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht musical, The Threepenny Opera.

Personal life[link]

Cave dated Anita Lane from the late 1970s to mid 1980s. She had an undeniably strong influence upon Cave and his work, often cited as his "muse". Despite this, Cave and Lane recorded together on only a few occasions. Their most notable collaborations include Lane's 'cameo' verse on Cave's Bob Dylan cover "Death Is Not The End" from the album ''Murder Ballads'', and a cover of the Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin song "Je t'aime, moi non plus/ I love you, nor do I". Lane co-wrote the lyrics to the title track for Cave's 1984 LP, ''From Her to Eternity'', as well as the lyrics of the song "Stranger Than Kindness" from ''Your Funeral, My Trial''. Cave, Lydia Lunch and Lane wrote a comic book together, entitled AS-FIX-E-8, in the style of the old "Pussy Galore"/Russ Meyer movies.

After completing his debut novel ''And the Ass Saw the Angel'', Cave left West Berlin shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall and moved to São Paulo, Brazil, where he met Brazilian journalist Viviane Carneiro. The two have a son, Luke (b. 10 May 1991), but never married. Cave's son Jethro (born in 1991) lives with his mother, Beau Lazenby, in Australia and has a career in modelling.

Cave briefly dated PJ Harvey during the mid 1990s. The love affair and their break-up inspired him to write the album ''The Boatman's Call''.

He met British model Susie Bick in 1997. A cover star of the Damned's 1985 album ''Phantasmagoria'' and a Vivienne Westwood model, she gave up her job when they married in summer 1999. They have twin sons, Arthur and Earl (born in 2000). Cave and Bick lived for some time on a houseboat near Hove. They currently live in Brighton and Hove, England.

Cave performed "Into My Arms" at the televised funeral of Michael Hutchence, but refused to play in front of the cameras. Cave is godfather of Hutchence's only child, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily.

In the past, Cave identified as a Christian. In his recorded lectures on music and songwriting, he has claimed that any true love song is a song for God and has ascribed the mellowing of his music to a shift in focus from the Old to the New Testaments. He does not belong to a particular denomination and has distanced himself from "religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked". He said in a recent ''Los Angeles Times'' article: "I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. It's kind of defending the indefensible, though; I'm critical of what religions are becoming, the more destructive they're becoming. But I think as an artist, particularly, it's a necessary part of what I do, that there is some divine element going on within my songs".

Discography[link]

Soundtracks/scores[link]

''And the Ass Saw the Angel'', readings of the novel (1988), plus theatre score (1993) – text by Cave, music composed by Harvey and Ed Clayton-Jones

''To Have and to Hold'', soundtrack (1996) – composed with Harvey & Bargeld

''Woyzeck'', theatre score (2005) – composed with Warren Ellis (Not available on CD or vinyl.)

''The Proposition'', soundtrack (2005) – composed with Ellis

''Metamorphosis'', theatre score (2006) – composed with Ellis (Not available on CD or vinyl.)

''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'', soundtrack (2007) – composed with Ellis

''The English Surgeon'', soundtrack (2007) – composed with Ellis (Not available on CD or vinyl; only available on White Lunar; see below.) ''The Girls of Phnom Penh'', soundtrack (2009) – composed with Ellis (Not available on CD or vinyl; only available on White Lunar; see below.) ''The Death of Bunny Munro'', soundtrack (2009) – composed with Ellis ''The Road'', soundtrack (2009) – composed with Ellis (Soundtrack released in January 12, 2010) ''White Lunar'', soundtrack compilation (2009) – composed with Ellis (2CDs. Disc one contains high lights from The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and The Road. Disc 2 contains work from The English Surgeon and The Girls of Phnom Penh, as well as four unreleased pieces "from the archives".

''The Metamorphosis'', (Forvandlingen- Norwegian national theatre) soundtrack (2012) –

Contributions/appearances[link]

Die Haut and Nick Cave: ''Burnin' the Ice'' (1982), features Nick Cave's vocals on songs 1,3,5,6 (Stow-A-Way, Truck Love, Pleasure Is The Boss, Dumb Europe).

''Smack My Crack'' (1987), features Nick Cave performing "The Altra Virago Or The Vargus Barking Spider".

Wings Of Desire (1987), Nick Cave appears in the film, where he performs "The Carny" and "From Her To Eternity".

"Helpless" single by Neil Young. He did this in 1989 for the Neil Young tribute album ''The Bridge''.

Leonard Cohen: I'm your Fan (1991), Nick Cave "Tower Of Song".

Until The End Of The World (1991), Nick Cave "(I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World".

In Weiter Ferne, So Nah! (aka Faraway So Close!) (1993), Nick Cave "Faraway So Close" and "Cassiel's Song".

Zero Effect (1994), Nick Cave "Into My Arms".

''Batman Forever soundtrack'' (1995). Cave contributes the track "There is a Light".

Scream (1996), Nick Cave "Red Right Hand".

X-Files Songs In The Key Of X (1996), Nick Cave "Red Right Hand".

''September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill'' (1997) produced by Hal Willner. Cave contributes a cover version of "Mack the Knife".

''Nick Cave i Przyjaciele'' (''Nick Cave and Friends'') (1991). A tribute album by Polish musicians. Cave appears on tracks 1 & 10. (Into My Arms, The Weeping Song)

The Acid House (1999), Nick Cave/Barry Adamson "Sweetest Embrace".

A Tribute to Polnareff, a Tribute album to Michel Polnareff. Nick Cave contributes a cover version of "Goodbye Marylou".

Ute Lemper's ''Punishing Kiss'' (2000). Cave co-wrote (with Bruno Pisek) "Little Water Song".

He Died With A FelaFel In His Hand (2001) Nick Cave "The Mercy Seat (Live)" & "Into My Arms".

Intimite (aka Intimacy) (2001), Nick Cave "In The Ghetto".

"''To Be By Your Side''" – from the OST for French documentary film ''Le Peuple Migrateur'' (2001).

''I Am Sam'' (2002). Cave contributes a cover version of The Beatles' "Let It Be", which was later issued as a single with a cover version of "Here Comes the Sun" as the B-side.

"Bad Cover Version" single by Pulp (2002). Cave contributes a cover version of Pulp's "Disco 2000".

''American IV: The Man Comes Around'' (2003) Duet with Johnny Cash on "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".

"Kiss of Love" (duet with Sam Brown) from Jools Holland's 2003 album ''Small World Big Band Friends 3 – Jack O The Green''.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appear on the Martin Scorsese series ''The Blues'' (2003) singing J. B. Lenoir's "I Feel So Good".

Shrek 2 (2004), Nick Cave "People Aint' No Good".

The Passion Of The Christ - Songs Inspired By (2004), Nick Cave "Darker With The Day".

Harry Smith Project Vol 1 (2006), Nick Cave "John The Revelator" and Vol 2 "Shine On Me".

Cave performs "I'm Your Man" and "Suzanne" in the documentary/concert film ''Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man'' (2006).

Q Covered - Best Of 86/06 (2006), Nick Cave sings Pulp's "Disco 2000".

''Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys'' (2006). Cave contributes the tracks "Fire Down Below" and "Pinery Boy".

Seasick Steve's song "Just Like A King", from the album I Started Out With Nothin' (2008)includes Cave's vocals.

Californication Season 2 (2009), Nick Cave "Moonland".

Mojo Presents The Score 20 Ultra Cool Soundtracks (2009), Nick Cave "Let It Be".

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song "Up Jumped The Devil" was featured in the video game ''Alan Wake''. (2010)

''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1'' (2010). Cave contributed the song "O Children".

Leonard Cohen By En Boca De (2011), Nick Cave "Avalanche".

Trentemoller - Late Night Tales (2011), Nick Cave & Warren Ellis "The Proposition #1".

Nick Cave joins Neko Case to cover the The Zombies song ''She's Not There'' for HBO show True Blood. (2011)

Spoken-word lectures[link]

''The Secret Life Of The Love Song & The Flesh Made Word: Two Lectures'' (2000).

Bibliography[link]

''King Ink'' (1988)

''And the Ass Saw the Angel'' (1989)

''King Ink II'' (1997)

''The Pocket Canons: Books of the Bible'' (1998)

*Cave wrote the introduction to The Gospel According to Mark.

''Complete Lyrics'' (2001)

''The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2006'' (2007)

''The Death of Bunny Munro'' (2009)

Awards and honours[link]

2012 Doctor of Letters, an honorary degree from the University of Brighton.

2011 Straight to you - Triple j's tribute tour to Nick Cave for his work in Australian music for Ausmusic Month

2011 MOJO Awards: Song of the Year for "Heathen Child" by Grinderman

2010 made an honorary Doctor of Laws, by University of Dundee. 2008 ARIA Awards Male Artist of the Year (''Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!'').

2008 MOJO Awards: Best Album of 2008 (''Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!'').

2008 Awarded an Honorary degree as Doctor of Laws, by Monash University. 2007 ARIA Awards ARIA Hall of Fame inductee.

2006 Venice Film Festival: Gucci Award (for the script to ''The Proposition'').

2005 Q magazine: Q Classic Songwriter Award.

2005 AFI Awards: Best Original Music Score with Warren Ellis (''The Proposition'').

2005 Inside Film Awards: Best Music (''The Proposition'').

2005 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards: Best Musical Score (''The Proposition'').

2004 MOJO Awards: Best Album of 2004 (''Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus'').

2001 ARIA Awards: Best Male Artist (''No More Shall We Part''). 2001 APRA Music Awards: "The Ship Song" voted in the Top 30 Best Australian Songs of the previous 75 years.

1997 APRA Music Awards: Songwriter of the year.

1997 ARIA Awards: Best Original Soundtrack (''To Have and to Hold''). 1996 ARIA Awards: Song of the Year & Single of the Year & Best Pop Release ("Where the Wild Roses Grow").

1996 MTV Europe Music Awards: Nick Cave formally requested that his nomination for "Best Male Artist" be withdrawn as he was not comfortable with the "competitive nature" of such awards.

1990 ''Time Out'' Magazine: Book Of The Year (''And the Ass Saw the Angel'').

Further reading[link]

''Bad Seed: A Biography of Nick Cave'', Ian Johnston (1997) ISBN 0-316-90833-9

''The Life and Music of Nick Cave: An Illustrated Biography'', Maximilian Dax & Johannes Beck (1999) ISBN 3-931126-27-7

Liner notes to the CDs ''Original Seeds: Songs that inspired Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds'', Kim Beissel (1998 & 2004), Rubber Records

''Kicking Against the Pricks: An Armchair Guide to Nick Cave'', Amy Hanson (2005), ISBN 1-900924-96-X

''Nick Cave Stories'', Janine Barrand (2007)

''Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave'', eds. Karen Welberry and Tanya Dalziell (2009) ISBN 0-7546-6395-7

''Nick Cave Sinner Saint: The True Confessions'', ed. Mat Snow (2011) ISBN 978-0-85965-448-7

References[link]

External links[link]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds official website

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name	Jools Holland
background	solo_singer
birth name	Julian Miles Holland
birth date	January 24, 1958
birth place	Blackheath, London, England
instrument	Piano, keyboard, guitar
genre	Boogie-woogie, jazz, blues, R&B;
occupation	Musician, composer, television presenter, bandleader
years active	1974–present
associated acts	Squeeze Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
website	Official site }}

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze (1974-1980 & 1985-1990) and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Magazine and Bono.

Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows. In 2004, he collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B; music. He currently hosts ''Later... with Jools Holland'', a music-based show aired on BBC2, on which his annual show ''Hootenanny'', is based.

Life and career[link]

His great grandfather came from Ireland.

Holland played as a session musician before finding fame, and his first studio session was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976 on their track "F*ck Off."

Holland was a founding member of the British pop band Squeeze, formed in March 1974, in which he played keyboards until 1981 and helped the band to achieve millions of record sales, before pursuing his solo career.

Holland began issuing solo records in 1978, his first EP being ''Boogie Woogie '78''. He continued his solo career through the early 1980s, releasing an album and several singles between 1981 and 1984. He branched out into TV, co-presenting the Newcastle-based TV music show ''The Tube'' with Paula Yates. Holland achieved notoriety by inadvertently using the phrase "groovy fuckers" in a live, early evening TV trailer for the show, causing it to be suspended for six weeks. He referred to this in his sitcom "The Groovy Fellers" with Rowland Rivron.

thumb|right|Holland at the Tsunami Relief concert in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, 22 January 2005In 1983 Holland played an extended piano solo on The The's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for the album ''Soul Mining''. In 1985, Squeeze (which had continued in Holland's absence through to 1982) unexpectedly regrouped including Jools Holland as their keyboard player. Holland remained in the band until 1990, at which point, he again departed Squeeze on amicable terms to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host.

In 1987, Holland formed The ''Jools Holland Big Band'' which consisted of himself and Gilson Lavis from Squeeze. This gradually became his 18-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.

Between 1988 and 1990 he performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn during the two seasons of the music performance program ''Sunday Night'' on NBC late-night television. Since 1992 he has presented the music program ''Later... with Jools Holland'', plus an annual New Year's Eve ''Hootenanny''.

In 1996, Holland signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, and his records are now marketed through Rhino Records.

Holland has a touring band, The Rhythm And Blues Orchestra, which often includes singers Sam Brown and Ruby Turner. In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with Eric Clapton as the headline act of the Tsunami Relief Cardiff.

Personal[link]

Holland lives in the Westcombe Park area of Blackheath in South East London, where he had his studio, Helicon Mountain, built to his design, inspired by Portmeirion, the setting for the 1960s TV series ''The Prisoner''. Holland owns costumes and props from the series and occasionally appears wearing the trademark brown-with-white-pipe blazer featured in the series. In 1987, Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a spoof documentary, ''The Laughing Prisoner'', with Stephen Fry, Terence Alexander and Hugh Laurie. Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan, and featuring musical numbers from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magnum and XTC. Holland performed a number towards the end of the program. His younger brother, Christopher, also plays organ in the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, as well as being a singer-songwriter.

Holland was an interviewer for The Beatles Anthology TV project, and appeared in the 1997 film ''Spiceworld'' as a musical director.

He received an OBE in 2003 in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to the British music industry as a television presenter and musician. In September 2006 Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent. He is also known for his charity work: in June 2006 he performed in Southend for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay, and in early 2007 he performed at Wells and Rochester Cathedrals to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings. He is also patron of the Drake Music Project and has raised many thousands of pounds for the charity.

Holland was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009.

On 29 August 2005 Holland married Christabel McEwen, his girlfriend of 15 years (between 1983 and 1995 she had been married to Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham, before they divorced). The wedding, at St James's Church, Cooling near Rochester, was attended by many celebrities, including Ringo Starr, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, Noel Gallagher, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

Holland is also a patron for The Milton Rooms, an Arts centre in Malton, North Yorkshire, along with Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Kathy Burke.

Writing[link]

His 2007 biography, ''Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts'' was BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland. He is the author or joint author of four other books.

Discography[link]

Albums that have charted and gained Certifications[link]

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1996	Jazz & Rock & Roll''
1998	''Best Of''				UK">Music recording sales certifications
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1996	Jazz & Rock & Roll''
1998	''Best Of''				UK: Silver
2000	''Hop The Wag''				* UK: Silver
2001	''Small World Big Band''				* UK: 2× Platinum
2002	''SWBB Volume Two: More Friends''				* UK: Platinum
2003	''Jack O The Green (SWBB Friends 3)''				* UK: Silver
2005	''Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska''
2007	''Best of Friends''				* UK: Silver
2011	''Finding The Keys - The Best of''

Releases[link]

1978 "Boogie Woogie '78" (EP)

1981 ''Jools Holland and His Millionaires''

1984 ''Jools Holland Meets Rock 'A' Boogie Billy'' (U.S. release only)

1990 ''World Of His Own''

1991 ''The Full Complement''

1992 "Together Again" (single with Sam Brown)

1992 ''The A-Z Geographer's Guide To The Piano''

1994 ''Solo Piano''

1994 ''Live Performance''

1996 " Jazz & Rock & Roll''

1997 ''Lift The Lid''

1998 ''Best Of''

1999 ''Sunset Over London''

2000 ''Hop The Wag''

2001 ''Small World Big Band''

2002 ''SWBB Volume Two: More Friends''

2003 ''Jack O The Green (SWBB Friends 3)''

2004 ''Tom Jones & Jools Holland''

2005 ''Beatroute''

2005 ''Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska''

2006 ''Moving Out To The Country''

2007 ''Best of Friends''

2008 ''The Collection''

2008 ''The Informer (With Ruby Turner)''

2008 ''"The Informer" (single with Ruby Turner)''

2009 ''"I Went By" (single with Louise Marshall)''

2010 ''Rockinghorse''

Film and television[link]

1981 ''Urgh! A Music War''

1982 ''Police: Around the World''

1982 - 1987 ''The Tube'' (Host for 121 editions)

1983 ''Rebellious Jukebox'': Compere

1984 ''The Young Ones'': Punk (Episode entitled "Summer Holiday")

1985 ''Walking To New Orleans'' (Jools Holland in New Orleans)

1987 ''Eat the Rich'': Sun Reporter

1987 ''Filthy Rich & Catflap'': Strip Show Pianist (Episode #1.3)

1987 ''The Laughing Prisoner'': No. 7

1987 ''French and Saunders'' (Episode 1.5)

1988 ''Sunday Night'': Host (unknown episodes)

1989 ''Juke Box Jury'': Host (unknown episodes)

1989 ''The Groovy Fellers'' Himself, 6 episodes

1991 ''Mr Roadrunner'' (Jools Holland in Memphis)

1994 ''There's No Business'': Pianist

1994 - 1995 ''Don't Forget Your Toothbrush''

1995 ''The Beatles Anthology''

1997 ''Spice World'': Musical Director

1997 ''Name That Tune'': Host and Pianist

2003 ''Jool's History of the Piano'' : Presenter

2006 ''Top Gear: Star in a reasonably priced car.

2007 ''Fairport@Forty'': Interview

2009 ''Chop Shop Rover Concept: The Jet 1 Car'' : Customer

Current television programmes[link]

1992–present ''Later... with Jools Holland''

1993–present ''Hootenanny''

Books[link]

''"Rolling Stones": A Life on the Road'', (with Dora Loewenstein), Viking/Allen Lane (1998), (ISBN 0-670-88051-5)

''Beat Route: Journeys Through Six Counties'', Weidenfeld & Nicholson (1998), (ISBN 0-575-06700-4)

''Ray Charles: Man and Music'', (with Michael Lydon), Payback Press (1999), (ISBN 0-86241-929-8)

''Hand That Changed Its Mind '', International Music Publications (2007), (ISBN 1-84328-645-9)

''Barefaced Lies and Boogie-woogie Boasts '', Michael Joseph Ltd (2007), (ISBN 0-7181-4915-7)

References[link]

External links[link]

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name	Andrew Marr
birthname
birth date	July 31, 1959
birth place	Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
education	Trinity Hall, Cambridge
occupation	Journalist, presenter, political commentator
credits	BBC News''The Andrew Marr Show''
salary	£580,000
spouse	Jackie Ashley (m. 1987-present)
children	Son and 2 daughters
nationality	British
religion	}}

Andrew William Stevenson Marr (born 31 July 1959) is a British journalist and political commentator. He edited ''The Independent'' for two years until May 1998, and was political editor of BBC News from 2000 until 2005. He began hosting a political programme ''Sunday AM'', now called ''The Andrew Marr Show'', on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005. Marr also hosts the BBC Radio 4 programme ''Start the Week''.

In 2007 he presented a political history of post-war Britain on BBC Two, ''Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain'', followed by a prequel in 2009 - ''Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain'' focusing on the period between 1901 and 1945. In 2010 he presented a series, ''Andrew Marr's Megacities'', examining the life, development and challenges of some of the largest cities in the world. In early 2012 he presented ''The Diamond Queen'', a 3 part series about the 60-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

Early life[link]

Marr was born on 31 July 1959 in Glasgow, Scotland to Donald and Valerie Marr. His father was an investment trust manager and Marr was educated in Scotland at the independent High School of Dundee, Craigflower School and at Loretto, also an independent school in Musselburgh, East Lothian, where he was a member of Pinkie House. He went on to study English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge gaining first class honours.

He was once a member of the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory. At Cambridge, Marr says he was a "raving leftie", and he acquired the nickname 'Red Andy'.

Newspaper career[link]

Marr joined ''The Scotsman'' as a trainee and junior business reporter in 1981. He became a parliamentary correspondent for the newspaper in 1984, moving to London at this time, and then a political correspondent in 1986. During this period, Marr met the political journalist Anthony Bevins, who became Marr's mentor and close friend. Bevins was responsible for Marr's first appointment at ''The Independent'' as a member of the newspaper's launch staff.

Marr left shortly afterwards, and joined ''The Economist'', where he contributed the weekly "Bagehot" political column and ultimately became the magazine's political editor in 1988. Marr has remarked that his time at ''The Economist'' "changed me quite a lot" and "made me question a lot of my assumptions". He admits that while working at The Economist he earned himself the jocular nickname ‘Tearound Tessa’ because of his enthusiasm for trips to the canteen on behalf of his colleagues.

Marr returned to ''The Independent'' as the newspaper's political editor in 1992, and became its editor in 1996. His period as editor coincided with a particularly turbulent time at the paper. Faced with price cutting by the Murdoch-owned ''Times'', sales had begun to decline, and Marr made two attempts to arrest the slide. He made use of bold 'poster-style' front pages, and then in 1996 radically re-designed the paper along a mainland European model, with Gill Sans headline fonts, and stories being themed and grouped together, rather than according to strict news value. This tinkering ultimately proved disastrous. The limited advertising budget meant the paper's re-launch struggled to get noticed, and when it did, it was mocked for reinterpreting its original marketing slogan 'It Is - Are You' to read 'It's changed - have you?'. The response from some was that many existing readers had indeed changed - to ''The Guardian''. At the beginning of 1998 Marr was sacked. According to one version of events he was sacked after refusing to implement a further round of redundancies. The author and journalist Nick Cohen writes that Tony Blair's director of communications, Alastair Campbell demanded that David Montgomery, The Independent's publisher, sack Marr over an article which compared Blair with his predecessor John Major. Blair, in the offending article, had written "On the day we remember the legend that St George slayed a dragon to protect England, some will argue that there is another dragon to be slayed: Europe." Marr's offence was to suggest Blair was speaking in bad faith, and that the phrase "some will argue" was a weasel phrase to create distance from an otherwise xenophobic article.

Three months later he returned to the ''Independent''. Tony O'Reilly had increased his stake in the paper and bought out owners Mirror Group. O'Reilly, who had a high regard for Marr, asked him to collaborate as co-editor with Rosie Boycott, in an arrangement whereby Marr would edit the comment pages, and Boycott would have overall control of the news pages.

Many pundits predicted the arrangement would not last, and two months later Boycott left to replace Richard Addis as editor of the ''Daily Express''. Marr was sole editor again, but only for one week. Simon Kelner, who had worked on the paper when it was first launched accepted the editorship, and asked Marr to stay on as a political columnist. Kelner was not Marr's "cup of tea" Marr observed later, and he left the paper for the final time in May 1998.

At the BBC[link]

Marr wrote as a columnist for ''The Daily Express'' and ''The Observer'' before being appointed BBC Political Editor in May 2000. Like his predecessor-but-one John Cole and his famous herringbone overcoat, he soon developed a trademark style, characterised by much gesticulation, as sent up in the comedy impersonation programme ''Dead Ringers'' where the impressionists use ridiculously long plastic arms when portraying him. He also became known and widely praised for his ability to describe the background to Westminster gossip and intrigue and explain to viewers and listeners how it would affect their lives. A great believer in the view that "politics matters", Marr championed the democratic process and saw it as part of his role as Political Editor of the BBC to help make politics meaningful and relevant for many people who tended to see politics as the preserve of a remote, largely male and middle aged Westminster clique.

Among his personal scoops as Political Editor were the second resignation of Peter Mandelson, and the interview in late 2004 in which Tony Blair told him that he would not seek a fourth term as Prime Minister should he win the forthcoming general election. Marr was criticised for some of his on air statements during this period. John Pilger claimed that Marr "rejoiced at the vindication of Blair who, he said, had promised 'to take Baghdad without a bloodbath'" during the second Iraq war in March 2003. Pilger has attacked Marr further over an interview with Tony Blair, in which Blair was promoting his memoirs. Pilger is critical towards Marr for not questioning Blair on whether he had colluded with George Bush to invade Iraq and for not bringing up the legality of the invasion.

During his time as political editor Marr assumed various presentational roles, and announced in 2005 that following the 2005 General Election, he would step down as Political Editor to spend more time with his family. He was replaced as Political Editor by Nick Robinson. In September 2005, he moved to a new role presenting the BBC's Sunday morning flagship news programme ''Sunday AM'', known as ''The Andrew Marr Show'' since September 2007; the slot was previously filled with ''Breakfast with Frost'' and hosted by Sir David Frost. Marr also hosts the BBC Radio 4 programme ''Start the Week''.

In May and June 2007, the BBC broadcast ''Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain''. He presented the five one-hour documentaries, and chronicled the history of Britain from 1945 to 2007. Unsold copies of the book of the series, a best seller, were recalled in March 2009 by publishers Macmillan when legal action was taken over false claims that domestic violence campaigner Erin Pizzey had been a member of The Angry Brigade terrorist group. According to her own account, in a ''Guardian'' interview in 2001, Pizzey had been present at a meeting when they discussed their intention of bombing Biba, a fashion store, and threatened to report their activities to the police. Damages were paid to Pizzey and Marr's book was republished with the error removed.

Marr has written several books on politics and journalism, notably state-of-the-nation reflection ''The Day Britain Died'' (2000) and ''My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism'' (2004). The former was a three-part television series shown after ''Newsnight'' on BBC Two from 31 January to 2 February 2000. He has also written several articles for the British political magazine ''Prospect''.

In 2008, he presented the prime time BBC One series ''Britain From Above''. The following year, he contributed a three-part series called ''Darwin's Dangerous Idea'' to the BBC Darwin Season, celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his theory of evolution. He played a small role as himself in a ''Doctor Who'' episode, "World War Three"; reporting Slitheen entering 10 Downing Street, he was noted as himself in the credits. In late 2009, BBC Two broadcast his six-part television series on British politics in the first half of the 20th century ''Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain.''

In September 2009 on the Sunday before the Labour Party conference in Brighton, Marr interviewed Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Towards the end of the interview, Marr told Brown he wanted to ask about: The Prime Minister responded: "No. I think this is the sort of questioning which is all too often entering the lexicon of British politics." Marr was later heavily criticised by Labour politicians, the media and fellow political journalists for what was described as a vague question which relied on its source being a singular entry on a political blog. In later interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy of ''Channel 4 News'', John Ward, the author of the Not Born Yesterday blog, admitted that he has no proof to back up the claim.

Politics[link]

Marr has written about the need to remain impartial and "studiously neutral" whilst delivering news reports and "convey fact, and nothing more". Marr responded to criticism as "pernicious anti-journalism".

In the ''Daily Telegraph'' he claimed to be a libertarian when discussing his conflicting views on smoking bans. However, writing in The Guardian, he said "And the final answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress. It may be my Presbyterian background, but I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain 'natural' beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off. The police are first in line to be burdened further, but a new Race Relations Act will impose the will of the state on millions of other lives too."

At an October 2006 BBC seminar discussing impartiality, Marr highlighted alleged bias within the BBC. He stated: "The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities, and gay people. It has a liberal bias, not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias."

Marr spoke at the Cheltenham Literary Festival on 10 October 2010 about political blogging. He claimed that "[a] lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people."

Other work[link]

Marr has helped support the Sense-National Deafblind and Rubella Association, and was the face of a Sense direct marketing appeal. He has also been involved with the charity Common Purpose UK. Marr is President of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

Personal life[link]

Family[link]

Marr lives in East Sheen, London, with his wife, the political journalist Jackie Ashley of ''The Guardian'', whom he married in August 1987 in Surrey. She is a daughter of the Labour life peer Lord Ashley of Stoke. The couple have a son and two daughters.

Privacy injunction[link]

On 28 June 2008, Richard Ingrams reported in ''The Independent'' that Marr had obtained a High Court injunction preventing disclosure in the media of "private" information. The order was anonymised, preventing press reporting. The injunction was not mentioned in the UK media until ''Private Eye'' commented on it.

On 26 April 2011, following legal action by ''Private Eye'' editor Ian Hislop, an interview with Marr was published in the ''Daily Mail'', in which he revealed that the super-injunction had covered the reporting of an extra-marital affair with a female journalist. Marr said that he had believed that a child of the journalist was his, but had learned through a DNA test that it was not. He commented: "I did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists. Am I embarrassed by it? Yes. Am I uneasy about it? Yes. But at the time there was a crisis in my marriage and I believed there was a young child involved. I also had my own family to think about, and I believed this story was nobody else's business." Hislop had filed a court challenge earlier in April 2011, and described the super-injunction as "pretty rank".

Awards[link]

In 1995 he was named Columnist of the Year at both the What the Papers Say Awards and the British Press Awards, and received the Journalist Award in the Channel 4 Political Awards of 2001.

He was considered for honorary membership of The Coterie for 2007. Marr has received two British Academy Television Awards: the Richard Dimbleby Award at the 2004 ceremony and the award for Best Specialist Factual Programme (for his ''History of Modern Britain'') at the 2008 ceremony.

Marr and his wife were both awarded honorary doctorates from Staffordshire University in July 2009.

References[link]

External links[link]

Press Office — Andrew Marr — BBC biography

'Marr quits as BBC political chief' — BBC News'

''TV is less up itself than newspapers'' — The Guardian

''Transcript'' - ''The Big Idea'' - BBC, 1996

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