Bill Pritchard is a British

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 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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, instrumentalist (guitars, keyboards), musical arranger and producer. Despite being little known in his native country he has achieved considerable recognition in France

France

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 and elsewhere.

Biography

Pritchard was born in Lichfield

Lichfield

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, Staffordshire

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. His eponymous debut album was released in 1987 on the Third Mind label, with a second following in 1988. He then signed to Belgian

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 label PIAS Recordings

PIAS Recordings

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, his first release for them a split album with Daniel Darc

Daniel Darc

Daniel Darc , born Daniel Rozoum, is a French singer, who has achieved success with his band Taxi Girl between 1978 and 1986, and also as a solo artist...

. In 1989 he released Three Months, Three Weeks and Two Days, produced by Étienne Daho

Étienne Daho

Étienne Daho is a French singer, songwriter and record producer who has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981.- Career :...

, which was popular in the US after exposure from MTV

MTV

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 for the single "Tommy & Co", which featured backing vocals from Françoise Hardy

Françoise Hardy

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. His 1991 album Jolie was produced by Ian Broudie

Ian Broudie

Ian Broudie is a British singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from Liverpool, England. After emerging from the post punk scene in Liverpool in the late 1970s as a member of Big in Japan, Broudie went on to form the short-lived groups Original Mirrors and Care in the early 1980s as well...

, and gave him a breakthrough in Japan and Canada. In 1995 he formed the band Beatitude, releasing the single "Baby in Brylcreem".

Albums

• Bill Pritchard (1987), Third Mind
• Half A Million (1988), Third Mind
• Parce Que (1988), PIAS - concept album with Daniel Darc
  Daniel Darc
  Daniel Darc , born Daniel Rozoum, is a French singer, who has achieved success with his band Taxi Girl between 1978 and 1986, and also as a solo artist...
  
  
• Three Months, Three Weeks & Two Days (1989), PIAS
• Jolie (1991), PIAS
• Happiness And Other Crimes (1998), Ncompass - reissued in 2009 with bonus CD
• By Paris, By Taxi, By Accident (2005), AZ/Universal Music

Compilations:

• Death of Bill Posters (1988), Third Mind - compilation of Bill Pritchard and Half A Million

Singles

• "Pas de Plaisanterie" (1988), Third Mind
• "Tommy & Co" (1989), PIAS
• "Invisible State" (1989), PIAS
• Invisible State EP (1989), I.R.S.
  I.R.S. Records
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• "Romance Sans Parole" (1989), PIAS
• "Number Five" (1991), PIAS
• "I'm In Love Forever" (1991), PIAS
• "Sweethearts" (1991), Fnac
• "Baby in Brylcreem" (1995), Tora! - with Beatitude
• "Every Loser In London" (1998), Ncompass
• "Toi et Moi" (2005), Universal

Compilation appearances

• Future Tense (1986), Third Mind: "Grey Parade", "Cecile", "The Invisible State", "Springtime In Prague"
• Un printemps 89 (1989), Les Inrockuptibles: "Sometimes" (with Étienne Daho)
• I'm Your Fan: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen (1991), Atlantic: "I'm Your Man"
• L'équipe à Jojo (The songs of Joe Dassin
  Joe Dassin
  Joseph Ira Dassin , more commonly known as Joe Dassin, was an American singer-songwriter best known for his French songs of the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  ) (1993), Le Village Vert: "La Fleur Aux Dents"
• The Great Lawnmower Conspiracy (1997), Ncompass
• A Tribute to Polnareff (tribute to Michel Polnareff
  Michel Polnareff
  Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac on 3 July 1944, is a French singer-songwriter who was very popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s...
  
  ) (1999), XIII Bis/EMI: "Je Suis Un Homme"

Guest appearances

• Concorde Music Club - Stereo-Fictions (2002), Soyuz: vocals on "In The Past"
• Concorde Music Club - Alternative-Fictions (remix album of Stereo-Fictions) (2003), Soyuz/Twin Fizz: vocals on "In The Past"