Colin Blunstone
Encyclopedia
Colin Blunstone is an English pop
singer-songwriter
, best known as a member of the pop group
The Zombies
, and for his participation on various album
s with The Alan Parsons Project
.
.
Blunstone's plaintive, wistful voice
was one of the factors making The Zombies
' single
, "She's Not There
" (written by fellow band member Rod Argent
), such a big hit worldwide. After the amicable split of the band, shortly after completing the baroque pop
classic LP
, Odessey and Oracle
, Blunstone briefly worked in the insurance business before resuming his musical career. In 1969, he signed with Deram Records
and cut three singles under the pseudonym
of Neil MacArthur, including a re-make of The Zombies' hit, "She's Not There" which charted in the UK.
He had some success as a solo
artist
, notably in 1972 with "Say You Don't Mind" (peaked at number 15 in the UK chart and written by future Wings member Denny Laine
) and "I Don't Believe In Miracles" (peaked at number 31 in the UK chart and written by Argent member Russ Ballard
), both with string arrangement
s by Christopher Gunning
. Additional minor hits followed with "How Could We Dare To Be Wrong" in early 1973 (peaked at number 45 in the UK chart) and "Tracks of My Tears" in 1982 (peaked at number 60 in the UK chart).
One Year (1971) produced by Chris White
) was his first solo album
, and included the song "Caroline Goodbye" about Blunstone's break-up with the model and actress Caroline Munro
. This was followed by Ennismore and Journey. He then signed with Elton John
's Rocket Records
and released three albums, Planes (1976), Never Even Thought (1978) and Late Nights In Soho (1979), which was only released in Europe.
Blunstone also contributed to Dave Stewart's hit cover version
of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
" (1980).
He went on to appear on several albums by The Alan Parsons Project including Eye in the Sky, where he sings the hit single Old And Wise
, and Ammonia Avenue
. In 1984, he joined with other Parsons musicians to form Keats
.
Blunstone has appeared quite a few times on radio
and television
shows in the UK. He and his band performed several sessions for John Peel
and Johnnie Walker
, and on the Old Grey Whistle Test
in 1971 where he performed live with a string quartet.
He has had only a limited acting
career. He was in The Savages (2001) and Keep the Aspidistra Flying
(1997) both as a singer. Other TV appearances include The Dan and Dusty Show (2004) as The Zombies, Shindig! Presents British Invasion Vol. 2 (1992) also as The Zombies, and Pop Quiz (1982). His sole film
part was in Bunny Lake Is Missing
(1965) a movie directed by Otto Preminger
(as The Zombies) and starring Laurence Olivier
.
Blunstone still tours to this day, sometimes on his own, occasionally in tours with 1960s bands such as Manfred Mann
- and most often with his old Zombies colleague Rod Argent
. Some of his recent albums are As Far As I Can See, the mid 1990s Echo Bridge and Out of the Shadows (with Rod Argent).
His solo album, The Ghost of You And Me was released in the UK, Benelux and Scandinavia on 9 March 2009. Blunstone completed a twelve date UK tour, his first in several years. He continues to tour with Rod Argent as The Zombies, and the original surviving members of The Zombies played four reunion concerts performing Odessey and Oracle, in April 2009.
In 2010, Sony released Colin Blunstone Original Album Classics, a 3-disc boxed set featuring digitally re-mastered versions of Blunstone's solo albums, One Year, Journey and Ennismore. The collection also includes two bonus tracks that were originally released as non-LP b-sides in UK.
As Neil MacArthur
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
, best known as a member of the pop group
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
The Zombies
The Zombies
The Zombies are an English rock band, formed in 1961 in St Albans and led by Rod Argent, on piano and keyboards, and vocalist Colin Blunstone. The group scored a UK and US hit in 1964 with "She's Not There"...
, and for his participation on various album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
s with The Alan Parsons Project
The Alan Parsons Project
The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians....
.
Biography
He attended St Albans County Grammar School for BoysVerulam School
Verulam School is a state secondary school for boys in St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK. It was founded in 1938 and was originally named St Albans Boys' Modern School. The name was changed in the 1940s to St Albans Grammar School for Boys and subsequently, following its change of status to a...
.
Blunstone's plaintive, wistful voice
Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Its frequency ranges from about 60 to 7000 Hz. The human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary...
was one of the factors making The Zombies
The Zombies
The Zombies are an English rock band, formed in 1961 in St Albans and led by Rod Argent, on piano and keyboards, and vocalist Colin Blunstone. The group scored a UK and US hit in 1964 with "She's Not There"...
' single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
, "She's Not There
She's Not There
"She's Not There" is the debut single by the British pop band The Zombies. It reached number twelve in the UK Singles Chart in August 1964, and became a top-ten hit in the United States...
" (written by fellow band member Rod Argent
Rod Argent
Rod Argent is an English rock musician and a founding member of the 1960s English pop group The Zombies and the 1970s band Argent....
), such a big hit worldwide. After the amicable split of the band, shortly after completing the baroque pop
Baroque pop
Baroque pop, Baroque rock, or English baroque, often used interchangeably with chamber pop/rock, is a pop and rock music subgenre which originated in the mid-1960s in the United Kingdom and United States...
classic LP
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
, Odessey and Oracle
Odessey and Oracle
Odessey and Oracle is the third studio album by British pop rock band The Zombies, released on 19 April 1968 by Date Records. It is among the most critically acclaimed albums of popular music.-Album information:...
, Blunstone briefly worked in the insurance business before resuming his musical career. In 1969, he signed with Deram Records
Deram Records
Deram Records was a subsidiary record label established in 1966 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom. At this time U.K. Decca was a completely different company than the Decca label in the United States, which was then owned by MCA Inc. Deram recordings were also distributed in the U.S. through...
and cut three singles under the pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
of Neil MacArthur, including a re-make of The Zombies' hit, "She's Not There" which charted in the UK.
He had some success as a solo
Solo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
artist
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, notably in 1972 with "Say You Don't Mind" (peaked at number 15 in the UK chart and written by future Wings member Denny Laine
Denny Laine
Denny Laine is an English songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, guitarist, and lead singer of The Moody Blues' 1965 debut album "The Magnificent Moodies"; and, later, best known for his role as co-founder of Wings...
) and "I Don't Believe In Miracles" (peaked at number 31 in the UK chart and written by Argent member Russ Ballard
Russ Ballard
Russell Glyn Ballard is an English singer, songwriter and musician.-Career:Ballard was initially a guitarist with Buster Meikle & The Day Breakers in 1961, together with Roy Ballard, Russ's older brother on piano and Bob Henrit on drums...
), both with string arrangement
Arrangement
The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
s by Christopher Gunning
Christopher Gunning
Christopher Gunning is a British composer of concert works and music for films and television....
. Additional minor hits followed with "How Could We Dare To Be Wrong" in early 1973 (peaked at number 45 in the UK chart) and "Tracks of My Tears" in 1982 (peaked at number 60 in the UK chart).
One Year (1971) produced by Chris White
Chris White (musician)
Chris White was the bass guitarist and songwriter with the 60s British Invasion band The Zombies.Although born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, he was brought up in Markyate where his parents owned a village shop...
) was his first solo album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
, and included the song "Caroline Goodbye" about Blunstone's break-up with the model and actress Caroline Munro
Caroline Munro
Caroline Munro is an English actress and model known for her many appearances in horror, science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s.-Early career:...
. This was followed by Ennismore and Journey. He then signed with Elton John
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
's Rocket Records
Rocket Records
The Rocket Record Company was a record label founded by Elton John, with Bernie Taupin, Gus Dudgeon and Steve Brown among others, in 1972. The name is from the hit, "Rocket Man"...
and released three albums, Planes (1976), Never Even Thought (1978) and Late Nights In Soho (1979), which was only released in Europe.
Blunstone also contributed to Dave Stewart's hit cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
"What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" is a hit single recorded by Jimmy Ruffin and released on Motown Records' Soul label in the summer of 1966. It is a ballad, with lead singer Jimmy Ruffin recalling the pain that befalls the brokenhearted, and their struggle to overcome their sadness so that they...
" (1980).
He went on to appear on several albums by The Alan Parsons Project including Eye in the Sky, where he sings the hit single Old And Wise
Old and Wise
"Old and Wise" is a 1982 song by the Alan Parsons Project from the album Eye in the Sky.The song reached #21 on the Billboard AC charts in the US in early 1983 and #74 in the United Kingdom-- the first of the band's singles to chart in that country....
, and Ammonia Avenue
Ammonia Avenue
Ammonia Avenue is one of the most commercially successful albums of The Alan Parsons Project.It was the second of the group's three most accessible albums, beginning with Eye in the Sky and ending with Vulture Culture...
. In 1984, he joined with other Parsons musicians to form Keats
Keats (band)
Keats was a short-lived British band which produced one eponymous album in 1984. It was an Alan Parsons Project offshoot. Its members were Colin Blunstone , Ian Bairnson , Pete Bardens , David Paton and Stuart Elliott .-Track listing:...
.
Blunstone has appeared quite a few times on radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
shows in the UK. He and his band performed several sessions for John Peel
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
and Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker (DJ)
Johnnie Walker MBE is a popular British veteran radio disc jockey and broadcaster....
, and on the Old Grey Whistle Test
Old Grey Whistle Test
The Old Grey Whistle Test was an influential BBC2 television music show that ran from 1971 to 1987. It took over the BBC2 late night slot from "Disco Two", which had been running since January 1970, while continuing to feature non-chart music. It was devised by BBC producer Rowan Ayers...
in 1971 where he performed live with a string quartet.
He has had only a limited acting
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
career. He was in The Savages (2001) and Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results....
(1997) both as a singer. Other TV appearances include The Dan and Dusty Show (2004) as The Zombies, Shindig! Presents British Invasion Vol. 2 (1992) also as The Zombies, and Pop Quiz (1982). His sole film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
part was in Bunny Lake Is Missing
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Bunny Lake Is Missing is a 1965 British psychological thriller film directed and produced by Otto Preminger, who filmed it in black and white widescreen format in London. It was based on the novel of the same name by Merriam Modell. The score is by Paul Glass and the opening theme is often heard as...
(1965) a movie directed by Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel...
(as The Zombies) and starring Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...
.
Blunstone still tours to this day, sometimes on his own, occasionally in tours with 1960s bands such as Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann was a British beat, rhythm and blues and pop band of the 1960s, named after their South African keyboardist, Manfred Mann, who later led the successful 1970s group Manfred Mann's Earth Band...
- and most often with his old Zombies colleague Rod Argent
Rod Argent
Rod Argent is an English rock musician and a founding member of the 1960s English pop group The Zombies and the 1970s band Argent....
. Some of his recent albums are As Far As I Can See, the mid 1990s Echo Bridge and Out of the Shadows (with Rod Argent).
His solo album, The Ghost of You And Me was released in the UK, Benelux and Scandinavia on 9 March 2009. Blunstone completed a twelve date UK tour, his first in several years. He continues to tour with Rod Argent as The Zombies, and the original surviving members of The Zombies played four reunion concerts performing Odessey and Oracle, in April 2009.
In 2010, Sony released Colin Blunstone Original Album Classics, a 3-disc boxed set featuring digitally re-mastered versions of Blunstone's solo albums, One Year, Journey and Ennismore. The collection also includes two bonus tracks that were originally released as non-LP b-sides in UK.
Singles
- "Mary, Won't You Warm My Bed" / "I Hope I Didn't Say Too Much Last Night" - Epic EPC7095 (1971)
- "Caroline, Goodbye" / "Though You Are Far Away" - Epic EPC7520 (October 1971)
- "Say You Don't Mind" / "Let Me Come Closer" - Epic EPC7765 (January 1972) (UKUK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
#15) - "I Don't Believe In Miracles" / "I've Always Had You" - Epic EPC8434 (October 1972) (UK #31)
- "How Could We Dare To Be Wrong" / "Time's Running Out" - Epic EPC1197 (February 1973) (UK #45)
- "Wonderful" / "Beginning" - Epic EPC1775 (September 1973)
- "It's Magical" / "Summersong" - Epic EPC2413 (May 1974)
- "When You Close Your Eyes" / "Good Guys Don't Always Win" - Epic EPC4576
- "Planes" / "Dancing In The Dark" - Epic EPC4752 (November 1976)
- "Beautiful You" / "It's Hard to Say Goodbye" - Epic EPC5009 (February 1977)
- "Lovin' and Free" / "Dancing in the Dark" - Epic EPC5199 (April 1977)
- "I'll Never Forget You" / "You Are The Way For Me" - Epic EPC6320 (May 1978)
- "Ain't It Funny" / "Who's That Knocking?" - Epic EPC6535 (July 1978)
- "Photograph" / "Touch And Go" - Epic EPC6793 (November 1978)
- "What Becomes of the BrokenheartedWhat Becomes of the Brokenhearted"What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" is a hit single recorded by Jimmy Ruffin and released on Motown Records' Soul label in the summer of 1966. It is a ballad, with lead singer Jimmy Ruffin recalling the pain that befalls the brokenhearted, and their struggle to overcome their sadness so that they...
" (with Dave Stewart) / "There Is No Reward" (non Blunstone B-sideA-side and B-sideA-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
) - Stiff Broken 1 (1980) (UK #13) - "Miles Away" / "Excerpts From Exiled" (non Blunstone B-side) - Panache PAN1 (September 1981)
- "The Tracks of My TearsThe Tracks of My Tears"The Tracks of My Tears" is a much recorded love ballad introduced in 1965 by The Miracles on Motown's' Tamla label. This song is considered to be among the finest recordings of The Miracles, and it sold over one million records within two years, making it The Miracles' fourth million-selling...
" / "Last Goodbye" - PRT 7P236 (April 1982) (UK #60) - "Touch" / "Touch" (instrumentalInstrumentalAn instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....
) - PRT 7P64 (February 1983) - "Where Do We Go From Here?" / "Helen Loves Paris" - Sierra FED22 (May 1986)
- "She's Not There" / "Who Fires The Gun" - Sierra FED27 (October 1986)
- "Cry an Ocean" / "Make It Easy" - IRS IRM151 (May 1988)
As Neil MacArthur
- "She's Not ThereShe's Not There"She's Not There" is the debut single by the British pop band The Zombies. It reached number twelve in the UK Singles Chart in August 1964, and became a top-ten hit in the United States...
" / "World of Glass" - DeramDeram RecordsDeram Records was a subsidiary record label established in 1966 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom. At this time U.K. Decca was a completely different company than the Decca label in the United States, which was then owned by MCA Inc. Deram recordings were also distributed in the U.S. through...
DM225 (January 1969) (UK #34) - "Don't Try to Explain" / "Without Her" - Deram DM262 (June 1969)
- "It's Not Easy" / "12:29" - Deram DM275 (December 1969)
Solo albums
- One Year - Epic EPC64557 (1971)
- EnnismoreEnnismoreEnnismore is the second album by singer Colin Blunstone, former member of the British rock band, The Zombies. It was released in 1972 . The lead-off single "I Don't Believe in Miracles" b/w "I've Always Had You" peaked at number 31 and "How Could We Dare to Be Wrong" b/w "Time's Running Out"...
- Epic EPC65278 (1972) - JourneyJourney (Colin Blunstone album)Journey is the third album by singer Colin Blunstone, former member of the British rock band, The Zombies. It was released in 1974 .-Track listing:# "Wonderful" # "Beginning"...
- Epic EPC65805 (1974) - Planes - Epic EPC81592 (1977)
- Never Even Thought - Epic EPC82835 (1978)
- Late Nights In Soho - RocketRocket RecordsThe Rocket Record Company was a record label founded by Elton John, with Bernie Taupin, Gus Dudgeon and Steve Brown among others, in 1972. The name is from the hit, "Rocket Man"...
(Holland) 9103 510 (1979) - Sings His Greatest Hits - JSE ESSCD139 (1991)
- Echo Bridge - Permanent PERMCD38(1995)
- Live At The BBC - Windsong WINCD079 (1995)
- The Light Inside - Mystic MYSCD125 (1998)
- The Ghost Of You And Me - Ennismore ENNISCD1 (2009)
Zombies and Rod Argent albums
- Begin HereBegin HereBegin Here is the debut album by the British pop rock band The Zombies, released in March 1965. The American version repeated many of the tracks from it, but, as was common in those days, deleted some cuts and substituted some others.The 1999 CD reissue on Big Beat expands the track lineup...
(1965) - Odessey And OracleOdessey and OracleOdessey and Oracle is the third studio album by British pop rock band The Zombies, released on 19 April 1968 by Date Records. It is among the most critically acclaimed albums of popular music.-Album information:...
(1968) - Odessey And Oracle 30th Anniversary Edition (stereo and mono versions of each song) (1998)
- R.I.P. (2000)
- Out Of The Shadows (with Rod Argent) (2002)
- The Zombies Live At The BBC (2003)
- New World (2003)
- As Far As I Can See (with Rod Argent as The Zombies) (2004)
- Live At The Bloomsbury Theatre, London (with Rod Argent as The Zombies) (2005)
- Into The Afterlife (The Zombies/Colin Blunstone as Neil MacArthur/Rod Argent & Chris White ) (2007)
- Odessey And Oracle 40th Anniversary Concert (Original Zombies members reunion) (2008)
- The Zombies And Beyond (including Colin Blunstone and Argent) (2008)
DVDs
- Bunny Lake Is Missing (vocals and guest appearance) (1965)
- Paul Atkinson - Time of the Season Concert (2004)
- Face to Face W/ Rick Wakeman (with Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone of the Zombies) (2008)
- The Zombies Live At The Bloomsbury Theatre, London (2007)
- The Zombies Odessey And Oracle (revisited) - The 40th Anniversary Concert (2008)
Box Sets
- Zombie Heaven (Big Beat 4 CD Box Set with The Zombies' Albums re-mastered) (1997)
- Colin Blunstone Original Album Classics (Sony 3 CD Box Set with re-mastered solo albums and rare non-LP B-sides) (2010)
Guest appearances
- The Alan Parsons ProjectThe Alan Parsons ProjectThe Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians....
- I RobotI Robot (album)I Robot is a progressive rock album recorded by The Alan Parsons Project, engineered by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson in 1977. It was released by Arista Records in 1977 and re-released on CD in 1984 and 2007. It was intended to be based on the I, Robot stories written by Isaac Asimov, and Woolfson...
(1977) - "I, Robot" - The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid (1978) - "The Eagle Will Rise Again"
- Mike BattMike BattMichael Philip "Mike" Batt is a British songwriter, musician, producer and Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry...
- Tarot Suite (1979) - "Losing Your Way in the Rain" - Iva Twydell - Duel (1982) (backing vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
) - The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky (1982) - "Old and WiseOld and Wise"Old and Wise" is a 1982 song by the Alan Parsons Project from the album Eye in the Sky.The song reached #21 on the Billboard AC charts in the US in early 1983 and #74 in the United Kingdom-- the first of the band's singles to chart in that country....
" (UK #74, US #22) - KeatsKeats (band)Keats was a short-lived British band which produced one eponymous album in 1984. It was an Alan Parsons Project offshoot. Its members were Colin Blunstone , Ian Bairnson , Pete Bardens , David Paton and Stuart Elliott .-Track listing:...
- Keats (1984) - The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia AvenueAmmonia AvenueAmmonia Avenue is one of the most commercially successful albums of The Alan Parsons Project.It was the second of the group's three most accessible albums, beginning with Eye in the Sky and ending with Vulture Culture...
(1984) - "Dancing on a Highwire" - The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture CultureVulture CultureVulture Culture is an album by The Alan Parsons Project.The first side of the LP consists entirely of four-minute pop songs, and the second side varies widely, from the subdued funk of the title track to the bouncing, desert-like "Hawkeye".At the beginning of 1985, the lead single "Let's Talk...
(1985) - "Somebody Out There" - The Crowd - You'll Never Walk AloneYou'll Never Walk Alone (song)"You'll Never Walk Alone" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.In the musical, in the second act, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the...
(1985) - Don AireyDon AireyDonald Airey has been the keyboardist in the rock band Deep Purple since 2002, succeeding Jon Lord...
- K2 (1989) - "Julie" - Nadieh - No Way Back (1989) - "Splendid Morning" (duet)
- The Bolland Project - Darwin (The Evolution) (1991) - "The Way Of The Evolution", "Emma My Dear"
- Just Like a WomanJust Like a WomanJust Like a Woman is a 1992 British film by Christopher Monger starring Julie Walters, Adrian Pasdar and Paul Freeman. Gerald, a finance executive , finds himself thrown out by his wife when she discovers women's underwear in their flat; in fact the clothes belong to him. He takes lodgings with...
soundtrackSoundtrackA soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
(1992) - "Politics of Love" - Split SecondSplit Second (1992 film)Split Second is a 1992 British science fiction film starring Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, and Neil Duncan. The film is directed by Tony Maylam and Ian Sharp.-Plot summary:...
soundtrackSoundtrackA soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
(1992) - "Nights in White Satin" - Heineken Night of the Proms '93 - "She's Not There"
- Time Code 64 W/ Colin Blunstone - Dance Trax (1993) - "She's Not There (Club Mix)"
- Duncan BrowneDuncan BrowneDuncan Browne was an English singer-songwriter.-Career:Browne attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, studying both music theory and drama. He chose to become a musician when in 1967 he met Andrew Loog Oldham, and signed with his Immediate Records label...
- Songs Of Love And War (1995) - "Misunderstood", "Love Leads You", "I Fall Again" - Steve HackettSteve HackettStephen Richard Hackett is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. He gained prominence as a member of the British progressive rock group Genesis, which he joined in 1970 and left in 1977 to pursue a solo career...
- Watcher of the Skies: Genesis RevisitedWatcher of the Skies: Genesis RevisitedWatcher of the Skies: Genesis Revisited was a project put together by Steve Hackett to pay tribute to his former band Genesis. It features songs originally released by Genesis during Hackett's tenure with the group...
(1996) - "For Absent Friends" - Mike Batt - Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1998) - "Tiger In The Night"
- Mike Batt with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Philharmania (1998 - released only in Germany) - "Owner of a Lonely HeartOwner of a Lonely Heart"Owner of a Lonely Heart" is a song by the progressive rock band Yes. It is the opening track of their 1983 album 90125. Written primarily by Trevor Rabin, the song reached number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100 — to date Yes's biggest chart success...
" - Alan Parsons - The Time Machine (1999) - "Ignorance Is Bliss"
- Sir John Betjeman & Mike Read - Words & Music (2000) - "Peggy", "In Memory"
- Edward Rogers - Sunday Fables (2004) - "Make It Go Away" (backing vocals)