Peter Asher
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Peter Asher is an English
guitarist
, singer, manager
and record producer
. He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a record producer
.
, and the stage play. Isn't Life Wonderful
, when he was eight years old and also in the ITV
series, The Adventures of Robin Hood
. While attending the independent Westminster School
as a day boy, he first met fellow student Gordon Waller
(1945–2009), and they began playing and singing together as a duo in coffee bars and in 1962 formed the duo, Peter and Gordon. Asher later read philosophy at King's College London
.
Asher is the son of Dr Richard
and Margaret Asher, and the older brother of actress and business
woman, Jane Asher
, and radio actress, Clare Asher. Jane Asher was, in the mid 1960s, the girlfriend of The Beatles
' Paul McCartney
. Through this connection, Asher and Waller were often given unrecorded Lennon-McCartney songs to perform.
Peter and Gordon, whose biggest hit was the 1964 Paul McCartney
penned, "A World Without Love
".
In 1965, he was best man when singer Marianne Faithfull
married John Dunbar in Cambridge
.
After Peter & Gordon disbanded in 1968, Asher took charge of the A&R
department at The Beatles' Apple Records
label, where he signed a then-unknown James Taylor
and agreed to produce the singer-songwriter
's debut solo album. The album was not a success, but Asher was so convinced that Taylor held great potential that he resigned his post at Apple to move to the United States
and work as Taylor's manager. He also produced a number of Taylor's recordings from 1970–1985, including Sweet Baby James
, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
, JT
and Flag
.
In 1969, Asher was asked by Beatle
George Harrison
to look up an American band called Raven
while he was in New York City (The Longest Cocktail Party
, pg. 119). He offered Raven an Apple Records
recording contract
in the kitchen of Steve Paul's Scene but the group turned it down and instead signed with Columbia Records
.
through its subsidiary Clean Records, featuring Michael Fondiler and Tom Snow
, who has since become a songwriter. Asher achieved his greatest success producing a long string of multi-platinum albums for James Taylor
, including Sweet Baby James
, JT
and Flag
, and for Linda Ronstadt
, including Heart Like A Wheel
, Simple Dreams
, Living In The USA
, What's New
, Canciones De Mi Padre
and Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind
.
The Roxy Theater
in West Hollywood was opened on September 23, 1973 along with Elmer Valentine and Lou Adler along with original partners David Geffen, Elliot Roberts and Peter Asher.
Asher also played a role in shaping the California rock sound prominent during the 1970s, producing records for Ronstadt, J.D. Souther, Andrew Gold
and Bonnie Raitt
. In 1976, Asher and Waller reformed for the annual New York 'Beatlefest' and played a few other dates. In the 1980s, Asher also worked on hit albums for artists as diverse as Cher
and 10,000 Maniacs
.
In February 1995, Peter Asher was named Senior Vice President, Sony Music Entertainment
. At the beginning of 2002, Peter left Sony and returned full time to the management of artists’ careers as co-President of Sanctuary Artist Management. In January 2005 he was named President, the position he held until September 2006, when he resigned. In 2007 Peter joined forces with his friend Simon Renshaw
(who manages the Dixie Chicks
) at the company Simon founded, Strategic Artist Management. Strategic has grown into a dominant force in the entertainment industry, now managing numerous major artists in many fields of endeavor beyond just music - one of Asher’s clients is Pamela Anderson
. Asher also reunited with James Taylor as the producer of the Live at the Troubadour
reunion album recorded in 2007, with Carole King
and Taylor's original band.
During 2005 and 2006, Peter and Gordon reformed for occasional concerts. However, Waller died in 2009 and in its obituary, The Times
observed that "Waller was thought more handsome than the slightly nerdish looking Asher".
Asher had been quoted as saying that actor Mike Myers
has said he had patterned his Austin Powers character after Asher's appearance, although Elizabeth Hurley
, who co-starred in Austin Powers, claimed that the original model was broadcaster Simon Dee
, (who, in appearance, looked much less like Powers than Asher).
, known as Millie, who sang "My Boy Lollipop
".
His daughter Victoria Asher
is the keytarist in the American synthpop
/pop punk
band Cobra Starship
.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
, singer, manager
Talent manager
A talent manager, also known as an artist manager or band manager, is an individual or company who guides the professional career of artists in the entertainment industry...
and record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
. He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
.
Early life
He was born at the Central Middlesex Hospital, a child actor and appeared in the film, The Planter's WifeThe Planter's Wife
The Planter's Wife is a 1952 British drama film directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins and Anthony Steel. It is set against the backdrop of the Malayan Emergency and focuses on a rubber planter and his neighbours who are fending off a campaign of sustained attacks by...
, and the stage play. Isn't Life Wonderful
Isn't Life Wonderful
Isn't Life Wonderful? is a film, directed by D. W. Griffith for his company D. W. Griffith Productions, and distributed by United Artists. It was based on the novel by Geoffrey Moss and it went under the alternative title Dawn. The title of the film was spoofed in the Charlie Chase comedy Isn't...
, when he was eight years old and also in the ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
series, The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a popular British television series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes. It starred Richard Greene as the outlaw Robin Hood and Alan Wheatley as his nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham. The show aired weekly between 1955 and 1959 on ITV in London in the...
. While attending the independent Westminster School
Westminster School
The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxford and Cambridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college in Britain...
as a day boy, he first met fellow student Gordon Waller
Gordon Waller
Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller was a Scottish singer–songwriter–guitarist, best known as "Gordon" of the 1960s duo Peter and Gordon, whose biggest hit was "A World Without Love".-Biography:...
(1945–2009), and they began playing and singing together as a duo in coffee bars and in 1962 formed the duo, Peter and Gordon. Asher later read philosophy at King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
.
Asher is the son of Dr Richard
Richard Asher
Richard Alan John Asher, FRCP was an eminent British Endocrinologist and Haematologist...
and Margaret Asher, and the older brother of actress and business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
woman, Jane Asher
Jane Asher
Jane Asher is an English actress. She has also developed a second career as a cake decorator and cake shop proprietor.-Early life:...
, and radio actress, Clare Asher. Jane Asher was, in the mid 1960s, the girlfriend of The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
' Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
. Through this connection, Asher and Waller were often given unrecorded Lennon-McCartney songs to perform.
1960s
Asher became known as the 'Peter' part of the 1960s duoDuet (music)
A duet is a musical composition for two performers. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists; with other instruments, the word duo is also often used. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as...
Peter and Gordon, whose biggest hit was the 1964 Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
penned, "A World Without Love
A World Without Love
"A World Without Love" is a song recorded by the English duo Peter and Gordon and released as their first single in February 1964, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart in April. The song was written by Paul McCartney and attributed to Lennon–McCartney. The B-side was "If I Were You" written...
".
In 1965, he was best man when singer Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....
married John Dunbar in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
.
After Peter & Gordon disbanded in 1968, Asher took charge of the A&R
A&R
Artists and repertoire is the division of a record label that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists. It also acts as a liaison between artists and the record label.- Finding talent :...
department at The Beatles' Apple Records
Apple Records
Apple Records is a record label founded by The Beatles in 1968, as a division of Apple Corps Ltd. It was initially intended as a creative outlet for the Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston...
label, where he signed a then-unknown James Taylor
James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
and agreed to produce the 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...
's debut solo album. The album was not a success, but Asher was so convinced that Taylor held great potential that he resigned his post at Apple to move to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and work as Taylor's manager. He also produced a number of Taylor's recordings from 1970–1985, including Sweet Baby James
Sweet Baby James
Sweet Baby James is singer-songwriter James Taylor's second album, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, it showcased Taylor's talents and showed the direction he would take in the early 1970s with the expansion of his career. The album featured one of Taylor's...
, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
-Track listing:All songs by James Taylor unless otherwise noted.#"Love Has Brought Me Around" – 2:41#"You've Got a Friend" – 4:28#"Places in My Past" – 2:01#"Riding on a Railroad" – 2:41#"Soldiers" – 1:13#"Mud Slide Slim" – 5:20...
, JT
JT (album)
JT is singer-songwriter James Taylor's eighth album, and his first album for Columbia Records. Released in 1977, it contains hit singles in "Handy Man" and "Your Smiling Face" and was Taylor's highest charting album since Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon.This album also contains several Taylor...
and Flag
Flag (James Taylor album)
Flag is singer-songwriter James Taylor's ninth album. Released in 1979, it included songs from Taylor's music score to Studs Terkel and Stephen Schwartz's Broadway musical, Working ....
.
In 1969, Asher was asked by Beatle
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
George Harrison
George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...
to look up an American band called Raven
Raven (U.S. band)
Raven was an influential rock/blues band formed in 1967 in Buffalo, New York, and active until 1970. It was composed of Tony Galla , Jim Calire , Gary Mallaber , John Weitz , and the late Tom Calandra...
while he was in New York City (The Longest Cocktail Party
The Longest Cocktail Party
The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary of the Beatles, Their Million-dollar Apple Empire and Its Wild Rise and Fall is a rock history book by Richard DiLello, published in 1973 by Playboy Press, and reprinted in 1981 and 2005...
, pg. 119). He offered Raven an Apple Records
Apple Records
Apple Records is a record label founded by The Beatles in 1968, as a division of Apple Corps Ltd. It was initially intended as a creative outlet for the Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston...
recording contract
Recording contract
A recording contract is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist , where the artist makes a record for the label to sell and promote...
in the kitchen of Steve Paul's Scene but the group turned it down and instead signed with Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
.
1970s and beyond
In the early 1970s Asher also managed the country rock band, 'Country', which recorded for Atlantic RecordsAtlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...
through its subsidiary Clean Records, featuring Michael Fondiler and Tom Snow
Tom Snow (songwriter)
Thomas Righter Snow is an American songwriter.He wrote songs for Joe Cocker with , Selena , Olivia Newton-John , Melissa Manchester , The Pointer Sisters , Barbra Streisand, Rita Coolidge Thomas Righter Snow is an American songwriter.He wrote songs for Joe Cocker ("Even a Fool Would Let Go", "Love...
, who has since become a songwriter. Asher achieved his greatest success producing a long string of multi-platinum albums for James Taylor
James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
, including Sweet Baby James
Sweet Baby James
Sweet Baby James is singer-songwriter James Taylor's second album, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, it showcased Taylor's talents and showed the direction he would take in the early 1970s with the expansion of his career. The album featured one of Taylor's...
, JT
JT (album)
JT is singer-songwriter James Taylor's eighth album, and his first album for Columbia Records. Released in 1977, it contains hit singles in "Handy Man" and "Your Smiling Face" and was Taylor's highest charting album since Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon.This album also contains several Taylor...
and Flag
Flag (James Taylor album)
Flag is singer-songwriter James Taylor's ninth album. Released in 1979, it included songs from Taylor's music score to Studs Terkel and Stephen Schwartz's Broadway musical, Working ....
, and for Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
, including Heart Like A Wheel
Heart Like a Wheel
Heart Like a Wheel is Linda Ronstadt's fifth solo album release and the last-ever of her studio projects for Capitol Records, released in late 1974. It is universally considered to be Ronstadt's all-time high watermark masterpiece recording and a pioneering blueprint of Country Rock...
, Simple Dreams
Simple Dreams
Simple Dreams is one of the most successful albums of Linda Ronstadt's career, spending five consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in late 1977. It also knocked Elvis Presley out of No...
, Living In The USA
Living in the USA
Living In The USA is a 1978 album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. The album was Ronstadt's third No. 1 on the Billboard album chart and was the first album in history to ship Double Platinum...
, What's New
What's New with Phil & Dixie
What's New with Phil & Dixie is a comic strip by Phil Foglio originally published in Dragon magazine from 1980 to 1984, returning to print in the 1990s. The comic stars Phil Foglio, along with Dixie Null, as they explore the world of tabletop RPGs with a mixture of reportage and advice to the reader...
, Canciones De Mi Padre
Canciones de Mi Padre
Canciones De Mi Padre was American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt's first album of Mexican traditional Mariachi music. This album has never been out of print.-History:...
and Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind
Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind
Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind is a Grammy award winning, Triple Platinum-certified 1989 album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt featuring American soul singer Aaron Neville. This album was taken out of print in 2009—twenty years after release.-History:The album is a...
.
The Roxy Theater
The Roxy Theatre
The Roxy Theatre is a famous nightclub, on the Sunset Strip, in West Hollywood, California. The Roxy is owned by Lou Adler and Adler's son, Nic, who operates the club.- History :...
in West Hollywood was opened on September 23, 1973 along with Elmer Valentine and Lou Adler along with original partners David Geffen, Elliot Roberts and Peter Asher.
Asher also played a role in shaping the California rock sound prominent during the 1970s, producing records for Ronstadt, J.D. Souther, Andrew Gold
Andrew Gold
Andrew Maurice Gold was an American singer, musician and songwriter. His works include the Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" , as well as the singles "Thank You for Being a Friend" , and "Never Let Her Slip Away" ....
and Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
. In 1976, Asher and Waller reformed for the annual New York 'Beatlefest' and played a few other dates. In the 1980s, Asher also worked on hit albums for artists as diverse as Cher
Cher
Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
and 10,000 Maniacs
10,000 Maniacs
10,000 Maniacs is a United States-based alternative rock band, which formed in 1981 and continues to be active with various line-ups.-1981–1993:...
.
In February 1995, Peter Asher was named Senior Vice President, Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
. At the beginning of 2002, Peter left Sony and returned full time to the management of artists’ careers as co-President of Sanctuary Artist Management. In January 2005 he was named President, the position he held until September 2006, when he resigned. In 2007 Peter joined forces with his friend Simon Renshaw
Simon Renshaw
Simon John Renshaw is a former English cricketer. Renshaw was a right-handed batsman who was a right-arm medium-fast bowler....
(who manages the Dixie Chicks
Dixie Chicks
The Dixie Chicks are an American country band which has also successfully crossed over into other genres. The band is composed of founding members Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines...
) at the company Simon founded, Strategic Artist Management. Strategic has grown into a dominant force in the entertainment industry, now managing numerous major artists in many fields of endeavor beyond just music - one of Asher’s clients is Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson
Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model, producer, author, activist, and former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990...
. Asher also reunited with James Taylor as the producer of the Live at the Troubadour
Live at the Troubadour (Carole King and James Taylor)
Live at the Troubadour is a live album by Carole King and James Taylor released in 2010. The album was recorded at The Troubadour in West Hollywood in November 2007 to celebrate the venue's 50th anniversary...
reunion album recorded in 2007, with Carole King
Carole King
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...
and Taylor's original band.
During 2005 and 2006, Peter and Gordon reformed for occasional concerts. However, Waller died in 2009 and in its obituary, The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
observed that "Waller was thought more handsome than the slightly nerdish looking Asher".
Asher had been quoted as saying that actor Mike Myers
Mike Myers (actor)
Michael John "Mike" Myers is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer of British parentage...
has said he had patterned his Austin Powers character after Asher's appearance, although Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Jane Hurley is an English model and actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los...
, who co-starred in Austin Powers, claimed that the original model was broadcaster Simon Dee
Simon Dee
Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd , better known by his stage name Simon Dee, was a British television interviewer and radio disc jockey who hosted a twice-weekly BBC TV chat show, Dee Time in the late 1960s...
, (who, in appearance, looked much less like Powers than Asher).
Personal life
He had a short-lived relationship with Millie SmallMillie (singer)
Millie is a Jamaican singer-songwriter, often known as "Little Millie Small", and in the United States as "Millie Small", and is best known as the singer of the 1964 hit, "My Boy Lollipop".-Career:...
, known as Millie, who sang "My Boy Lollipop
My Boy Lollipop
"My Boy Lollipop" is a song written in the mid-1950s by Robert Spencer of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs, and usually credited to Spencer, Morris Levy, and Johnny Roberts. It was first recorded in New York in 1956 by Barbie Gaye...
".
His daughter Victoria Asher
Victoria Asher
Victoria Jane Asher , is known to Cobra Starship fans as Vicky-T, and can be seen in some of the music videos produced by the band, which she is the keytarist for. She is the daughter of producer/manager/musician Peter Asher of the hit band Peter & Gordon, who were part of the British Invasion...
is the keytarist in the American synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...
/pop punk
Pop punk
Pop punk is a fusion music genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music, to varying degrees. Allmusic describes the genre as a strand of alternative rock, which typically merges pop melodies with speedy punk tempos, chord changes and loud guitars...
band Cobra Starship
Cobra Starship
Cobra Starship is an American synthpop band created by former Midtown bassist and lead vocalist Gabe Saporta in 2003 in New York City, New York...
.
Grammy awards
- 1977 — Producer of The Year, Non-ClassicalGrammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-ClassicalThe Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1975. The award had several minor name changes:*from 1975 to 1977, the award was known as Best Producer of the Year...
- 1989 — Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical (Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the WindCry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the WindCry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind is a Grammy award winning, Triple Platinum-certified 1989 album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt featuring American soul singer Aaron Neville. This album was taken out of print in 2009—twenty years after release.-History:The album is a...
) - 2002 — Best Spoken Comedy Album (Live 2002 (Robin WilliamsRobin WilliamsRobin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
))
As performer
All releases by Peter and Gordon unless noted.| Year | Album |
|---|---|
| 1964 | In Touch With... |
| 1964 | Peter and Gordon |
| 1964 | World Without Love |
| 1965 | Hurtin' 'n' Lovin |
| 1965 | I Don't Want to See You Again |
| 1965 | I Go To Pieces |
| 1965 | True Love Ways |
| 1966 | Best of Peter and Gordon |
| 1966 | Peter and Gordon Sing & Play the Hits of Nashville |
| 1966 | Somewhere |
| 1966 | Woman |
| 1967 | In London for Tea |
| 1967 | Knight In Rusty Armour |
| 1967 | Lady Godiva |
| 1967 | Hot Cold & Custard |
| 1972 | Gordon (Gordon Waller solo album) |
| 1983 | Best of Peter and Gordon |
| 1983 | Hits of Peter and Gordon |
| 1991 | Best of Peter and Gordon |
| 2001 | Ultimate Peter and Gordon |
| 2003 | Definitive Collection: Knights in Rusty Armour |
As producer
| Year | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | James Taylor James Taylor (album) James Taylor is singer-songwriter James Taylor's debut album. Released in 1968, it was the first recording by a non-British artist released by Apple Records, and would also be Taylor's only release on that label... |
James Taylor James Taylor James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.... |
| 1969 | Barbara Keith | Barbara Keith |
| 1970 | Jo Mama | Jo Mama |
| 1970 | Sweet Baby James Sweet Baby James Sweet Baby James is singer-songwriter James Taylor's second album, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, it showcased Taylor's talents and showed the direction he would take in the early 1970s with the expansion of his career. The album featured one of Taylor's... |
James Taylor |
| 1971 | Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon -Track listing:All songs by James Taylor unless otherwise noted.#"Love Has Brought Me Around" – 2:41#"You've Got a Friend" – 4:28#"Places in My Past" – 2:01#"Riding on a Railroad" – 2:41#"Soldiers" – 1:13#"Mud Slide Slim" – 5:20... |
James Taylor |
| 1971 | Sister Kate Sister Kate (album) Sister Kate is singer Kate Taylor's first album, released in 1971.The album features versions of songs by a number of different artists, including "Where You Lead" and "Home Again" which also appeared on Carole King's Tapestry album that same year, as well as two songs which had been recently been... |
Kate Taylor Kate Taylor Kate Taylor is an American folk singer, originally from Boston, Massachusetts.-Biography:Kate was born in Boston and grew up with her four brothers in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where her father was Dean of the medical school at the University of North Carolina... |
| 1971 | Tony Joe White Tony Joe White Tony Joe White is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie"; "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970; and "Steamy Windows", a hit for Tina Turner in 1989... |
Tony Joe White |
| 1971 | Bad Girl Songs | Tony Kosinec |
| 1972 | One Man Dog One Man Dog -Track listing:All songs by James Taylor unless otherwise noted.#"One Man Parade" – 3:10#"Nobody But You" – 2:57#"Chili Dog" – 1:35#"Fool for You" – 1:42#"Instrumental I" – 0:55#"New Tune" – 1:35#"Back on the Street Again" – 3:00... |
James Taylor |
| 1973 | Don't Cry Now Don't Cry Now Don't Cry Now is Linda Ronstadt's fourth solo LP and the first of her studio releases for Asylum Records, following six albums recorded for and released on Capitol Records... |
Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden... |
| 1974 | Heart Like a Wheel Heart Like a Wheel Heart Like a Wheel is Linda Ronstadt's fifth solo album release and the last-ever of her studio projects for Capitol Records, released in late 1974. It is universally considered to be Ronstadt's all-time high watermark masterpiece recording and a pioneering blueprint of Country Rock... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1975 | Prisoner in Disguise Prisoner in Disguise Prisoner In Disguise is Linda Ronstadt's sixth solo LP release and her second for the label Asylum Records. It followed Ronstadt's Multi-Platinum breakthrough album, Heart Like A Wheel, which became her first of three #1 albums on the Billboard album chart in early 1975.This album has never been... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1975 | Black Rose | J.D. Souther |
| 1976 | Hasten Down the Wind Hasten Down the Wind Hasten Down The Wind is a 1976 album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt and was Ronstadt's third straight million-selling album. Ronstadt was the first female artist in history to accomplish this feat. The album earned Ronstadt a Grammy for "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" in 1977,... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1976 | In the Pocket | James Taylor |
| 1976 | Love Songs | David Sanborn David Sanborn David Sanborn is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school... |
| 1977 | JT JT (album) JT is singer-songwriter James Taylor's eighth album, and his first album for Columbia Records. Released in 1977, it contains hit singles in "Handy Man" and "Your Smiling Face" and was Taylor's highest charting album since Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon.This album also contains several Taylor... |
James Taylor |
| 1977 | Simple Dreams Simple Dreams Simple Dreams is one of the most successful albums of Linda Ronstadt's career, spending five consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart in late 1977. It also knocked Elvis Presley out of No... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1978 | Living in the USA Living in the USA Living In The USA is a 1978 album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. The album was Ronstadt's third No. 1 on the Billboard album chart and was the first album in history to ship Double Platinum... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1979 | Flag Flag (James Taylor album) Flag is singer-songwriter James Taylor's ninth album. Released in 1979, it included songs from Taylor's music score to Studs Terkel and Stephen Schwartz's Broadway musical, Working .... |
James Taylor |
| 1979 | The Glow The Glow The Glow is the seventh album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1979 .-Track listing:#"I Thank You" – 2:51#"Your Good Thing " – 4:00... |
Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially... |
| 1980 | Mad Love Mad Love (Linda Ronstadt album) Mad Love is a Platinum certified, Grammy-nominated 1980 New Wave album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard album chart — a record at the time and a first for any female artist — and quickly became Ronstadt's seventh consecutive million-selling... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1981 | Dad Loves His Work Dad Loves His Work -Track listing:All songs by James Taylor unless otherwise noted.#"Hard Times" – 3:13#"Her Town Too" – 4:34#"Hour That the Morning Comes" – 2:56#"I Will Follow" – 4:19#"Believe It or Not" – 3:53... |
James Taylor |
| 1982 | Get Closer | Linda Ronstadt |
| 1983 | Reelin' in the Years, Vol. 1 | various artists |
| 1983 | What's New What's New (Linda Ronstadt album) What's New is a Grammy-nominated, Triple Platinum-certified, 1983 Jazz album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt consisting of nine songs of Jazz music. It represents the first in a trilogy of 1980s albums Ronstadt recorded with the bandleader/arranger Nelson Riddle... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1984 | Lush Life Lush Life (Linda Ronstadt album) Lush Life is a Platinum-certified, Grammy-nominated album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt, released in late 1984. It was the second in a trilogy of jazz albums with bandleader/arranger Nelson Riddle.... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1984 | Moonlighting | (Original TV soundtrack) |
| 1985 | That's Why I'm Here That's Why I'm Here -Track listing:All songs were written by James Taylor, except where noted.#"That's Why I'm Here" – 3:39#"Song for You Far Away" – 2:58#"Only a Dream in Rio" -Track listing:All songs were written by James Taylor, except where noted.#"That's Why I'm Here" – 3:39#"Song for You Far Away" – 2:58#"Only a... |
James Taylor |
| 1986 | An American Tail An American Tail An American Tail is a 1986 American animated adventure film directed by Don Bluth and produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Amblin Entertainment. The film tells the story of Fievel Mouskewitz and his family as they immigrate from Russia to America for freedom. However, Fievel gets lost and must... |
(Original soundtrack) |
| 1986 | For Sentimental Reasons For Sentimental Reasons (Linda Ronstadt album) For Sentimental Reasons is a million-selling, Platinum-certified album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt, released in late 1986. The album reached #46 on Billboards main album chart as well as #3 on the Top Jazz Albums chart... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1987 | Canciones De Mi Padre Canciones de Mi Padre Canciones De Mi Padre was American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt's first album of Mexican traditional Mariachi music. This album has never been out of print.-History:... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1987 | Cher Cher (1987 album) Additional notes*"I Found Someone" was originally recorded by Laura Branigan and appears on her 1985 album Hold Me.*"Bang-Bang" was previously recorded for Cher's second studio album The Sonny Side of Chér in 1966.-Personnel & Production:... |
Cher Cher Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in... |
| 1987 | In My Tribe In My Tribe In My Tribe is an album by American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. It was their second major-label album and their first to achieve large-scale success. John Lombardo, Natalie Merchant's songwriting partner on previous albums, left the band in 1986... |
10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs is a United States-based alternative rock band, which formed in 1981 and continues to be active with various line-ups.-1981–1993:... |
| 1987 | Storytellers: Singers & Songwriters | various artists |
| 1988 | The Land Before Time The Land Before Time The Land Before Time is a 1988 American animated adventure film directed and co-produced by Don Bluth , and executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall.... |
(Original soundtrack) |
| 1989 | Blind Man's Zoo Blind Man's Zoo Blind Man's Zoo 10,000 Maniacs' fourth album, released in 1989. The LP version of the album was pressed on high quality audiophile vinyl.-Track listing:All songs written by Natalie Merchant except as noted.Side one#"Eat for Two" – 3:26... |
10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs is a United States-based alternative rock band, which formed in 1981 and continues to be active with various line-ups.-1981–1993:... |
| 1989 | Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind is a Grammy award winning, Triple Platinum-certified 1989 album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt featuring American soul singer Aaron Neville. This album was taken out of print in 2009—twenty years after release.-History:The album is a... |
Linda Ronstadt |
| 1989 | Heart of Stone | Cher |
| 1989 | You Happy Puppet | 10,000 Maniacs |
| 1990 | Mermaids | (Original soundtrack) |
| 1991 | Force Behind the Power | Diana Ross Diana Ross Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway... |
| 1991 | Live in Rio | James Taylor |
| 1991 | Love Hurts Love Hurts (Cher album) Love Hurts is the twenty-first studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on June 11, 1991 by Geffen Records. The RIAA certified it Gold on August 27, 1991. It is the final studio album with the record label Geffen... |
Cher |
| 1991 | Lovescape | Neil Diamond Neil Diamond Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present.... |
| 1991 | Mambo Kings | (Original soundtrack) |
| 1991 | Swept | Julia Fordham Julia Fordham Julia Fordham is a British singer-songwriter based in California. Her professional career started in the early 1980s, under the name "Jules Fordham", as a backing singer for Mari Wilson and Kim Wilde.-Career:... |
| 1991 | Williams Brothers | The Williams Brothers |
| 1992 | American Standard | Mary's Danish Mary's Danish Mary's Danish were an alternative rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in the late 1980s and released a series of albums until 1992. The band creatively blended of rock, funk, country and soul elements.... |
| 1992 | Back to Basics | Olivia Newton-John Olivia Newton-John Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA... |
| 1992 | Christmas Album | Neil Diamond Neil Diamond Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present.... |
| 1992 | Olivia | Olivia Newton-John |
| 1992 | Time Takes Time | Ringo Starr Ringo Starr Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in... |
| 1993 | Made in America | (Original soundtrack) |
| 1993 | Robin Zander | Robin Zander Robin Zander Robin Wayne Zander is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Cheap Trick.-Early life:Zander was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, the fourth of five children; he has two older brothers, and older and younger sisters.... |
| 1993 | Up on the Roof: Songs from the Brill Building | Neil Diamond |
| 1994 | Christmas Album, Vol. 2 | Neil Diamond |
| 1994 | Randy Newman's Faust: Words & Music | various artists |
| 1995 | Don't Ask Don't Ask -Release history:-Charts and certifications:Don't Ask became Arena's highest selling album to date selling in excess of 2 million copies worldwide and was certified ten times platinum by the ARIA.-Peak positions:-End of year charts:... |
Tina Arena Tina Arena Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist... |
| 1995 | EP Collection | Peter & Gordon |
| 1995 | Faust | Randy Newman Randy Newman Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores.... |
| 1996 | It Takes Two | various artists |
| 1996 | One Fine Day | (Original soundtrack) |
| 1996 | Show Me Heaven | Tina Arena |
| 1997 | Most Beautiful Soul Album on Earth | various artists |
| 1997 | Superstar Christmas | various artists |
| 1997 | Under These Rocks and Stones Under These Rocks and Stones Under These Rocks and Stones is the first album by Canadian singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, released in 1997 . Several singles were released in Canada, including "God Made Me", "Believer", "Wayne", "Surrounded" and "Hands"... |
Chantal Kreviazuk Chantal Kreviazuk Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk is a Canadian singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, and can play the guitar.-Albums:... |
| 1998 | Armageddon | (Original soundtrack) |
| 1998 | As I Came of Age | Sarah Brightman Sarah Brightman Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She is famous for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves and singing in the whistle register... |
| 1998 | December | Kenny Loggins Kenny Loggins During the next decade, Loggins recorded so many successful songs for film soundtracks that he was referred to as, King of the Movie Soundtrack.He began with "I'm Alright" , "Mr. Night", and "Lead the Way" from Caddyshack... |
| 1998 | Motown 40 Forever | various artists |
| 1999 | All Time Greatest Movie Songs | various artists |
| 1999 | Best Party Megamix in the World Ever | various artists |
| 1999 | Collection | Julia Fordham Julia Fordham Julia Fordham is a British singer-songwriter based in California. Her professional career started in the early 1980s, under the name "Jules Fordham", as a backing singer for Mari Wilson and Kim Wilde.-Career:... |
| 1999 | Runaway Bride | (Original soundtrack) |
| 1999 | When the Going Gets Tough | Boyzone Boyzone Boyzone are an Irish boy band comprising Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating,Shane Lynch, and formerly Stephen Gately. Boyzone have 19 singles in the top 40 UK charts and 21 singles in the Ire charts. The group currently have 6 UK number one singles and 9 number one singles in Ireland with 12... |
| 2000 | Gift of Love | Diana Ross Diana Ross Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway... |
| 2000 | More Songs from Pooh Corner | Kenny Loggins |
| 2000 | Tigger Movie: Songs & Story | various artists |
| 2001 | Everything I Am | Anna Vissi Anna Vissi Anna Vissi , known as Anna Vishy in Cypriot Greek, is a Greek-Cypriot recording artist and actress... |
| 2001 | Motown Anthology | Diana Ross |
| 2001 | Three Chord Opera | Neil Diamond |
| 2001 | Ultimate Peter and Gordon | Peter & Gordon |
| 2002 | Capitol Records 1942–2002 | various artists |
| 2002 | Everybody's Got a Story Everybody's Got a Story Everybody's Got a Story is Amanda Marshall's third album. The album was certified platinum by the CRIA selling over 100,000 copies across Canada.-Track listing:#"Everybody's Got a Story" - 4:11... |
Amanda Marshall Amanda Marshall Amanda Meta Marshall is a Canadian pop-rock singer.She grew up in Toronto in a biracial family to a White Canadian father and a Black Trinidadian mother... |
| 2002 | Freedom: A History of Us | (Original soundtrack) |
| 2002 | Live 2002 | Robin Williams Robin Williams Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance... |
| 2002 | Providence | (Original TV soundtrack) |
| 2002 | Sweet Is the Melody | Aselin Debison Aselin Debison Aselin Debison is a Canadian pop and Celtic music singer.-Career:Debison began her singing career in 1999, when she was asked to sing at a rally of protesting miners in her hometown. Soon after this performance she began working on a Christmas album The Littlest Angel which was released in 2001... |
| 2003 | Best of the Definitive American Songbook, Vol. 2: I-Z | various artists |
| 2003 | Cafeteria: Hear | various artists |
| 2003 | Earth Rider — The Essential John Stewart 1964–1979 | John Stewart |
| 2003 | Singers and Songwriters Christmas Songs | various artists |
| 2004 | California | Wilson Phillips Wilson Phillips -Studio albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Other charted songs:-Awards and nominations:... |
| 2004 | Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings is a 2004 compilation album by 10,000 Maniacs featuring their biggest hits, b-sides and unknown recordings from the Natalie Merchant era.-Track listing:Disc One - The Most Popular Recordings... |
10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs is a United States-based alternative rock band, which formed in 1981 and continues to be active with various line-ups.-1981–1993:... |
| 2004 | De-Lovely | (Original soundtrack) |
| 2004 | Intermission | Amanda Marshall |
| 2004 | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | (Original soundtrack) |
| 2004 | Taking a Chance on Love | Jane Monheit Jane Monheit Jane Monheit is a jazz and adult contemporary vocalist for Concord Records. She has collaborated with artists such as Michael Bublé, Ivan Lins, Terence Blanchard and Tom Harrell, and has received Grammy nominations for two of her recordings.-Early life:Jane Monheit was raised in Oakdale, New York... |
| 2005 | Live at Earls Court | Morrissey Morrissey Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,... |
| 2005 | Goodies, Vol. 1 | various artists |
| 2005 | Souvenirs | Tina Arena |
| 2006 | You're Only Lonely | Raul Malo |
| 2007 | Siren | Sasha and Shawna |
| 2006 | I Love You I Love You (Diana Ross album) I Love You is Diana Ross' latest album, released in the United Kingdom and some parts of Europe on October 2nd 2006. Diana was inspired to release an album of love songs after she had been looking through a family photo album and wanted to base her next project around the greatest factor in her... |
Diana Ross Diana Ross Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway... |
| 2010 | Live at the Troubadour Live at the Troubadour (Carole King and James Taylor) Live at the Troubadour is a live album by Carole King and James Taylor released in 2010. The album was recorded at The Troubadour in West Hollywood in November 2007 to celebrate the venue's 50th anniversary... |
Carole King Carole King Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S... and James Taylor James Taylor James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.... |
As executive producer
| Year | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Harry's Cafe De Wheels | Peter Blakeley Peter Blakeley Peter Blakeley is an Australian White Soul/Adult Contemporary singer and songwriter.Blakeley was a lead singer for The Rockmelons in the mid-1980s. He launched a solo career in 1987 and had a massive hit single in Australia in 1990 with "Crying in the Chapel", which was not a remake of the 1950s... |
| 1999 | Timbre Timbre (album) Timbre is the third album by American singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins, released in 1999 . This album was re-released in 2001 with a bonus disc. One release has censored lyrics in "The Darkest Childe" and "Help Me Breathe".... |
Sophie B. Hawkins Sophie B. Hawkins Sophie Ballantine Hawkins is an American singer, songwriter, musician and painter. Her biggest hits are "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover", "Right Beside You", and "As I Lay Me Down".- Career :... |
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- Once Life Matters: A New Beginning - author Marty Angelo. Reference: Apple Records 1969 recording contract offer to RavenRaven (U.S. band)Raven was an influential rock/blues band formed in 1967 in Buffalo, New York, and active until 1970. It was composed of Tony Galla , Jim Calire , Gary Mallaber , John Weitz , and the late Tom Calandra...
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