Graham Hamilton Lyle (born 11 March 1944, in

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, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. Between 1970 and 1997, he co-wrote 18 British Top 40 hits, 9 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 entries, 4 US

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No.1s and 1 US

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No.1, as well as 3 Australian chart-toppers. His songwriting collaborators have included

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, Jim Diamond and his long-time performing partner,

Benny Gallagher Bernard Joseph "Benny" Gallagher (born 10 June 1945, in Largs, Ayrshire) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, most famous as half of the popular duo Gallagher and Lyle. Career The son of Irish parents, Gallagher attende ...

. His most famous composition is

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's 1984 US chart-topper and international smash, " What's Love Got to Do with It?", which reached No.1 in the US, Canada and Australia and won him the Song of the Year

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. He is also well known in Britain, Continental Europe and the Commonwealth as a member of

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, McGuinness Flint and Ronnie Lane's band Slim Chance.

With Benny Gallagher (1965–1980)

Lyle and

initially teamed up in 1959 as members of a local

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-based band, The Bluefrets, and teamed up again in a band based in Saltcoats called the Tulsans with lead singer James (Drew) Galt, Dennis Donald (keyboards), Eric Brown on guitar, Benny Gallagher (bass) and Graham Lyle (drums). The Tulsans released two singles in 1965 under the name James Galt for Pye that are now prized by northern soul collectors: "Comes The Dawn" and "With My Baby". Benny and Graham later moved to London in the mid 60s. A rare one-off single, "Trees", was issued on UK

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56093 in 1967, under the name Gallagher-Lyle. In 1968, Gallagher and Lyle were signed by

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, where they wrote for musicians such as

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("Sparrow", "The Fields of St. Etienne", "International", "Heritage", and "Jefferson"). In 1970, the two Scots became original members of the British band McGuinness Flint, writing nine of the 11 songs on the group's eponymous debut album, including the British hit singles "

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" and "Malt and Barley Blues", which reached No.2 and No.5 respectively in Britain. The pair recorded a second album, ''Happy Birthday Ruthy Baby'', with McGuinness Flint—again writing most of the songs—before leaving to form the duo Gallagher and Lyle in 1972. As a duo, Gallagher and Lyle recorded a total of eight albums: ''Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle'', ''Willie and the Lapdog'', ''Seeds'', ''The Last Cowboy'', '' Breakaway'', '' Love on the Airwaves'', ''Showdown'' and ''Lonesome No More''. All these were issued on A&M except for the last, which was released on Mercury. The most successful of these was 1976's gold-selling '' Breakaway'', which was produced by

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and yielded the British Top 10 hits "I Wanna Stay With You" and "Heart on My Sleeve", both of which also charted in the US. "Heart on My Sleeve" was subsequently covered by

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and

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. Two other songs from this album were successful in the US:

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of "Breakaway", topped the

chart, and

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took " Stay Young" to No. 1 on the

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and

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in their concerts in

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, New York City, to audiences of 500,000 and 750,000, respectively. The pair's original recording of "A Heart in New York" eventually appeared on 1991's compilation album ''Heart on My Sleeve – The Very Best of Gallagher and Lyle''. As session musicians, Gallagher and Lyle also backed numerous big names on disc, including

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and

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. The pair also had a stint in former

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member Ronnie Lane's

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band Slim Chance during 1973/74. Gallagher and Lyle split in 1980.

Post-Gallagher and Lyle (1981–2009)

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and "Listen to the Night" for

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. Graham's songs were subsequently recorded by some of the biggest names in music including

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and

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, Jim Diamond,

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, and Warren G, but it is for his work with

that Lyle is best known. Lyle and

won the Song of the Year Grammy for " What's Love Got to Do with It?" and an Ivor Novello award for another of

's major international hits, "

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", which was recorded for the soundtrack of ''

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''.

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would prove to be Lyle's biggest money-spinning act; he would co-write another 3 US

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entries and 6 more British Top 40 hits for her, including 1989's British No.8 hit "I Don't Wanna Lose You" in collaboration with

. Another high earner for the Lyle-Britten partnership was "

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", which was recorded by

on his multi-million selling album " Bad" in 1987. Jim Diamond scored a British and Australian No.1 in 1984 with " I Should Have Known Better", which he wrote with Lyle.

's " If I Never See You Again", co-written by Lyle and Britten, reached No.3 in the UK in 1997. Between 1986 and 1988, Lyle co-authored 3 US

chart-toppers: "

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" for

, " Straight to the Heart" for

, and "

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" for

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. Lyle's recordings after 1980 were rare, but included an album with Tom McGuinness, credited to the Lyle McGuinness Band: ''Acting on Impulse'' (1983), as well as a solo portfolio album, ''Something Beautiful Remains'' (2003). A solo single, "Marley", was issued on Red Bus in the UK in 1983, while "Taking Off" – a TV advertising jingle, co-written with prolific session keyboardist

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and credited to the Lyle-Livsey Band – was released on the Dolphin label in 1984, but only in Eire, where it became a Top 20 hit. In 1997, Lyle co-wrote and produced 2 British Top 20 hits for

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: "My Father's Son" (No.12) and "Earthbound" (No.14). The former song was covered by

. More recently, Lyle performed his composition "One Woman" at the United Nations in New York (www.un.org/webcast/) on 24 February 2011 to launch their "U.N.Woman" project.

Reunion with Benny Gallagher (2009–2018)

The seeds for a reunion with Benny Gallagher were sown in 2007 when he and Lyle, as session musicians, appeared on an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Chris Tassone; this was recorded at London's Abbey Road studios. In April 2009, soon after Lyle's official retirement, the two Scots attended the opening of the Largs Heritage Centre. The following year, the duo re-formed. In October 2010, the pair staged two charity concerts in Largs in aid of Haylie House, a residential care home in the town. The following month, they received the Tartan Clef for Lifetime Achievement at a ceremony in Glasgow. In June 2011 they performed alongside

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, Jim Diamond and

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as part of 'The Big Gig', an all-star charity concert at Glasgow's Barrowland nightclub. In September of that year, the duo appeared at the outdoor MOARE Festival in Faversham, Kent, which was headlined by former

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stalwart Hamish Stuart. 2012 saw Gallagher and Lyle undertake their first tour since 1979, consisting of 9 dates at 8 Scottish venues. Their two dates at The Green Hotel in Kinross, a large golf resort, earned them the Mundell Music Award for Best UK Performance of the year. In March 2016, Gallagher and Lyle performed together at the Belfast Nashville Songwriters' Festival. In November 2016, the duo returned to The Green Hotel in Kinross for four concerts. The summer of 2017 saw the duo perform as part of the 'Byre at The Botanics' season in St Andrews, and also at the Belladrum Festival in Inverness and the Albany Theatre in Greenock. In March 2018, the duo returned to Belfast to perform once more at the Belfast Nashville Songwriters' Festival. The duo have been inactive since then, following the announcement on Facebook on 13 March 2018 that Benny Gallagher's and the duo's fan pages were to be closed down.

Stage musical

''Caledonia USA'', a musical based on the songs of Gallagher and Lyle, was staged in Largs in April 2016. Originally titled "When I'm Dead and Gone", it was subsequently retitled after a new song written specially for the show by Gallagher and Lyle.

Hit singles as a songwriter

'' McGuinness Flint'' *"

": UK#2, US#47 (1970) *"Malt and Barley Blues": UK#5 (1971) ''

'' *"I Wanna Stay With You" by

: UK#6, US#49 (1976) *"Heart on My Sleeve": UK#6, US#67;

's version reached US#86 (1976) *" Breakaway": UK#35;

's version reached US#39 and US AC#1 (1976) *"Every Little Teardrop": UK#32 (1977) '' Jim Diamond'' *" I Should Have Known Better": UK#1, AUS#1 (1984) ''

'' *" What's Love Got to Do with It?": US#1, UK#3, AUS#1 (1984) *"

": UK#3, US#2, AUS#1 (1985) *"

Typical Male "Typical Male" is a song recorded by American singer Tina Turner. It was written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle and produced by the former for Turner's studio album ''Break Every Rule'' (1986). The song hit #1 in Cash Box magazine and just misse ...

": US#2, UK#33 (1986) *" Two People": US#30, UK#43 (1986) *" What You Get Is What You See": US#13, UK#30 (1987) *" I Don't Wanna Lose You": UK#8 (1989) *" Way of the World": UK#13 (1991) *"

I Want You Near Me "I Want You Near Me" is a song by recording artist Tina Turner from her 1991 compilation album, '' Simply the Best'', on which it was one of four new recordings. This single, written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle Graham Hamilton Lyle (bor ...

": UK#22 (1992) *" Something Beautiful Remains": UK#27 (1996) ''

'' *" If I Never See You Again": UK#3 (1997) ''

'' *"My Father's Son": UK#12 (1997) *"Earthbound": UK#14 (1997) '' US Country No.1s'' *" Stay Young" by

: US Hot Country#1 (1983) *" Straight to the Heart" by

: US Hot Country#1 (1986) *"

" by

: US Hot Country#1 (1987) *"

" by

: US Hot Country#1 (1988)

Discography

See

References

External links

*
Video interviews and 'fly on the wall' feature with Graham Lyle
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