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Secret Drinker
''Secret Drinker'' is an album by British musician Pete Atkin, co-written by Atkin and songwriting partner Clive James. It was the penultimate album of their decade-long initial collaboration, and coincided with the rising fortunes of James as a newspaper critic and television presenter. Production The album was recorded across 13 sessions in June and July 1974 at Morgan Studios in London. Atkin again produced, with Roger Quested as engineer. A re-recorded single version of "I See the Joker" was recorded December 1974-January 1975 at the same studio and released as a follow up to the album. The lyrics to “Sessionman’s Blues” were written not during a music session, but during an appearance on DJ Sarah Ward’s late night show on Capital Radio. James wrote while Atkin performed with his backing band, and read him the words at the end of the show. “I See the Joker” features a recording of guitar played in reverse, an idea suggested by engineer Roger Quested. “National Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Atkin
Pete Atkin (born 22 August 1945) is a British singer-songwriter and radio producer, notable for his 1970s musical collaborations with Clive James and for producing the BBC Radio 4 series, '' This Sceptred Isle''. Early life Born in Cambridge, England, Atkin attended Romsey County Primary School where he began to play the violin, and subsequently attended The Perse School. He taught himself piano and guitar. In 1959, he formed a church youth club band called 'The Chevrons' for whom he played piano with four schoolfriends. He studied Classics and English at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1966 he joined Cambridge Footlights as a performer, writer and occasional music director, where he met future collaborators Julie Covington and Clive James. Music career Atkin made his first recording in 1967: a private pressing of 160 copies of ''While The Music Lasts'', with vocals by Atkin and fellow Footlights alum Julie Covington and songs written by Atkin solo as well as with Clive James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Studios
Morgan Studios (founded as Morgan Sound Studios) was an independent recording studio in Willesden in northwest London. Founded in 1967, the studio was the location for recordings by notable artists and bands such as The Cure, Jethro Tull, the Kinks, Paul McCartney, Yes, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Donovan, Joan Armatrading, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, UFO and many more. Morgan sold its studios in the early 1980s, with some of its studios succeeded by Battery Studios. History Morgan Sound Studios was founded in 1967 by Barry Morgan, Monty Babson, Jerry Allen, and Leon Calvert, who were operating a jazz record label at Lansdowne Studios and wanting dedicated office space for their label. Upon securing a location at 169–171 High Road, in the Willesden area of northwest London, the musicians decided to also build a recording studio. They hired ex-Olympic Studios engineer Terry Brown to manage the studio, who appointed another Olympic Studios alumnus, Andy Johns as chief engine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records (its former longtime rival), Arista Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop music, pop, classical music, classical, rock music, rock, hip hop, afrobeat, electronic music, electronic, Contemporary R&B, R&B, blues, jazz, and country music, country. The label's name is derived from the initials of its now defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). After the RCA Corporation was purchased by General Electric in 1986, RCA Records was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG); following the merger of BMG and Sony in 2004, RCA Records became a label of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. In 2008, after the dissolution of Sony/BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music, RCA Records became fully ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Road Of Silk
''The Road of Silk'' is an album by British musician Pete Atkin, co-written by Atkin and songwriting partner Clive James. It was Atkin's first outing as a solo producer. The release coincided with his first national tour, accompanied by a backing band with the prog rock group Riff Raff as the opening act. Production The album was recorded over 16 sessions in July, September and October 1973 at Morgan Studios in London. It was the first of the Atkin/James albums to be produced solo by Pete Atkin, under a new RCA contract. Roger Quested returned as engineer. The sessions also reunited Atkin with fellow Cambridge alum Daryl Runswick, who last played bass on 1967's privately-pressed LP ''While the Music Lasts''. By this point in their careers, the two songwriters were sharing a house in Islington. Though their division of labor ostensibly remained the same, with lyrics by James and music by Atkin, the close proximity of their lives mirrored the closer collaboration between words and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Libel
''Live Libel'' is an album by British musician Pete Atkin, co-written by Atkin and songwriting partner Clive James. It was their final album under the RCA contract and unintentionally concluded their 1970s songwriting collaboration. Production The album was recorded across ten sessions in March and May 1975, at Rockfield Studios in Wales and Morgan Studios in London. It was produced by Pete Atkin, with engineers Dave Charles at Rockfield and Roger Quested at Morgan. Atkin and James had prepared a full set of songs for their next album, but frustration over the label's neglect of their previous LPs motivated them to set those songs aside in favor of the material that came to comprise ''Live Libel''. Atkin described it as a "contractual fulfillment album." The tracks consisted of comedic songs that Atkin often inserted into his live concerts to add variety. The two were versed in comedy, having first begun collaborating as part of Footlights. On ''Live Libel'', they lampooned the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive James
Clive James (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019.Clive James — writer, TV broadcaster and critic — dies aged 80 ''ABC News'', 28 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019. He began his career specialising in literary criticism before becoming television critic for ''The Observer'' in 1972, where he made his name for his wry, deadpan humour. During this period, he earned an independent reputation as a poet and satire, satirist. He achieved mainstream success in the UK first as a writer for television, and eventually as the lead in his own programmes, including ''...on Televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Radio
Capital London is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Global Media & Entertainment as part of its national Capital (radio network), Capital Network. As Capital Radio it was launched in the London area in 1973 as one of Britain's first two commercial radio stations. Its brief was to entertain, while its opposite number, LBC, London Broadcasting (LBC), was licensed to provide news and information. In search of a larger audience in 1974, Capital Radio rapidly moved from a general and entertainment station with drama, features, documentaries and light music to a more successful pop music-based format. In 1988 it became two stations: 95.8 Capital FM and Capital Gold. After some national expansion with the purchase of other radio stations the Capital Radio Group merged with GCap Media, GWR Group in 2005 to form GCap Media which in turn was taken over by Global Radio in 2008. In 2011, Capital was launched nationally, apart from the daily breakfast and weekday driv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hart Crane
Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Inspired by the Romantics and his fellow Modernists, Crane wrote highly stylized poetry, often noted for its complexity. His collection '' White Buildings'' (1926), featuring "Chaplinesque", "At Melville's Tomb", "Repose of Rivers" and "Voyages", helped to cement his place in the avant-garde literary scene of the time. The long poem '' The Bridge'' (1930) is an epic inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge. Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio to Clarence A. Crane and Grace Edna Hart. He dropped out of East High School in Cleveland during his junior year and left for New York City, promising his parents he would later attend Columbia University. Crane took various jobs, including in copywriting and advertising. Throughout the early 1920s, various small but well-respected literary magazines published some of Crane's poems, gaining him among the avant-garde a respect that ''White Buildings'' ratified and stren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daryl Runswick
Daryl Runswick (born 12 October 1946) is a classically trained English composer, arranger, jazz musician, producer and educationalist. Career Runswick was born in Leicester, and educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He started playing bass with leading UK jazz musicians in the mid-1960s, including Dick Morrissey and John Dankworth, with whom he would tour and compose for extensively for some 12 years. In 1969, Runswick was a member of the Lionel Grigson- Pete Burden Quintet, and in 1972 played and recorded with the Ian Hamer Septet, a band in which Runswick coincided with Tubby Hayes, among others, and throughout the 1970s he was also a member of the London Jazz Four. As a session musician, Runswick later branched out into more popular music, including appearing on the first The Alan Parsons Project recording and working with Elton John. Runswick has also worked with the London Sinfonietta, Nash Ensemble and The King's Singers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. Peel was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio. He is widely acknowledged for promoting artists of many genres, including pop, dub reggae, punk rock and post-punk, electronic music and dance music, indie rock, extreme metal and British hip hop. Fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described Peel as "the most important single person in popular music from approximately 1967 through 1978. He broke more important artists than any individual." Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular " Peel Sessions", which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist in the BBC's studios, often providing the first major national coverage to bands that later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Shaar Murray
Charles Shaar Murray (born Charles Maximillian Murray; 27 June 1951) is an English Music journalism, music journalist and broadcaster. He has worked on the ''NME, New Musical Express'' (''NME'') and many other magazines and newspapers, and has been interviewed for a number of television documentaries and reports on music. Early life Murray grew up in Reading, Berkshire, Reading, Berkshire, England, where he attended Reading School and learnt to play the harmonica and guitar. His first experience in journalism came in 1970, when he was one of a number of schoolchildren who responded to an invitation to edit the April issue of the satirical magazine ''Oz (magazine), Oz''. He thus contributed to the notorious Schoolkids OZ issue and was involved in the consequent obscenity trial. Career Murray wrote for ''International Times'', before moving, in 1972, to the ''New Musical Express'' (''NME'')'','' for which he wrote until around 1986. He subsequently worked for a number of public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Frith
Simon Webster Frith (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist and rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. He is professor emeritus of Music at University of Edinburgh.Frith has written a number of sociological analyses of popular music, including ''The Sociology of Rock'' (1978) and ''Performing Rites: On the value of popular music'' (1996). Frith was the chair of the Mercury Prize from its inception in 1992 until his resignation in 2016. Career As a student, he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, PPE at Oxford University, Oxford and earned a doctorate in sociology from UC Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including ''The Sociology of Rock'' (Constable, 1978), ''Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll'' (Pantheon, 1981), ''Art into Pop'' (Methuen, 1987 – written with Howard Horne), ''Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop'' (Cambridge University Press, 1988), and'' Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
