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Richard Darryl Way (born 17 December 1948 in
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, England) is an English rock and classical musician who was a founding member of
Curved Air Curved Air are an English progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classical, folk and electronic sound. The resulting sound of the band is a mixture of progressive rock, folk rock, and fu ...
and co-writer of their Progressive Rock seminal albums from 1970 to 1976. He is best known as a violinist although he also plays keyboards.


Biography

He began his musical training at
Dartington College of Arts Dartington College of Arts was a specialist arts college located at Dartington Hall in the south-west of England, offering courses at degree and postgraduate level together with an arts research programme. It existed for a period of almost 50 ...
, and later studied at the
Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including pe ...
. When he met
Francis Monkman Anthony Francis Keigwin Monkman (9 June 1949 – 12 May 2023) was an English rock, classical and film score composer, and a founding member of both the progressive rock band Curved Air and the classical/rock fusion band Sky. Life and career ...
, they formed the band Sisyphus, which evolved into Curved Air.Brennan, Mark (1995). "Curved Air". In ''Midnight Wire''
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Repertoire Records.
After three albums and a hit single with Curved Air, he left in 1972 and formed the band Darryl Way's Wolf, which also recorded three albums before splitting. His next band, Stark Naked & the Car Thieves, went on hiatus when Curved Air reformed in late 1974.Sutcliffe, Phil & Fielder, Hugh (1981). ''L'Historia Bandido''. London and New York: Proteus Books. . Pages 15-16. After their Curved Air – Live album, Curved Air split, only to be reformed by Way primarily using members of Stark Naked & the Car Thieves. He recorded two studio albums with this new incarnation of the group before leaving again. He played on two tracks on Jethro Tull's 1978 album ''Heavy Horses''. He then went on to release several solo albums, including ''Concerto for Electric Violin'', which premiered on the
South Bank Show ''The South Bank Show'' is a British television arts magazine series originally produced by London Weekend Television and broadcast on ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new version of the series began 27 May 2012 on Sky Arts. Conceived, written, ...
with the Royal Philharmonia Orchestra in 1978. There was a subsequent performance at
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Town Hall in the early 1980s which was broadcast live on BBC Radio Leeds. Curved Air reunited briefly in 1990 and a live recording of their reunion concert was released in 2000. In November 1996, his own opera, ''The Russian Opera'', was premiered at The Place Theatre in London, and his song writing work includes music settings to lyrics by
Steven Berkoff Steven Berkoff (born Leslie Steven Berks; 3 August 1937) is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director. As a theatre maker he is recognised for staging work with a heightened performance style known as "Be ...
. In 2008, he took part in a series of Curved Air reunion concerts.


Discography


With

Curved Air Curved Air are an English progressive rock group formed in 1970 by musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds, including classical, folk and electronic sound. The resulting sound of the band is a mixture of progressive rock, folk rock, and fu ...

* ''
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'' (1970) including ''Vivaldi'' * '' Second Album'' (1971) on which he co-wrote their sole charting hit ''Back Street Luv'' * ''
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'' (1972) * ''
Live Live may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Live!'' (2007 film), 2007 American film * ''Live'' (2014 film), a 2014 Japanese film * ''Live'' (2023 film), a Malayalam-language film *'' Live: Phát Trực Tiếp'', a Vietnamese-langua ...
'' (1975) * '' Midnight Wire'' (1975) * '' Airborne'' (1976) * ''Renegade b/w We're Only Human'' (1984) * '' Live At The BBC'' (1995) * ''
Alive, 1990 ''Alive, 1990'' is a recording from the Curved Air reunion concert 23 September 1990. The lineup reunited Sonja Kristina, Francis Monkman, Florian Pilkington-Miksa and Darryl Way, sixteen years after the last time all four of them played together ...
'' (2000)


With Darryl Way's Wolf

* ''Canis Lupus'' (1973) * ''Saturation Point'' (1973) * ''Five in the Morning b/w Bunch of Fives'' (1973) * ''Night Music'' (1974) * ''Darryl Way's Wolf'' (compilation from ''Canis Lupus'' and ''Saturation Point'') (1974)


With

Trace Trace may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * ''Trace'' (Son Volt album), 1995 * ''Trace'' (Died Pretty album), 1993 * Trace (band), a Dutch progressive rock band * ''The Trace'' (album), by Nell Other uses in arts and entertainment * ...

* ''Birds'' (1975)


With

Pierre Moerlen's Gong Pierre Moerlen's Gong was an instrumental jazz fusion band led by French drummer Pierre Moerlen which developed as an offshoot of the Canterbury scene band Gong founded and led by Daevid Allen. It was notable for the prominent use of mallet p ...

*''
Expresso II ''Expresso II'' is the eighth studio album released under the name Gong and the ''de facto'' second album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong. It released in February 1978. Featuring an all-instrumental jazz-driven sound, notable for the prominent use of v ...
'' (1978)


With Jethro Tull

*''
Heavy Horses ''Heavy Horses'' is the eleventh studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released on 10 April 1978. The album is often considered the second in a trio of folk rock albums released by the band at the end of the 1970s, along ...
'' (1978)


Solo

* ''Concerto for Electric Violin'' (1978) - Francis Monkman synthesizes an orchestra * ''Little Plum b/w Sweet Dreams'' (1982) - produced by
Martin Gordon Martin Gordon (born 3 May 1954) is an English musician who plays bass guitar, double bass, and piano. After a long period as band member and session musician, he embarked on a solo career in 2004. His most recent album release was in 2024. Bi ...
for Snat Records * ''As Long as There's a Spark...'' (1983) - EP * ''Little Plum (remix) b/w Love Is The Driver'' (1984) * ''Edge of the World'' (1984) *''The Human Condition: Suite for String Orchestra, Piano and Percussion'' (1987) * ''Under the Soft'' (1991) * ''Classical Rock (music for TV and Film)'' (2010) * ''Ultra Violins'' (2013) * ''Children Of The Cosmos'' (2014) * ''Myths, Legends And Tales'' (2016) * ''Vivaldi's Four Seasons In Rock'' (2018) * ''Destinations'' (2019)


References


External links


Darryl Way's home page

Curved Air website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Way, Darryl 1948 births English male violinists Living people People from Taunton Curved Air members Alumni of the Royal College of Music Deram Records artists 21st-century English violinists 21st-century English male musicians