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band Lifesigns. He has also been playing with friends in a group called The Two Pianos, a rock and roll band, for four years. He has been and is touring worldwide with Queen Symphonic / the Queen Rock and Symphonic show which features international singers, a rock band and symphony orchestra. Their last tour before COVID-19 saw them playing in Japan with the

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at the beginning of 2020. Touring and west end shows being postponed he is currently working on his first solo album and has been collaborating with a number of musicians on individual projects and writing of music. Variations of name: Beedle, Frosty Beadle, Frosty Beedle, Martin "Frostie" Beedle, Martin "Frosty" Beedle, Martin (Frosty) Beedle, Martin Beadle

Biography (short)

Frosty was born into a musical family. His father loved big band music and his mother loved to sing. He had singing lessons from the age of six and started playing drums aged 9. He gained permission from the local authorities to play in pubs and clubs from the age of eleven and spent his youth playing semi professionally in anything from jazz trios to big bands. He eventually turned professional aged seventeen joining the QE2 transatlantic liner and travelled the world completing three world cruises by the time he was twenty one. He moved to London in 1984. In 1985 he joined the pop group Cutting Crew. "

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" was a top ten hit in many countries. He left the band after six years in 1991 and went on to work with various acts, touring with some of them but also recording (singles/songs) with Sarah Brightman, Zucchero,

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and more. At the same time he has been holding the drum chair in the '' Mamma Mia!'' show, the seventh longest running show in the London West End from year 2000.

Discography (selection)

Studio albums

With

* ''Broadcast'' (1986) * ''

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(1989)'' With Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari * ''Miserere'' (1992) With Marie Claire D'Ulbado * The Outside (of the Other Side)(1994) With

* ''Reprise'' (2002) With Never the Bride * Never the Bride (1995) * Vancouver 97 (2009) With

* La Luna (2000) *

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(2003) With Gregorian * The Dark Side (2004) * Chapter V (2004) With Lifesigns * Lifesigns (2013) * Cardington (2017) With The Boaters Project * The Boaters Project (2016) With

Mari Wilson Mari Macmillan Ramsay Wilson (born 29 September 1954, Neasden, London) is a British pop and jazz singer. She is best known for her 1982 UK top-10 hit single " Just What I Always Wanted". She had a further UK top-40 hit in 1983 with a cover of ...

* Mari Wilson – Pop Deluxe (2016)

Live Album/DVD

With

* In Concert-405 (Live 1987) With Lifesigns * Under the Bridge – Live in London (DVD – 2015)

Singles

With

(1986) *

I've Been in Love Before "I've Been in Love Before" is a song by the English rock band Cutting Crew. Written by lead singer Nick Van Eede, it was released as the second single from the band's debut album, ''Broadcast Broadcasting is the data distribution, distributi ...

(1986) With

* My Sweet Lord (1992)

References (selection only)

INTERVIEW: Jacqui Hicks (New CD with Simon Carter, Phil Mulford and ‘Frosty’ Beedle – The Boaters Project) Retrieved 19 July 2020 The Voxtet and Band at Ronnie Scott's Retrieved 19 July 2020
Cutting Crew Official Video (I Just) Died In Your ArmsCutting Crew Official Video The Scattering
Frosty Beedle on The Arts Show Interview with Michael Madden, 17 March 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.

External links

Queen Symphonic

''Mamma Mia!'' The Production Band
1961 births Living people Musicians from Yorkshire Lifesigns members English drummers {{UK-drummer-stub