Music Biography
After playing guitar and keyboards in several UK bands, became
involved in the music business as a singer/songwriter, session musician and then
sound engineer. Studios: Indigo; Arrow; Strawberry; Pluto; Morgan;
Smile; Magnum.
Started audio production company, building and running recording
studios in Manchester.
Set up Independent Label ‘Sharing Records’ , producing
Spiritual & World Music albums.
As producer/engineer at Indigo Studios enjoyed success with a diverse collection of artists and novelty records in the late 70's/ early 80’s,
some good, some bad, all fun...
Includes the UK Number One Hit:
'Matchstalk Men and
Matchstalk Cats and Dogs'
Top Twenty Hit ‘The Sparrow’;
England Football Squad (World Cup 1974);
English and Welsh
Rugby League Squads.
Recorded Liverpool FC chart single,
Buzzcocks
'Spiral Scratch’ EP,
Sad Café,
and numerous
specially written
private and charity releases…
Wrote and produced first Prince single, ‘ Talking
Dog…
Very rare...
Writing/recording
Jingles and Themes for Radio and TV, and corporate clients throughout the 80's
and 90's.
Music career was wisely put on hold after
writing and producing the Christmas Single with ‘Madge &
Harold’ from BBC TV’s 'Neighbours’ - 22 TV appearances and no hit!
Even rarer!
Currently... working with Anglo/Latino band 'Los Couchos', writing Operetta 'La Giaconda', writing/recording TV Production Music.
business
Concentrated on business interests in the 90’s – see
Hampson Group, acknowledged as the UK market leader in ‘Dedicated Broadcasting’
satellite radio.
In the 2000's the broadcast operation became
part of BSkyB now
operating as
Headland Media
other stuff
Member of :
Mensa; PRS for Music;
British Academy
of Songwriters Composers & Authors