Music Biography
After playing guitar and keyboards in several UK bands, became
involved full time in the music business as a singer/songwriter, session musician and then
sound engineer.
Studios: Indigo; Arrow; Strawberry; Pluto; Morgan;
Smile; Starlite/Magnum.
Started audio production company, building and running
Starlite / Magnum
Studios in Manchester.
Set up Indie Label 'Sharing Records', producing
Spiritual & World Music albums.
Became MD of Manchester's Indigo Studios.
As engineer and latterly producer at Indigo worked 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.
Liverpool FC chart single,
Sad Cafe
From the early
punk era
Buzzcocks
'Spiral Scratch' EP,
Slaughter and the Dogs
'Cranked up Really High' EP
The Fall
The Drones
and numerous
specially written private and charity releases...
Wrote and produced first Prince
single...
Prince the talking dog that is, from BBCTV's 'That's Life'. 'Sausages'
Music career was wisely put on hold after writing and producing a Christmas Single with 'Madge & Harold' from BBC TV's 'Neighbours' - 22 TV appearances and no hit!
Gigging with band Midnight Blue through the 80's
All a long time ago.....
Currently...
Working on ' Giaconda!'. Charity Gigs with band Grampz
business
Throughout the 80's and 90's was writing/producing commercials for Radio and TV, and in-house programmes for corporate clients.
Concentrated on business interests in the 90's - see
Hampson Group, acknowledged as the
creator and UK market leader of 'Dedicated Broadcasting' satellite radio.
Stations: ASDA FM, National Lottery Radio, Moto Motorway FM, Alldays
Radio, McColls FM, Allsports FM ...
In the 2000's the group was sold, for a time became
part of BSkyB,
now
operating as KVH Media Group
other stuff
Member of :
Mensa; PRS for Music; British Academy of Songwriters Composers & Authors