Georgie Fame. Edit source History Talk 0. Categories births Add category. Cancel Save. Fan Feed. Universal Conquest Wiki. It was very much against my will but he said, "If you don't use my name, I won't use you in the show". I had been playing piano up to that point but I bought a Hammond organ the next day. Columbia DB CBS Island WIP Verve He is revered in Scandinavia and Germany and even took a local version of the Blue Flames to Australia where he escaped the English winter and built a rapport with fellow players from another hemisphere.
Having taken piano lessons at an early age the man born Clive Powell in the cotton weaving area of Leigh, Lancashire became a professional musician in the s playing at holiday camps before departing to London aged 16 to seek his fortune. He touted his talents up and down the legendary Tin Pan Alley area of Denmark Street just off Soho where he was spotted by impresarios Lionel Bart and Larry Parnes who christened him Georgie Fame — somewhat against his will.
Working with touring rock and rollers like Joe Brown, Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran young Fame became battle-hardened and was snapped up by Billy Fury in to lead his backing band The Blue Flames for whom he arranged and sang. The Blue Flames and Fury parted company and so Georgie took over and secured a three-year residency at the Flamingo Club.
Georgie is such a prolific artist that it would take several books to deal with his catalogue adequately but there are many key moments: Sound Venture is a jazz-pop crossover with a crack horn section and a sound that was a definitive influence on the young Elvis Costello. Lady Londonderry already had given birth to one of Fame's children during her marriage to the marquess; the child, Tristan, bore the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh and was believed to be heir to the marquisate.
Fame is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance and has played concerts to raise funds for the organisation. Start the radio. Music database Musician. Georgie Fame From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Blue Flames Fame was influenced from early on by jazz and such blues musicians as Willie Mabon and Mose Allison , and was one of the first white artists to be influenced by the ska music he heard in Jamaican cafes in and around Ladbroke Grove. Fame later recalled Recent work Fame has collaborated with other successful popular musicians.
In July Fame played two consecutive dates at the village hall in Goring-on-Thames [18] and then at the Cornbury Festival in Oxfordshire [19] Fame was featured in Diana Krall 's cover of his early hit "Yeh Yeh" on Krall's Wallflower album released on 3 February London: Guinness World Records Limited.
ISBN The Independent. Retrieved 29 June Archived from the original on 11 August Retrieved 10 January The first track on this record was a cover of 'Madness', which leads one to wonder if Georgie Fame anticipated 2-tone by about 15 years? In any case, this record didn't go very far either.
But Georgie didn't have to wait too long for Fame, because in December of '64 his cover of Jon Hendricks' 'Yeh Yeh' hit number one on the charts in the U. The next two singles, 'Something' Oct. Perhaps people were thinking that Georgie Fame was just another one-hit-wonder, because it was another six months before his next single, 'Get Away', was released in June But once again, it went straight to number one and everyone knew that he was back.
However, many of Georgie Fame's original mod followers had left him because they felt that he was becoming too commercial. After this second number one, Georgie Fame disbanded the Blue Flames in September and decided to go solo.
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