Dave Edmunds

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David William "Dave" Edmunds (born in Cardiff on April 15th) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and record producer.

Despite being mainly associated with pub rock and the new wave, with several hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leanings have always been toward 1950s style rock and roll.

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Edmunds was born in Cardiff, Wales. He first performed with his older brother Geoff in 1954 (born 5 December 1939, Cardiff) as a ten-year-old; this was a piano duo. Then the brothers were in the Stompers, later known as the Heartbeats, and Geoff on rhythm guitar, Dave on lead guitar, Denny Driscoll on drums, Johnny Stark on drums, Ton Edwards on bass, and Allan Galsworthy on rhythm. Along with scientist and writer Brian J. Ford, Dave and Geoff were in The 99ers, as well as author and poet Brian J. Ford. Dave Edmunds was on lead guitar with Feathers (Edmunds) on lead guitar, while Tennessee Johnny on lead guitar; Crick Feather's Hill-Bills formed in 1960; Memphis Kees on drums; and Hank Two Sticks on drums. Edmunds' first group was the Cardiff-based 1950s style rockabilly trio The Raiders formed in 1961, alongside Brian 'Rockhouse' Davies on bass (born 15 January 1943, Cardiff) and Ken Collier on drums. Edmunds was the only stead member of the group, which later included bassist Mick Still, Bob 'Congo' Jones on drums.' (stage name John David) and John Williams on bass. August 13, 1946, Barry, South Wales) and John Williams (stage name John David). The Raiders were primarily based in the South Wales area.

Edmunds, a local drummer, returned to a more blues-rock sound in 1966, shortly after a brief stint in a Parlophone recording band, the Images (1965–1966), reuniting with Congo Jones and bassist John Williams and adding second guitarist Mickey Gee to form the short-lived Human Beans, a band that appeared predominantly in London and on the UK university circuit. On the British Columbia label in 1967, the band released a cover of "Morning Dew" but there was no evidence of an influence on charts. Edmunds, Jones, and Williams, the core of 'Human Beans', formed a new band called Love Sculpture, who reintroduced Edmunds, Jones and Williams as a trio after just eighteen months.' In 1968, Love Sculpture debuted "River to Another Day" on their debut single. Keith Emerson's classical rearrangements inspired their second single, a quasi-novelty Top 5 a reworking Khachaturian's classical work "Sabre Dance" as a fast-crazy rock number. After gaining the full attention of British DJ John Peel, who was so excited to see it twice in one show on "Top Gear," "Sabre Dance" became a hit. The band has released two albums.

Edmunds released "I Hear You Knocking," a Smiley Lewis cover that he came across while making Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets' first album, A Legend, in 1970 after Love Sculpture's split. This was the first release on Edmunds' MAM Records' MAM Records label. This single also ranked at No. 1 in the world of television. Edmunds was the most hard hit by far on either side of the Atlantic Ocean in the United States, with four on the US. It has sold over three million copies and has been given a gold disc. Edmunds had intended to record Wilbert Harrison's "Let's Work Together," but after being defeated by Canned Heat, Edmunds changed the song's name to "I Hear You Knocking." The single's success prompted EMI's Regal Zonophone Records to use an option that required Edmunds' album, 1972's Rockpile, and the single's momentum, which had been lost on a different label, was fading.

Edmunds' only acting role came after, as a band member in the David Essex film Stardust. He began to work with producer, culminating in a pair of singles in the style of Phil Spector, "Baby I Love You" and "Born to Be With You," as a result of his involvement with the early 1970s pub rock band Foghat, including Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe, Flamin' Groovies, and blues rock band Foghat, with a stripped down, gritty sound.

Edmunds had purchased a house in Rockfield, Monmouth, a few miles from Charles and Kingsley Ward's Rockfield Studios, where he became a nearly permanent fixture for the next two decades. His working schedule required him to arrive in the early evening and then working into the early evening and then staying until late into the night, mainly because the building was alone. Edmunds was not unprecedented to multilayer up to forty separately recorded guitar tracks into the mix when applying the layered Spector sound to his own works.

Subtle, his own solo LP from 1975, was also similar in style. The Brinsley Schwarz band started working with Nick Lowe on this album, and in 1976, they formed the group Rockpile, with Billy Bremner and Terry Williams. Edmunds and Lowe were not able to record as Rockpile until 1980, but many of their solo albums (such as Lowe's Labour of Lust and Edmunds' own Repeat When Necessary) were group recordings, but some of their solo LPs (such as Lowe's Labour of Lust and Edmunds' own Repeat When Necessary) were group recordings, not because of a single label. During this period, Edmunds had more hits in the United Kingdom, including Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk," Nick Lowe's "I Knew the Bride," Hank DeVito's "Wreckage," and Melvin Endsley's "Singing the Blues," as well as Juice Newton's "British pop sensation Juice Newton). Marty Robbins hit No. 1 and then, USA pop No. 2 came after. Guy Mitchell's 1st cover and the No. 10 of the United Kingdom. Both Mitchell and Tommy Steele have scored 1 on their first attempts. The album When Necessary was given a Silver Certificate by the British Phonographic Industry on March 20, 1980 (for more than 60,000 copies sold in the United Kingdom). The BPI also awarded a Silver Certificate to the single "Girls Talk" program.

The band broke up unexpectedly after Rockpile's first album under their own name, Seconds of Pleasure (1980). Edmunds and the band, as well as Lowe, appeared in a music video for the song "Girls Talk" directed by Martin Pitts and produced by Derek Burbidge and Helen Pollack. In the early afternoon, the band formed up on the roof of the Warner Brothers Records building in Midtown Manhattan. Edmunds spent the 1980s performing with and promoting a variety of artists, including Paul McCartney, King Kurt, Stray Cats, Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Status Quo. He produced the soundtrack for the film Porky's Revenge!, as the main theme, "High School Nights," and was the musical director for a television special starring Carl Perkins, assorted guests including George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Rosanne Cash. Edmunds released the album Yo Frankie for Dion in 1989.

Edmunds, a member of the Electric Light Orchestra, co-produced two songs on his 1983 debut, and Edmunds collaborated on two songs with Jeff Lynne, the band's conductor. Edmunds' only other US Top 40 hit, "Slipping Away," was one of these songs, written by Lynne, became Edmunds' only other US Top 40 hit, after a week at No. 39 while on MTV, we were seeing a video clip in high demand. It was not a hit in the United Kingdom. Lynne released six tracks on Edmunds' successor album, Riff Raff, in 1984.

Dave Edmunds, the musical director and a participating band member of Carl Perkins' Rockabilly Session television special in late 1985, was born in late 1985. George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Eric Clapton were among the project's other artists.

Edmunds became less popular in the mid-1980s after being in Wales in semi-retirement but occasionally touring. In 1992 and 2000, he appeared with Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band on tours. However, Edmunds returned to touring in 2007 as a pair alongside Joe Brown on a long tour around the United Kingdom. On September 10, 2008, he appeared on stage with Stray Cats and "Live With The Band" and "Tear It Up" with the band.

Edmunds, a co-defendant, and Shakin' Stevens were accused of not paying royalties from former Sunsets' band members Robert Llewellyn, Carl Petersen, Steve Percy, and Paul Dolan in 1993. According to the indictment, the former band members were entitled to a share of the royalties earned by Stevens and Edmunds from the album A Legend's successful reissue in the early eighties. The judge agreed that although the unpaid royal ties only amounted to around £70,000 to be divided among the four musicians, Stevens and Edmunds' court costs amounted to £500,000.

He appeared on Jools' Annual Hootenanny on New Year's Eve 2008, performing "Girls Talk" and "I Hear You Knocking." He was Holland's guest again at Borde Hill Gardens on Sunday, 29th June at Ipswich Regent's open-air concert on Monday, Monday, November 7th at Stoke Victoria Hall and 14th at Nottingham Concert Hall. Edmunds performed "I Hear You Knocking," "I Knew the Bride," and "Sabre Dance" with the Holland Big Band at the Royal Albert Hall on November 27, 2009.

On the 2009/10 edition of Jools' Annual Hootenanny, he appeared "Sabre Dance" on "Sabre Dance" as a participant. On November 19, 2013 an album called...Again, featured recordings from the 1990s, plus four new tracks, Edmunds' first for almost 20 years, with the title track being released as a digital download single. Edmunds' debut on guitar, "On Guitar," was his first instrumental album on guitar, as well as instrumental covers of classic songs such as "God Only Knows" and Elton John's "Your Song," in 2015. Edmunds' last album after appearing in a final show in July 2017, he was reported to have dropped out of the music industry.

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