Edwyn Collins

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Edwyn Stephen Collins (born 23 August 1959) is a Scottish musician, producer and record label owner from Edinburgh, Scotland.

Collins was the lead singer for the 1980s post-punk band Orange Juice, which he co-founded.

Following the group's split in 1985, Collins started a solo career.

His 1995 single "A Girl Like You" was a worldwide hit.In February 2005, Collins was hospitalised following two cerebral haemorrhages which resulted in aphasia, and he subsequently underwent a months-long rehabilitation period.

Collins resumed his musical career in 2007.

A documentary film on his recovery, titled The Possibilities Are Endless, was released in 2014.Collins was the co-founder of the indie record label Postcard Records and co-founded a second label, Analogue Enhanced Digital, in 2011.

Collins has also worked as an illustrator, television actor, television producer and record producer.

He won an Ivor Novello Award, the Ivor Inspiration Award, in 2009.

Early life

Collins was born in Edinburgh. He lived in Dundee from the age of six to 14 after his father got a job as a lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. He attended the now-defunct Demonstration School in Park Place, where new educational ideas were tried out by students and teachers from the adjacent teacher training college, before moving to the secondary school, Morgan Academy.

Personal life

Collins is married to Grace Maxwell, who is also his manager. The couple live in Helmsdale and have a son named William.

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Career

Collins formed the Nu-Sonics in 1976 in Bearsden, Glasgow. In 1979, the band renamed Orange Juice to Orange Juice. Collins and his buddy Alan Horne formed the record company Postcard Records in the year 2000 to debut the band's singles. In February 1980, the band's debut single, "Falling and Laughing," was released. Despite being critically acclaimed, the single has only sold 2,000 copies.

Orange Juice's first three singles with Postcard jumped to Polydor Records in October 1981 and debuted their debut album, You Can't Hide Your Love Forever, in March 1982. Rip It Up, the band's second album, came out in November 1982. Their single "Rep It Up," which was released in early 1983, debuted on the UK Singles Chart as the first British hit single to feature a bass-line from Roland's TB-303 synthesizer, despite being dated as the first British hit single to feature a bass-line. The album was the band's first Top 40 hit.

Texas Fever and The Orange Juice were two of the band's two subsequent albums, and they were both released in 1984. They were unable to find the same success as Rip It Up.

Orange Juice disbanded in January 1985, after Polydor became dissatisfied with the band's inability and the band's struggle to find a new name to sign with. Collins met Grace Maxwell, whom he hired as his boss and later married during this period in his career.

Collins began his solo career in 1986 and joined Elevation Records, a record that was co-venture between indie label Creation Records and major label Warner Music.

In 1987, Collins released two singles for the Elevation label, both produced by Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins, but they did not make it into the UK Singles Chart. Elevation was discontinued in November 1987, just ten months after it had been announced the first single. Collins experienced a "falling out" after the company's demise, according to Creation Records founder Alan McGee, who had funded Elevation. As a result, Collins was not moved to the main Creation brand, unlike other Elevation signees such as Primal Scream and The Weather Prophets, and he was left without a written copy of the name.

Collins recorded his next album in Germany at the behest of ardent Orange Juice fans. Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera. Hope and Despair, the album, was released by the Demon label in 1989 and became a success as an independent release. Hellbent on Compromise (1990), which was not as popular as its predecessor, was also released by the demonstrators. Demon and Collins split up, and Collins followed Collins on a long hiatus.

Collins built his own recording studio in 1994, which was used to record his third solo album, Gorgeous George, which he also produced. Collins' West Hampstead, London, studio, would become AED Records, the studio's future record label.

Collins released the single "A Girl Like You" in 1995, a hit in both the United Kingdom and the United States after it was featured in the film Empire Records. It was later used in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle in 2003.

In 1997, Collins released I'm Not Following You, Gorgeous George. "The Magic Piper (of Love)" was one of its Top 40 singles on the UK Singles Chart last year, other than "A Girl Like You" and "A Girl Like You."

Collins said he was sick in a BBC 6 Music radio interview on February 18, 2005, but attributed the nausea and vertigo to food poisoning, but not so much. After apparently suffering from a significant cerebral haemorrhage, two days later, he was admitted to intensive care in London's Royal Free Hospital. After suffering a second haemorrhage, he underwent an operation on February 25, 2005, which was followed by a lengthy program of neurological rehabilitation due to right-sided weakness and difficulty with speaking. "Yes," "no," "Grace Maxwell" (his wife's name) and "the possibilities are endless" for the aphasia he suffered.

In September 2007, Collins released Home Again, his sixth solo album on Heavenly Records. The album was recorded before his illness but not after his release from hospital. Collins returned to performing live, including appearing at The Arts Theatre in London, United Kingdom, when recovering. The Candy Twins, an indie pop band, recorded a tribute song to his return to school.

On May 19, 2008, a BBC Scotland documentary, Edwyn Collins: Home Again, narrated by Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos, was broadcast on BBC Scotland. It was shot during 2007 and follows Collins' ascension to recover from his illness and his first return to live performances at the BBC Electric Proms. Collins then appeared at the Glastonbury Festival, which was shown on BBC Two on June 28, 2008, and on T in the Park on July 10, 2009 (Collins' first ever T in the Park).

Collins' wife and boss Grace Maxwell ran "running war" with Warner Music Group and MySpace over his right to invite viewers to "A Girl Like You" for free on his MySpace page on October 2, 2009.

"[W]hen he began to sing, his baritone became as popular as ever" at a gig in London's Bloomsbury Ballroom in November 2009. On February 20, 2010, he appeared onstage with The Maccabees for their encore, playing vocals on a version of "Rip It Up."

Collins' first written and recorded album since his 2005 illness, Losing Sleep, was released in the United Kingdom on September 13th. Collins and Sebastian Lewsley produced the album, which was released in his own West Heath Studios from November 2008 to May 2010. Collins and Lewsley first met in 1992, when Collins was delivering former Subway Sect frontman Vic Godard's album The End of the Surrey People, and Lewsley was his assistant. He collaborated with The Cribs' Ryan Jarman and Johnny Marr, Franz Ferdinand, Romeo Stodart, The Drums, and Roddy Frame on the album. In 2010 Lewsley described the recording process of Losing Sleep: a story about Lewsley.

Collins began to regain his musical ability in 2009, Lewsley said, "the studio is more of an instrument for Edwyn." Collins' album cover art includes a series of bird drawings that he began drawing in 2005.

Collins and his band performed three live songs from Exmouth's "Radcliffe and Maconie Show" on BBC Radio 2 on September 30, 2010. (Stuart Maconie is a former music journalist, and his first NME article was a review of Collins' 1987 appearance at the Manchester International.)

Collins appeared at the Midland Railway, Butterley, United Kingdom, on the 30th of July 2011. Collins performed "A Girl Like You" on guitar and Tim Burgess on backing vocals during the 2012 Kendal Calling Festival.

Understated, Collins' eighth solo album, was released in March 2013 on his own AED Records record and was extremely well-received, with God Is on the television stating: "Understated is Collins' eighth solo album under the same circumstances."

In November 2014, James Hall and Edward Lovelace directed The Possibilities Are Endless, a documentary film about Collins.

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