Phil Manzanera

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Phil Manzanera (born Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams, 31 January 1951) is an English singer and record designer.

He was the lead guitarist with Roxy Music, 801, and Quiet Sun.

Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's album On an Island in 2006 and performed in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America.

The A-Z of Great Guitarists, he wrote and presented a series of 14 one-hour radio shows for station Planet Rock.

Early life

Manzanera was born in London, England, on 31 January 1951, to a Colombian mother (nee Manzanera) and an English father who worked for British Overseas Airways Corporation, and spent the majority of his childhood in various areas of the Americas, including Hawaii, Venezuela, Colombia, and Cuba. The young Manzanera, who was living opposite Batista, first encountered his first guitar, a Spanish guitar owned by his mother, while playing in Havana, Cuba. His earliest musical contributions were influenced by the Cuban Revolution.

The eight-year-old Manzanera of Venezuela began playing with the sounds of the electric guitar. He was absorbing the Mexican Armando Manzanero's boleros throughout his teenage years, as well as 1960s rock and roll and Latin American rhythms of merengue, cumbia, and especially the boleros.

Manzanera, who later became a boarder at Dulwich College in south east London, England, where his brother was also a student, formed a series of school bands with his brother Ian MacDonald, later known as a music writer, and drummer Charles Hayward, later of This Heat and Camberwell Now. Simon Ainley (later in 801), David Ferguson, and David Rhodes were among the younger students at the school who saw the older boys perform in these various bands; Ainley was briefly the lead vocalist for 801 in 1977; Rhodes later became a long-serving member of Peter Gabriel's backing band.

With the addition of keyboard player Dave Jartt, Manzanera's Dulwich College bands, dubbed Pooh & the Ostrich Feathers, the group morphed into the progressive rock band Quiet Sun. They produced a number of original songs and instrumental pieces, none of which were recorded until years later, and Matching Mole's band was defunct until recently, but Manzanera's debut on his first solo album Diamond Head featured Charles Hayward; later, they added two additional previously unreleased Quiet Sun tracks on his 2008 album Firebird V11, which also featured Charles Hayward.

Personal life

Manzanera bought St. Anne's Court in Chertsey in 1977, which Manzanera converted into a recording studio and a main house, which Manzanera converted into a recording studio and a main house, which was designed in 1936 by architect Sir Raymond McGrath. Christopher Tunnard designed the gardens.

Manzanera's solo albums and Roxy Music's Flesh & Blood and Avalon were recorded in the recording studio. The main house was later shown in the television series Poirot.

Osman Kent, the property's founder of 3Dlabs, sold it to Manzanera in 1997.

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Music career

Manzanera was determined to play in a professional band, and he was one of about 20 people aspiring as lead guitarist for Roxy Music, a newly formed art rock band. Manzanera's musical interests were diverse. He was introduced to many well-known musicians, including Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, who was a friend of Eugene's older brother, Eugene, who was influenced by his childhood sojourns in Latin America and his stints at boarding school.

Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Paul Thompson, Andy Mackay, and Graham Simpson appeared on Roxy Music in 1972; at that time, he was as a member of the band. Roxy Music's meteoric rise was meteoric, with the band being praised as a major stylistic influence in the early 1970s. Roxy Music released a string of internationally best-selling albums in the next 12 years, right before the band members went on a "long break," achieving ten top ten albums and touring extensively around the world. Despite Ferry's sole writing credit on the first two LPs and his contribution to the company's success, Manzanera was credited as co-writer with Ferry on the following Roxy Music tracks: he had sole responsibility for the company's success.

Manzanera was also given sole composer credit for the following Roxy Music album:

Manzanera has always pursued solo projects, both recording his own albums and producing for others, as well as Roxy Music. Manzanera's first major credit as producer came in 1975; he was first recognized in London after spotting Split Enz, who had supported Roxy on their 1974 Australian tour.

Manzanera played guitar on three tracks of Brian Eno's debut album Here Come the Warm Jets, as well as guitar and production support on Eno's second solo album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy).

All his solo albums have been remastered and re-released with fresh artwork on his own brand, Expression Records.

Phil Manzanera, a writer, producer, and solo artist, has collaborated with some of modern music's greatest talents, including Steve Winwood, David Gilmour, John Cale, Godley & Creme, Nico, and John Wetton. He has co-written material with many artists, including Brian Eno, Tim Finn, Robert Wyatt, and Gilmour. Manzanera co-wrote Pink Floyd's single "One Slip" from their 1987 A Momentary Lapse of Reason album.

Diamond Head (1975), Manzanera's first solo album, featured an all-star line-up of session contributors, including most of the former and current members of Roxy Music, except Bryan Ferry. Brian Eno co-wrote and performed on two tracks ("Miss Shapiro"), Paul Thompson, Eddie Jobson, and Andy Mackay all contributed, and Roxy's occasional tour bassist John Wetton (ex Family, and then a King Crimson) played bass and duetted on vocals (with Doman and Robbie) on "Same Time Next Week" ("British Time" (with Dominik). On "Frontera" Robert Wyatt co-wrote and performed (in Spanish), and members of Manzanera's pre-Roxy band Quiet Sun were among the instrumental tracks. Quint Sun (who had not been able to make any professional recordings) and Manzanera reunited Quiet Sun (who had no time to record a complete LP of Quiet Sun songs, which was released by EG Records under the name Mainstream).

The remastered versions of two songs from Mainstream's forthcoming big collaboration, 801 Live, was recorded at a 1976 London show performed by the "unique occasion" band 801. Manzanera, with Eno on vocals, synth, and treatments, Quiet Sun bassist Bill MacCormick, 19-year-old drumming prodigy Simon Phillips, 19-year-old drummer, Curved Air keyboardist Francis Monkman, 19-year-old drumming prodigy Simon Phillips, and slide guitarist Lloyd Watson, who had previously appeared as a solo support act for Roxy Music, were among the group's members. The album contained an eclectic mix of Manzanera, Quiet Sun, and Eno originals as well as unique cover versions of two well-known songs, "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "You Really Got Me." The album also broke ground in live concert recording, being one of the first live LPs to use the "direct injection" (DI) technique of recording, in which the signals from the various electronic devices were fed directly into the recording console, resulting in a dramatic rise in fidelity over the earlier method of placing microphones near the various instrument amplifiers.

The success of the live album resulted in the development of a more enduring version of 801, without Lloyd Watson. Simon Ainley, a Manzanera childhood friend (who later became a member of Random Hold with Bill McCormick), took over from Eno as the lead vocalist, who only provided treatments and textures. Former 10cc members Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, Roxy Music's Eddie Smith, Bill and Ian McCormick, and drummer Dave Mattacks all formed a team led by Francis Monkman, Bill and Ian McCormick and Simon Phillips. The 'new' 801 recorded the studio album Listen Now, which was released in November 1976, although Ainley said the initial recordings were released in December 1975, well before the original concert line-up of 801 was assembled. The studio's initial success was not a commercial success, and the company was disbanded after a brief UK tour. On 24-track tape, a live performance at Manchester University in 1977, with Ainley on vocals and guitar, as well as appearances by special guests Andy Mackay, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme, but the album was unveiled until 1997.

K-Scope (1978) was intended to be the second 801 studio album, and it did feature many of the same artists from Listen Now, including Ainley, Bill and Ian McCormick, John Wetton, Mel Collins, Tim and Neil Finn, Eddie Rayner, Godley and Creme, and keyboard player Dave Skinner. According to Ainley, he was supposed to perform the lead vocal tracks and was to assist in the design of the album "Slow Motion TV," but by his own account, he was plagued by his cold the day he began recording his vocals and could not hit the notes; as a result, Manzanera replaced him with Tim Finn, and Ainley contributed only rhythm guitar to a few tracks. The album was eventually released under Manzanera's name, but shortly after it was announced, Roxy Music reformed, and Manzanera's solo projects were suspended until the company disbanded in 1982.

Primitive Guitars (1982), his third solo album, commemorated his tenth birthday as a professional musician. It was designed as a retrospective of his musical influences and stylistic development, interpreted through a series of solo pieces from various points in his life – childhood in South America, adolescence in London, Roxy Music, and 801, among other projects. Except for one track on which John Wetton plays bass, Manzanera plays all the instruments, backed only by a drum machine. Manzanera introduced snatches of dialogue from various rehearsals into the mix.

Manzanera appeared in concerts around the world, including at Guitar Legends, the five-day guitar festival in Seville, where he performed with Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Jack Bruce, Vicente Amigo, Vicente Amigo, Mike Satriani, Steve Cropper, Aterciopelados, Robert Cray, and Richard Thompson. He has also performed in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom, as well as a ten-date European tour with the Cuban band Grupo Moncada. He appeared at WOMAD festivals in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Manzanera brought the twentieth century to a close by appearing with Bryan Ferry at the British Gas Millennium Concert in Greenwich, the first time they had appeared together in 18 years. Manzanera released the highly acclaimed album Severino by the Brazilian rock band Os Paralamas do Sucesso in 1993, which also included Brian May's appearance.

Firebird V11 (2008) was another all-instrumental album released by his old Quiet Sun bandmate Charles Hayward on drums, Polish jazz pianist Leszek Mogdy, and bassist Yaron Stavi from the Gilad Atzmon band. It features two original Quiet Sun songs, both of which had never been published before. The album is dedicated to, and specifically to, Manzanera's signature guitar, the red-and-black Gibson Firebird V11 guitar, which he has performed on several recordings throughout his career, and it can be seen holding the guitar in the "centrefold" photograph on Roxy Music's second album For Your Pleasure, as the title suggests, as well as a distorted version of Primitive Guitars.

In 2001, the Roxy Music "long break" came to an end, with a sold-out, 52-date world tour. Roxy appeared in the United States in the summer of 2003, the first in the United States, followed by 13 European gigs in 2004, including appearances at Live 8 in Berlin.

In West London, Manzanera has a state-of-the-art gallery, Gallery Studios. Robert Wyatt's album Cuckooland was released on June 24, and client list includes Brian Eno, David Gilmour, Annie Lennox, Kevin Ayers, and Chrissie Hynde. Comicopera, Wyatt's critically acclaimed album, was on display at Gallery in 2007.

Manzanera began performing on his own albums with Vozero in 2001, followed by 6 p.m. in 2005, and 50 Minutes Later. In 2005, he appeared at the Strat Pack celebration concert at Wembley Arena, as well as other musicians such as Hank Marvin, Ronnie Wood, and David Gilmour.

On 2008's Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, he also collaborated with Eno and David Byrne.

He collaborated with Colombian artist/sculptor Lucho Brieva on the Coroncho project from 2003 to 2008. The initiative arose from a Spanish version of the track Complicada, written by Brieva's wife Chrissie Hynde. The resulting album features a number of songs about two corroncho characters ("corroncho" being the pejorative term used by people from Bogota to fellow Colombians from the Caribbean Coast, particularly Barranquilla). The album features Latin American, cumbia, pop music, ballads, and chillout, as well as interviews from Robert Wyatt, Paul Thompson, Enrique Bunbury, Chrissie Hynde, Annie Lennox, Gilad Atzmon, and Cuba's top pianists Aldo Lopez Gavilan.

Manzanera began in 1999 a series of solo performances that reflected his earlier work in a modern context, with his 1990 solo album Southern Cross a collection of Latin music. Many artists from the past appear on the recordings, including Brian Eno, Andy Mackay, Robert Wyatt, Bill MacCormick, and many others. Even a few of old musical themes on The Sound of Blue have been reworked. Phil is also on these albums as the lead singer.

He supervised the final concert of the Notte della Taranta Festival in Salento, Italy, in 2015.

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