Richard Hawley

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Richard Willis Hawley (born 17 January 1967) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.

Hawley's first band Treebound Story (formed when he was still at school) was a hit, and he was a member of the British pop band Longpigs in the 1990s.

Since that group disbanded in 2000, he rejoined Pulp, led by Jarvis Cocker, for a brief period.

Hawley has released eight studio albums as a solo artist.

He has been nominated for a Mercury Prize twice before and once for a British Honour.

He has worked with Lisa Marie Presley, Shakespears Sister, Arctic Monkeys, Manic Street Preachers, Elbow, Duane Eddy, and Paul Weller.

Early life

Hawley grew up with two sisters in a working-class neighborhood of the city. He was born with a cleft palate, which necessitated numerous surgeries. Both his parents were musicians; Dave Hawley, a guitarist with a number of local bands, and his mother Lynne was a singer; on his death, the Sheffield Star named him a "Sheffield music legend." They divorced when he was 16 years old. He has been a lifelong fan of Sheffield Wednesday's local football team. "I've always written songs since childhood," he said, and knowing that "you could even make something up of your own was a big one then." He and future Pulp bassist Steve Mackey attended Hucklow Middle School together and then graduated from O-levels. Hawley was briefly employed at the local HMV for a short time.

Hawley created the Treebound Novel while in high school and performed a Peel Session with the band at the age of 19.

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Solo career

Hawley's two albums, The Sun Is Frequently Out and Mobile Home, were released as a member of the Longpigs. After the band's demise, he joined Pulp as a touring guitarist while still playing as a session guitarist. During his time with both bands, he was able to "quitely hone" his songwriting skills, claiming that "I was never really good at bleating on being a songwriter." Both Cocker and Mackey were compelled by Hawley's home demo of his songs. He used some extra time in the studio to produce demo material and to experiment. "I just wanted to make something gentle for myself," the author says. He recorded a song per day, recording the majority of the instruments himself "with a boom mike in the middle so I could walk between instruments – I mixed it in my head." His eponymous debut was a seven-track mini-album that was released in April 2001 by Setanta Records. The single "Coming Home" aided it. Although Hawley was "90% of the stuff" he was helped by former Longpigs drummer Andy Cook and Colin Elliot, who became his long-serving producer.

"I think with anyone's early stuff you can batter it and disassemble it," Hawley said later. [With] those early records, I was trying to get back to being more creative with recording rather than taking the traditional route to it." He admitted that he didn't get "it right every time," but that I wanted to achieve. It was to try and find something in the song. And then, there were no funds in those early years. "A brief burst of seven mid-paced, '50s-flecked moments of jangle," Clash Magazine put it. Listening back, it's easy to spot the early signs of the grandeur that was to come, particularly on standout "Sunlight" among the crowds of these tentative 22 and a half minutes." The album's front cover was shot in front of a bingo hall in Cleethorpes.

Late Night Final, named after the cries of merchants selling the Sheffield Star evening newspaper on the streets of the city, was welcomed by the media in 2001. "All I'd Got" was the riff to "Baby, You're My Light," Hawley said later, and that the bulk of songs were written during the session. "The Nights Are Cold" was a single take after Cooke said, "Look, we've got a gig tonight, are we doing this or what?" as an example. It was "a remarkably solid, often exquisite series of warmly evocative lullabies" sung out the songs "Baby, You're My Light" and "The Nights Are Cold," according to Clash magazine. Alan Smythe produced the album.

Lowedges, named after a suburb of the city, was released two years later. Lowedges was the "first great album of 2003" by the NME, and the NME ranked the NME as the top market poll conducted by Virgin Radio. "You can see the band thing getting more popular as the three albums progressed," he said later. By the time you get to Lowedges, there's less of me playing any and more of the guys. I was determined that it would be very ragged-arsed and not to be finished and ready."

Hawley, a member of EMI, after leaving Setanta Records in 2004, has moved to Mute Records, a division of EMI. Coles Corner, Hawley's third album, was postponed until September 2005 due to legal complications. Hawley took inspiration from his hometown city this time, this time referring to the location where courting couples meet. Coles Corner was eventually nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2006. The Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, whose debut album won the award, said, "Someone dial 999, Richard Hawley's been robbed."

Lady's Bridge, a 2007 collection by Hawley, was released in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2007, after a bridge in the city's center was also named with a Sheffield reference. During September 2007, he did a 16-date tour to support the album. T-shirts and posters were sold on the tour, but there were also special edition bottles of Henderson's Relish, which were sold in Sheffield. Hawley's father died after a long illness in the same year. Setanta re-released his self-titled debut in 2007, extending it by five tracks. Later, he said that the stunt "altered the flow," and that 'Troublesome Waters', a recreation of a Howard Seratt song, is the first time me and my dad appeared on a commercial album together. He plays rhythm guitar.

Hawley was nominated for his first solo British Male Artist Award on January 14, 2008. At the 2008 Festival Internacional de Benicàssim in Spain, Hawley performed as a headlining act. Hawley produced, with Colin Elliot, and contributed two songs to the album Made in Sheffield, a collection of songs by Tony Christie's Sheffield-based songwriters.

Truelove's Gutter, Hawley's fifth studio album, was released on Mute Records on September 21, 2009. The album debuted at number one in Mojo this year.

"Don't Get Hung Up in Your Soul" was chosen as the Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week for 17 November 2009, and "Open Up Your Door" was included as the soundtrack to the Häagen-Dazs ice cream TV commercial in the United Kingdom.

The film "Tonight The Streets Are Ours" by Hawley was chosen as the title track for the Oscar nominated 2010 Banksy film Exit Through the Gift Shop, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2010. At the end of the film Brighton Rock, his 2011 song "There's a Storm Coming" was used.

On the B-side of the Arctic Monkeys' single "You And I" released on January 23, 2012, Richard Hawley and The Death Ramps (aka Arctic Monkeys).

Through Parlophone, Standing at the Sky's Edge, the sixth solo album, was unveiled in the United Kingdom on May 7th. "Leave Your Body Behind You," "Down in the Woods," "Seek It," and "Don't Stare at the Sun," were among the four singles' "Leave Your Body Behind You" and "Don't Stare at the Sun." The four singles were released on vinyl for the Singles Club box set. Hawley's leg was broken while performing in a wheelchair on his European tour in support of the album. Standing at the Sky's Edge was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Awards in September 2012. In addition, Hawley was also included in a BBC6 Music live broadcast with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, which took place at the Magna Science Park in Rotherham. On the Bright Phoebus Revisited UK Tour in October 2013, he joined Cocker and Kami Thompson. Hawley also performed on the title track of the Manic Street Preachers album Rewind The Film, which was released in September 2013.

Setanta, his former record company, re-released the first three albums on vinyl and CD in October 2014. He has also contributed to a number of songs to the soundtrack of Love Is All, which was released in 2014. Hawley's seventh album Hollow Meadows was released in September 2015.

BMG Rights Management released Hawley's eighth studio album Further on May 31. The album's 11 songs are titled: Off My Mind, Alone, My Little Treasures, Emilina Says, Galley Girl, Not Lonely, Time Is, Midnight Train, and Doors.

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