Robyn Hitchcock

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Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist.

He plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar, although mainly a singer and guitarist. Hitchcock began his career in the late 1970s with The Soft Boys, a string of boys.

Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart, Bryan Ferry, and Roger McGuinn have all influenced his musical and lyrical styles.

Hitchcock's lyrics tend to include surrealism, comedic elements, portrayals of English eccentrics, and melancholy depictions of daily life. He has worked for two major American labels (A&M Records, later Warner Bros.), and has appeared in a live performance/documentary film directed Jonathan Demme in 1998, but mainstream success has been slim.

He has received acclaim for his music, as a result of a steady stream of album launches and live performances, as well as a "cult following" for his songs.

Personal life

Hitchcock was born in Paddington, London, England, the son of novelist Raymond Hitchcock (author of Percy).

Hitchcock writes short stories, paints (often in a whimsical, surrealist style), and draws in a cartoon-strip style. His album covers often make use of his artwork or drawings, while liner notes often include a short tale. His live concerts incorporate story-telling in the form of enthralling and surreal ad-libbed monologues in his lyrical style.

In 1998, Hitchcock co-produced live concert and film Storefront Hitchcock, and later appeared in Demme's 2004 version of The Manchurian Candidate, in which he played double agent Laurent Tokar. He appeared in Demme's Rachel Getting Married in 2008, playing and playing guitar in the wedding-party band.

In September 2008, Hitchcock joined the Disko Bay Cape Farewell Expedition to Greenland's West Coast. Cape Farewell is a UK-based arts group that brings together artists, researchers, and communicators to spark a cultural reaction to climate change. Feist, Laurie Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, KT Tunstall, and Martha Wainwright were among the trip's other travelers.

In August 2015, Hitchcock moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Emma Swift and their cats live in East Nashville. Maisie, his son, has a daughter from a previous marriage.

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Career

At Winchester College, Hitchcock was educated, and he was regarded as a "foovy and unusual" friend of Julia Darling's "groovy and alternative" friend. Hitchcock, who attended art school in London in 1972, was a student of the Beetles. He moved to Cambridge, where he did some busking, and formed a number of local bands, including B.B. The Worst Fears, Blackberry and the Swelterettes, Fearing the Dreadne, Maube and the Meatpackers are among the Worst Fears. Dennis and the Experts, Dennis and the Experts' first group, formed The Soft Boys in 1976, recording their first EP, "Give It to the Soft Boys," at Spaceward studios, Cambridge. After recording A Can of Bees (1979) and Underwater Moonlight (1980), the former of which was described as a "classic" and influential on bands such as R.E.M., the latter of which was described in Rolling Stone as a "classic" and influential on bands like R.E.M. The company, The Replacements, was founded in 1981 and was sold on to The Replacements.

In 1981, Hitchcock launched Black Snake Diamond Röle, which featured instrumental support from several former Soft Boys. With the generally mocked Groovy Decay, he continued it in 1982. He formed the Egyptians, a young teenager from the Soft Boys (Andy Metcalfe and Morris Windsor, supplemented by early keyboardist Roger Jackson), resulting in their 1985 debut Fegmania! (Alive album Gotta Let This Hen Out! was released at the end of the year) Their fame with the 1986 album Element of Light, a hit on the US, and they were later signed to A&M Records. The album Globe of Frogs, released in 1988, widened their reach as the single "Balloon Man" became a college radio and MTV hit, followed in 1989 by "Madonna of the Wasps" from their Queen Elvis album "Madonna of the Wasps." They also worked with Peter Buck of R.E.M. in 1989. Peter Holsapple of The dB's, who appeared on two shows as Nigel and the Crosses, mostly covers.

Hitchcock took a break from the Egyptians and A&M Records to debut Eye, a solo acoustic album that came later in 1990, perspex Island being released in 1991. Respect, a 1993 book by the late Egyptians, inspired a great deal by his father's death, and marked the last Egyptians to be released and A&M Records' sad end.

Hitchcock embarked on a short reunion tour with the Soft Boys in 1994, shortly after disbanding the Egyptians. In 1995, his back catalog (which included both solo releases and Egyptians albums) was re-packaged and re-issued in the United States by the respected Rhino Records brand, providing him with a small boost. He remained recording and performing as a solo artist for the remainder of the decade, including 1996's Moss Elixir (which featured violinist Deni Bonet and guitarist Tim Keegan) and the Jonathan Demme-directed concert film Storefront Hitchcock's soundtrack. Jewels for Sophia, also on Warner, featured cameos from Southern California-based musicians Jon Brion and Grant-Lee Phillips, both of whom performed with Hitchcock when he appeared in Largo's Largo. A Star for Bram, a collection of outtakes from Hitchcock's debut, was followed by his own label, and several of independent labels.

Luca Ferrari, an Italian music writer, published a long interview with Hitchcock, a Middle Class Hero (Stampa Alternativa), in the form of a 96-page book in English and Italian accompanying a three-song CD of unreleased tracks in 2000.

In 2001, Hitchcock reunited and toured with Kimberley Seligman, bassist Matthew Seligman, and Morris Windsor for the Soft Boys' re-release of their best-known album, 1980's Underwater Moonlight. Side Three's first album, Nextdoorland, was released the following year, and it was followed by a short collection of outtakes. The reunion was short lived.

Robyn Sings' 2002 double album included live re-creation of Bob Dylan's so-called Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1966 performance, as well as a live re-creation (performed in 1996) of Dylan's so-called Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1966 concert. In 2003, Hitchcock performed his 50th birthday with a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, where his then-new solo acoustic album Luxor was distributed as a gift to all attendees, and actor Alan Rickman read an original poem of his. As on the album Spooked, which was recorded with country/folk duo (and long-time Hitchcock fans), Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, he continued to work with a number of different musicians, as well as longtime Hitchcock fans. The Soft Boys reformed in 2006 in London for a live concert by Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd covers, benefiting Médecins Sans Frontières.

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Tarantula was formed with the Venus 3, a band made up of longtime acquaintances and collaborators R.E.M. "Sep. Buck and Young Fresh Fellows frontman Scott McCaughey, as well as Ministry's Bill Rieflin, became involved in the investigation (after which R.E.M. (Is a full-time drummer). Andy Partridge of XTC wrote the song "Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)" because "It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)" was written.

In 2007, he was the subject of a documentary Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death..., and Insects directed by John Edginton, which was shown on the Sundance Channel and in the United Kingdom on BBC Four (and later released on DVD). "If you like, food, sex, and death are all corridors to life." To get here, you need sex, food to hold you, and death is the sign of escape and departure.

On Hitchcock's latest album of songs with contributors including Nick Lowe, former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, Peter Buck, and Gillian Welch, the filmmaker eavesdrops. The film comes to an end with Hitchcock and the band taking the songs on tour in America. In conjunction with the film, The Venus 3, Sex, Food, Death... and Tarantulas was released as a live EP. "I'm a terrified angry person at heart," Hitchcock, who discusses the inspiration for his work. My stuff isn't particularly convincing, which is probably why it isn't entirely ineffective. I'm always feeling this rage deep inside.

Hitchcock's music was re-packaged and re-released in the United States as Yep Roc Records announced a slew of early solo debuts and a double-CD collection of rarities, each available separately or as part of a new boxed set release.

Luminous Groove, a boxed set of three early Egyptians releases as well as two additional rarities, was a follower in 2008. Pocket released an EP starring Hitchcock titled "Surround Him With Love," in 2009, while Hitchcock released Goodnight Oslo, a completely separate new album. I Often Dream of Trains, a live album in New York, chronicled his acclaimed 1984 acoustic album's late-2008 revival (a limited-edition deluxe version also included the materials to create a phenakistoscope, a moving-image generator).

Hitchcock contributed to The Decemberists' concept album The Hazards of Love in 2009 by a brief instrumental solo "An Interlude." In 2009, Hitchcock scored the film Women in Trouble, a feminist/exploitation "chick flick."

Hitchcock began offering a series of "Phantom 45s" as downloads, each "45" being two newly released songs that would be available as a free download, coincident with his official website's redesign in early 2010. Prosperity Time also had a new album on sale, with new content partly based on the "Sex, Food, and Death" sessions shown in the 2007 film but mainly featuring the Venus 3. Troms, Kaptein, an album of songs written in Norway, was only released in Norway in 2011. Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel was selected by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform "I Often Dream of Trains" at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England, which was curated by Mangum in March 2012. On March 5, 2013, Yep Roc Records' Love From London (working title: File Under Pop) was released. On August 26, 2014, the brand also released The Man Upstairs, his second album.

Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift appeared together on April 7 to unveil a limited Record Store Day 7" single "Follow Your Money," backed by a stripped back cover of Neil Young's "Motion Pictures." The pair appeared on tour after releasing another 7" single double A Drag" and "Life Is Change," both written by Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake.

In 2017, Hitchcock's eponymous album Robyn Hitchcock was released. The album saw a return to a full band sound after Brendan Benson's assassination, as well as guest appearances from Gillian Welch and Emma Swift.

For the 2018 film Juliet, Naked, Hitchcock wrote the song "Sunday Never Comes," which was sung in the film by Ethan Hawke's character, an elderly, reclusive musician. He later released a companion video of his own interpretation of the song.

In September 2019, Hitchcock collaborated with XTC frontman Andy Partridge on a four-song EP Planet England, co-writing the songs and both singing.

In 2020, he released The Man Downstairs: Demos & Rarities, an album of outtakes recorded in 2013 as demos for The Man Upstairs. He appeared on Emma Swift's album of Bob Dylan covers, Blonde on the Tracks, recorded between 2017 and 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee, and produced by Wilco's Pat Sansone.

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