Tom Bailey
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Thomas Alexander Bailey (born 18 January 1956) is an English singer, composer, guitarist, and record producer.
Bailey rose to fame in the early 1980s as the lead singer for the Thompson Twins, who released five singles that debuted in the top ten charts in the United Kingdom: "Love On Your Side," "We Are Detective," "Hold Me Now," "Doctor!"Doctor!
"You Take Me Up" and "You Take Me Up" are among the many things that have been criticized.He was the first classical member of the band to have formal musical instruction.
Bailey was also a member of Babble's later iteration, releasing two commercially ineffective studio albums from 1994 to 1998. He now works in various musical genres, including film scoring.
With the Holiwater Project, he records and performs dub music under the name International Observer and Indo-fusion music.
The Bailey-Salgado Project (BSP), an audiovisual ensemble created with José Francisco Salgado, is his most recent collaboration.
Early life and education
Tom Bailey grew up in a family closely linked to medicine. Bailey's father was the Medical Officer of Health for Chesterfield Borough Council, and he was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School. Bailey started working as a music tutor at Brook School, Sheffield, after training as a classical pianist. He travelled the world in his late teens and early twenties.
Personal life
Bailey was married to fellow band member Alannah Currie from 1991 to 2003. They have two children. Bailey and his second wife, artist Lauren Drescher, live in France as of 2014. He has homes in New Zealand, France, and London. Bailey has often discussed his decision to be a vegan, but he does not drink or use recreational drugs.
Musical career
With Pete Dodd (guitar/vocals), John Roog (guitar), and Jon Podgorski (drums), Bailey formed the Thompson Twins in 1977. Podgorski did not want to go to London, so Andrew Edge played drums with them for one year before Chris Bell joined. Bailey, on vocals, guitar, bass, and keyboards, with then-girlfriend Alannah Currie (percussion, saxophone, and vocals), and Joe Leeway (percussion and vocals). During the 1980s, the Thompson Twins became a fixture on MTV, with "Hold Me Now," "Lay Your Hands on Me," and "King for a Day" being popular. Thompson Twins released Queer, their final album following Bailey and Currie's marriage in 1991.
Bailey and Currie formed Babble, a computer-oriented pair, in 1994.
Tom Bailey released several dub/electronica albums under the name International Observer between 2001 and 2015.
On August 17, 2014, Tom Bailey performed Thompson Twins songs live for the first time in 27 years at Temple Island Meadows, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Tom Bailey appeared in the Retro Futura Tour in the United States earlier this year. He was billed under the moniker "Thompson Twins" Tom Bailey. Howard Jones, Midge Ure, China Crisis, and Katrina Leskanich of Katrina and the Waves were among the 2014 Retro Futura Tour's highlights. During an interview with Tom Bailey in the '80s podcast about the tour, he said that while planning for his return to the stage, he went to a bookstore and ordered a Thompson Twins greatest-hits CD to help him learn the songs again.
Tom Bailey's latest solo album "Come So Far" featured a music video in 2016.
Bailey's official Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey website revealed on April 25, 2017 that he was recording his debut solo album and that the album would be released in early 2018. Science Fiction's album was published in July 2018. Bailey toured The United Kingdom and the United Kingdom with The B-52s, Culture Club, and Belinda Carlisle as part of The Life Tour, in order to promote the album.
Bailey co-produced Swamp, Bailey's first solo album, in 1988. Phil Thornalley, who played regularly with the Thompson Twins, collaborated with him on Thornalley's only solo album, Swamp. Bailey, in addition to playing instruments, has released three albums, remixed three tracks with Thornalley, and co-wrote "When I Get to Heaven."
Bailey produced Stellar, a New Zealand band, in 1999, and he was named New Zealand's Best Producer of the Year in New Zealand for their debut album, Mix.
Bailey was the figurehead of the dub project International Observer in 2002. Recent performances with 'Holiwater', a cinematic fusion of Indian classical music (Sarod-Viviraj), electronica (keyboards – Bailey), and video (film maker – Andrei Jewell), blurred boundaries between art installation and performance. On the Ganges, the band was formed to highlight issues of water pollution.
Bailey and astronomer and visual artist José Francisco Salgado formed Bailey-Salgado Project (BSP), which was released in 2010. BSP creates multimedia works that are not restricted to the physical world by combining music, film, and motion graphics. In October 2010, the pair's first collaboration, a short film titled Sidereal Motion, was shown in Bath, England.