Bill Pritchard

Bill Pritchard (center), 2014

Bill Pritchard (born March 20, 1964 in Lichfield , England ) is a British singer and songwriter . While he is rather unknown in his home country, he was able to achieve some successes in other countries. B. in France through collaboration with Daniel Darc and Frédéric Lo.

biography

Bill Pritchard was born in 1964 in the British county of Staffordshire . At the age of 20 he produced the cassette Berlin 1935 , after which he was able to release his first two albums Bill Pritchard and Half a million on the label Third Mind Records in the following two years , the alternative synth-pop and indie music accompanied exclusively by guitar. Songs contained. A stay abroad in Bordeaux , France , led to an enthusiasm for French films, literature and music and finally to an album production with the French singer Daniel Darc. The joint album Parce Que received long-lasting recognition. His subsequent two Britpop albums Three Months, Three Weeks and Two Days and Jolie from 1989 and 1991 were released internationally by the PIAS label . Although they went largely unnoticed in his home country, they were successful in France , Belgium and Italy as well as in the USA and Canada through music video broadcasts on MTV . After problems with his contract with the Polygram label , which did not result in any music being released, an album was only released again in 1998 on the indie label Ncompass , which received little attention. In the following 15 years only one album was released in France, By Paris, by Taxi, by Accident , which was influenced by French pop .

Since 2014, albums have been released regularly on the German label Mural Records , which he produces with Tim Bradshaw, who had already worked on his 1998 album Happiness and Other Crimes . With a successful reissue of his 1988 album with Daniel Darc and several tribute concerts for Daniel Darc, who died in 2013, Pritchard reunited with French musicians and recorded the album Rendez-vous Streets with Frédéric Lo , which was released in 2019 under the name Pritchard & Lo was released on CD and vinyl. It also includes a vocal duet with Étienne Daho .

Pritchard lives in Newcastle-under-Lyme and, in addition to his work as a musician, also works as a French teacher.

Discography

1987 Bill Pritchard
1988 Half a Million
1988 Parce Que (with Daniel Darc)
1989 Three Months, Three Weeks & Two Days
1991 Jolie
1998 Happiness and Other Crimes
2005 By Paris, by Taxi, by Accient
2014 A Trip to the Coast
2016 Mother Town Hall
2019 Midland Lullabies
2019 Rendez-vous Streets

Web links

Bill Pritchard at Discogs (English)

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personal data
SURNAME	Pritchard, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pritchard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British singer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lichfield , UK

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