Blondie Chaplin
Blondie Chaplin (* 7. July 1951 in Durban , South Africa as Terence William Chaplin ) is a South African guitarist and singer, who from 1972 to 1973, a band member of the Beach Boys was.
Life
Chaplin grew up in a musical family and learned to play the guitar very early. As a teenager he joined The Flames of Ricky Fataar and his brothers. After two number 1 hits, they left South Africa because of the restrictions imposed by the apartheid regime and moved to London, where they performed in small clubs. There the band was discovered by Al Jardine and invited by Carl Wilson to Los Angeles to record for Brother Records .
After two albums by The Flame , as they were now called, the band split up. Chaplin and Fataar then joined the Beach Boys who needed new members after Bruce Johnston left the band and Dennis Wilson severely injured his hand. Chaplin and Fataar contributed a few songs on the Beach Boys albums Carl and the Passions - "So Tough" and Holland and made for a more R&B-heavy sound. Chaplin was fired in 1973 during a concert in New York for quarreling with Stephen Love (Mike Love's brother), the manager of the Beach Boys.
Chaplin recorded his first solo album Blondie Chaplin / Rock and Roll in 1977 and toured with it. The album also features singers Clydie King and Venetta Field, who previously sang for the Rolling Stones on Exile on Main Street . A collaboration with David Johanson of the New York Dolls brought him to New York City. There he played in the band Skollie with Keith Lentin and Anton Fig and befriended Keith Richards , but moved back to Los Angeles.
Because of his friendship with Richards, he first played on his album with the Wingless Angels and on Bridges to Babylon by the Rolling Stones. He also toured with the band and can therefore be heard on their live album No Security from 1998. He was present at the recordings for Forty Licks as well as during the Forty Licks tour, on which the album Live Licks was recorded. Even with the A-Bigger Bang -Tournee Blondie Chaplin was with the Stones on stage.
He also released his second solo album Between Us . He also played as a session musician for The Band , Joe Walsh , Bonnie Raitt and the Charlie Watts / Jim Keltner Project (2000).
He played together with Anton Fig on June 29, 2013 in the backing band of Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa at the Koninklijk Theater Carré in Amsterdam.
Further information
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Doggett: Hang in there, brother. The Beach Boys without Brian Wilson in Kingsley Abbott (ed.): The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson , ISBN 978-3-85445-160-0 , Hannibal, Koch Verlag group
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chaplin, Blondie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chaplin, Terence William (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African guitarist and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Durban |