Charlie Burchill
Charlie Burchill (* 27. November 1959 in Glasgow , Scotland , as Charles Burchill ) is a Scottish musician and composer . He is a founding member of the Scottish rock band Simple Minds, founded in 1978 . He plays guitar , keyboard , saxophone and violin . Since 1998 he has also worked as a producer of Simple Minds albums.
biography
Charlie Burchill went to Holyrood RC (Roman Catholic) Secondary School in Glasgow with Jim Kerr and Brian McGee. He and his four year older brother Jamie received guitars as a gift in 1973/74 and began to learn guitar together. While Jamie stopped playing the guitar, Charlie started playing in a school band.
1975–1976 he played with Jim Kerr , Brian McGee and others in the beginners band Biba-Rom !. In 1977 he founded the punk band Johnny And The Self Abusers with Jim Kerr, Brian McGee and John Milarky . After half a year this band broke up in order to start a new beginning in 1978 under the name Simple Minds . After some musicians had come and gone, at the end of 1978 the formation came together with Charlie Burchill, Jim Kerr, Brian McGee, Derek Forbes and Michael MacNeil , which then also recorded records.
On the band's first three albums, Burchill played the violin and saxophone in addition to the guitar. With the albums New Gold Dream and Sparkle In The Rain that followed in 1982 and 1984 , his guitar playing came more and more to the fore of the band.
In 1988 Burchill worked on the Aurora Borealis project , an instrumental album, but this was postponed because of the band's Street Fighting Years album and was later not pursued.
Since Mick MacNeil left the band in 1989, Burchill has increasingly taken on the role of keyboard player in studio productions .
With the album Neapolis in 1998, Charlie Burchill began to work as a producer and produced several other Simple Minds albums.
In 2002 Charlie Burchill took part in the production of Non Zero Sumness by the Italian dance and electro band Planet Funk , whose members participated in the production of the Simple Minds album Cry in the same year .
Burchill survived numerous line-up changes, celebrated Simple Minds' 30th anniversary in 2008, and remained a founding member with Jim Kerr.
engagement
As part of his music with Simple Minds, Burchill repeatedly campaigned for the end of hunger in Africa ( Live Aid concert ), apartheid ( Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert ), peace in Northern Ireland, etc. Well-known songs are Mandela Day , Biko and Belfast Child .
Others
As a Catholic and avid football fan, Charlie Burchill is a supporter of Celtic Glasgow, a well-known football club in his hometown that traditionally draws its supporters from the Catholic population.
He is a vegetarian , lived in Dublin for many years and now lives in Rome .
literature
- Dave Thomas, Mike Wrenn: Simple Minds . Moewig, Rastatt 1989, ISBN 3811830449 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Charlie Burchill in the catalog of the German National Library
- Simple Minds official website
- Dream Giver Redux informative fansite
- Book of Brilliant Things informative fansite
- Charlie Burchill at Allmusic (English)
- Planet Funk on allmusic.com
- Interview with Charlie Burchill in April 2005 on vettaville.nl in English
- Interview with Charlie Burchill from April 4, 2009 on allgigs.co.uk in English
- Charlie Burchill on Facebook
Individual evidence
- ↑ simpleminds.org: Charlie Burchill
- ↑ simpleminds.org: Simple Minds # 1
- ↑ Holyrood Secondary School Pupils ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ simpleminds.org: Biba Rom!
- ↑ simpleminds.org: Johnny and the Self Abusers
- ↑ simpleminds.org: Simple Minds # 6
- ↑ glasgow-barrowland.com: Simple Minds Story ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ allmusic.com Charlie Burchill Guitar
- ↑ ivu.org: Famous Vegetarian
- ↑ independent.ie: Interview with Jim Kerr from November 15, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burchill, Charlie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burchill, Charles (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow , Scotland , |