Eric Bogle
Eric Bogle (born September 23, 1944 in Peebles , Scotland ) is a Scottish-Australian singer, singer-songwriter and peace activist.
Life
In 1969 he emigrated to Australia and from then on worked in Canberra as an accountant . Since 1980 he has only devoted himself to music and lives in South Australia near Adelaide .
One of the main themes of his songs is dealing with the war and working for a peaceful coexistence . For this, Eric Bogle received several awards, including a Peace Medal from the United Nations in 1984 for "his efforts to promote peace and interpersonal harmony with the help of music". On January 26, 1987, Eric Bogle was named "Member of the Order of Australia " for his musical art .
From 1979, Eric Bogle toured eight times through the USA and Canada, ten times through Europe and very often through Australia. On his European tours he also appeared in 1985 at the East Berlin Festival of the Political Song of the FDJ .
In the summer of 2009, Eric Bogle toured the UK, Ireland and Canada for the last time with his long-time friend and partner John Munro, who died in May 2018. After that there were a few concerts outside of Australia, for example in 2015 near Gallipoli , where the ANZAC had fought in the Battle of Gallipoli 100 years earlier, during World War I.
Adaptations of his works
Some of his best-known anti-war songs such as No Man's Land (also known as Green Fields of France ) and And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda have been widely featured by other songwriters and bands such as June Tabor , The Dubliners , Joan Baez , Donovan , Dropkick Murphys , Angelic Upstarts , The Men They Couldn't Hang , Skrewdriver and the Pogues played, No Man's Land also in German versions as Es ist An der Zeit by Hannes Wader and Wacholder and in Low German as Suldat Janssen by Helmut Debus .
In 1992 the German punk band Slime covered the song My Youngest Son on their album Viva La Muerte .
Discography
DVD
2009: Live at Stonyfell Winery
Albums
- 1976: Live in person
- 1980: Now I'm Easy
- 1981: Plain & Simple
- 1982: down under
- 1982: pure
- 1982: Scraps of Papers
- 1984: When the Wind Blows
- 1985: Hard Hard Times (Eric Bogle with John Munro)
- 1986: Singing the Spirit Home
- 1988: Something of Value
- 1990: Voices in the Wilderness
- 1993: Mirrors
- 1996: The Emigrant & the Exile (Eric Bogle & John Munro)
- 1997: Small Miracles
- 2000: Endangered Species
- 2002: The Color of Dreams
- 2005: Other People's Children
- 2009: The Dreamer
- 2013: A Toss of the Coin (Eric Bogle with John Munro)
- 2016: Voices (Eric Bogle with John Munro)
Compilations
- 1985: In Concert (Live, with John Munro & Brent Miller)
- 1986: Eric Bogle Songbook 1
- 1986: Eric Bogle Songbook 2
- 1994: I Wrote This Wee Song (Live, 2 CDs)
- 2000: The Gift of Years (also published as By Request )
- 2005: At This Stage (Live, 2 CDs)
- 2005: Singing the Spirit Home (5 CDs)
- 2010: A Few Old Songs for Very New Times
- 2017: Just the Funny Stuff
Others
- 1984: Book Eric Bogle Song Book (20 songs with notes and chords for guitar; also published under the songs of eric bogle )
- 2000: Book Eric Bogle: Songs Book 1
- 2000: Book Eric Bogle: Songs Book 2
- 2006: Book Eric Bogle Chord Songbook (36 songs with notes and chords for guitar)
- 2010: Book The Emigrant and the Exile (by John Munro - a biography of Eric Bogle, with autobiographical parts of John Munro)
- 2011: CD Festival Folk Sing Eric Bogle (with Mary Black , Dave O'Neill, John Munro and others)
- 2017: Book Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War: "An Old Man's Tears" (Routledge Studies in First World War History) (by Michael JK Walsh)
Known songs
- And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
- No Man's Land / Green Fields of France
- Leaving Nancy
- Nobody's Moggy Now
- Little Gomez
- My Youngest Son
Web links
- Sound carrier by Eric Bogle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Own website ( Memento from July 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Text and music by And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bogle, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish-Australian singer, songwriter and peace activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Peebles , Scotland |