Frank Turner

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Frank Turner live at the Highfield Festival (2014)

Francis Edward "Frank" Turner (born December 28, 1981 in Muharraq , Bahrain ) is a British musician .

Career

Growing up in Winchester , England , Turner attended Eton College and joined the punk band Million Dead in 2001 as a singer , with whom he released two studio albums and several singles / EPs. At the same time he studied at the London School of Economics , where he obtained a bachelor's degree in European history.

Since the band left in 2005, Turner has been a solo singer-songwriter , whose music has clear influences from folk rock and punk . His first album, Sleep Is for the Week , was released in the UK in January 2007 and received mostly positive feedback from the local music press. Its successor Love Ire & Song was published in March 2008 and was re-released in summer 2009 in German-speaking countries. He achieved his first major commercial success with the album The First Three Years , released in December 2008 , a compilation of songs from singles and EPs from Turner's first solo years, which reached number 72 in the British album charts. His third studio album Poetry of the Deed , which was released in September 2009, also reached the British charts and was able to advance to number 36 there. At the end of 2010 an EP was released with the title Rock & Roll ; in June 2011 the album England Keep My Bones , which reached number 12 in the UK charts. A second collection of singles and B-sides called The Second Three Years was released later in the year . On July 27, 2012, Turner and his band performed at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London's Olympic Stadium in front of around 80,000 spectators and a global TV audience. In April 2013 his fifth studio album Tape Deck Heart was released , which was produced by Rich Costey and recorded for the first time outside of the United Kingdom (namely in California). The album represents his greatest commercial success to date and reached number 2 in Great Britain and the charts in other European countries and the United States.

Turner usually plays his concerts with his band The Sleeping Souls , which for several years now has consisted of Ben Lloyd (guitar), Matt Nasir (keyboard), Tarrant Anderson (bass) and Nigel Powell (drums). Occasionally he also appears solo.

One of Frank Turner's side projects is called " Möngöl Hörde " - a hardcore punk band consisting of Matt Nasir (guitar) and Ben Dawson (drums). Since the studio album of the same name was released in 2014, the formation has performed live every now and then. At Turner's request, the project and the album will not be marketed effectively.

Turner dedicated the 13 songs on his album No Man's Land (2019) to exceptional women such as Rosetta Tharpe , Hudā Schaʿrāwī , Mata Hari and Christa McAuliffe . The album was produced by the Australian Catherine Marks .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2009 Poetry of the Deed - - - UK36 (1 week)
UK 		-
2011 England Keep My Bones - - - UK12
gold
gold

(10 weeks)UK 		US143 (1 week)
US
2013 Tape Deck Heart DE21 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT34 (1 week)
AT 		CH79 (1 week)
CH 		UK2
gold
gold

(17 weeks)UK 		US52 (1 week)
US
2015 Positive Songs for Negative People DE7 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT21 (1 week)
AT 		CH11 (3 weeks)
CH 		UK2
silver
silver

(5 weeks)UK 		US69 (1 week)
US
2018 Be More Kind DE12 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT19 (1 week)
AT 		CH25 (1 week)
CH 		UK3 (2 weeks)
UK 		US95 (1 week)
US
2019 No Man's Land DE22 (1 week)
DE 		AT49 (1 week)
AT 		CH61 (1 week)
CH 		UK3 (1 week)
UK 		-
2020 West Coast vs. Wessex DE42 (1 week)
DE 		- CH38 (1 week)
CH 		- -
with NOFX

Studio albums

  • 2007: Sleep Is for the Week
  • 2008: Love Ire & Song

Live albums

  • 2010: Live at iTunes Festival London 2010
  • 2020: Live in Newcastle 2020

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2008 Love Ire & Song - The First Three Years - - - UK72
gold
gold

(1 week)UK 		-
2014 The Third Three Years - - - UK67 (1 week)
UK 		-
2017 Songbook - - - UK36 (1 week)
UK 		-

More compilations

  • 2011: The Second Three Years
  • 2012: Last Minutes and Lost Evenings
  • 2015: Ten for Ten

EPs

  • 2006: Campfire punk rock
  • 2007: The Real Damage
  • 2010: Buddies (with Jon Snodgrass)
  • 2010: Rock & Roll
  • 2013: Losing Days
  • 2014: Polaroid Picture
  • 2016: Mittens
  • 2019: Don't Worry

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK
2008 Long Live the Queen
Love Ire & Song 		UK65 (2 weeks)
UK
2009 The Road
Poetry of the Deed 		UK62 (1 week)
UK
2010 I Still Believe
England Keep My Bones 		UK40 (3 weeks)
UK
2013 Recovery
Tape Deck Heart 		UK75 (2 weeks)
UK
The Way I Tend to Be
Tape Deck Heart 		UK57 (3 weeks)
UK

More singles

  • 2006: Vital Signs
  • 2008: Photosynthesis
  • 2008: Reasons Not to Be an Idiot
  • 2009: Poetry of the Deed
  • 2010: Isabel
  • 2010: Try This at Home
  • 2011: Peggy Sang the Blues
  • 2011: If Ever I Stray
  • 2011: Wessex Boy
  • 2013: Losing Days
  • 2013: Oh Brother
  • 2014: Polaroid Picture
  • 2015: Get Better
  • 2015: The Next Storm
  • 2016: Mittens
  • 2017: There She Is
  • 2018: 1933
  • 2018: blackout
  • 2018: Brave Face

Guest Posts

  • 2007: Steve McQueen ( The Automatic feat. Frank Turner)
  • 2007: Deadly Lethal Ninja Assassin (Reuben feat. Frank Turner)
  • 2009: Larkin About (Amongst the Pigeons feat. Frank Turner)
  • 2010: You Stay, I Go, No Following (Look Mexico feat. Frank Turner)
  • 2010: Carnivalesque (The Dawn Chorus feat. Frank Turner)
  • 2012: Fields of June (Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo feat. Frank Turner)
  • 2012: So Long ( Donots feat. Frank Turner)
  • 2014: Home ( John Allen feat. Frank Turner)
  • 2016: Greedy Bones (Ducking Punches feat. Frank Turner)

Video albums

  • 2008: All About the Destination
  • 2010: Take to the Road
  • 2012: Live From Wembley
  • 2016: Get Better
  • 2019: Show 2000

swell

  1. ↑ Hearing test: Möngöl Hörde - Möngöl Hörde. In: Tinnitus Attacks. November 26, 2014, accessed March 27, 2018 . Album Review "Möngöl Hörde"
  2. ↑ https://www.radiobremen.de/bremeneins/musik/wochenalbum/album-woche-frank-turner-no-mans-land100.html
  3. ↑ https://www.radiobremen.de/bremeneins/musik/wochenalbum/album-woche-frank-turner-no-mans-land100.html
  4. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  5. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK

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SURNAME Turner, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turner, Francis Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Muharraq , Bahrain