John Lawton

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John Lawton (2003)

John Cooper Lawton (born July 11, 1946 in Halifax , † June 29, 2021 ) was a British rock singer. He became known from the 1970s for his work with Uriah Heep , The Les Humphries Singers and Lucifer's Friend .

Life

Lawton was in 1946 in the English born Halifax. His musical career began in North Shields , where he performed with the band The Deans in the early 1960s. He moved first to West One and then to Stonewall, where John Miles , Vic Malcolm (later Geordie ) and Paul Thompson (later Roxy Music ) were members. After the band ended their engagement in the Top Ten Club in Hamburg in 1969 , Lawton decided to stay in Germany after receiving an offer from Lucifer's Friend to join the band as a singer. Here he sang from 1969 to 1976, 1981/82 and from 2014.

From the 1970s he was a member of the Les Humphries Singers . Here he was the solo singer of many titles, such as the hit Mama Loo from 1973. In 1975 he took part in the recordings of Roger Glover's The Butterfly Ball . He sang the title Little Chalk Blue and performed alongside several musicians from Deep Purple at the project's only concert in London's Royal Albert Hall .

From 1976 to 1979 he was the front man of Uriah Heep and sang the chart hits Free Me (1977) and Come Back to Me (1978). In 2001 he released the album The Return with Ken Hensley , with which they appeared together as the Hensley Lawton Band. Most of the songs in it are from the times they shared with Uriah Heep. In December 2001 Lawton and Hensley first appeared on stage with the then formation of Uriah Heep during the annual Magician's Birthday Party in London . In 2007 Hensley released his biography Blood on the Highway - Part I on CD. Here Lawton worked as a guest singer.

John Lawton died in June 2021 at the age of 74.

Discography

With Asterix (pre-Lucifer's Friend)

  • Asterix - 1970

With Lucifer's Friend

  • Lucifer's Friend - 1970
  • Where the Groupies Killed the Blues - 1972
  • I'm Just a Rock & Roll Singer - 1973
  • Banquet - 1974
  • Mind Exploding - 1975
  • Mean Machine - 1981
  • Sumo Grip - 1994
  • Awakening - 2015
  • too late to hate - 2016

With Les Humphries Singers

  • We Are Goin 'Down Jordan - 1971
  • Singing Detonation - 1971
  • Old Man Moses - 1971
  • Mexico - 1972
  • Sound '73 - 1973
  • Mama Loo (= La Onu Cantante) - 1973
  • Live in Europe - 1973
  • Carnival - 1973
  • Sound '73 / II - 1973
  • The World Of - 1973
  • Kansas City - 1974
  • Sound '74 - 1974
  • One of These Days - 1974
  • Rock 'n Roll Party - 1974
  • Amazing Grace & Gospeltrain - 1975
  • Party on the Rocks - 1975

With Uriah Heep

  • Firefly - 1977
  • Innocent Victim - 1977
  • Fallen Angel - 1978
  • Live in Europe 79 - 1986
  • The Magician's Birthday Party - 2002
  • Magic Night - 2004
  • Live On Air - 2010

Solo albums

  • Heartbeat ( published as Hardbeat in Germany ) - 1980
  • Still Paying My Dues to the Blues - 2000
  • with Steve Dunning: Steppin 'It Up - 2002
  • Sting In The Tale (John Lawton Band) - 2003
  • Shakin 'The Tale (John Lawton Band) Live - 2004

With Rebel

  • Stargazer - 1983

With tsar

  • Live Your Life Forever - 1990

With Gunhill

  • One Over the Eight - 1995
  • Night Heat - 1997
  • Live In Germany - 1999

With The Hensley Lawton Band

  • The Return - 2001

With Ken Hensley (solo project)

  • Ken Hensley - Blood on the Highway - 2007

With OTR ("On The Rocks")

  • Mamonama - 2008

With Diana Express

  • The Power Of Mind - 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uriah Heep: Ex-front singer John Lawton dead. In: zdf.de. July 7, 2021, accessed July 7, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Lawton, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lawton, John Cooper (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax , England
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2021