Lighthouse Family

Lighthouse Family
General information
origin	London , England ( UK )
Genre (s)	Pop , easy listening , soul
founding	1993, 2010
resolution	2003
Current occupation
singing	Tunde Baiyewu
Keyboard	Paul Tucker

Lighthouse Family is a British music duo that was active from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s and re-founded in 2010. British born singer Tunde Baiyewu and London keyboardist Paul Tucker formed the group in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1993 after meeting while studying at university . The good sales of their 1995 debut album Ocean Drive made the band popular representatives of easy listening across Europe . They are best known for their songs Free , Lifted , Ocean Drive , Raincloud and High .

history

Both Baiyewu and Tucker were working in bars when they first met. Together they recorded demos of a number of songs written by Tuckers in the late 1980s. Among them, a demo of "Ocean Drive" caught the attention of Polydor Records A&R Director Colin Barlow, who signed a contract with the group in 1993 for a six-month development phase.

In the wake of the economic recession in Great Britain at that time the British record companies were mainly interested in short-term success under contract. In contrast, Barlow expected the group's success to last "10 years or more." At the start of the first album, Polydor invested ₤ 250,000 in the band. The music videos could now also be shot abroad in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

The first single "Lifted" was broadcast on BBC Radio One as well as a number of BBC Local Radio stations. The Chart Show showed the accompanying music video. Nevertheless, this did not lead to significant single or album sales in 1995; it was only after Lifted was re-released in 1996 that the song came into the top five of the UK singles chart . Ocean Drive, which went platinum six times by the end of 1997, remained in the UK album charts for a total of 175 weeks.

Lighthouse Family postponed their appearances in the spring of 2003 due to many advertising appearances after the release of Whatever Gets You Through the Day in 2001. This has led both members to individual projects. Baiyewu became a solo artist while Tucker joined the rock band The Orange Lights .

comeback

In November 2010 the duo announced a return of the Lighthouse Family and planned a UK & Ireland tour in February and March 2011. It was the Lighthouse Family’s first performance in eight years. In an interview with BBC Breakfast on January 17, 2011, the Lighthouse Family announced that they still spoke to each other after the first breakup. In addition, there is no current defined schedule for the release of a new album. However, during the interview, Tucker mentioned that the duo had "pockets ... full of songs".

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1995	Ocean Drive	DE26 (36 weeks) DE	-	-	UK3 × 6 Six-fold platinum (175 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 1995
1997	Postcards from Heaven	DE5 platinum (77 weeks)DE	AT18th gold (16 weeks)AT	CH12 platinum (27 weeks)CH	UK2 × 4 Quadruple platinum (84 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 1997
2001	Whatever Gets You Through the Day	DE3 platinum (42 weeks)DE	AT21 (26 weeks) AT	CH29 gold (25 weeks)CH	UK7th platinum (23 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 2001
2019	Blue Sky in Your Head	-	-	-	UK3 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 5, 2019

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2002	Greatest hits	DE12 (14 weeks) DE	AT36 (10 weeks) AT	CH66 (6 weeks) CH	UK23 × 2 Double platinum (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 2002
2003	The very best of	-	-	-	UK9 platinum (13 weeks)UK	-	First published: April 2003

Remix albums

year	title	Remarks
2004	Relaxed & Remixed	First published: 2004

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1995	Lifted Ocean Drive	DE62 (17 weeks) DE	AT36 (2 weeks) AT	-	UK4th gold (12 weeks)UK	-	First published: May 22, 1995
	Ocean Drive Ocean Drive	DE69 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	UK11 silver (11 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 9, 1995
1996	Goodbye Heartbreak Ocean Drive	DE86 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK14 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 16, 1996
	Loving Every Minute Ocean Drive	DE98 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK20 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 16, 1996
1997	Raincloud Postcard from Heaven	DE70 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK6 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 6, 1997
	High Postcard from Heaven	DE4th gold (27 weeks)DE	AT4 (12 weeks) AT	CH2 gold (30 weeks)CH	UK4th platinum (15 weeks)UK	-	First published: December 1997
1998	Lost In Space Postcard from Heaven	-	-	-	UK6 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 22, 1998
	Question Of Faith Postcard from Heaven	DE66 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK21 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 5, 1998
1999	Postcard from Heaven Postcard from Heaven	-	-	-	UK24 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: January 4, 1999
2001	(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free / One Whatever Gets You Through The Day	DE10 (16 weeks) DE	AT14 (16 weeks) AT	CH26 (20 weeks) CH	UK6 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 5, 2001
2002	Run Whatever Gets You Through The Day	-	AT75 (1 week) AT	CH71 (7 weeks) CH	UK30 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 4, 2002
	Happy Whatever Gets You Through The Day	DE82 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK51 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 1, 2002

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 1998: for the single high  Netherlands 1998: for the album Postcards from Heaven  Spain 2001: for the album Whatever Gets You Through the Day Platinum record  Australia 1998: for the album Postcards from Heaven 1998: for the single high  Europe 2002: for the album Whatever Gets You Through the Day  New Zealand 1998: for the album Postcards from Heaven

2 × platinum record  Europe 1998: for the album Postcards from Heaven 1999: for the album Ocean Drive  Spain 1999: for the album Postcards from Heaven

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	140,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	25,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	1,050,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	5 × platinum5	(5,000,000)	ifpi.org
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	-	platinum1	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	95,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	250,000	Sólo éxitos: año año, 1959-2002
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	15 × platinum15th	5,400,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	8 × gold8th	28 × platinum28

Awards

• 1999: RSH Gold

Web links

• Lighthouse Family at laut.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Alan Jackson: Beam us up, star-trekkers . In: Times Newspapers Ltd (Ed.): The Times . May 12, 1995, ISSN  0140-0460 .
2. ^ The Lighthouse Family reunite . In: BBC News , BBC, January 17, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2011. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
4. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1999