Neil Reid

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Neil Reid
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 02/05/1972 (16 weeks)
Smile
  UK 47 02.09.1972 (2 weeks)
Singles
Mother of Mine
  UK 2 01/01/1972 (20 weeks)
That's what I want to be
  UK 41 04/08/1972 (6 weeks)

Neil Reid (born April / May 1959 ) is a British former child star who became known at the age of twelve with the song Mother of Mine and the long-playing record Neil Reid . He is from Motherwell in Scotland .

life and career

Reid was discovered at a Christmas concert for seniors when he was eight. In the following years he sang at various events, especially during the school holidays. In 1971 he appeared on the talent show Opportunity Knocks broadcast on ITV . With the song Mother of Mine (literally "Mother of mine", used in the form of address like "My (love) Mother") written by Bill Parkinson, who in the 1960s together with Ritchie Blackmore in the backing band of Screaming Lord Sutch played had, he won over the television viewers for himself. He got a recording deal with Decca Records . Just in time for Christmas, the "sugar sweet ode [to mother]" was released as a single. On January 1, 1972, she went into the English charts and two weeks later was in second place; only the New Seekers with their number one hit I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) , which was derived from an advertising jingle , were listed one rank higher in the next three weeks. The single Mother of Mine with the B-side If I Could Write a Song sold nearly a million copies in the UK and around 4.5 million worldwide.

Decca put together a long-playing record with 16 songs under the direction of producer and arranger Ivor Raymonde. It contained standards such as On the Sunny Side of the Street , the Beatles title When I'm Sixty-Four , the Scottish folk traditional Ye Braes and Banks and also the single hit Mother of Mine . The album reached number one on the British charts on February 13, 1972 . Until the 2010s, Reid remains the youngest artist to ever have a number one album in the UK.

On Mother of Mine in April was followed by the single That's What I Want to Be the charts, with the Reid 41st reached. The second album, Smile , was also briefly in the lower regions of the top 50. And with that, Neil Reid's meteoric career was already a year before its end. Reid was still touring and, despite his voice breaking, recorded other records - including the 1974 single Hazel Eyes with Roy Wood - but a few years later it was over for good. Reid retired from the music business, worked as a financial and business consultant and founded his own church in 2010 in his new hometown, the Oasis Blackpool (" Blackpool Oasis"), a "progressive church of the 21st century".

Discography

Albums

Singles

  • 1971: Mother of Mine
  • 1972: That's What I Want to Be
  • 1973: End of the World
  • 1974: Hazel Eyes

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b chart discography
  2. ↑ Marcello Carlin writes in Then Play Long. Neil Reid: Neil Reid , he was twelve years and nine months old when the long-playing record Neil Reid reached number one on the charts. Since this happened on February 13, 1972, this limitation of the date of birth results.
  3. ↑ a b Victoria Richards: Mother of mine! It's her day, so why not serenade her? , The Independent dated March 14, 2010
  4. ↑ Father of the later Cocteau Twins musician Simon Raymonde

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personal data
SURNAME Reid, Neil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish child star / singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1959 or May 1959