PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey (2011)

Polly Jean "PJ" Harvey MBE (* 9. October 1969 in Yeovil , Somerset ) is a British alternative - singer and songwriter .

Musical career

PJ Harvey began her musical career in the band Automatic Dlamini. A trio later formed under her name PJ Harvey. In 1992, the first joint album Dry appeared on the label Too Pure , with which the band attracted the attention of the independent scene.

In 1993 Harvey signed a contract with the record label Island Records . She then released two albums in quick succession, Rid of Me in the original line-up and, after Harvey decided to continue as a solo artist, the album 4-Track Demos . In the same year she toured in the opening act for U2 .

In 1995 her album To Bring You My Love was released , produced by John Parish and Flood . Parish and Harvey had previously worked together in the band Automatic Dlamini. In 1996, the multi-instrumentalist and producer and PJ Harvey co-launched Dance Hall at Louse Point . On Nick Caves - with whom she had a relationship in the 1990s - album Murder Ballads (1996) PJ Harvey is represented as a duet partner with Henry Lee . She is also a guest singer on Tricky's album Angels with Dirty Faces (1998) on the song Broken Homes .

With their follow-up album Is This Desire? (1998) she was unable to match the success of To Bring You My Love with either the critics or the record buyers . In 1999, Harvey reunited with her old bandmates. Together they recorded the album Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) in Dorset and New York City . For this album, on which Thom Yorke ( Radiohead ) is also a guest singer, PJ Harvey was awarded the 2001 Mercury Music Prize . PJ Harvey is a guest singer and musician on Sparklehorse 's album It's a Wonderful Life (2001) .

PJ Harvey, 1998

In 2003 she was invited to Rancho De La Luna, where she worked with Josh Homme and other artists on the Desert Sessions Volumes 9 & 10. In May 2004 the album Uh Huh Her was released , stylistically following Harvey's earlier albums. In addition, she was also on the 2004 album Bubblegum by Mark Lanegan represented. Here she provided the voice for the songs Hit the City and Come to Me . In 2005 she worked on the album Before the Poison by Marianne Faithfull , which also includes the song No Child of Mine .

With the elegiac album White Chalk , which was released in September 2007, Harvey decided not to use the electric guitar , which had been the dominant guitar until then . Instead, she was accompanied exclusively by acoustic instruments - mainly the piano - and her voice was usually one pitch higher.

On March 30, 2009, the album A Woman a Man Walked By was released, which Harvey has again recorded in collaboration with John Parish. The British artist's eighth solo album, Let England Shake , was released in February 2011. PJ Harvey was awarded the Mercury Music Prize for the second time. Numerous magazines voted Let England Shake album of the year.

In addition to her job as a musician, PJ Harvey appeared as Mary Magdalene in Hal Hartley's feature film The Book of Life . She also studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and works as a sculptor . In June 2013 she was awarded the MBE for her services to music . Queen Elizabeth II presented her with the medal on December 10, 2013 at Buckingham Palace . Her ninth solo album, The Hope Six Demolition Project , was released in April 2016 .

In 2019 she composed the film music of the same name for a theater adaptation of the Noël Coward Theater , directed by Ivo van Hove, of the classic film Alles über Eva , in which the leading actresses Gillian Anderson and Lily James can each be heard as guest singers with a song.

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
1992 Dry - - - UK11
silver
silver

(6 weeks)UK 		-
First published: March 30, 1992
1993 Rid of Me - - - UK3
silver
silver

(4 weeks)UK 		US158 (1 week)
US
First published: May 4, 1993
4-track demos - - - UK19 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: October 19, 1993
1995 To bring you my love DE47 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH38 (4 weeks)
CH 		UK12
gold
gold

(6 weeks)UK 		US40 (15 weeks)
US
First published: February 27, 1995
1998 Is This Desire? DE57 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - UK17th
silver
silver

(2 weeks)UK 		US54 (4 weeks)
US
First published: September 28, 1998
2000 Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea DE54 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT43 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH26 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK23
platinum
platinum

(17 weeks)UK 		US42 (9 weeks)
US
First published: October 23, 2000
2004 Uh Huh Her DE36 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT33 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH17 (8 weeks)
CH 		UK12
silver
silver

(3 weeks)UK 		US29 (5 weeks)
US
First published: May 31, 2004
2007 White chalk DE54 (1 week)
DE 		AT66 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH21 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK11
silver
silver

(4 weeks)UK 		US65 (3 weeks)
US
First published: September 24, 2007
2011 Let England Shake DE20 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT15 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH4 (10 weeks)
CH 		UK8th
gold
gold

(25 weeks)UK 		US32 (3 weeks)
US
First published: February 11, 2011
2016 The Hope Six Demolition Project DE11 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT8 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH4 (8 weeks)
CH 		UK1 (4 weeks)
UK 		US63 (1 week)
US
First published: April 15, 2016
2020 Dry demos - - CH27 (1 week)
CH 		UK59 (1 week)
UK 		-

Collaborations

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
1996 Dance Hall at Louse Point - - - UK46 (1 week)
UK 		US178 (1 week)
US
First published: September 23, 1996
(with John Parish )
2009 A Woman a Man Walked By DE62 (1 week)
DE 		AT55 (1 week)
AT 		CH24 (3 weeks)
CH 		UK25 (3 weeks)
UK 		US80 (3 weeks)
US
First published: March 30, 2009
(with John Parish )

Compilations

year title Remarks
1995 The B-Sides First published: 1995
2004 iTunes Originals First published: October 25, 2004
2006 The Peel Sessions 1991-2004 First published: October 23, 2006
2011 iTunes session First published: September 12, 2011

Soundtracks

year title Remarks
2019 All about Eve First published: April 12, 2019

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK
1992 Sheela-Na-Gig
Dry 		UK69 (1 week)
UK
First published: February 1992
1993 50ft Queenie
Rid of Me 		UK27 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: April 1993
Man-size
rid of me 		UK42 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: July 1993
1995 Down by the Water
To Bring You My Love 		UK38 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: February 1995
C'mon Billy
To Bring You My Love 		UK29 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: July 1995
Send His Love to Me
To Bring You My Love 		UK34 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: October 1995
1996 That Was My Veil
Dance Hall at Louse Point 		UK75 (1 week)
UK
First published: October 14, 1996
(with John Parish )
1998 A Perfect Day Elise
Is This Desire? 		UK25 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: September 14, 1998
1999 The Wind
Is This Desire? 		UK29 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: January 11, 1999
2000 Good Fortune
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 		UK41 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: November 13, 2000
2001 A Place Called Home
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 		UK43 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: February 26, 2001
This Is Love
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 		UK41 (1 week)
UK
First published: October 8, 2001
2004 The Letter
Uh Huh Her 		UK28 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: May 17, 2004
You Come Through
Uh Huh Her 		UK41 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: July 19, 2004
Shame
Uh Huh Her 		UK45 (1 week)
UK
First published: September 20, 2004

As a guest musician

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK
1996 Henry Lee
Murder Ballads 		UK36 (1 week)
UK
First published: February 1996
( Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds featuring PJ Harvey)
1998 Money Greedy / Broken Homes
Angels with Dirty Faces 		UK25 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: May 1998
( Tricky featuring PJ Harvey)

Poetry book and documentary film

In October 2015, Harvey published her first volume of poetry, a collaboration with photographer Seamus Murphy, entitled The Hollow of the Hand . In preparation, Harvey and Murphy made several trips to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, DC. Their experiences were documented in Seamus Murphy's film A Dog Called Money , which premiered in UK theaters on November 8, 2019 and a week later in Germany. Seamus Murphy had previously worked with Harvey to make 12 short films for Let England Shake .

literature

Web links

Commons : PJ Harvey  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Cave reveals details about separation from PJ Harvey at t-online.de, accessed on August 29, 2019
  2. ↑ http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/2087-pj-harvey-let-england-shake.php
  3. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/206698/Birthday_Honours_List_2013.pdf
  4. ↑ PJ Harvey shares new songs "The Moth" and "Descending". Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  6. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  7. ↑ https://www.musikexpress.de/pj-harveys-erstes-buch-erscheint-im-herbst-2015-153485/
  8. ↑ https://www.salzgeber.de/pj-harvey/
  9. ↑ https://www.fr.de/ratgeber/medien/a-dog-called-money-kino-reise-orte-leben-zurueckkehrt-zr-13217780.html
personal data
SURNAME Harvey, PJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harvey, Polly Jean (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Yeovil , Somerset