Phil Fearon
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Phil Fearon (born July 30, 1956 in London , England ) is a British music producer , songwriter , singer and multi-instrumentalist . He also performed under the band name Phil Fearon & Galaxy in the 1980s .
Life
Fearon was a member of the London R&B band Candidates in the late 1970s . At the beginning of the 1980s he also began to work as a music producer. Together with singers Dorothy Galdes and Julie Gore, he produced funk and pop- inspired dance tracks . The first single was largely ignored in 1982; the second release called Dancing Tight was presented in 1983 by radio DJ Robbie Vincent in his broadcast and then reached number four in the British single charts . In the same year two more singles were able to place themselves in the charts. The singles of 1984 reached number five ( What Do I Do ) and number ten ( Everybody's Laughing ). After comparatively weak sales results for the next releases, Fearon gave the production of the single I Can Prove It into the hands of the most successful British producers of the time, Stock Aitken Waterman . The title reached number eight in the single charts.
In 1987 Fearon ended his stage career and founded the record label Production House Records . Among other things, the drum and bass / house band Baby D released there , which led the UK Top 40 for two weeks in 1994 with the rave single Let Me Be Your Fantasy .
Fearon is married to Dorothy Galdes, the former singer of Galaxy and Baby D. Their daughter Stephanie is an actress .
Web links
- Phil Fearon recordings in the catalog of the German National Library
- Phil Fearon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Phil Fearon at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts UK
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
- ↑ Phil Fearon at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Review of the album Phil Fearon & Galaxy on Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Pete Waterman Entertainment: Pete Waterman's Official UK Top 40 Hits Discography ( Memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Phil Fearon in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ Production House at Discogs
- ↑ Stephanie Fearon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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SURNAME | Fearon, Phil |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British record producer, songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |