Richard Hawley

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Richard Hawley (2012)

Richard Willis Hawley (born January 17, 1967 in Sheffield ) is a British singer, musician and songwriter .

career

Prior to his solo career, Hawley had played in the band Treebound Story and in the Britpop band Longpigs . He later went on concert tours with Pulp , whose singer Jarvis Cocker is a good friend of Hawley's. It was Cocker who encouraged Hawley to pursue a solo career.

His first album Richard Hawley was released in 2000 as a mini album, a year later as a regular album with additional tracks. With the single Baby, You're My Light from his second album, he entered the UK charts for the first time in 2002 (# 81). His third album, Lowedges , released in 2003, received critical acclaim from music critics and made him known to a wider audience.

The greatest commercial success to date was his fifth album Lady's Bridge , released in 2007 : The single Tonight the Streets Are Ours reached number 40 in the singles charts, the album itself number 6 in the album charts. Tonight the Streets Are Ours was used as the score for the film Exit Through the Gift Shop by British street artist Banksy.

Truelove's Gutter , his sixth album, came out in September 2009. On the album, which, according to Hawley, does not contain any numbers suitable for singles, rare musical instruments such as glass harmonica , waterphone or Cristal Baschet are used.

music

For his mostly slow and melodic songs, Richard Hawley uses instrumentation and sounds that are based on past epochs of pop music. The Süddeutsche Zeitung characterized the music as "sometimes in sparingly rattling rock 'n' roll , sometimes in jazz , sometimes in doo-wop , orchestrated with the subtle force of old English music halls ". The Vienna Standard placed it "between Roy Orbison bombast." , gentle rockabilly rumble and songs from the Lee Hazlewood and Johnny Cash schools ” .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
2005	Coles Corner	-	-	-	UK37 gold (7 weeks)UK
2007	Lady's Bridge	-	-	-	UK6th gold (6 weeks)UK
2009	Truelove's Gutter	DE72 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK17th silver (3 weeks)UK
2012	Standing at the Sky's Edge	DE93 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK3 silver (11 weeks)UK
2015	Hollow Meadows	-	-	-	UK9 (7 weeks) UK
2019	Further	-	-	-	UK3 (3 weeks) UK

More albums

• Richard Hawley (2000, 2001)
• Late Night Final (2001)
• Lowedges (2003)
• Live at the Devil's Ass (2009)
• False Lights from the Land (2010)

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, , Placements, weeks, awards, comments)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
2002	Baby you're my light	-	-	-	UK81 (1 week) UK
2006	Just like the rain	-	-	-	UK94 (1 week) UK
	Born Under a Bad Sign	-	-	-	UK81 (1 week) UK
	Hotel Room	-	-	-	UK64 (2 weeks) UK
2007	Tonight the Streets Are Ours	-	-	-	UK40 (2 weeks) UK
	Serious	-	-	-	UK83 (1 week) UK

More singles

• Coming Home (2001)
• Run for Me (2003)
• The Ocean (2005)
• Cole's Corner (2005)
• Valentine (2008)
• Rockabilly Radio (2008)
• For Your Lover, Give Some Time (2009)

swell

1. ↑ UK Chartlog , accessed October 30, 2009 (source for all chart information)
2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung from 19./20. September 2009 - ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 30, 2009 
3. ^ The standard of September 7, 2007 [1] , accessed October 30, 2009
4. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE UK
5. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK

Web links

• Richard Hawley's official homepage