Richard Strange

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Richard Strange (2009)

Richard Strange (born January 1951 in London ; real life Richard Harding ), also Kid Strange , is a British musician, songwriter, composer and actor.

Act

Richard Strange was the singer and guitarist of the protopunk band Doctors of Madness from 1975 to 1978 , which had a strong influence on cultural life in London. Among other things, the Doctors of Madness played as the opening act for bands such as the Sex Pistols , The Jam and Joy Division .

In the late 1970s, fifteen pieces of music were created in collaboration with TV Smith ; seven of them have been published on Strange's website under the title Raw Meet for the Missionaries since 2005 . Richard Strange can also be heard on Cast of Thousands , The Adverts' second album .

In 1980 Strange began a solo career with the album The Live Rise of Richard Strange , which was followed in 1981 by the album The Phenomenal Rise of Richard Strange . At the same time he founded the Cabaret Futura variety theater in the London borough of Soho , where he himself acted as an emcee and occasionally as an actor. The Cabaret Futura was reopened in 2010 after a 30-year hiatus.

Since the late 1980s, Richard Strange has been working increasingly as a film and television actor and has appeared in numerous well-known productions such as Mona Lisa , Batman , Robin Hood - King of Thieves , Gangs of New York , Inkheart and Harry Potter .

In 2003 Strange toured the UK as an actor, narrator, musician and writer with Protein Dance and The Banquet . From 2004 to 2006 Strange appeared alongside Marianne Faithfull in the musical The Black Rider in London, San Francisco, Sydney and Los Angeles.

In 2007, Richard Strange accepted Jarvis Cocker's invitation to the annual Meltdown Festival at London's Royal Festival Hall , where he performed melodies from the Walt Disney films based on an arrangement by Hal Willner .

Richard Strange is married to the artist Kelly Dearsley Strange and lives in London.

Discography (selection)

Musical collaboration

  • Doctors of Madness :
    • 1975 Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms
    • 1975 Figments of Emancipation
    • 1977 Sons of Survival
    • 2002 Into the Strange - The Doctors of Madness Live
  • Richard Strange and the Engine Room
    • 1986 Going Gone
    • 1987 Damascus
    • 1990 The Rest Is Silence
  • The International Noise Orchestra
    • 1987 Listen to the Earthbeat
    • 1990 The Dark and Bright Side of the Globe

Solo releases

  • 1980 The Live Rise of Richard Strange
  • 1981 The Phenomenal Rise of Richard Strange
  • 1981 Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread (Compilation Cabaret Futura )

Filmography (selection)

bibliography

Richard Strange: Punks and Drunks, Flicks and Kicks - The Memoirs of Richard Strange. Andre Deutsch, 2002, ISBN 978-0-23399-991-3 .

swell

  1. ↑ Dave Thompson : London's Burning. 2009, ISBN 978-1-55652-769-2 . Page 147.
  2. ↑ Dave Thompson: I'm Your Ticket Out Of Here , The Armchair Guide to TV Smith. Page 37.
  3. ↑ London's most notorious cabaret night returns ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in The Times on June 25, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thetimes.co.uk
  4. ^ Protein Dance at Londondance.com

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personal data
SURNAME Strange, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kid Strange (pseudonym); Harding, Richard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH London