Tony Christie

Tony Christie (2015)

Tony Christie (real name: Anthony Fitzgerald ; born April 25, 1943 in Conisbrough , South Yorkshire ) is an English musician , singer and actor .

biography

The tenor Tony Christie already released records in November 1967 , but it wasn't until the single Las Vegas , released in January 1971 on MCA Records , composed and produced by the team of writers Mitch Murray and Peter Callander , that his breakthrough came. Many of the following singles and LPs were composed and produced by this team. His greatest hits in the 1970s were (Is This the Way To) Amarillo? and I Did What I Did for Maria (both 1971).

In the 1980s there were no further commercial successes. In Germany, Christie had some successes again from 1990 onwards, especially with the two albums produced by Jack White , Welcome to My Music (1991) and Welcome to My Music 2 (1992). There was a comeback in Great Britain in 1999 when he returned to the top ten of the singles charts along with The All Seeing I and a new recording of Walk Like a Panther .

In March 2005, Christie had his second number one hit in the UK. 34 years after it was first published, (Is This the Way To) Amarillo? the official single of the charity campaign Comic Relief and entered the UK charts on March 26, 2005 at number 1. At the same time, the best-of album The Definitive Collection was released , which was number 1 in the charts for seven weeks and was awarded double platinum . In 2006 an album called Simply in Love was released . Another studio album followed in November 2008 with Made in Sheffield .

In June 2009 Tony Christie appeared for the first time at the annual Glastonbury Festival , the "English Woodstock ". In 2011 the album Now's the Time was released , in 2012 the album Best Of - The greatest hits from 50 years .

In October 2019, a new album called Pop Nonsense and his first official autobiography called Tony Christie - The Singer appeared at the same time .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1971	Tony Christie	-	-	-	UK37 (1 week) UK	Alternative album title: I Did What I Did for Maria Producers: Mitch Murray , Peter Callander
1973	With Loving Feeling	-	-	-	UK19 (2 weeks) UK	alternative album title: Avenues and Alleyways Producers: Mitch Murray, Peter Callander
1975	Tony Christie Live	-	-	-	UK33 (3 weeks) UK	recorded at Sheffield Fiesta Club, December 1974; Producer: Peter Sullivan
1980	Ladies' man	DE30 (9 weeks) DE	AT15 (1 month) AT	-	-	Producer: Graham Sacher
1991	Welcome to My Music	DE7th gold (30 weeks)DE	AT26 (7 weeks) AT	-	-	Producer: Jack White
1992	Welcome to My Music 2	DE26 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	-	Producer: Jack White recorded in the Smash studio
2008	Made in Sheffield	-	-	-	UK91 (1 week) UK	Recorded and produced in Sheffield with local musicians such as Richard Hawley , Jarvis Cocker , Alex Turner , Róisín Murphy and others

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More albums

1972: Recital at the Festival "The Golden Orpheus '72" 1974: It's Good to Be Me 1974: From America with Love 1976: I'm Not in Love 1980: The Original Tony Christie 1981: Summer Wine 1982: Time and Tears 1983: As Long as I Have You 1983: At His Best

1993: In Love Again 1994: Calypso and Rum 1996: This Is Your Day 1996: Island in the Sun 1998: Time for Love 2002: Summerlove 2006: Simply in Love 2008: Made in Sheffield 2011: Now's the Time! 2015: The Great Irish Songbook (with Ranagri) 2019: Pop Nonsense

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1976	Best of Tony Christie	-	-	-	UK28 (4 weeks) UK	Producers: Mitch Murray , Peter Callander
1982	The best of Tony Christie	DE56 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-
2005	Definitive collection	-	-	-	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (23 weeks)UK

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More compilations

1971: Las Vegas 1971: The Very Best of Tony Christie 1977: The Original 1978: So Deep Is the Night 1980: Feelings (with Morris Albert , Salena Jones, Johnny Mathis , Shirley Bassey , Richard Clayderman , Mari Nakamoto , Bobby Vinton , Perry Como , The Singers Unlimited , Caravelli, Orion , Claude Ciari and Claude Déjean) 1985: The Hit Single Collection 1985: Golden Greats 1990: Castle Masters Collection 1991: The Collection 1991: Sweet September 1993: The Best of Tony Christie (UK:gold)

1994: The Very Best of Tony Christie 1994: His great successes 1995: gold 1997: Summer in the Sun 1997: The Ultimate Collection 1999: The Greatest Hollywood Movie Songs 2000: Best Of 2001: Christmas with Tony Christie 2002: World hits & love songs 2005: Movies, Love & Hit Songs 2005: Christmas with Christie 2008: The Essential Collection 2012: Best Of - The greatest hits from 50 years 2015: 50 Golden Greats

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1971	Las Vegas Tony Christie	-	-	-	UK21 (9 weeks) UK	Authors: Murray-Callander
	I Did What I Did for Maria Tony Christie	DE4 (18 weeks) DE	-	CH3 (12 weeks) CH	UK2 (17 weeks) UK	Authors: Murray-Callander
	(Is This The Way To) Amarillo With Loving Feeling	DE1 (22 weeks) DE	-	CH3 (14 weeks) CH	UK1 (41 weeks) UK	Authors: Howard Greenfield , Neil Sedaka
1972	Don't Go Down to Reno With Loving Feeling	DE5 (22 weeks) DE	-	CH6 (8 weeks) CH	-	Authors: Murray-Callander
	Avenues and Alleyways With Loving Feeling	DE34 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	UK26 (7 weeks) UK	Authors: Murray-Callander
1976	Drive Safely Darlin ' I'm Not in Love	-	-	-	UK35 (4 weeks) UK	Author: Barry Mason
1980	Sweet September Ladies' Man	DE16 (21 weeks) DE	AT13 (2 months) AT	CH7 (10 weeks) CH	-	Authors: Heinz BM, Phil Francis
	Train to Yesterday Ladies' Man	DE52 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	-	Authors: Fredrich Dorff, Robert Puschmann
1990	Kiss in the Night Welcome to My Music	DE42 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	-	Authors: Charles Blackwell, Jack White
1991	Moonlight and Roses Welcome to My Music	DE91 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	Authors: Bernd Dietrich, Engelbert Simons Original: Steve Young, 1989
	Come with Me to Paradise Welcome to My Music	DE37 (8 weeks) DE	AT25 (7 weeks) AT	-	-	Authors: Charles Blackwell, Jack White
1994	Calypso and Rum Island in the Sun	DE96 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	Authors: Jack White, Tony Christie
2005	(Is This The Way To) Amarillo The Best of Peter Kay… So Far	-	-	-	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (28 weeks)UK	feat. Peter Kay
	Merry Xmas Everybody	-	-	-	UK49 (1 week) UK
2006	(Is This The Way To) The World Cup	-	-	-	UK8 (5 weeks) UK	Text: Big George, Ian Stringer based on (Is This The Way To) Amarillo

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More singles

1967: Turn Around 1968: My Prayer 1972: My Love Song 1973: You Just Don't Have the Magic Anymore 1973: No vayas a Reno 1974: Happy Birthday Baby 1974: A Lover's Question 1974: If You Stay Too Long in Oklahoma 1975: Easy to Love 1975: If I Miss You Again Tonight 1975: A Man Will Cry for His Woman 1976: Queen of the Mardi Gras 1977: On This Night of a Thousand Stars 1977: Magdalena (with Dana Gillespie ) 1977: Stolen Love 1980: Mexico City 1981: Put a Light in Your Window 1981: Summer Wine 1983: Te voglio mi 'amor' (I Want You My Love) 1983: This Is Our Lager

1984: Tony Christie (EP) 1988: Keep On Dancin ' 1990: September Love 1991: Going to Havana 1992: Arrivederci 1992: Down in Mexico 1992: You Are My Darling 1993: Solitaire 1993: Dancing in the Sunshine 1994: Got to Be Mine (Remix) 1995: We're Gonna Stay Together (with Vicky Leandros ) 1995: Moon Over Napoli 1996: Oh mi amor 1997: Hit Mix 2002: Baby Come Back 2005: Avenues & Alleyways 2008: Born to Cry 2010: Nobody in the World 2011: Now's the Time!

Contributions as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1999	Walk Like a Panther '98 Pickled Eggs & Sherbet	-	-	-	UK10 (7 weeks) UK	The All Seeing I feat. Tony Christie Authors: Dean Honer, JP Buckle, Jarvis Cocker , Richard Barratt
2005	(Is This The Way To) Amarillo Champions! (The Greatest Stadium Hits)	DE25 (9 weeks) DE	AT45 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	Hermes House Band feat. Tony Christie Producers: Jake Buck, Jim Binapfl, John Lehmkuhl

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold1	4 × platinum4th	1,900,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × gold2	4 × platinum4th

Artist awards

RSH gold

• 1991: in the category "Comeback of the year"

Filmography

• 1970: XIIe europese Beker voor zangvoordracht (TV series)
• 1978: Blackpool Bonanza (TV series, episode # 1.6)
• 2005: T4 on the Beach (TV movie) - as himself
• 2005: Chartbreak Hotel (TV film) - as a guest musician

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: Singles Albums Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay

Web links

Commons : Tony Christie  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tony Christie at Allmusic (English)
• Tony Christie at Discogs (English)
• Tony Christie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Discography