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Geff Harrison | |
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 Harrison in 2015 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 24 August 1946 Salford, England [1] |
| Genres | Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, composer, producer, songwriter |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Website | geff-harrison |
Geff Harrison (born 24 August 1946) is an English singer, composer and musician, known for performing with bands Kin Ping Meh and Twenty Sixty Six and Then.
Harrison started his musical career at the beginning of 1960s in the Manchester and Salford areas. In 1963, he started performing with The Chasers, who opened for The Beatles, The Searchers, John Mayall, Long John Baldrey, Rod Stewart, and John Lee Hooker. In 1966, he joined the band Some Other Guys, visiting Germany with them in 1967 to perform shows to soldiers stationed there. [2]
After Some Other Guys, in 1968, Harrison joined to the hard rock band I Drive and later on joined Twenty Sixty Six and Then. In 1973, he joined Kin Ping Meh, replacing singer Werner Stephan. He sang on Tritonus 1976 second album Between The Universes. [3] After three years, Harrison decided to pursue a solo career, with his album Salford, being released in 1976. Sounds magazine commented that: "Such versatile talent is rarely published by us". After founding the Geff Harrison Band in 1977, Harrison recorded hits like "Death of a Clown", "Salford", "Do You Miss Me", "Bad New York City", and "Eve of Destruction". He also toured with Demon Thor (Thomas Fortmann) and Lenny MacDowell. [2]
Harrison worked for five years with Dieter Bohlen, who produced the album Reach for the Sky under the pseudonym Richie West. Harrison also collaborated on the lyrics of songs for Modern Talking, including hits like "You Can Win If You Want" and "Cheri Cheri Lady", as well as others that were later used for CCCatch. Harrison wrote lyrics for sixteen songs for German band Modern Talking, supporting Bohlen with the grammar and verse ideas. Harrison was never credited on the album for his contributions, leading to a conflict with Bohlen. In February 1986, Harrison filed a lawsuit against Bohlen for the rights of the Modern Talking songs. The court ruled that both Bohlen and Harrison wrote songs for Modern Talking, and the relevant recording contracting was modified accordingly. [4] [5]
Harrison worked as producer and composer for several artists, including Herman's Hermits. He also produced an album with pop singer Taco Ockerse and composed songs for the musicals Yesterday and Time After Time. In 2003, Harrison contributed to the lyrics and composition of the Mountain Rock Symphony project with the artist and composer Wolfgang Zabba Lindner. Later on, Harrison released an album with Peter Panka and Werner Nadolny of the group Jane, called Harrison Panka Nadolny Band.
In 2005, Kin Ping Meh, reunited with Harrison was the lead singer. Since 2011, Harrison has been the lead singer of the band The Glowballs, playing rock and roll classics of the 1950s and 1960s.
In 2015, he released the solo album Purple Magic, and followed it in 2016 with two releases: the solo album Forever Young and an album with The Glowballs. [2]
In 2017, Harrison and Manne Kraski wrote a song about the exit of Great Britain from the European Union, released as the single "Brexit (Mind The Gap)". [2]
In 2018, Harrison was a contestant on the German version of The Voice Senior . He sang "A Whiter Shade of Pale" at his Blind Audition with all four coaches turning for him. He chose Yvonne Catterfeld's team. [6] He performed "The First Cut Is the Deepest" at the Sing Offs. Even though his voice had been praised by both the audience and media before, he did not advance to the finals as Catterfeld did not pick him.
The Modern Lovers were an American rock band led by Jonathan Richman in the 1970s and 1980s. The original band existed from 1970 to 1974 but their recordings were not released until 1976 or later. It featured Richman and bassist Ernie Brooks with drummer David Robinson and keyboardist Jerry Harrison. The sound of the band owed a great deal to the influence of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and is now sometimes classified as "proto-punk". It pointed the way towards much of the punk rock, new wave, alternative and indie rock music of later decades. Their only album, the eponymous The Modern Lovers, contained idiosyncratic songs about dating awkwardness, growing up in Massachusetts, love of life, and the USA.
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