Pete Glenister

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Pete Glenister
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Glenister in 2021
Background information
Occupations
  • Guitarist
  • songwriter
  • record producer
InstrumentGuitar

Pete Glenister is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer, known for his collaborations with Alison Moyet and Kirsty MacColl. He has also worked with a number of other artists including Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Bruce Foxton, Terence Trent D'Arby, Bros, E. G. Daily, Mary Coughlan, Geoffrey Williams, Five Thirty, Bryan Ferry and Raphael Gualazzi. [1]

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Background

Glenister was the guitarist in the new wave band the Hitmen, who produced two albums, Aim for the Feet (1980) and Torn Together (1981). [2] He went on to form a long creative partnership with Kirsty MacColl, contributing guitar and co-writing songs with the singer, which were included on her albums Kite (1989), Electric Landlady (1991), Titanic Days (1993) and Tropical Brainstorm (2000). [3]

Glenister began writing and working with Alison Moyet after a brief spell as guitarist on her 1987 world tour. [4] He co-wrote, performed on and produced many of the tracks on Moyet's 1991 album Hoodoo and 1994's Essex . He co-wrote most of the material with Moyet for her 2002 album Hometime , and co-wrote and produced 2007's The Turn . [1]

Selected discography

References

  1. 1 2 Pete Glenister. "Pete Glenister | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Hitmen". TrouserPress.com. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  3. ↑ MacColl, J. (2014). My Kirsty - End of the Fairytale. John Blake Publishing. ISBN   9781784182595 . Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  4. ↑ "Hoodoo –". Alisonmoyet.com. 22 April 1991. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
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