Tom Newman

Tom Newman is a producing Musicien and English, known for its work as a producer of several discs of Mike Oldfield, in particular the album Tubular Bells , great success of the Années 1970.

Biography

Born in Perivale (with Ealing) in 1943, of an Irish mother and a Russian Jewish father of second generation, Tom Newman is devoted to the music with adolescence by forming the group of Skiffle Playboys , then the group of Rock Tomcats . It is there Chanteur and Guitariste. From 1968 to 1969, he sings within July with Tony Duhig (guitar), Jon Field (flute, keyboards), Chris Jackson (battery) and Alan James (low).

He works with Richard Branson as from 1970 and the assistance to build the studio The Manor with Oxford, within the framework of the development of the activities of Virgin. He meets there Mike Oldfield, then 18 years old, which lends a cassette to him containing a coarse demonstration of what was going to become one of largest successes of the years 1970: Tubular Bells leaves on the new label Virgin in 1973 and proves to be a fantastic success for the time. Tom Newman continues his career as a producer for Virgin with the Manor in 1973 and 1974 and leaves a first album solo in 1975, Fine Old Tom . He scrambles himself with Richard Branson the same year and leaves Virgin.

In the years which follow, Tom Newman assembles several studios of recording, continuous to produce albums for other artists while publishing albums solos. With Mike Oldfield, it contributed in particular to Hergest Ridge , Platinum , Amarok , Heaven' S Open and Tubular Bells II . It seems scrambled with Mike Oldfield since the Nineties.

It had a son, Thomas Eduardo, of a first marriage in Spain, 1966 and one second wire, James Byron, about 1986.

Discography

Albums solos

  • Fine Old Tom (1975)
  • Live At The Argonaut (1975)
  • Faerie Symphony (1977)
  • Bayou Moon (1986)
  • Aspects (1986)
  • Ozymandias (1988)
  • Splendid Hotel (1997)
  • Snow Blind (1997)
  • Faerie Symphony And Other Stories (1999)
  • Tall Scary Things (1999)
  • The Hound Off Ulster (1999)

Producer

List nonexhaustive:

External bond

Site of fan, in English

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