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Scott, the Edinburgh-born son of a college lecturer, is the founder and only permanent member of the Waterboys. Having begun his career in teenage Ayr punk band White Heat [8] and its Edinburgh successor Another Pretty Face, [9] he moved to London and formed another short-lived band, The Red and the Black.
An Appointment with Mr. Yeats is the tenth studio album by the Waterboys, released on 19 September 2011 through W14/Proper Records.The album contains 14 tracks, all of which are based upon the poetry of W. B. Yeats, a long term influence on lead-songwriter Mike Scott.
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"A Girl Called Johnny" is a song by British band the Waterboys, released in 1983 as the lead single from their debut studio album The Waterboys. The song was written by Mike Scott and produced by Rupert Hine. It reached No. 80 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the Top 100 for three weeks. [2]
Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, [1] Wilkinson is credited as a former official member of several successful British new wave acts, including the League of Gentlemen (1980), the Waterboys (1983–84), China Crisis (1983–89) and Squeeze (1995–96), as well as drummer for Holly Beth Vincent (1981–82). [2]
The Waterboys Musical artist Anthony " Anto " Thistlethwaite (born 31 August 1955, Lutterworth , Leicestershire, England) is an English-born Irish multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member (with guitarist Mike Scott ) of the folk rock group, The Waterboys [ 1 ] and later as a long-standing member of Irish rock band The Saw Doctors .
In a 2011 feature for The Guardian on his love of the Waterboys, British screenwriter, producer, and film director Richard Curtis picked "Glastonbury Song" in his Waterboys top 10 song list. He wrote, "Wonderful, energetic song about the endless search for spirituality.