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Burgess was born on July 21, 1953, in Okeechobee, Florida.He trained as a classical tenor and opera singer, and was described as having "an amazing ear". He began his career as a DJ in Florida in the early-mid 1970s and then moved onto Limelight, a gay club in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was "discovered" [1] by Tony Martino and Alan Harris, the owners of the New York club 12 West.
In 1974, John L. Walters was a founding member of the band Landscape, which evolved into a five-piece band with Richard James Burgess (drums, electric drums, computer programming, synths, vocals), Christopher Heaton (synthesizers, piano, vocals), Andy Pask (fretted and fretless basses, vocals), Peter Thoms (trombone, electric trombone, vocals), and Walters (lyricon, [3] soprano sax, flute ...
Richard James Burgess was born in London, England, and his family emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1959.He showed an early interest in music, especially drums, [3] and bought his first drumkit at the age of 14.
3. Prince. Like many people on this list, Prince made up for not being able to read sheet music by having an unusually good ear for melody and an intuitive sense of what chord should go where. He ...
Burgess, [5] Heaton and Walters [6] went on to careers in music production. Walters co-founded CD journal Unknown Public , [ 7 ] in 1992 with Laurence Aston and worked widely as a writer and editor. He has been the editor of Eye since 1999, and its co-owner since 2008. [ 8 ]
Richard James Burgess produced "To Cut a Long Story Short" On the fortieth anniversary of the song's release, Spandau Ballet producer Richard James Burgess recalled, "Labels were at a fever pitch trying to sign the group." [33] Burgess, co-founding member of Landscape, had been impressed when he saw Spandau Ballet perform at the Blitz. [34]
"Instinction" is a song by Spandau Ballet whose original version was included on their second album Diamond as produced by Richard James Burgess. The song was written by band guitarist/songwriter Gary Kemp. A remix by Trevor Horn was released on 2 April 1982 as the last single from the album and reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. This ...
From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... (fully titled: From the Tea-rooms of Mars .... to the Hell-holes of Uranus) is the second album by Landscape which was released in 1981. The album contains the band's only UK chart hits: "Einstein a Go-Go" which reached No. 5 in April 1981 and "Norman Bates" which reached No. 40 in June of the same year.