Ian Broudie

Ian Broudie (* August 4, 1958 in Liverpool, England ) is an English pop musician and music producer.

Broudie started his musical career in 1977 as a member of the punk band Big in Japan, among other things, the later Frankie Goes To Hollywood - member Holly Johnson belonged. After the band disbanded after only 15 months back, Broudie worked as a music producer, most notably for Echo & The Bunnymen and The Fall and The Bodines and The Pale Fountains.

From the end of 1979 Broudie played in the formation of The Original Mirrors, who was also the later Status Quo drummer Pete Kircher. The end of 1981, the original mirrors broke up again after the published on the major label Mercury Records recordings were left without much success. In 1983, Broudie then with Paul Simpson, the band released three singles Care Care, but also dissolved soon again.

Breakthrough

Only in 1989 succeeded Ian Broudie musical breakthrough: The album Cloudcuckooland his new band The Lightning Seeds made ​​it into the UK charts. The single release reached # 16 Pure the charts.

The year 1996 brought the Lightning Seeds Ian Broudie their biggest hit: Three Lions, the official anthem of the European Football Championship in England in 1996. The song reached No. 1 on the British charts. Its title refers to the three lions, which are printed on the jerseys of English football players.

Solo career

1999 should appear with Tilt the last album of the Lightning Seeds. After a farewell tour, the band broke up. In the following years Broudie was again worked as a producer, including for Terry Hall and the Liverpool band The Coral and The Zutons. Most recently, he produced the 2006 debut album of the London indie band The Rifles.

His first solo album - Tales Told - Ian Broudie published in 2004 In contrast to the pop sound of the Lightning Seeds albums, this album is instrumented quiet and economical.. 2005 appeared the E. P. Smoke Rings.

2009 then appeared but a new album of Lighning Seeds Four Winds.

Discography

The Original Mirrors

  • Original Mirrors ( 1980)
  • Heart Twango and Raw Beat ( 1981)

The Lightning Seeds

  • Cloudcuckooland (1989)
  • Pure ( 1990)
  • Sense ( 1992)
  • Jollification (1994 )
  • Three Lions (1996 )
  • Dizzy Heights (1996 )
  • Like You Do - The Best of The Lightning Seeds (1997)
  • Three Lions '98 (1998)
  • Tilt (1999)
  • Four Winds (2009)

Solo

  • Tales Told (2004)
  • Smoke Rings E. P. (2005)
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