Karl Wallinger

Karl Wallinger (born 19 October 1957 Prestatyn ) is a Welsh musician.

Wallinger was at a young age strongly influenced by the music of the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and Love. He attended Charterhouse School in Surrey.

Wallinger's musical career began in the 1970s with membership in a number of less successful bands. In the following years he became musical director of the Rocky Horror Show. In the period from 1983 to 1986, he was keyboardist of the band The Waterboys. The single included on the published in October 1985 the third album This Is the Sea The Whole of the Moon in 1985 reached number 40 in the UK charts, with the re-release in 1991 even number 3 on the UK charts.

From 1985 he devoted himself to his own project World Party. The first publication Private Revolution ( 1987), is a blend of folk, funk and soul music and contained with " Ship of Fools" a minor radio hit. More World Party albums followed: "Goodbye Jumbo ", " Egyptology " and " Dumbing Up" " Bang! ". In addition, he also worked on Sinéad O'Connor's debut album in 1987 erschienenem The Lion and the Cobra.

Wallinger 1994 was musical director of the film Reality Bites. In 1996 he worked on the soundtrack of the movie Clueless - What else! with. The written Wallinger piece She's The One in 1999 was covered by Robbie Williams a great success. Wallinger spent time working together with Bob Geldof.

From one suffered in 2000 rupture of an aneurysm located Wallinger recovered only slowly. In 2006 he undertook his first tour after complete recovery from the disease.

Wallinger has also worked with a major in the world music project "Big Blue Ball". The CD of the same name was released in 2008. Most titles on Peter Gabriel has composed.

In spring 2012, published Wallinger the box set Arkeology on which the vast majority so far are on 5 CD 70 unreleased tracks from World Party, mostly live versions of popular recordings, but not so far belonged cover versions of mostly Beatles songs from the time of White album. Among other things, there is also written by Wallinger She's The One heard, which was a hit in the interpretation of Robbie Williams. The work is published as a perpetual calendar in ring binder that contains thousands of photos from the tape library and data on the individual songs.

  • Pop
  • Briton
  • Welshman
  • Born in 1957
  • Man
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