Paul Kelly (Australian musician)
Paul Maurice Kelly ( born January 13, 1955 in Adelaide, South Australia ) is an Australian singer-songwriter.
Biography
After leaving school, Kelly moved to Australia and earned money by doing odd jobs. He began playing the guitar and at age 19 he had his first public appearance in Tasmania. 1976 he moved to Melbourne, where he first joined as a singer in a band and then with Paul Kelly & The Dots had his own band. Beginning of the 80 they also took on two albums and had with Billy Baxter / Hard Knocks one single hit before our group dispersed.
After two years with a new band, but without a record deal, he went to Sydney in 1984 and took there at his own expense on the LP Post, which appeared under his name. The move away from guitar-based rock band towards the melancholic acoustic - songwriter music was immediately successful. The album was praised by the music press and was also placed in the Australian charts.
After that, he formed another band behind Coloured Girls, which later became the Messengers, and it was followed by the album Gossip. It was certified gold and reached the music top 10. In addition, it was released in the U.S., where Paul Kelly & The Messengers first completed as the opening act of Crowded House and then on a separate tour performances. Of the three singles from the album, Darling It Hurts was also in the U.S. rock charts place ( 19th place ). Even more successful was the subsequent platinum album Under The Sun, which produced his only previous top 10 hit single with To Her Door. The song Dumb Things was included in the soundtrack of the Australian film comedy Einstein Junior and was her second Rockhit in the U.S. ( 16th place).
Musically, Paul Kelly developed a storyteller who recorded also Australian themes and with the indigenous people of the continent, the Aborigines, addressed. Created until 1991 five albums with the Messengers who were able to all place in the Australian Top 40. After five years, Kelly broke up the band, because he feared musically on time to embark on well-trodden paths.
In 1991, he collaborated with musicians such as Archie Roach Aboriginal and was involved in the original version of the later global hits Treaty by Yothu Yindi. The following year he wrote music for a theater performance, where he also participated himself as an actor. Followed by more music for film and television. In addition, published two live and two solo studio albums that were successful in New Zealand. In addition, he also tried as a soloist in the U.S. to gain a foothold and a time he lived in the States.
The first greatest hits album Songs From The South was released in 1997 and was with number 2 in Australia and double platinum for more than 140,000 copies sold its successful record. In the same year he was named best male artist at the ARIA Awards, the Australian Music Prize of the record industry and incorporated into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
In the following years he published several more solo albums and over again as well as CDs with other musicians. In addition, he wrote and produced for other artists. Among other things, he was also represented on 7 July 2007 at the Live Earth concert in Sydney. For the first time since 1993 and updated in new editions published his collected lyrics in book form.
Discography
Publications and chart positions incomplete
- Paul Kelly & the Dots Talc (1981)
- Manila ( 1982)
- Gossip (1986, AU # 7)
- Under the Sun (1987, AU # 17)
- So Much Water So Close to Home (1989 )
- Comedy (1991 )
- Hidden Things ( 1992)
- Billy Baxter / Hard Knocks (Paul Kelly & the Dots, 1980, AU Top 40 )
- Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls / the Messengers Before Too Long / White Train (1986, AU # 15)
- Darling It Hurts / Preaching to the Converted (1986, AU # 16)
- To Her Door / Bicentennial (1987, AU # 6)
- Rock'n ' Soul / Reckless (1989, AU # 36)
- Dumb Things (1989, AU # 36)
Works
- Do not Start Me Talking, Lyrics 1984-2004. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004, ISBN 1-74114-317-9.
- How to Make Gravy: A to Z, a Mongrel Memoir, Penguin 2011, ISBN 978-1-926428-22-2.