Richard Palmer-James
Richard Palmer - James ( born June 11, 1947 in Bournemouth, Dorset ) is a British guitarist and lyricist for pop and rock music. He lives in Munich since the early 1970s.
Biography
Early years ( to 1969 )
In his home town of Bournemouth he played since he was 13 years together with school friends, including John Wetton was in the bands The Corvettes, The Palmer - James Group, Tetrad and Ginger Man guitar and sang most titles only cover versions.
Supertramp (1969/1970)
Together with Rick Davies (keyboards, vocals), Roger Hodgson (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards) and Keith Baker ( drums), he founded under the name Richard Palmer in 1969, the band Supertramp (the band made its first public appearance yet under the name "Daddy "). Palmer was a guitarist and (next to Davies and Hodgson ) lyricist of the band and also responsible for the name he. Titled the book " Supertramp Autobiography of a vagabond "by William Henry Davies borrowed.
In July 1970 came the debut album, " Supertramp ", in the style of progressive rock and musical bonds with bands such as Traffic and King Crimson, to the market, but sold poorly. Then left Palmer - James the band. For him, the bassist Frank Farell came ( later co-writer Leo Sayer ). After leaving Palmer - James was briefly as a guitarist and songwriter in the Czech / German / English jazz rock band "Emergency" active.
King Crimson (1972 - 1974)
He achieved fame as a copywriter then the British progressive rock group King Crimson in the early 1970s as the successor of Peter Sinfield. Singer at that time was his childhood friend John Wetton. Palmer - James contributed to three albums - Larks ' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black and Red - the texts at.
In Munich ( since 1976)
In 1976, Palmer - James Group Munich, which two years later broke apart. By 1977, denied Palmer - James his living mainly as the soundtrack composer for industry and television films and series (eg " Paula Pauländer ", directed by Reinhard Hauff, 1976 A day with the wind Director: Haro Senft, 1978 or the Munich stories, directed by Helmut Dietl, 1974).
In 1978, he took in Munich within ten days together with his ex-colleagues from the band Tetrad, John Wetton (bass and vocals) and WJ Hutcheson (keyboards), for fun in Munich an album under the name Jack - Knife with songs from the Tetrad time on. Drums played the German Curt Cress.
In the 1980s, Palmer - James became a successful songwriter in the field of commercial pop music. Among his greatest achievements include work for La Bionda ( "One For Me, One For You" ), Moti Special ( " Cold Days, Hot Nights " ), Michael Cretu ( " Samurai" ), Sandra ( " Maria Magdalena ") and Haddaway and Mireille Mathieu.
In 1985, the reunification of Munich. Together with Peter Bishop (vocals), Eberhard " Ede " Wilhelm ( drums), Hans -Herbert Gebhard (bass, vocals) and Oliver Hahn (keyboards, programming) took Palmer - James in 1987 under the musical direction of Simon Phillips ( drums and at a Toto and Mike Oldfield ), the Munich- album "You Never Know " on. The single " Your Turn " was a minor chart success.
1990s
In the 90s, Palmer - James devoted reinforced the blues and folk music, the actual source of his musical inspiration. Accordingly, Palmer - James plays nowadays mainly acoustic instruments such as resonator guitar and mandolin. Occasionally he gives, together with the classical guitarist Eric Schachtner in Germany, Italy and Switzerland under the motto " Blues Meets Classical " concerts.
In 1998, Richard Palmer - James with John Wetton a CD with demos and unreleased and re-recorded older songs on the market, including pieces that were for a King Crimson album for " Red" (1974 ) is provided, which never came into being.