Robert John Godfrey
Robert John Godfrey ( born July 30, 1947 Leeds Abbey Farm in Leeds Village, Kent, England ) is a British composer, pianist and founding member of progressive rock band The Enid.
Life
Robert John Godfrey was born on the lands of Leeds Castle, which were managed by his maternal grandfather. He attended Finchden Manor, an institution for difficult but talented boy. Other famous pupils in Finchden were as Alexis Korner and Tom Robinson.
Although he did not begin until the age of twelve, playing the piano, he studied from 1965 at the Royal College of Music, then at the Royal Academy of Music. During his student days he came up with the colorful scene of swinging London and the Summer of Love in contact.
In 1969, he was a career as a concert pianist to play rock music. In the Abbey Road Studios, he worked with Norman Smith, the bands Pink Floyd and Barclay James Harvest ( BJH ) served as producer. It developed a collaboration with Godfrey BJH, which lasted until 1971. As musical director, he left the group to take pictures with an orchestra and brought this also live on stage.
Godfrey got a recording contract with Charisma Records and took the solo album Fall of Hyperion, was published in 1974. In the same year he founded with Stephen Stewart and Francis Lickerish, two students of Finchden Manor, the band The Enid. Godfrey recruited Peter Roberts as a singer, whom he knew from the Royal College of Music. On New Year 1975 Roberts committed suicide, after which the group grossed her debut album In the Region of the Summer Stars instrumental. The album came out in 1976. The following Enid albums came out without singing.
After the fourth album it came in 1980 to the temporary end of the band, as their former record company Pye Records went bankrupt. Godfrey and Stewart made in Suffolk at the Lodge Recording Studio. Their clients belonged Kim Wilde, who released their first album and their hit Kids in America with The Enid recorded in 1981 as a band. As of 1983, there were again Albums of The Enid, now with vocals. Despite further interruptions The Enid still exists today ( 2013).
Mid-2013 was Robert John Godfrey announced that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.