Tim Hart

Tim Hart ( born January 9, 1948 in St Albans, Hertfordshire; † 24 December 2009, La Gomera, Canary Islands) was a British folk singer, guitarist and dulcimer player.

Hart began his musical career with a school band called The Rattfinks. From 1966, he began performing together with Maddy Prior, with which he Albums Folk Songs of Olde England, Vol 1 & 2 recorded in 1968 and '69. 1969 met the two of them know Ashley Hutchings, with whom she the folk-rock band Steeleye Span founded in the same year.

In addition to his work with Steeleye Span Hart published in 1971 with the album Prior Summer Solstice. In 1975 he toured with Steeleye Span by the United States and Australia. In 1979, Hart's solo debut came on the market that simply Tim Hart said. With one exception, the album contains only compositions by himself in 1982 he parted then finally Steeleye Span.

Also in 1982 Hart was a producer of the album Eligible Batchelors of the rock band The Monochrome Set. The following year, then appeared the album Drunken Sailor & Other Kid Songs, which contained several British nursery rhymes. In the course of 1980 to Harts health began to deteriorate noticeably, then in 1988 he retired to La Gomera and operated as a nature photographer and a travel guide published in 2004, which was two years later translated into the German language ..

In 1995 he returned briefly to the UK and took part in a five-hour concert, which almost all members of Steeleye Spans were present. A recording of the concert was released in 1999 under the name of The Journey.

In December 2008 she was diagnosed with lung cancer Hart. He then returned to England to get help at a hospital in Reading. On the morning of December 24, 2009 Tim Hart died at the age of 61 years on La Gomera, where he had returned for his last days.