Tom Newman (musician)
Tom Newman ( born 1943 in Perivale, London; Complete name Thomas Dennis Newman ) is a British musician and music producer. Newman played in various bands and has also produced and released eleven solo albums. Starting with Tubular Bells in 1973 he produced a large part of the music of Mike Oldfield and many other artists.
Life and work
Tom Newman was born in 1943 in a suburb of Perivale London Borough of Ealing, the son of an Irish woman. His father was of Russian Jewish descent. Newman grew up in 1958 on a converted makeshift landing boat on the Thames and attended high school in the London Borough of Ealing.
In 1959 he played guitar in Skiffleband The Playboys, later he turned to rock ' n ' roll and rhythm and blues, and others founded the rock band The Tomcats with the 1966 he went to Spain on tour. The band released several EPs at the Philips label espania, mainly with cover versions of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Tom Newman married a Spanish woman and had a son. 1967 Newman returned back to England. Along with Tony Duhing on lead guitar, Alan James on bass, Jon Field to the percussion instruments and Chris Jackson on drums, almost all were bandmates Tom Newman involved from the time with the Los Tomcats as the lead singer and sitar player in the project July, which the same psychedelic rock album in 1968, published in July major Minor Records.
1970 Tom Newman business partner of Richard Branson was to build the Manor Studio in Oxford. At the same time, he told the then 17 -year-old Mike Oldfield to him for the album Tubular Bells during the idle times of the studio to produce. Newman succeeded, after the album was completed in 1972, Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell to convince them to start a record company. Thus Tubular Bells was the first release by Virgin Records in 1973. The album, which in 1974 reached the top of the U.S. charts was more than 13 million copies.
Tom Newman launched in the following years many productions at the Manor Studio, this included 1973, the debut of Hatfield and the North and 1974 Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Newman's own first solo album, Fine Old Tom, which was published by Virgin. In 1975, he left after disagreements with the company Branson Virgin. A second studio album, Newman, with the misleading name Live at the Argonaut was held back and did not come until 27 years later .. to the public
From the year 1976 to 1980 for operation Newman his own studio The Barge on a houseboat in London's Little Venice the Regent 's Canal. Also his solo album Faerie Symphony, which was influenced not only by working with Mike Oldfield, but also of Bo Hansson's album Lord of the Rings was. The album was published by Decca Records in 1977 and released in Japan. 1980 Newman built the studio specifically for radio advertising around and sold it to Richard Branson. In the 1980s, Newman led various Studios: A mobile recording studio The Sound Box with whom he promoted young artists on tour, the Ezee Studios in Islington and a studio in East Sussex for Coda Records, which was designed for video series Aspects of the Great Artists. In East Sussex created his two solo albums Bayou Moon and Aspects. In 1986, Tom Newman's second son. 1987 the family moved to Hastings; two more solo albums Ozymandias and Hound of Ulster and a few songs for the album Tall Scary Things created in the next three years in addition to his work as a producer for other musicians.
1991 Tom Newman earned a British minesweeper from the 1950s with the name Enterprise on the he established a radio station.
In the years 1971 to 1991 Tom Newman produced more than 56 albums and singles, combined with more than 25 million records sold.