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David William Edmunds (born 15 April 1944) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist and
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. Although he is mainly associated with pub rock and new wave, having many hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s-style
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.


Career


Early bands

Edmunds was born in
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, Wales. As a ten-year-old, he first played in 1954 with a band called the Edmunds Bros Duo with his older brother Geoff (born 5 December 1939, Cardiff); this was a piano duo. Then the brothers were in the Stompers, later called the Heartbeats, formed around 1957 with Geoff on rhythm guitar, Dave on lead guitar, Denny Driscoll on lead vocals, Johnny Stark on drums, Ton Edwards on bass and Allan Galsworthy on rhythm. Then Dave and Geoff were in The 99ers along with scientist and writer
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. After that Dave Edmunds was in Crick Feather's Hill-Bill's formed in c 1960, with Feathers (Edmunds) on lead guitar; Zee Dolan on bass; Tennessee Tony on lead vocals; Tony Kees on piano and Hank Two Sticks on drums. The first group that Edmunds fronted was the Cardiff-based 1950s style rockabilly trio The Raiders formed in 1961, along with Brian 'Rockhouse' Davies on bass (born 15 January 1943, Cardiff) and Ken Collier on drums. Edmunds was the only constant member of the group, which later included bassist Mick Still, Bob 'Congo' Jones on drums (b. 13 August 1946, Barry, South Wales) and John Williams (stage name John David) on bass. The Raiders worked almost exclusively in the South Wales area. In 1966, after a short spell in a Parlophone recording band, the Image (1965–1966), with local drummer Tommy Riley, Edmunds shifted to a more blues-rock sound, reuniting with Congo Jones and bassist John Williams and adding second guitarist
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to form the short-lived Human Beans, a band that played mostly in London and on the UK university circuit. In 1967, the band recorded a
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of "Morning Dew" on the British Columbia label, that failed to have any
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impact. After just eighteen months, the core of 'Human Beans' formed a new band called
Love Sculpture Love Sculpture were a Welsh blues rock band that was active from 1966 to 1970, led by Dave Edmunds (born 15 April 1944 in Cardiff, Wales), with bassist John David (born 19 January 1946 in Cardiff) and drummer Rob "Congo" Jones (born 13 August ...
that again reinstated Edmunds, Jones and Williams as a trio. Love Sculpture released their debut single "River to Another Day" in 1968. Their second single was a quasi-novelty
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, a reworking Khachaturian's classical piece "
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" as a speed-crazed rock number, inspired by
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's classical rearrangements.Rick Clark, liner notes from ''The Dave Edmunds Anthology (1968–90)'',
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"Sabre Dance" became a hit after garnering the enthusiastic attention of British DJ
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, who was so impressed he played it twice in one programme on "Top Gear". The band issued two albums.


Solo career

After Love Sculpture split, Edmunds had a UK
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single in 1970 with "
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", a
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cover, which he came across while producing Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets' first album entitled ''A Legend''. The recording was the first release on Edmunds' manager's
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label. This single also reached No. 4 in the US, making it Edmunds' biggest hit by far on either side of
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. It sold over three million copies, and was awarded a
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. Edmunds had intended to record
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's "Let's Work Together", but when he was beaten to that song by
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, he adapted the arrangement he intended to use for it to "I Hear You Knocking". The success of the single caused EMI's
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to use an option that it had to claim Edmunds' album, 1972's ''
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'', and the momentum from the single's success on a different label went away. Edmunds' only acting role followed, as a band member in the
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movie '' Stardust''. After learning the trade of producer, culminating in a couple of singles in the style of
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, " Baby I Love You" and " Born to Be with You", he became linked with the pub rock movement of the early 1970s, producing (among others) Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe,
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, and blues rock band
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, using a stripped down, grittier sound. Edmunds had bought a house in Rockfield,
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, a few miles away from Charles and Kingsley Ward's
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where he became an almost permanent fixture for the next twenty years. His working regime involved arriving at the studio in the early evening and working through till well after dawn, usually locked in the building alone. Applying the layered Spector sound to his own productions it was not unusual for Edmunds to multilayer up to forty separately recorded guitar tracks into the mix.


Rockpile and other collaborations

His own solo LP from 1975, ''
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'', was similar in style. The Brinsley Schwarz connection brought about a collaboration with
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, with Billy Bremner and Terry Williams. Because Edmunds and Lowe signed to different record labels that year, they could not record as Rockpile until 1980, but many of their solo LPs (such as Lowe's '' Labour of Lust'' and Edmunds' own ''
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'') were group recordings. Edmunds had more UK hits during this time, including
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's " Girls Talk", Nick Lowe's "
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", Hank DeVito's "
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" (later a larger, international hit for American country-rock singer
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),
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's "Crawling from the Wreckage", and
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" (originally a 1956 US Country No. 1 hit for
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, then a US pop No. 1 cover for Guy Mitchell, and a UK No. 1 for both Mitchell and
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). The album ''Repeat When Necessary'' received a Silver Certification from the British Phonographic Industry on 20 March 1980 (for over 60,000 copies sold in the UK). The single "Girls Talk" also received a Silver Certificate from the BPI. Unexpectedly, after Rockpile released their first LP under their own name, ''
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'' (1980), the band split. Edmunds and the band, including Lowe, performed in a music video for the track "Girls Talk", directed by Martin Pitts and produced by Derek Burbidge and Helen Pollack. For the video the band set up on the roof of the Warner Brothers Records building in Midtown Manhattan in the early afternoon. Edmunds spent the 1980s collaborating with and producing an assortment of artists, including
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,
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,
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, and
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. He recorded the soundtrack for the movie ''
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'', supplying the main theme, "High School Nights," and was the musical director for a television special starring
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, with assorted guests including
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,
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, and
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. In 1989, Edmunds produced the album ''Yo Frankie'' for Dion. On his 1983 release, ''
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'', Edmunds collaborated on two songs with
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, the leader of Electric Light Orchestra. One of these songs, a Lynne composition, " Slipping Away", became Edmunds' only other US
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hit, spending a single week at No. 39 while having a video clip in heavy rotation on MTV. It was not a hit in the UK. In 1984, Lynne produced six tracks on Edmunds' following album, ''
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''. In late 1985, Dave Edmunds was the musical director and a participating band member of ''Carl Perkins's Rockabilly Session'' television special. Other musicians involved in the project included
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,
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, and
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.


1990 onwards

Edmunds recorded less frequently after the mid-1980s, living in Wales in semi-retirement, but occasionally touring. He joined up with
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for tours in 1992 and 2000. However, 2007 marked a return to touring for Edmunds, alongside Joe Brown, on a lengthy tour around the UK. He made an appearance on stage alongside
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, at the Brixton Academy in London, on 10 September 2008, playing "The Race Is On" and "Tear It Up" with the band. In 1993 Edmunds was in Cardiff Crown Court as a co-defendant along with
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facing charges of non-payment of playing royalties from former Sunsets' band members Robert Llewellyn, Carl Petersen, Steve Percy and Paul Dolan. The prosecution asserted that the former band members were due a share of those additional royalties that Stevens and Edmunds had received from the successful reissue of the album ''A Legend'' during the early eighties. The judge agreed and, while the unpaid royalties only amounted to around £70,000 to be divided between the four musicians, the associated court costs to be paid by Stevens and Edmunds amounted to £500,000.Heatley, Michael (2005). ''Shaky''. Michael O'Mara Books (London). On New Year's Eve 2008, he appeared on ''
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'', performing "Girls Talk" and "I Hear You Knocking". He was Holland's guest again at
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on 20 June 2009, on 28 August at open-air concert at
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., 31 October at Ipswich Regent, 7 November at Stoke Victoria Hall and 14 November at Nottingham Concert Hall. Edmunds also played a five-song set, including "I Hear You Knocking," "I Knew the Bride" and "Sabre Dance" with the Holland Big Band at the Royal Albert Hall on 27 November 2009. He returned and performed "Sabre Dance" on ''Jools' Annual Hootenanny'' on the 2009/10 edition. An album release on 19 November 2013 called ''...Again'', featured recordings from the 1990s, plus four new tracks, Edmunds' first for almost 20 years, with the title track released as a digital download single. In 2015, Edmunds released his first instrumental album ''On Guitar... Dave Edmunds: Rags & Classics'', which featured instrumental covers of classic songs such as
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". The album was Edmunds' final album and after playing a final show in July 2017, he was reported to have retired from the music business.


Selected discography


Studio albums

with Love Sculpture: *''Blues Helping'' (December 1968) *''Forms and Feelings'' (January 1970) with
Rockpile Rockpile was a British rock and roll band of the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for their strong pub rock, rockabilly and power pop influences, and as a foundational influence on new wave. The band consisted of Dave Edmunds (vocals, g ...
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Seconds of Pleasure ''Seconds of Pleasure'' is a 1980 album by Rockpile, a band consisting of guitarists/vocalists Dave Edmunds and Billy Bremner, bassist/vocalist Nick Lowe, and drummer Terry Williams. The band had played together on various solo albums by Edm ...
'' (October 1980) as Dave Edmunds:


Live albums

*'' I Hear You Rockin''' (June 1987) (US #106) *''Live on the King Biscuit Flower Hour'' (May 1999) *''A Pile of Rock: Live'' Featuring Billy Bremner, Geraint Watkins & the Refreshments (Sweden, 1999) (Pool CD018) *''C'Mon Everybody Live'' (Same source as King Biscuit Flower Hour – May 1999, but different tracks) (January 2004) *''Alive & Pickin (Canadian mail order only) (February 2005)


Compilations

with Love Sculpture: *''The Classic Tracks 1968/1972'' – EMI UK – 1974 *''The Dave Edmunds & Love Sculpture Singles A's & B's'' – Harvest Heritage – EMI UK – 1980 as Dave Edmunds:


Singles


Music videos


Notes


References


External links


Dave Edmunds biography from BBC Wales
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