Jamie Morgan is a British photographer, filmmaker, and former musician.
Music career
Morgan formed half of the duo
Morgan-McVey
"Looking Good Diving" is a 1987 song performed by Morgan-McVey, who were vocalists Jamie Morgan and Cameron McVey. It was their only single. The single was released through Sony Records in 1987, produced by SAW and mixed by Phil Harding. The B- ...
[''Hitlåtens historia'', "Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance", ]Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television Stock Company"), shortened to SVT (), is the Sweden, Swedish national public broadcasting, public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national ...
, 3 January 2012. who released just one single, 1986's
Stock Aitken Waterman
Stock Aitken Waterman (abbreviated as SAW) are an English songwriting and record production trio consisting of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman. The trio had great success from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s. SAW is considered ...
-produced "
Looking Good Diving
"Looking Good Diving" is a 1987 song performed by Morgan-McVey, who were vocalists Jamie Morgan and Cameron McVey. It was their only single. The single was released through Sony Records in 1987, produced by SAW and mixed by Phil Harding. The ...
" b/w "Looking Good Diving with the Wild Bunch".
Originally conceived as a
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s, and their biggest hits—including the electric remix of " ...
-style male vocal duo who would harmonise over
reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...
beats, early demos failed to deliver on the concept. Facing creative inertia, the act's record company convinced them to work with rising pop producers Stock Aitken Waterman, a proposition that left them with mixed feelings.
Morgan says "Looking Good Diving" co-vocalist
Cameron McVey
Cameron Andrew McVey (born 11 March 1957) is an English singer, songwriter and music producer. He worked with the bands Massive Attack, Portishead, All Saints, Sugababes/Mutya Keisha Siobhan and his wife Neneh Cherry. He is the father of Ma ...
was so "embarrassed" by the resulting record and video, the band disintegrated.
However, the single's B-side, which Morgan co-wrote, would soon evolve into
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Mariann Karlsson (born 10 March 1964), better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, occasional DJ and broadcaster. Her musical career started in London in the early 1980s, where she performed in a number of punk roc ...
's "
Buffalo Stance
"Buffalo Stance" is a song by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry, released from her debut album, '' Raw Like Sushi'' (1989), in November 1988. The song peaked at 3 on both the UK Singles Chart and the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and it reached No. 1 in ...
", which reached number three in the
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...
and the top 10 around the world in 1988. Morgan says he helped facilitate the track's transformation into a hit, after accidentally meeting its remixer, DJ
Tim Simenon, while attempting to evade a stalker who was trying to kill him.
As a solo artist under the name Jamie J. Morgan, he released a cover of the
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942October 27, 2013) was an American musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. ...
song "
Walk on the Wild Side" in 1990, which reached the top 30 in the UK and Australia, and number one in New Zealand. An album, ''
Shotgun
A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long gun, long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge (firearms), cartridge known as a shotshell, which usually discharges numerous small p ...
'', was also released in 1990.
Photography and filmmaking
Since retiring as a recording artist, Morgan has concentrated on photography and filmmaking. He has directed numerous music videos and the 2007 documentary film ''The Workshop''.
Discography
Albums
Singles
References
External links
Jamie Morgan official site*
*
English pop singers
English photographers
English filmmakers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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