Jeannette-Thérèse Obstoj (5 June 194926 March 2015) was a British lyricist, video-maker, music video director, poet and graphic artist. She is best known for her work as a lyricist, usually working in collaboration with musician
Rupert Hine
Rupert Neville Hine (21 September 1947 – 4 June 2020) was an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He produced albums for artists including Rush, Kevin Ayers, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Saga, the Fixx, Bob Geldof, Thompson Twins ...
. The Hine/Obstoj team wrote songs for
Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss retired singer and actress. Widely referred to as the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer o ...
("
I Might Have Been Queen
"I Might Have Been Queen" is a song written for Tina Turner as the first track on her highly successful ''Private Dancer'' album, and later included as a re-mixed version, with an additional lyric added to the bridge, on her ''What's Love Got to D ...
", "
Break Every Rule
''Break Every Rule'' is the sixth solo studio album by Tina Turner. It was released on September 5, 1986, through Capitol Records in the US. It was the follow-up to Turner's globally successful comeback album, ''Private Dancer'', released two ye ...
"),
Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, Pop music, p ...
("
Arrested by You"), and
Wilson Phillips
Wilson Phillips is an American pop group formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The group consists of Carnie Wilson and Wendy Wilson, the daughters of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, and Chynna Phillips, the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of th ...
("
Eyes Like Twins
''Wilson Phillips'' is the debut album by American vocal group Wilson Phillips, released in 1990 by SBK Records.
The album was enormously successful in the U.S. where it peaked at #2 on the LP chart for ten weeks starting August 4, 1990. Overal ...
"), as well as writing all the songs on Hine's solo albums ''
Immunity
Immunity may refer to:
Medicine
* Immunity (medical), resistance of an organism to infection or disease
* ''Immunity'' (journal), a scientific journal published by Cell Press
Biology
* Immune system
Engineering
* Radiofrequence immunity desc ...
,
Waving Not Drowning
''Waving Not Drowning'' is a solo album by Rupert Hine. It was originally released in 1982, A&M Records, and re-released on CD in 2001, VoicePrint. "The Sniper" was dedicated to Liam Byrne and "House Arrest" was dedicated to Donald Woods. The a ...
'' and ''
Wildest Wish to Fly'', and on the three albums Hine released using the identity
Thinkman
Rupert Neville Hine (21 September 1947 – 4 June 2020) was an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He produced albums for artists including Rush, Kevin Ayers, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Saga, the Fixx, Bob Geldof, Thompson Twins ...
. Obstoj also occasionally wrote lyrics for songs by
The Fixx
The Fixx are a rock band from London, England, founded in 1979. The band's hits include "One Thing Leads to Another", "Saved by Zero", "Are We Ourselves?", and "Secret Separation", each of which charted in the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, ...
, including their 1986 hit "
Secret Separation
"Secret Separation" is a song by British new wave rock group the Fixx, from their fourth studio album ''Walkabout''. The single peaked at #19 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in July 1986 and peaked at No. 1 on the US Album Rock Tracks cha ...
", with music for these tracks being credited to the band as a whole.
Obstoj also worked as a video producer/director, lensing several of Hine's video clips, as well as selected videos by The Fixx, including “Less Cities More Moving People”, “
Stand or Fall
"Stand or Fall" is a song by new wave/ rock band the Fixx. Released in 1982, it was the third of four single releases from the group's debut album, '' Shuttered Room''.
"Stand or Fall" became the group's first charting hit. In the United State ...
” and “
One Thing Leads to Another
"One Thing Leads to Another" is a song by English new wave band the Fixx, from their album ''Reach the Beach''. It is the band's most successful single, reaching number four on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in November 1983. It also peaked at n ...
”.
Obstoj died on 26 March 2015 after a short and sudden illness.
External links
Obituary pagesat ''Jukes Productions''
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British songwriters
1949 births
2015 deaths