Tony O'Malley (born 15 July 1948 in
Bushey,
Hertfordshire
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) is a British composer, singer, arranger, and keyboard player. He was the keyboardist for
Arrival
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["Kokomo"]
Dinosaurdays. Retrieved 27 January 2014 who had a No. 8 UK hit with "Friends" (written by
Terry Reid
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Biography
Reid was born in Paxton Park Maternity Home, L ...
) in 1970, and the hit "I Will Survive", written and arranged by fellow Arrival member
Frank Collins. Following this he became one of the founder members of the
british soul band
Kokomo.
[Williams, Richard]
"The groove abides"
Thebluemoment.com, 19 December 2013. Retrieved 27 January 201410cc
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in 1977,[Mann, Ian]
"Tony O'Malley Trio..."
TheJazzMann. Retrieved 27 January 2014 after the departures of Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, and played on their live album, '' Live and Let Live''.
O'Malley lived and worked in Georgia for four years, where he became a national television star, leaving in 2008 for his new domicile, Brussels
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, and returning to England in 2012."Tony O'Malley Trio"
Black Mountain Jazz. Retrieved 27 January 2014 His song, "Hear My Plea", was one of the proposed songs for Georgia's 2009
Eurovision Song Contest
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entry.
[Brey, Marco]
"Tonight: The Georgian national final - don't miss it!"
European Broadcasting Union
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, 18 February 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2014 He has worked with
Pino Palladino,
Laurence Cottle
Laurence Cottle (born 16 December 1961) is a Welsh bass guitarist and composer.
Career
His solo recordings have been mostly in jazz and jazz fusion. He was a member of the fusion quartet The Fents and appeared on their second album, ''The Ot ...
,
,
Hamish Stuart
James Hamish Stuart (born 8 October 1949) is a British guitarist, bassist, singer, composer and record producer. He was an original member of the Average White Band.
Biography
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Stuart attended Queens Park School in ...
,
Alan Spenner,
Jim Mullen,
Adam Phillips,
Jody Linscott,
Ash Soan,
Mel Collins,
Mark Smith,
Mornington Lockett,
Jeremy Stacey, Ian Thomas and
Neil Hubbard.
In May 2008, O'Malley was part of the reformed Kokomo, with Mel Collins, Neil Hubbard, Mark Smith, Adam Phillips,
Andy Hamilton, Bernie Holland, Glen Le Fleur, Paddy McHugh,
Dyan Birch
Dyan Joan Birch (25 January 1949 – 10 October 2020) was an English singer.
Born in Liverpool, Birch worked as a teenager in Brian Epstein's NEMS record shop in the city. In 1969 she and her friends formed the band Arrival, and moved to London. ...
and Frank Collins,
[ which also included performances by Eddy Armani and Franke Pharaoh.
O'Malley then formed a band, singing and playing ]Hammond organ
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, with Belgian musicians Frank De Ruyter (tenor sax), Patrick Deltenre (guitar), Frédéric Jacquelmin (drums), and the French bassist Thierry Fandant.[
The current 'Tony O'Malley Band' is completed by Richie Aikman on guitar, Sonny Winslow on bass and Ally McDougal on drums.
Tony O'Malley is the brother of playwright Mary O'Malley, who wrote the plays '']Once a Catholic
''Once a Catholic'' is a play by Mary O'Malley.
''Once a Catholic'' is a comedy first performed at The Royal Court Theatre in London in 1977, directed by Mike Ockrent. It concerns a retrospective view of the values of 1950s Catholic convent s ...
'' and ''Oy Vay Maria''.
References
External links
Tony O'Malley website
''Georgia Today''
Tony O'Malley
Tony O'Malley in performance
Tony O'Malley in performance
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1945 births
Living people
People from Bushey
10cc members