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Category:English songwriters

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► English country music songwriters‎ (1 C, 2 P)

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► Geordie songwriters‎ (147 P)

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► English hymnwriters‎ (1 C, 146 P)

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► English lyricists‎ (1 C, 59 P)

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► English singer-songwriters‎ (3 C, 770 P)

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England [videos]

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to the west and Scotland to the north-northwest. The Irish Sea lies west of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the …

Stonehenge, a Neolithic monument

Boudica led an uprising against the Roman Empire

Damon Albarn [videos]

Damon Albarn is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the British rock band Blur as well as the co-founder, lead vocalist, instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the virtual band Gorillaz. — Raised in Leytonstone, East London and around Colchester, Essex …

Commemorative plaque at 21 Fillebrook Road Leytonstone, East London where Albarn was brought up

Blur performing at Hyde Park in July 2009.

Albarn on stage with Gorillaz at the Brixton Academy in London, June 2017

Albarn in 2007

Corinne Bailey Rae [videos]

Corinne Jacqueline Bailey Rae is a British singer and songwriter from Leeds, West Yorkshire. Bailey Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2006. She released her debut album, Corinne …

Bailey Rae at the 2009 MOJO Awards

Corinne Bailey Rae performing live at the V Festival on 18 August 2007

Rae performing at Le Divan du Monde, 2010

Corinne Bailey Rae performing live in 2006

Ginger Baker [videos]

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker is an English drummer and a founder of the rock band Cream. His work in the 1960s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer," while his individual style melds a jazz background with African rhythms. Baker is credited as a pioneer …

Baker performing in 2011

Baker (second from right) with Blind Faith, 1969

Baker in 1980

Ginger Baker 1997

James Arthur [videos]

James Andrew Arthur is an English singer and songwriter. — Arthur won the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012. His debut single, "Impossible", was released by Syco Music after the final and debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart in its first week of release. Since then, it …

James Arthur at a book-signing session at WHSmith in Middlesbrough on 9 January 2013

Arthur at the NRJ Music Awards 2014

Image: James Arthur Shepherds Bush

Roy Bailey (folk singer) [videos]

Roy Bailey, was an English socialist folk singer. Colin Irwin from the music magazine Mojo said Bailey represented "the very soul of folk's working class ideals... a triumphal homage to the grass roots folk scene as a radical alternative to the mainstream music …

Roy Bailey at Towersey Festival, 2018

Roy Bailey at Bromyard Folk Festival, 2007

Performing his final Monday afternoon concert at Towersey Festival 2018, with a band including Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting, Marc Block, Kit Simpson and Max Simpson

Tim Arnold (musician) [videos]

Tim Arnold is an English singer-songwriter, composer, producer musician and film maker from London. His music has been compared to David Bowie and he is the last musician to collaborate with David Bowie and Kate Bush mentor Lindsay Kemp He is also an active campaigner for the …

Tim Arnold - I Am For You album cover art, 2017

Tim Arnold live at Soho Theatre, London 2012.

Tony Banks (musician) [videos]

Anthony George Banks is an English musician, songwriter and film composer primarily known as the keyboardist and founding member of the rock band Genesis. Banks is also a prolific solo artist, releasing six solo albums that range through progressive rock, pop, and classical …

Banks performing with Genesis in 2007

Image: Banks

Lionel Bart [videos]

Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals. He wrote Tommy Steele's hit "Rock with the Caveman", which became the first British pop song to break into the American Top 40, and was the sole creator of the internationally acclaimed musical …

Bart in 1973, by Allan Warren

Lionel Bart in 1973

Mike d'Abo [videos]

Michael David d'Abo is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the second and former lead vocalist of Manfred Mann, namely on their No.1 hit "Mighty Quinn", and as the composer of the song "Handbags and Gladrags" performed by Chris Farlowe, among others. — Early years …

From left to right: Tom McGuinness, Dave Berry, Klaus Voormann, Mike Hugg, Manfred Mann, Mike d'Abo (The Netherlands, 1967)

Mike Alexander (musician) [videos]

Michael "Mike" Alexander was a Jamaican-British musician who served as the bassist of English thrash metal group Evile. On 5 October 2009, Alexander died while on tour in Luleå, Sweden, due to a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot in the lungs. Evile unveiled a …

Playing at Tuska in June 2009

Michael Algar [videos]

Michael "Olga" Algar is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who fronts the band The Toy Dolls. Mainly a lead/rhythm guitarist, Olga is also a songwriter and record producer. Algar lived in the City of Sunderland during most of his …

Michael Algar in 2017

Colin Allen [videos]

Colin Eric Allen is an English blues drummer and songwriter. — Career — Allen spent the first ten years of his adult life working in aircraft engineering. He became interested in jazz at the age of 16 which led him taking up …

Stone the Crows, Kralingen Music Festival 1970

David M. Allen [videos]

David M. Allen is a British record producer, engineer and mixer. He is mostly known for his work with new wave, synthpop and goth rock bands including The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, The Chameleons, Depeche Mode, The Mission, The Associates, The Human League, Clan of Xymox, Gianna Nannini …

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Emma Anderson [videos]

Emma Anderson is an English musician. She is best known for being a songwriter, guitarist and singer in the shoegazing/Britpop band Lush. — Musical career — Born in Wimbledon, London, the adopted daughter of a former army officer who ran a gentleman's club in Piccadilly …

Anderson at the Markthalle, Hamburg in 1994

Chris Andrews (singer) [videos]

Christopher Frederick Andrews is an English-German singer-songwriter whose musical career started in the late 1950s. — Career — Andrews was born in Romford, Essex, England, and by his mid teens had formed his own group, Chris Ravel and the Ravers. On 14 March 1959, he made …

Chris Andrews performing in Germany (2010)

Finn Andrews [videos]

Finn Andrews is a British/New Zealand musician. He is a solo artist and lead singer and songwriter of London-based band The Veils. His father Barry Andrews is a current member of Shriekback, was a member of XTC, and also played with Iggy Pop, Robert Fripp and David Bowie.Finn …

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Stevie Appleton [videos]

Stephen Appleton is a British singer, songwriter and record producer.At the age of fifteen, he began playing piano in a Soho restaurant performing his own material and covers from the likes of Elton John and Billy Joel. He was signed to RCA in mid-2007, after …

Image: Stevie Appleton Press Shot

Aqualung (musician) [videos]

Matt Hales is an English songwriter, musician, and record producer who has been performing professionally under the name Aqualung since the early 2000s. Aqualung is best known in the UK for his song "Strange and Beautiful," which was featured on a television advertisement for …

Aqualung at Webster Hall September 2015

Len Arran [videos]

Len Arran is an English composer of film scores, and songwriter for Skunk Anansie and solo artist Deborah Dyer. — He began his career as a guitarist in London in the late 1980s. In 1991, he developed a writing partnership with Dyer …

Len Arran

Richard Ashcroft [videos]

Richard Paul Ashcroft is an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and occasional rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band The Verve from their formation in 1990 until their original split in 1999. He became a successful solo artist in his own right …

Ashcroft in 2012.

Ian Astbury [videos]

Ian Robert Astbury is an English singer and songwriter. He is best known as a founder member and the lead vocalist for the rock band the Cult. — Biography — Astbury's family moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from the UK in 1973 when he was 11. He attended Glendale Secondary …

Image: Ian press 1 2010

Pete Atkin [videos]

Pete Atkin is a British singer-songwriter and radio producer notable for his 1970s musical collaborations with Clive James and for producing the BBC Radio 4 series This Sceptred Isle. — Early life — Born in Cambridge on 22 August 1945, Atkin attended Romsey County Primary …

Image: Pete Atkin

Adrian Baker [videos]

Adrian Baker is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. — Career — Baker made his debut as a singer on Magnet Records/Epic Records in the United Kingdom. In 1975, he released his first solo album, Into a Dream. From that album, he had one hit …

Baker with the Key to the City of Hickory, NC

Roy Thomas Baker [videos]

Roy Thomas Baker is an English record producer, songwriter, arranger, and Recording Academy governor, who has produced pop and rock songs since the 1970s. — Career — Baker began his career at Decca Records at the age of 14. Encouraged by music producer Gus Dudgeon, he soon moved to Trident …

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John Balance [videos]

Geoffrey Laurence Rushton, better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet. His early work and wide-ranging collaborations made him one of the most influential figures in …

John Balance

Paul Banks (musician, born 1973) [videos]

Paul Banks is an English musician, songwriter and lead guitarist with the rock band, Shed Seven. — Career — Paul Banks formed his first band with schoolfriend Rick Witter in 1986, while still in his teens, and went on to play in other local bands, including …

Paul Banks performing with Shed Seven at the V Festival, Weston Park, 2008

Peter Banks [videos]

For the keyboard player Peter Banks, see the entry for the band After the Fire.Peter William Brockbanks, known professionally as Peter Banks, was an English guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer. He was best known as the original guitarist in the rock bands the …

Image: Peter Banks

Carl Barât [videos]

Carl Ashley Raphael Barât is a British musician, best known for being the co-frontman with Pete Doherty of the garage rock band The Libertines. He was the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things, and in 2010 debuted a solo album. In 2014 he announced the creation of …

Image: Carl Barât

Colin Bass [videos]

Colin Bass is an English musician, award-winning record producer and songwriter. Since 1979 he has been a member of the British progressive rock band Camel, who, after a ten-year hiatus due to the ill health of bandleader Andrew Latimer, returned to active touring in 2013. From …

Bass in 2015

Mike Batt [videos]

Michael Philip Batt, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, director, conductor and former Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry. He is best known for creating The Wombles pop act, writing many hits including the chart-topping "Bright …

Image: Mike Batt 1971

Thomas Haynes Bayly [videos]

Thomas Haynes Bayly was an English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and miscellaneous writer. — Life — He was born at Bath on 13 October 1797. — He was the only child of Mr. Nathaniel Bayly, an influential citizen of Bath, and on the maternal side was nearly related …

Image: Portrait of Thomas Haynes Bayly

Norman Beaker [videos]

Norman Beaker is a blues guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, band leader and record producer who has been involved in the British blues scene since the early 1970s. — The Norman Beaker Band has toured and recorded with many blues artists including …

Norman Beaker (2015)

Robert Downey Jr. [videos]

Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor and singer. His career has included critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal difficulties, and a resurgence of commercial success in middle age. For three consecutive years from 2012 …

Downey at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International

Downey at the premiere of Air America, 1990

Downey promoting Iron Man in Mexico City in 2008

Downey with Rachel McAdams at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International

Antibes [videos]

Antibes is a Mediterranean resort in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice. — The town of Juan-les-Pins is in the commune of Antibes and the Sophia Antipolis technology park is northwest of it …

October 2006 view of Antibes by the Mediterranean

Fontveille Aqueduct; section of underground vault

Bouillide aqueduct

Bouillide Aqueduct

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