Darren Wharton
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Darren Wharton is a British keyboard player/singer/songwriter/ born December 25th 1962. He has fronted his own band Dare since 1989 but first came to attention as a member of Thin Lizzy.
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[edit] Biography
Lizzy had not had a keyboard player since their early gigs in Ireland and Wharton was contacted by Phil Lynott while performing with a covers band. He was only seventeen when he contributed keyboards to their 1980 album Chinatown and by the following year on the album Renegade he had become an official member of Lizzy. Although he was not pictured on the album sleeve, he established his presence in the band from the outset with his sparkling intro to the opening track Angel Of Death. Wharton continued with the band on the follow-up Thunder And Lightning in 1983 having an even greater share in the writing credits, most notably on latterday Lizzy classic The Sun Goes Down but that year, Lynott announced the break-up of Thin Lizzy and Wharton's contribution proved all too short lived.
Wharton did work with Lynott again, notably on Phil's 1982 solo recording The Philip Lynott Album, where he played on most of the record's 11 tracks.
Darren sank from sight for some years but resurfaced with his own band Dare in 1989. Following Darren's move to his half-native Wales in 1992, their music has come to reflect a more Celtic influence not unlike Thin Lizzy's occasional hark back to their Irish roots. Since then he has also played with a reunited Thin Lizzy on tours, documented on the 2000 live album One Night Only but subsequent to this has poured all his energies into Dare.
[edit] Discography
[edit] with Thin Lizzy
- Chinatown (1980) as session man
- Renegade (1981)
- Thunder and Lightning (1983)
- Life (farewell concert album) (1983)
- One Night Only (live) (2000)
[edit] with Philip Lynott
- The Philip Lynott Album (1982)
[edit] with Dare
- Out Of The Silence (1989)
- Blood From Stone (1991)
- Calm Before The Storm (1998)
- Belief (2001)
- Beneath The Shining Water (2004)
- The Power Of Nature (Live in Munich) (2005) also on DVD
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| Thin Lizzy |
| John Sykes | Scott Gorham | Marco Mendoza | Michael Lee |
| Phil Lynott | Brian Downey | Eric Bell | Gary Moore | Brian Robertson | Snowy White | Darren Wharton | Tommy Aldridge | Randy Gregg |
| Discography |
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| Studio albums: Thin Lizzy | Shades of a Blue Orphanage | Vagabonds of the Western World | Nightlife | Fighting | Jailbreak | Johnny the Fox | Bad Reputation | Black Rose: A Rock Legend | Chinatown | Renegade | Thunder and Lightning |
| Live albums: Live and Dangerous | Life | BBC Radio One Live in Concert | The Peel Sessions | Boys Are Back in Town: Live in Australia | One Night Only |
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