Pete Wingfield
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Pete Wingfield (born 7 May 1948[1], Liphook, Hampshire, England[2]) is a English record producer, keyboard player, songwriter, singer and music journalist.
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[edit] Career
As a specialist in soul music, in the 1970s Wingfield contributed regular articles and reviews to the monthly journal Let It Rock, and the weekly Melody Maker magazine among others. As a performer, he played with the British soul band, The Olympic Runners and Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes.
In 1971 Wingfield played the piano on the B. B. King in London album, and in the following year received similar credits for Seventy-Second Brave, the Keef Hartley Band album.
By 1974, Wingfield played keyboards on Bryn Haworth's album, Let the Days Go By, and Haworth's 1975 follow-up collection Sunny Side of the Street. Wingfield also had a Top 10 solo (one-hit wonder) hit in 1975 on the UK Singles Chart, with "Eighteen With a Bullet". That song would also reach the Top 20 on the Billboard R&B chart. Coincidentally, "Eighteen With a Bullet" was actually #18 with a bullet on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[1] The song was taken from his album, Breakfast Special which was also released on the Island Records label.
He produced the first album by Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels; and has played on sessions for The Housemartins, The Beautiful South, Van Morrison, Interview, Jimmy Witherspoon and Freddie King; plus Paul McCartney on his Run Devil Run album.
In 1977 his song "Making a Good Thing Better" appeared on Olivia Newton-John's album of the same name. Between 1975 and 1981, Wingfield played keyboards with The Hollies. In the 1980s, Wingfield teamed up with the film producer, Mel Brooks, and co-wrote the song, "It's Good To Be the King". In 1985 he produced the Kane Gang's debut album Bad and Lowdown World of the Kane Gang.[3] Three years later his production credits appeared on The Proclaimers UK Top 20 hit, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", and their album Sunshine on Leith.
The Pasadenas 1988 song "Tribute (Right On)" was written by Wingfield.
Wingfield played with Van Morrison at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival, which was one of the two shows featured on Morrison's 2006 first ever issued DVD. Several years later, Wingfield also did a summer tour of Europe with Morrison's band, featuring the songs from the latter's 1979 album, Into the Music. Beginning with their 1983 reunion shows, Wingfield spent eighteen years handling keyboard duties for The Everly Brothers.[1]
His track, "Eighteen With a Bullet" featured on the soundtrack to the 1998 film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
[edit] See also
- One-hit wonders in the UK
- List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States
- List of performers on Top of the Pops
- List of blue-eyed soul artists
