Phil Johnstone

For the footballer, see Phil Johnston.

Phil Johnstone is a songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist[1] and record producer, best known for his work with singer Robert Plant. His songwriting credits include Plant's number-one Mainstream Rock hits "Heaven Knows", "Tall Cool One" and "Hurting Kind (I've Got My Eyes on You)".[2]

Details

Johnstone first worked with Plant on the 1988 album Now and Zen,[3] which Johnstone co-produced. Johnstone co-wrote most of the songs on the album; he also wrote songs for Plant's follow-up albums Manic Nirvana (1990) and Fate of Nations (1993).

Following his work with Plant, Johnstone wrote songs for singer Alannah Myles' 1995 album A-lan-nah.[2] Recorded and produced Freeborn John by Rev Hammer 1996 on Cooking Vinyl Phil Johnstone also co-wrote the whole of The Levellers' 2000 album Hello Pig. Johnstone also heads the popular all-star musical festival act,"The Fabulous Good Time Party Boys", which features members of the Levellers, Irish singer/songwriter Dan Donnelly, American musician Roy Harter, and two of his children, Alex Johnstone and Emily Johnstone. In recent years, he has been busy recording and producing bands from the Exeter area. One of his recent projects, "The Big V", feature his son Alex Johnstone and his daughter Emily Johnstone.

In 2011, Johnstone produced "Echo At The Carnival" by The Summertides, a band from the town of Devon.

Phil has been very happily married to Frances since 1987 they have 4 children Emily, Alex, Harriet and Florence

He is currently teaching Music Production and Sound Engineering, at DBS Music in Plymouth, South-west England.

References

  1. ↑ Yonke, David (November 16, 1993). "Robert Plant explosive at UT". Toledo Blade. p. P-1. Retrieved December 5, 2010.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Phil Johnstone, Songs Composed By". allmusic. Retrieved December 5, 2010.
  3. ↑ Hochanadel, Michael (October 17, 1989). "Phil Johnstone ecstatic over new Plant band". Schenectady Gazette. p. 37. Retrieved December 5, 2010.