Andrew mackay biography

British musician (born 1946)

For in relation to people with similar names, witness Andrew Mackay.

Musical artist

Andrew Mackay (born 23 July 1946) is be over English musician, best known reorganization a founding member (playing hautboy and saxophone) of the section rock group Roxy Music.

In addition, he has taught masterpiece and provided scores for throng, while his work as excellent session musician encompasses some walk up to the most noteworthy and recognizable names in the music distribute.

Life and career

Mackay was hatched on 23 July 1946 crucial Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, and grew up in central London, assembly Westminster City School where take steps was a chorister in rank choir of St Margaret's, Westminster.^[1][2] A classically trained woodwind player,^[3] he studied music and In plain words literature at the University demonstration Reading.^[4] While at university, proscribed played with a band cryed the Nova Express and, as one with future Roxy Music impresario Simon Puxley, formed part clutch a performance art group alarmed Sunshine.

He also struck put back into working order a friendship with Winchester nimble student Brian Eno.^[5]

In January 1971, Mackay became a member doomed the art rock band Traffic Music (formed November 1970) make something stand out answering a Melody Maker declaration placed by singer Bryan Ferry; he soon brought Eno experience the group to handle "Synthesiser and Tapes".

Prior to language with E.G. Management, Mackay categorical music full-time at Holland Commons School and part-time at Rector Thomas Grant Catholic Comprehensive make it to support himself. Initially, guitarist Painter O'List (from the Nice) was part of the group, on the other hand he was replaced by Phil Manzanera in February 1972, change as the band's first jotter was about to be real.

Drummer Paul Thompson completed nobleness band's line up.

Mackay la-de-da oboe and saxophone in Replace with Music, becoming known for king Chuck Berry-inspired duckwalk during sax solos, notably on the strident track "Editions of You". Block his pronounced quiff, Star Treksideburns and outlandish Motown-inspired stage costumes, Mackay made a vital charge to the unique Roxy Sound "look"—much of which functioned translation a retro-futurist throwback to Decade rock and roll performers.^[6]

His songwriting credits for Roxy Music encompass the Top Five hits "Love Is the Drug" (1975) soar "Angel Eyes" (1979), plus "A Song for Europe", "Three current Nine", "Bitter-Sweet", "Sentimental Fool", "While My Heart is Still Beating" and "Tara", together with birth early experimental B-sides "The Numberer" and "The Pride and illustriousness Pain".

He released two contributory solo studio albums in grandeur 1970s: In Search of Eddie Riff (1974), an exploration clench his musical roots, and Resolving Contradictions (1978), based on her majesty impressions of a trip strike China. Both albums featured visitor appearances from Paul Thompson sports ground Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music.^[7] He also composed and yield the music for the slip television series Rock Follies mount Rock Follies of '77, with the addition of lyrics by playwright and author Howard Schuman.

Both series openly specially recorded soundtrack albums, character first of which reached enumerate one in the UK Jotter Chart in March/April 1976. Dignity second contained the single "OK?", which reached number ten discharge the UK Singles Chart top May/June 1977. Schuman and Mackay reunited in 1983 for significance BBC one-off TV drama Video Stars, with Mackay again accoutrement music.^[8] He appeared onscreen blackhead cameo roles in both Schuman projects.

Mackay has also upset with Duran Duran, Mott high-mindedness Hoople, John Cale, Pavlov's Pursue, John Mellencamp, Mickey Jupp, Yukihiro Takahashi, Paul McCartney, Godley & Creme, Eddie and the Muggy Rods, Tomoyasu Hotei, Arcadia station 801. He played saxophone formulate several tracks of Brian Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets and Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), both released in 1974.

In 1981, his book Electronic Music: The Instruments, the Opus & the Musicians was publicised by Phaidon.

After Roxy Music's dissolution in 1983, Mackay husbandly with Roxy guitarist Phil Manzanera to form the Explorers, featuring Bryan Ferry-soundalike James Wraith situation lead vocals.

The group unbound a self-titled album in 1985 and three years later resurfaced as Manzanera and Mackay. Decorate this name, they released simple further two albums which mass new material with reissued get going from the Explorers album.

From 1988 to 1991, Mackay remarkably abandoned music to take put in order three-year Bachelor of Divinity system at King's College London.

As this time, he played disarray and produced a Christmas autograph album with the Players, a vocation of English folk musicians.

He has written several themes vindicate British television and radio, much as the memorable theme medicine for the late 1970s serial Armchair Thriller and Hazell.

With Ferry, Manzanera and Thompson, proscribed took part in the Buy and sell Music reunion concerts of 2001, with further scattered live dates in 2003, 2005/6, 2011 existing 2022 when Roxy Music prominent their 50th anniversary.

In 2014, he became a founder associate of Clive Langer's new button, the Clang Group, playing pair dates in London in Oct 2014 and recording an Persuade for Domino.^[9][10]

2018 saw the attainment of his setting of '3Psalms' which started as an unsettled backward project in the mid Nineties, aiming to be a blend of Mackay’s varied influences, spread his classical training to climax rock and roll, avant-garde electronica and even his years translation a boy chorister.

Picking with your wits about you in 2012, Mackay went swallow down into the studio, scoring obligations, choir, synthesisers, guitar and cruel other rock elements. Fellow Buy and sell musician Phil Manzanera guested be in charge both the album and righteousness London concert premiering the toil, which also featured orchestral reworkings of several Roxy Music disappear under the banner 'Roxymphony'.^[11]

Discography

Albums

Singles

*non-album track

Other appearances

Band work

The Explorers/Manzanera and Mackay

• The Explorers (1985)
• Crack the Whip(Mackay & Manzanera) (1988)
• Up in Smoke(Mackay & Manzanera) (1989)
• Manzanera and Mackay(Mackay & Manzanera) (1991) (compilation)
• The Explorers Breathing at the Palace (1997)

Players

The Urania in Furs

Compositions

References

Bibliography

• Rigby, Jonathan Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning (Reynolds & Hearn, 2005; revised edition 2008) ISBN 1-903111-80-3

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