John Otway

John Otway

John Otway, (né le 2 octobre 1952 à Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Royaume-Uni) est un chanteur et musicien britannique, humoriste.

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Biographie

En 1977, son premier 45 tours, "Really Free", une chanson d'amour parlée-chantée, a atteint le numéro 27 dans les charts de 45 tours britanniques et lui a permis de signer un contrat pour cinq disques avec Polydor. Son premier album, enregistré avec Wild Willy Barrett, a été produit par Pete Townshend.

En 1990, il publie son autobiographie Cor Baby, That's Really Me (sous-titrée Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure). Il bénéficie d'un statut d'artiste-culte auprès de nombreux fans fidèles : en 1993, il réunit 2 500 fans pour un concert à Londres et, en 1998, il célèbre son anniversaire avec 4 000 d'entre eux au Royal Albert Hall. Il a un club moto de fans, le Beware of the Flowers MCC[1].

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Discographie

  • John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett - John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett (1977) - album
  • Deep & Meaningless - John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett (1978) - album
  • Where Did I Go Right - John Otway (1979) - album
  • Way & Bar - John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett (1980) - album
  • Gone with the Bin - The Best of Otway and Barrett (1981) - compilation
  • All Balls and No Willy - John Otway (1982) - album
  • Bags of Fun with Buster - Johnny Japes and His Jesticles (1987) - 45t chez Viz comic avec Andy Partridge et Dave Gregory de XTC
  • The Wimp and the Wild - John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett (1989) - album
  • Cor Baby, That's Really Me! - John Otway(1990) - compilation
  • Cheryl, a Rock Opera - John Otway & Attila the Stockbroker (1991) - album
  • Under the Covers and Over the Top - John Otway (1992) - album
  • Premature Adulation - John Otway (1995) - album
  • OT-AIR - John Otway (2004) - album
  • Bunsen Burner - The Album - John Otway (2006) - album
  • Scraps - John Otway (2006) - triple album
  • The Ultimate and the Pen-Ultimate - John Otway (2007) - album
  • The Mad, the Bad & the Dangerous - avec The Hamsters et Wilko Johnson (2007) - DVD

Bibliographie

  1. Otway, John, Cor Baby, That's Really Me!, Omnibus Press, 1990. ISBN 0-7119-2148-2.
  2. Otway, John, Cor Baby, That's Really Me! (4e édition), Karen Lawrence Glass, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9564343-0-2.
  3. Otway, John, I Did it Otway : Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure, Karen Lawrence Glass, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9564343-1-9.

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