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Phil Thornalley

Philip Thornalley (born 5 January 1960) is an English songwriter-producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He is perhaps best known for co-writing (with Scott Cutler and Anne Preven) the song "Torn" (made famous by Natalie Imbruglia's cover version, which he also produced) and the UK number one hits "Mama Do" and "Boys and Girls" for Pixie Lott. He also produced The Cure's 1982 album Pornography and was later their bass player for eighteen months, producing and performing the distinctive double bass line on their 1983 single "The Love Cats". In 1988, Thornalley released his only solo album Swamp and briefly joined the band Johnny Hates Jazz. He then worked principally as a songwriter for hire for many acts including Bryan Adams. In 2017 he joined Adams' band as bass player for 18 months before releasing two solo albums of his own seventies inspired music under the moniker Astral Drive.

Phil Thornalley
Background information
Birth namePhilip Thornalley
Born (1960-01-05) 5 January 1960 (age 63)
OriginWorlington, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Songwriter
  • producer
Instrument(s)
  • Bass guitar
  • guitar
  • vocals
  • drums
  • piano
Years active1978–present

Biography

Thornalley was born in Worlington, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, England.

He began working as a recording engineer in 1978, at RAK Studios in St. John's Wood, London for producers Mickie Most, Steve Lillywhite and Alex Sadkin.[1]

Thornalley became the producer for The Cure on their fourth album, Pornography.[2] After Simon Gallup parted ways with the band in 1982, he was The Cure's bassist for eighteen months. He produced their 1983 single The Love Cats and their first live album, Concert. However, he quit to resume working as a songwriter and producer.[3]

He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in 1984 for Into the Gap by the Thompson Twins and released his only solo album (Swamp).[1] in 1988.

Thornalley has worked primarily as songwriter and record producer for other artists. In 1991, he co-wrote "Torn" (with Scott Cutler and Anne Preven), which later appeared on Ednaswap's 1995 debut album.[1] Subsequently, he was asked to produce some songs for Natalie Imbruglia, and "Torn" was re-recorded alongside four other songs Thornalley wrote on Imbruglia's 1997 seven million selling debut album Left of the Middle, and became a worldwide hit single.[1] In 2012, the single was covered by One Direction on their live concert DVD Up All Night: The Live Tour.

Other artists Thornalley has worked with as a songwriter include Bryan Adams, BBMak,[4] Eliza Doolittle, Melanie C, Stephanie Kirkham and Pixie Lott.[1][5]

Artists Thornalley has produced, recorded or mixed include Duran Duran, Junior Giscombe, Thompson Twins, XTC, Sting, Edwyn Collins, Kiki Dee, Kim Wilde, Prefab Sprout, Hot Chocolate, Racey, Chris Spedding, Kasim Sulton, Robbie Nevil, The Frank and Walters, Ash, Julian Cope, Dionne Bromfield, Blur, Katrina and the Waves, Kate Earl, The Waterboys, Psychedelic Furs, Wax, Cyndi Lauper, Lulu, Seona Dancing and Clint Eastwood & General Saint.

In 2010, he wrote two UK number ones: "Mama Do" and "Boys and Girls" for Pixie Lott,[6] and in 2012 the top ten hit "Kiss the Stars".

In 2016 and 2017, Thornalley toured as bass player with Bryan Adams on his "Get Up" and "Ultimate" tours. He played 53 shows in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Israel and Republic of South Africa. He contributed the song "That's Rock and Roll" to the Get Up album and "The Last Night on Earth" and "Talk to Me" to the 2019 Shine a Light album.

In May 2018, Thornalley announced a new solo project called 'Astral Drive' with the release of the single "Summer of '76", followed by the Love Is Real EP in January 2019 (including a cover of the Todd Rundgren song, "A Dream Goes On Forever").[7] The self-titled album was released in July 2018 on the Lojinx label.[8] In summer 2019, Astral Drive released a companion album of remixes and out takes titled 'Green'.[9] Summer 2021 saw the release of another album, again titled 'Astral Drive', including ten original songs and a cover of 'Open My Eyes' by Nazz.[10]

The National Portrait Gallery includes his portrait by photographer Julian Anderson where he is listed as 'songwriter'.[11]

In 2022 Bass Player Magazine listed Thornalley's upright bass performance on "The Love Cats" by The Cure as the 23rd best bass part of all time.[12]

Influences

Thornalley's influences are Todd Rundgren, The Beatles and Pink Floyd. Soul and R&B singer Reggie Sears has named Thornalley as his favourite singer and credits Thornalley's 1988 release Swamp as the main driving force for wanting to be a singer and musician.[13][14]

Selected work

As writer/producer

Singles
Albums
  • Natalie Imbruglia - Left of the Middle (#5 UK)
  • Bryan Adams - "Shine A Light" (co-writer "The Last Night On Earth" & "Talk To Me")
  • Bryan Adams - On a Day Like Today (co-writer "On a Day Like Today" & "How Do You Feel Tonight")
  • Bryan Adams - Room Service (co-writer "Not Romeo Not Juliet")
  • Bryan Adams - Bare Bones (co-writer "The Way You Make Me Feel")
  • Bryan Adams - Get Up (co-writer "That's Rock and Roll")
  • Bryan Adams - "Shine A Light" (co-writer "Talk to Me" & co-writer and producer "The Last Night on Earth")
  • Melanie C - Reason (writer "Do I","Positively Somewhere' and "Let's Love")
  • Melanie C - Northern Star (writer "Ga Ga" and "Be the One")
  • Astral Drive - Astral Drive (writer on all songs)[15]
  • Astral Drive - Green (writer on all songs)[16]
  • Astral Drive - Orange (writer on ten songs)[10]
  • Phil Thornalley - Now That I Have Your Attention (writer on all songs )[17]

As producer only

Singles
Albums

As mixer

Albums as recording engineer and mixer only

Awards and nominations

Awards

  • ASCAP 'Song of the Year' 1998 for "Torn" (Natalie Imbruglia)
  • ASCAP 'Song of the Year' 2000 for "Back Here" (BBMak)

Nominations

  • Grammy Award 'Best Engineered Pop Album 1984' for Thompson Twins' Into the Gap

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Tingen, Paul (June 2010). "Phil Thornalley: Torn". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  2. ^ Rees, Dafydd & Crampton, Luke (ed.) Rock movers & shakers, Volume 1991, Part 2 (1991), ISBN 978-0874366617, ("...the band going into RAK studios to record with new producer Phil Thornalley")
  3. ^ "The Cure – Interview". Rockerilla (original in Italian). September 1983. Retrieved 6 July 2010.(noting that Thornalley is a current member of the Cure)
  4. ^ "Production notes". Music Week. 17 July 1999. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  5. ^ Savage, Mark (5 June 2009). "Pop Pixie has a whole Lotta love". BBC News. Retrieved 6 July 2010.("For the last three years, she has been collaborating with some of the biggest hitmakers in the industry, including Red One (Lady GaGa's Just Dance), Phil Thornalley (Natalie Imbruglia's Torn) and Toby Gad (Beyonce's If I Were A Boy).")
  6. ^ "QUICKFIRE: Twelve years in waiting: Lott hitmaker reaches top". Music Week. 27 June 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  7. ^ "Announcing Astral Drive – Summer of '76". Lojinx.com. 4 May 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  8. ^ "Hitmakers: Phil Thornalley on Torn | Interviews | Music Week". Musicweek.com. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Astral Drive". Lojinx.com. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Astral Drive - Astral Drive (Lojinx)". Lojinx.com. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Phil Thornalley - National Portrait Gallery". Npg.org.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Phil Thornalley recalls playing bass on the Cure's Love Cats: "I'm sure jazz players feel like crying whenever they hear that line!"". 7 March 2022.
  13. ^ "Reggie Sears". Something for the Soul Radio Interview. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  14. ^ "Reggie Sears Biography". Artistdirect.com. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  15. ^ "Astral Drive - Astral Drive (Lojinx)". 6 July 2018.
  16. ^ "Astral Drive - Astral Drive (Lojinx)". 23 August 2019.
  17. ^ "Phil thornalley - lojinx, british indie record label".

External links

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Philip Thornalley born 5 January 1960 is an English songwriter producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978 He is perhaps best known for co writing with Scott Cutler and Anne Preven the song Torn made famous by Natalie Imbruglia s cover version which he also produced and the UK number one hits Mama Do and Boys and Girls for Pixie Lott He also produced The Cure s 1982 album Pornography and was later their bass player for eighteen months producing and performing the distinctive double bass line on their 1983 single The Love Cats In 1988 Thornalley released his only solo album Swamp and briefly joined the band Johnny Hates Jazz He then worked principally as a songwriter for hire for many acts including Bryan Adams In 2017 he joined Adams band as bass player for 18 months before releasing two solo albums of his own seventies inspired music under the moniker Astral Drive Phil ThornalleyBackground informationBirth namePhilip ThornalleyBorn 1960 01 05 5 January 1960 age 63 OriginWorlington Mildenhall Suffolk EnglandGenresPunk rockpost punknew wavegothic rockalternative rockpop rockOccupation s SongwriterproducerInstrument s Bass guitarguitarvocalsdrumspianoYears active1978 present Contents 1 Biography 2 Influences 3 Selected work 3 1 As writer producer 3 2 As producer only 3 3 As mixer 3 4 Albums as recording engineer and mixer only 4 Awards and nominations 4 1 Awards 4 2 Nominations 5 References 6 External linksBiography EditThornalley was born in Worlington near Mildenhall Suffolk England He began working as a recording engineer in 1978 at RAK Studios in St John s Wood London for producers Mickie Most Steve Lillywhite and Alex Sadkin 1 Thornalley became the producer for The Cure on their fourth album Pornography 2 After Simon Gallup parted ways with the band in 1982 he was The Cure s bassist for eighteen months He produced their 1983 single The Love Cats and their first live album Concert However he quit to resume working as a songwriter and producer 3 He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album Non Classical in 1984 for Into the Gap by the Thompson Twins and released his only solo album Swamp 1 in 1988 Thornalley has worked primarily as songwriter and record producer for other artists In 1991 he co wrote Torn with Scott Cutler and Anne Preven which later appeared on Ednaswap s 1995 debut album 1 Subsequently he was asked to produce some songs for Natalie Imbruglia and Torn was re recorded alongside four other songs Thornalley wrote on Imbruglia s 1997 seven million selling debut album Left of the Middle and became a worldwide hit single 1 In 2012 the single was covered by One Direction on their live concert DVD Up All Night The Live Tour Other artists Thornalley has worked with as a songwriter include Bryan Adams BBMak 4 Eliza Doolittle Melanie C Stephanie Kirkham and Pixie Lott 1 5 Artists Thornalley has produced recorded or mixed include Duran Duran Junior Giscombe Thompson Twins XTC Sting Edwyn Collins Kiki Dee Kim Wilde Prefab Sprout Hot Chocolate Racey Chris Spedding Kasim Sulton Robbie Nevil The Frank and Walters Ash Julian Cope Dionne Bromfield Blur Katrina and the Waves Kate Earl The Waterboys Psychedelic Furs Wax Cyndi Lauper Lulu Seona Dancing and Clint Eastwood amp General Saint In 2010 he wrote two UK number ones Mama Do and Boys and Girls for Pixie Lott 6 and in 2012 the top ten hit Kiss the Stars In 2016 and 2017 Thornalley toured as bass player with Bryan Adams on his Get Up and Ultimate tours He played 53 shows in the US Canada UK Europe Israel and Republic of South Africa He contributed the song That s Rock and Roll to the Get Up album and The Last Night on Earth and Talk to Me to the 2019 Shine a Light album In May 2018 Thornalley announced a new solo project called Astral Drive with the release of the single Summer of 76 followed by the Love Is Real EP in January 2019 including a cover of the Todd Rundgren song A Dream Goes On Forever 7 The self titled album was released in July 2018 on the Lojinx label 8 In summer 2019 Astral Drive released a companion album of remixes and out takes titled Green 9 Summer 2021 saw the release of another album again titled Astral Drive including ten original songs and a cover of Open My Eyes by Nazz 10 The National Portrait Gallery includes his portrait by photographer Julian Anderson where he is listed as songwriter 11 In 2022 Bass Player Magazine listed Thornalley s upright bass performance on The Love Cats by The Cure as the 23rd best bass part of all time 12 Influences EditThornalley s influences are Todd Rundgren The Beatles and Pink Floyd Soul and R amp B singer Reggie Sears has named Thornalley as his favourite singer and credits Thornalley s 1988 release Swamp as the main driving force for wanting to be a singer and musician 13 14 Selected work EditAs writer producer Edit SinglesNatalie Imbruglia Torn 2 UK Natalie Imbruglia Wishing I Was There 15 US BBMak Back Here 11 USA No 5 UK writer only Bryan Adams On a Day Like Today 12 UK Ronan Keating The Way You Make Me Feel 5 UK Pixie Lott Boys and Girls 1 UK Pixie Lott Mama Do 1 UK Pixie Lott Cry Me Out 5 UK Pixie Lott Kiss the Stars 9 UK Hepburn I Quit 8 UK Shannon Noll Drive 1 Australia Daisy Wood Davies Dream Baby Dream from the West End musical Dreamboats and Petticoats Elkie Brooks Forgive and Forget Astral Drive Summer Of 76 AlbumsNatalie Imbruglia Left of the Middle 5 UK Bryan Adams Shine A Light co writer The Last Night On Earth amp Talk To Me Bryan Adams On a Day Like Today co writer On a Day Like Today amp How Do You Feel Tonight Bryan Adams Room Service co writer Not Romeo Not Juliet Bryan Adams Bare Bones co writer The Way You Make Me Feel Bryan Adams Get Up co writer That s Rock and Roll Bryan Adams Shine A Light co writer Talk to Me amp co writer and producer The Last Night on Earth Melanie C Reason writer Do I Positively Somewhere and Let s Love Melanie C Northern Star writer Ga Ga and Be the One Astral Drive Astral Drive writer on all songs 15 Astral Drive Green writer on all songs 16 Astral Drive Orange writer on ten songs 10 Phil Thornalley Now That I Have Your Attention writer on all songs 17 As producer only Edit SinglesThe Cure The Hanging Garden Prefab Sprout When Love Breaks Down 25 UK The Cure The Love Cats 5 UK Holly Vallance Naughty Girl 9 UK Robbie Nevil C est La Vie 2 US Wax Right Between the Eyes 1 Spain AlbumsThe Cure Pornography 2 UK As mixer Edit Ash Girl from Mars Psychedelic Furs Pretty in Pink original version Sting Spread a Little Happiness Duran Duran Is There Something I Should Know 4 US 1 UK Thompson Twins Hold Me Now Thompson Twins Doctor Doctor Thompson Twins In the Name of Love Thompson Twins Lies Cyndi Lauper What s Going On The Waterboys Fisherman s Blues Gary Breit Color Wheel Albums as recording engineer and mixer only Edit Psychedelic Furs The Psychedelic Furs Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk John Martyn Well Kept Secret Duran Duran Seven and the Ragged Tiger Thompson Twins Quick Step amp Side Kick Thompson Twins Set Thompson Twins Into the Gap Robbie Nevil C est La Vie Graham Parker The Real MacawAwards and nominations EditAwards Edit ASCAP Song of the Year 1998 for Torn Natalie Imbruglia ASCAP Song of the Year 2000 for Back Here BBMak Nominations Edit Grammy Award Best Engineered Pop Album 1984 for Thompson Twins Into the GapReferences Edit a b c d e Tingen Paul June 2010 Phil Thornalley Torn Sound on Sound Retrieved 6 July 2010 Rees Dafydd amp Crampton Luke ed Rock movers amp shakers Volume 1991 Part 2 1991 ISBN 978 0874366617 the band going into RAK studios to record with new producer Phil Thornalley The Cure Interview Rockerilla original in Italian September 1983 Retrieved 6 July 2010 noting that Thornalley is a current member of the Cure Production notes Music Week 17 July 1999 Retrieved 6 July 2010 Savage Mark 5 June 2009 Pop Pixie has a whole Lotta love BBC News Retrieved 6 July 2010 For the last three years she has been collaborating with some of the biggest hitmakers in the industry including Red One Lady GaGa s Just Dance Phil Thornalley Natalie Imbruglia s Torn and Toby Gad Beyonce s If I Were A Boy QUICKFIRE Twelve years in waiting Lott hitmaker reaches top Music Week 27 June 2009 Retrieved 6 July 2010 Announcing Astral Drive Summer of 76 Lojinx com 4 May 2018 Retrieved 11 January 2020 Hitmakers Phil Thornalley on Torn Interviews Music Week Musicweek com Retrieved 11 January 2020 Astral Drive Lojinx com 23 August 2019 Retrieved 31 December 2021 a b Astral Drive Astral Drive Lojinx Lojinx com 30 July 2021 Retrieved 31 December 2021 Phil Thornalley National Portrait Gallery Npg org uk Retrieved 31 December 2021 Phil Thornalley recalls playing bass on the Cure s Love Cats I m sure jazz players feel like crying whenever they hear that line 7 March 2022 Reggie Sears Something for the Soul Radio Interview Retrieved 19 January 2014 Reggie Sears Biography Artistdirect com Retrieved 6 July 2014 Astral Drive Astral Drive Lojinx 6 July 2018 Astral Drive Astral Drive Lojinx 23 August 2019 Phil thornalley lojinx british indie record label External links EditOfficial site Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Phil Thornalley amp oldid 1122985179, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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