Mike Silver (musician)
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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[[File:M-Silver-Trowbridge-85.jpg|thumb|Silver |
[[File:M-Silver-Trowbridge-85.jpg|thumb|Silver performing at Trowbridge Festival, 1985]] |
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Silver was born in [[Uffington, Oxfordshire]] (then [[Berkshire]]) in 1945 and started playing guitar at the age of 15, joining a number of locally-known "beat" groups in the [[Croydon]] area from around 1964 onwards.{{Cite web|url=http://kernowbeat.co.uk/daylight.html|title=Daylight|website=Kernowbeat.co.uk}} He was inspired to move to a more fingerstyle folk/blues approach after witnessing [[Gerry Lockran]] at a Canterbury folk club, and began performing himself in the folk clubs of London and Cornwall from the late 1960s onwards. In 1971, he formed the trio, Daylight, together with Chrissie Quayle and Steve Hayton, an American then resident in the UK, which produced one album for RCA in 1971, but fell somewhat between the folk and rock camps and eventually foundered. Following this, Silver signed as the first solo artist other than John to [[Elton John]]'s [[The Rocket Record Company|Rocket Record Company]] and released the album ''Troubadour'' in 1973, also touring in the US as support to [[Dory Previn]] and [[Ashford and Simpson]]. From 1976 onwards, Silver concentrated his activities as an acoustic performer and singer-songwriter on the UK folk scene, with frequent performing trips also to Denmark and Germany, and has released more than 12 further solo albums (on some he is billed as Michael Silver);"Mike Silver". Biographical / discographical entry in Strong, Martin C.: ''The Great Folk Discography Volume 1: Pioneers & Early Legends''. Polygon, Edinburgh, 2010 {{ISBN|9781846971419}} his song "Maybe It's Just Love" was also picked up by [[Moody Blues]] frontman [[Justin Hayward]], and included on the latter's 1980 album, ''[[Night Flight (Justin Hayward album)|Night Flight]]''. |
Silver was born in [[Uffington, Oxfordshire]] (then [[Berkshire]]) in 1945 and started playing guitar at the age of 15, joining a number of locally-known "beat" groups in the [[Croydon]] area from around 1964 onwards.{{Cite web|url=http://kernowbeat.co.uk/daylight.html|title=Daylight|website=Kernowbeat.co.uk}} He was inspired to move to a more fingerstyle folk/blues approach after witnessing [[Gerry Lockran]] at a Canterbury folk club, and began performing himself in the folk clubs of London and Cornwall from the late 1960s onwards. In 1971, he formed the trio, Daylight, together with Chrissie Quayle and Steve Hayton, an American then resident in the UK, which produced one album for RCA in 1971, but fell somewhat between the folk and rock camps and eventually foundered. Following this, Silver signed as the first solo artist other than John to [[Elton John]]'s [[The Rocket Record Company|Rocket Record Company]] and released the album ''Troubadour'' in 1973, also touring in the US as support to [[Dory Previn]] and [[Ashford and Simpson]]. From 1976 onwards, Silver concentrated his activities as an acoustic performer and singer-songwriter on the UK folk scene, with frequent performing trips also to Denmark and Germany, and has released more than 12 further solo albums (on some he is billed as Michael Silver);"Mike Silver". Biographical / discographical entry in Strong, Martin C.: ''The Great Folk Discography Volume 1: Pioneers & Early Legends''. Polygon, Edinburgh, 2010 {{ISBN|9781846971419}} his song "Maybe It's Just Love" was also picked up by [[Moody Blues]] frontman [[Justin Hayward]], and included on the latter's 1980 album, ''[[Night Flight (Justin Hayward album)|Night Flight]]''. |
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