Edwyn Stephen Collins (born August 23, 1959) is a Scottish musician, producer and record label owner from Edinburgh, Scotland. Collins was the vocalist for the 1980s post-punk Orange Juice band, which he co-founded. After the group's separation in 1985, Collins began his solo career. Her 1994 single "A Girl Like You" is a worldwide hit.
In February 2005, Collins was hospitalized after two cerebral hemorrhages resulting in aphasia, and he then underwent months of rehabilitation. Collins continued his musical career in 2007. His documentary on the healing, titled The Possible Are Endless , was released in 2014.
Collins was one of the founders of an indie record label, Postcard Records, and founded the second label, Analogue Enhanced Digital, in 2011. Collins also works as an illustrator, television actor, television producer and record producer. He won the Ivor Novello Award, Ivor Inspiration Award, in 2009.
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Collins was born in Edinburgh.
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Careers
Orange Juice
Collins founded the Nu-Sonics band in 1976 in the Glasgow suburb of Bearsden. The band changed its name to Orange Juice in 1979. Collins and his friend Alan Horne founded the record label Postcard Records that year to release a single band. The band's first single, "Falling and Laughing" was released in February 1980. Though critically acclaimed, the single only sold 2,000 copies.
After three singles with Postcard, Orange Juice signed a contract with Polydor Records in October 1981 and released their debut album, You Can not Hide Your Love Forever , in March 1982. The band's second album, < Rip It Up was followed in November 1982. Their single "Rip It Up", released in early 1983, reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart and was recorded as Britain's first hit single featuring a bass line from Roland TB-303 synthesizer. The song is their only Top 40 song.
The band's next two albums, Texas Fever and The Orange Juice were both released in 1984 and failed to find the same success with Rip It Up .
Orange Juice was dissolved in January 1985, after Polydor became dissatisfied with the band's lack of success and the difficulty the band found a new label to sign. During this time of his career, Collins met Grace Maxwell, whom he recruited as his manager and later became his wife.
Collins began his solo career in 1986, and signed with Elevation Records, a label that is a co-venture between indie label Creation Records and Warner Music's flagship label.
Solo solo career until 2005
Collins released two singles for the Elevation label in 1987, both produced by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, but both failed to enter the UK Singles Chart. The altitude was closed in November 1987, just ten months after the release of its first single. After closing, Collins suffered a "fall out" with Founder Records Creation, Alan McGee, who has financed Elevation. As a result, unlike other Elevation elevators such as Primal Scream and The Weather Prophets, Collins did not migrate to the main label of Creation and he was left without a record label contract.
At the request of a passionate Orange Juice fan in Germany, Collins recorded his next album in a small German studio, with the help of producer Dennis Bovell, who worked with Collins at Orange Juice and Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera. The album, titled Hope and Despair , was released in 1989 by Satan's label and achieved success as an independent release. Satan also released Collins' next record, Spartan Hellbent on Compromise (1990), which was not as successful as its predecessor. Demon and Collins then split up and Collins embarked on a long hiatus.
Collins built his own recording studio in 1994 that was used to record his third solo album, Gorgeous George, which he also produced. The studio, located in West Hampstead, London, England, will become West Heath Yard Studios that Collins will use for his future record label, AED Records.
In 1995, Collins released the single "A Girl Like You", which became a hit in the UK and USA after being featured in the Empire Records movie. It was later used in the film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle in 2003.
Collins released his follow-up to Gorgeous George , I Did Not Follow You , in 1997. One of his singles, "The Magic Piper (of Love)", is featured on the soundtrack for Austin Powers: The International Man of Mystery that year and the only other Top 40 entry on the UK Singles Chart in addition to "A Girl Like You"
Brain hemorrhage
In a BBC Music radio interview on February 18, 2005, Collins said she felt unwell, but considers nausea and vertigo as the cause of food poisoning. Two days later, he was treated in intensive care at the Royal Free Hospital in London after apparently suffering from a major cerebral hemorrhage. After the second bleeding, he underwent surgery on February 25, 2005, followed by a long neurological rehabilitation program due to right side weakness and speech impediment. Her aphasia allows her to repeat only four phrases, again and again: "yes", "no", "Grace Maxwell" (his wife's name) and "possibilities are endless".
Post-cerebral haemorrhage
Collins released her sixth solo album, titled Home Again , in September 2007 at Heavenly Records. The album was recorded before the disease but mixed after being discharged from the hospital. While still in recovery, Collins again sang directly, including playing at The Arts Theater in London, England. A tribute song celebrating his return was recorded by indie pop band The Candy Twins.
A Scottish BBC documentary, Edwyn Collins: Home Again, narrated by Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos, aired on May 19, 2008. Filmed during 2007, following Collins's development in recovery from his illness, and his first return to live performances on BBC Electric Proms. Collins later performed at the Glastonbury Festival, which aired on June 28, 2008 on BBC Two, and at T in the Park on July 10, 2009 (the first Collins in the Park).
On October 2, 2009, Collins' wife and manager, Grace Maxwell, detailed "combat walks" with Warner Music Group and MySpace for their right to allow fans to listen to "A Girl Like You" for free on her MySpace page.
In November 2009, at a show at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London, following a Scottish Highlands tour, Collins' singing contrasted with his slow speech: "[W] he started singing, his baritone proved to be as powerful as ever." On February 20, 2010, he joined The Maccabees onstage at Brixton Academy for their encore, performing vocals on the rendition of "Rip It Up".
Sleep Loss , the first album written and recorded by Collins since her illness in 2005, then released on September 13, 2010 in the UK. The album was recorded at West Heath Studios itself between November 2008 and May 2010, and was produced by Collins and Sebastian Lewsley. Collins and Lewsley first met in 1992, while Collins produced the former album frontman Suk Sects Vic Godard of The End of the Surrey People and Lewsley was his assistant. For the album, he collaborated with The Cribs' Ryan Jarman and Johnny Marr, Franz Ferdinand, The Magic Numbers singer Romeo Stodart, The Drums and Roddy Frame. Lewsley explains the process of recording Losing Sleep in 2010:
We do every song in one day... and one day consists of about four hours. So there is a real use of how it is recorded. The whole attitude of the album just does that. Not spoiling anyone. Does not have a band that sits for days. "Have you got the guitar part? No, just do it.You have a working hour." They [Collins collaborators] all seem pretty scared but they do it.
In 2009, during the making of Losing Sleep, Lewsley watched Collins gradually regain his musical prowess - Lewsley explained: "The studio is more an instrument for Edwyn." The front cover for this album features a collection of bird pictures that Collins began working on in 2005.
On September 30, 2010 Collins and his band broadcast three live songs from Royal Beacon Hotel in Exmouth for BBC Radio 2's "Radcliffe and Maconie Show". (Stuart Maconie is a former music journalist and his first article NME is a review of Collins's 1987 show at Manchester International.)
On July 30, 2011 Collins performed at the Indietracks festival held at Midland Railway, Butterley, England. During Kendal Calling 2012, Collins sings "A Girl Like You", with Roddy Frame on guitar and Tim Burgess on backing vocals.
Collins's eighth solo album, Understated , was released in March 2013 on his AED Records label and was very well received, with God Is in the TV stating:
Understandable is more than a step for recovery, it is a good record in itself, and truly life-affirming. It may also be a major proof of the healing power of music. He lost the ability to read, write, and lose movement in half his body, but what he did not lose was his talent for coming up with an interesting tone, as evidenced here. It will make you smile, maybe even make you cry, and this is an album that reminds you how good life is.
A documentary about Collins entitled The Possible Are Endless, directed by James Hall and Edward Lovelace, was released in November 2014.
Collaboration with Roddy Frame
Roddy Frame, the frontman of the new wave group Aztec Camera, has maintained a long-term friendship with Collins, ever since they both signed with Postcard Records in the 1980s. Collins and Frame collaborated on the album Aztec Camera Stray , including live performances of the song "Consolation Prize".
Frame was done with Collins in November 2007 during Collins's first concert after his recovery from a serious illness, and the couple played again at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2008, at Stage Park, and at Purcell Rooms in London, England, in September 2008.
Frame's fourth solo album, Seven Dials , was released in 2014 on record label AED Collins. Frame explained, following the album's release, that he was inspired to make an album with a full band after his positive experience playing with Collins in 2007 and 2008.
Production works
Collins also worked extensively as a record producer with other artists, including Terrorvision, Vic Godard, Robert Forster, The Cribs, Little Barrie, and Hooton Tennis Club.
In 1999, Collins was invited by the Space band to produce what would be their third album Love You More of Football , which was finally canceled. However he is credited as a producer on several B-side, and he gives a short vocalist to the song "Thank You", where he makes reference to "Falling and Laughing".
In 2005 Collins produced the album Cribs The New Fellas and co-produced the album Clarietta , by Charlie Boyer and Voyeurs, with Lewsley. He also co-produced the debut album The Rails Fair Warning , released on Island Records in 2014.
Collins also produced The Official Body , the third album by British post-punk band Shopping, which was released on January 19, 2018.
More projects
In addition to his musical career, Collins also produced and starred in the television show Channel 4 West Heath Yard . Collins released his first illustrated book, Some British Birds , with Morel Books in 2009. Liberty of London prints his bird illustrations on cloth as part of a series of fabrics made in collaboration with musicians; the mold is called Ornithology.
Awards and honor
In May 2009 Collins won the Inspiration of the Ivors Award in recognition of his struggle after the 2005 brain hemorrhage.
In 2010 he received his honorary master's degree from the New University of Buckinghamshire, in recognition of his "strong influence and contribution to the national and international music industry over the last three decades."
On August 21, 2010 Collins attended Helmsdale Highland Games as chief, an honor previously awarded to his grandfather.
Personal life
Collins is married to Grace Maxwell, who is also his manager. The couple lives in Helmsdale and have one son, William.
Solo discography
Albums
- Hope and Despair - Satan, 1989
- Hellbent on Compromise - Diablo, 1990
- George Beautiful - Setanta, 1994, United Kingdom No. 8, US No. 183
- I'm Not Following You - Epic, 1997, UK No. 55
- Doctor Syntax - Setanta, 2002
- Casual Introduction 1981/2001 - Setanta, 2002 (Orange Juice collection and solo work)
- Home Again - Heavenly Record, 2007, UK No. 90
- Sleep Loss - Heavenly Record, 2010, UK No. 54
- Understood - AED Records, 2013, UK No. 66
Singles
See also
- List of Scottish musicians
- A surprising list of 1990s in the United States
- List number one in Australia during the 1990s
- Empire Records
References
External links
- Official website
- BBC Edwyn Collins musical biography
- Detailed biography
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