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Nick Laird-Clowes (born 5 February 1957, in London, England) [citation needed] is an English musician and composer, best known as the singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter for The Dream Academy. Life and career
Mar 15, 2024 · It's been almost four decades since The Dream Academy appeared, seemingly from nowhere, with the classic 80s hit 'Life In A Northern Town', a track that.
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Feb 21, 2024 · P astoral art-pop band The Dream Academy – singer / guitarist and songwriter, Nick Laird-Clowes, multi-instrumentalist Kate St. John, and keyboardist / songwriter, Gilbert Gabriel – had a hit on both sides of the Atlantic with their haunting and ethereal 1985 debut single, ‘Life In A Northern Town.’. This month, the complete recordings ...
The Dream Academy was a British band consisting of singer/guitarist [3] and primary songwriter [4] Nick Laird-Clowes, multi-instrumentalist Kate St John, and keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel. [5] The band is most noted for their 1985 hit record , " Life in a Northern Town ".
We shot one at an abandoned CBGBs for the song “This World,” which was never a single, and that was in black and white, it was hard hitting, and it was just what we wanted: a sort of Velvet Underground meets the pastoral Dream Academy vibe.
May 13, 2022 · The song to which she’s referring is Life In A Northern Town, while ‘Nick’ is Nick Laird-Clowes, who formed Dream Academy with multi-instrumentalist St John and keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel. Laird-Clowes, who wrote Northern Town, confirms that the song was not about Nick Drake, as some suppose but merely dedicated to his memory.
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Five Good Covers presents five cross-genre reinterpretations of an oft-covered song. Nick Laird-Clowes had become friends with Paul Simon. One day he played Simon a chorus that had yet to find verses or a bridge; Simon told him that if he could build a song around it, he’d have a hit.
