John Otway (born 2 October 1952 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English singer-songwriter who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring.
Biography
Although his first single, "Gypsy"/"Misty Mountain" was released in 1972, Otway shot to fame on the back of punk rock and a gymnastic performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test. His sixth single, the half-spoken love song "Really Free" reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977. It would be his greatest success for some time and consequently is still easy to track down on the second-hand market. Much scarcer is the picture cover which was only present on a small proportion of the singles. Rarer still, and almost impossible to find, is the advertising sleeve, a die-cut thin paper sleeve printed with an advert for the debut album, snippets of newspaper and magazine reviews and a cut-out "Really Free" body sticker. The song earned him a five album deal with Polydor Records, who viewed him as a punk rather than merely an eccentric. His first album, recorded with Wild Willy Barrett, was produced by Pete Townshend but sold only fitfully. The follow-up singles fared no better despite some imaginative promotion, which included an offer for Otway to come to a buyer's house and perform the 1979 single, "Frightened And Scared", if their copy was one of only three copies from which the vocal had been omitted. Otway's and Barrett's only other UK chart success came in July 1980 with "DK 50-80", a modest No. 45 hit.
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John Otway & Mark Tucker
Mark's birthday party duet
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We Know What She's Doing (She's In Love)
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Theremin school
Former punk rocker and long standing British Cult Pop Star John Otway has been on the music scene for over 30 years. He has toured the US numerous times and has supported global acts such as the Police, U2 along with several other big names in the rock world.
Although HE has a rather unique and perhaps eccentric music style, Otway has filled the Royal Albert Hall and has performed at the London Palladium and the famous Glastonbury Festival. Otway shot to fame on the back of Punk Rock with a hit single ‘Really Free’ in 1977 and has been riding this success and that of another UK hit single ever since.
One of the instruments Otway uses in his act is the Theremin. This instrument is associated with very eerie sounds and has been used in many movie soundtracks. It provided background moo...
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Duet · John Otway
Premature Adulation
℗ 1995 Amazing Feet
Released on: 2007-06-12
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Duet · John Otway
Premature Adulation
℗ 1995 Amazing Feet
Released on: 2007-06-12
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Duet · John Otway
Premature Adulation
℗ 1995 Amazing Feet
Released on: 2007-06-12
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We Know What She's Doing (She's In Love) · John Otway
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℗ 1995 Amazing Feet
Released on: 20...
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We Know What She's Doing (She's In Love) · John Otway
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℗ 1995 Amazing Feet
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We Know What She's Doing (She's In Love) · John Otway
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℗ 1995 Amazing Feet
Released on: 2007-06-12
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Former punk rocker and long standing British Cult Pop Star John Otway has been on the music scene for over 30 years. He has toured the US numerous times and has...
Former punk rocker and long standing British Cult Pop Star John Otway has been on the music scene for over 30 years. He has toured the US numerous times and has supported global acts such as the Police, U2 along with several other big names in the rock world.
Although HE has a rather unique and perhaps eccentric music style, Otway has filled the Royal Albert Hall and has performed at the London Palladium and the famous Glastonbury Festival. Otway shot to fame on the back of Punk Rock with a hit single ‘Really Free’ in 1977 and has been riding this success and that of another UK hit single ever since.
One of the instruments Otway uses in his act is the Theremin. This instrument is associated with very eerie sounds and has been used in many movie soundtracks. It provided background mood music for such sci-fi classics as ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘It Came from Outer Space’ and, thriller soundtracks such as Spellbound. It has also been used in a variety of classic pop records, the most famous being perhaps “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys which in fact used an instrument based on a Theremin.
For the first time ever, Otway has been booked by a school to teach its sixth form music students how to play the Theremin. Otway grew up in Aylesbury and as a student attended the Grange School, where he now returns. The Theremin is almost unique among musical instruments in that it is played without physical contact.
The Theremin was invented in 1919 by a Russian physicist named Lev Termen (in the United States his name was Leon Theremin for which he is best known). The musician stands in front of the instrument and moves their hands or indeed their body in the proximity of two metal antennas. The distance from one antenna determines frequency (pitch), and the distance from the other controls amplitude (volume). Most frequently, the right hand controls the pitch and the left controls the volume, although some performers reverse this arrangement.
Before the lecture begins the students spend a little orientation time learning about this Pop star from an earlier generation then it’s down to business.
Otway says learning to play the instrument is easy and it’s all about hand to ear co-ordination. It only took him five minutes to learn initially although he has perfected his performance over many years as he uses it in various songs during his gigs such as his second hit single ‘Bunson Burner’ (reached No 9 in the UK charts in 2002). This is the first time that Otway has delivered a lecture in front of students and he was a little apprehensive but it soon became apparent that they were having fun.
The students found this unusual instrument a little more challenging than Otway, but found the lecture both enjoyable and engaging.
Former punk rocker and long standing British Cult Pop Star John Otway has been on the music scene for over 30 years. He has toured the US numerous times and has supported global acts such as the Police, U2 along with several other big names in the rock world.
Although HE has a rather unique and perhaps eccentric music style, Otway has filled the Royal Albert Hall and has performed at the London Palladium and the famous Glastonbury Festival. Otway shot to fame on the back of Punk Rock with a hit single ‘Really Free’ in 1977 and has been riding this success and that of another UK hit single ever since.
One of the instruments Otway uses in his act is the Theremin. This instrument is associated with very eerie sounds and has been used in many movie soundtracks. It provided background mood music for such sci-fi classics as ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘It Came from Outer Space’ and, thriller soundtracks such as Spellbound. It has also been used in a variety of classic pop records, the most famous being perhaps “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys which in fact used an instrument based on a Theremin.
For the first time ever, Otway has been booked by a school to teach its sixth form music students how to play the Theremin. Otway grew up in Aylesbury and as a student attended the Grange School, where he now returns. The Theremin is almost unique among musical instruments in that it is played without physical contact.
The Theremin was invented in 1919 by a Russian physicist named Lev Termen (in the United States his name was Leon Theremin for which he is best known). The musician stands in front of the instrument and moves their hands or indeed their body in the proximity of two metal antennas. The distance from one antenna determines frequency (pitch), and the distance from the other controls amplitude (volume). Most frequently, the right hand controls the pitch and the left controls the volume, although some performers reverse this arrangement.
Before the lecture begins the students spend a little orientation time learning about this Pop star from an earlier generation then it’s down to business.
Otway says learning to play the instrument is easy and it’s all about hand to ear co-ordination. It only took him five minutes to learn initially although he has perfected his performance over many years as he uses it in various songs during his gigs such as his second hit single ‘Bunson Burner’ (reached No 9 in the UK charts in 2002). This is the first time that Otway has delivered a lecture in front of students and he was a little apprehensive but it soon became apparent that they were having fun.
The students found this unusual instrument a little more challenging than Otway, but found the lecture both enjoyable and engaging.
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Duet · John Otway
Premature Adulation
℗ 1995 Amazing Feet
Released on: 2007-06-12
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We Know What She's Doing (She's In Love) · John Otway
Premature Adulation
℗ 1995 Amazing Feet
Released on: 2007-06-12
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Former punk rocker and long standing British Cult Pop Star John Otway has been on the music scene for over 30 years. He has toured the US numerous times and has supported global acts such as the Police, U2 along with several other big names in the rock world.
Although HE has a rather unique and perhaps eccentric music style, Otway has filled the Royal Albert Hall and has performed at the London Palladium and the famous Glastonbury Festival. Otway shot to fame on the back of Punk Rock with a hit single ‘Really Free’ in 1977 and has been riding this success and that of another UK hit single ever since.
One of the instruments Otway uses in his act is the Theremin. This instrument is associated with very eerie sounds and has been used in many movie soundtracks. It provided background mood music for such sci-fi classics as ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘It Came from Outer Space’ and, thriller soundtracks such as Spellbound. It has also been used in a variety of classic pop records, the most famous being perhaps “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys which in fact used an instrument based on a Theremin.
For the first time ever, Otway has been booked by a school to teach its sixth form music students how to play the Theremin. Otway grew up in Aylesbury and as a student attended the Grange School, where he now returns. The Theremin is almost unique among musical instruments in that it is played without physical contact.
The Theremin was invented in 1919 by a Russian physicist named Lev Termen (in the United States his name was Leon Theremin for which he is best known). The musician stands in front of the instrument and moves their hands or indeed their body in the proximity of two metal antennas. The distance from one antenna determines frequency (pitch), and the distance from the other controls amplitude (volume). Most frequently, the right hand controls the pitch and the left controls the volume, although some performers reverse this arrangement.
Before the lecture begins the students spend a little orientation time learning about this Pop star from an earlier generation then it’s down to business.
Otway says learning to play the instrument is easy and it’s all about hand to ear co-ordination. It only took him five minutes to learn initially although he has perfected his performance over many years as he uses it in various songs during his gigs such as his second hit single ‘Bunson Burner’ (reached No 9 in the UK charts in 2002). This is the first time that Otway has delivered a lecture in front of students and he was a little apprehensive but it soon became apparent that they were having fun.
The students found this unusual instrument a little more challenging than Otway, but found the lecture both enjoyable and engaging.
John Otway (born 2 October 1952 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English singer-songwriter who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring.
Biography
Although his first single, "Gypsy"/"Misty Mountain" was released in 1972, Otway shot to fame on the back of punk rock and a gymnastic performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test. His sixth single, the half-spoken love song "Really Free" reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977. It would be his greatest success for some time and consequently is still easy to track down on the second-hand market. Much scarcer is the picture cover which was only present on a small proportion of the singles. Rarer still, and almost impossible to find, is the advertising sleeve, a die-cut thin paper sleeve printed with an advert for the debut album, snippets of newspaper and magazine reviews and a cut-out "Really Free" body sticker. The song earned him a five album deal with Polydor Records, who viewed him as a punk rather than merely an eccentric. His first album, recorded with Wild Willy Barrett, was produced by Pete Townshend but sold only fitfully. The follow-up singles fared no better despite some imaginative promotion, which included an offer for Otway to come to a buyer's house and perform the 1979 single, "Frightened And Scared", if their copy was one of only three copies from which the vocal had been omitted. Otway's and Barrett's only other UK chart success came in July 1980 with "DK 50-80", a modest No. 45 hit.
Well I wake up in the morning, Tell me baby what do you see? I see my true love and she walks up and she kisses me, I say "Cor baby that's really free". I go walking down to your house, Tell me baby is it good for me? Your Ma and Pa, they just wanna kick me, I say "Cor baby that's really free". Really free really free, Really really really really free, Kick me. I tried talking to your mama, Oh no, that's not good for me, Every time I go near your baby, You say "Cor baby that's really free". I tried singing in the bathroom, 'til my honey put the heat on me, Every time you move towards my body I say "Cor baby that's really free". Really free really free, Really really really really free, Kick me. So I wake up in the morning, Tell me baby what do you see? I see my true love and she walks up and she kisses me, I say "Cor baby that's really free". I go walking down to your house, Tell me baby that's not good for me? Your Ma and Pa, they just wanna kick me, I say "Cor baby that's really free". Really free really free, Really really really free,