Alan Silson biography

British musician and author of songs, guitarist, one of the founders and the permanent member of the Smokie group in years. The author of the hit "What Can i Do". At the age of 11, he met Chris Norman, a little later - with Terry Vehli. Future musicians studied together at St. Two days after this meeting, Chris Norman joined them for rehearsals, but, not finding a suitable bassist, they simply rehearsed the next year.

At the beginning of the year, Smokie came to the group by a bass player Terry Terry Terry and the group gave its first concert at the school in February. The group was renamed The Sphynx, and later in Essence. Essence was touring in small clubs in Bradford and surrounding communities. In November, the group changed the name to The Four Corners. In April, the group found the manager of Mark Jordan, who advised them to rename the group in The Elizabethans.

Now the group has become more professional, and the participants received a higher payment. In June, Terry Terry Terry temporarily left the group to continue his studies, he was temporarily replaced by Arthur Higgins, and in June, Terry returned to the group. Inspired by this successful performance, Jordan asked them to record his first demo recording. Copies were sold, but other tracks were not released, and RCA Records terminated the contract.

This composition performed on an excursion boat in Frankfurt, Germany. The then manager Bill Herli introduced the group to the composers Nikki Chinnu and Mike Chepmen, who were writing songs for the Glam rock groups Sweet, MUD, and also worked with Suzi Quatro. Initially, Chinn and Chepmen refused, but Herli ultimately convinced the producers to give a young group a chance. Herli, Chinn and Chematin began to work with the image of the group and offered to change the names on Smokey.

An attempt to put a group in leather jackets was a failure, and the four stopped on a jeans image. At the end of the year, Smokey began to record their debut album Pass It Around, which was released on February 14. The title song of the album was released by a single, but the single had no success in the charts.

In April of the same year, Smokey went on a tour. In the end, they took the final name Smokie. The album failed in the charts, and it became clear that the participants could not recreate their success using their own material. Shortly after the release of Strangers in Paradise, work began on two albums, one of which was released as an album called Smokie Midnight Delight, and the other Krisa Norman’s solo album is Rock Away Your Teardrops.

However, that the album is Smokie, that the solip Norman was poorly sold. Although the group reunited in the year, but after the success of the solo album of Norman Some Hearts Are Diamonds, he came to the decision to finally leave the group. He was replaced by Alan Barton, the former vocalist of Black Lace. Barton had a vocal style, similar to Norman's style.

The keyboard player Martin Bullard and the new drummer Steve Pinnell were also invited. The new composition was released by the All Fird Up album in the year, which attracted some attention and contained a new version of Rock Away Your Tear Drops, a song that was a title track for Norman's debut album. On Sunday, on Sunday, March 19, Smokie returned with a tour in Germany and sent to Dusseldorf Airport, when the group’s touring bus fell under storm rain and flew out of the road.

Alan Silson and Terri Ottley received severe cuts and bruises, Alan Barton received critical injuries and died after five days in intensive care. The remaining participants decided to continue and found the new vocalist Mike Kraft, the group released the new album of The World and Elsewhere in the same year, called Light A Candle - The Christmas Album. Mick McConnell, a guitar technician, replaced it as a solo guitarist of the group.

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