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Graham Hamilton Lyle (born 11 March 1944, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Grammy Award winning Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer, who has been active in the music industry since the mid-1960s.〔() 〕 Arguably Scotland’s most successful songwriter, he co-wrote 17 British Top 40 hits, 8 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 entries, 4 US Country No.1s and 1 US Adult Contemporary No.1, as well as 3 Australian chart-toppers, between 1970 and 1997. His songwriting collaborators have included Terry Britten, Albert Hammond, Troy Seals, Jim Diamond and his long-time performing partner, Benny Gallagher.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC Radio Scotland - Musical Legends, Graham Lyle )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Goodsingle - License music the easy way )〕 His most famous composition is Tina Turner’s 1984 US chart-topper and international smash, "What's Love Got to Do with It?", which reached No.1 in the US, Canada and Australia and won him the Song of the Year Grammy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=International Tina Turner Fan Club - Archives )〕 He is also well known in Britain, Continental Europe and the Commonwealth as a member of Gallagher and Lyle, McGuinness Flint and Ronnie Lane’s band Slim Chance.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gallagher & Lyle Biography - ARTISTdirect Music )〕 ==With Benny Gallagher (1965-80)== Lyle and Benny Gallagher initially teamed up in 1959 as members of the local Largs based band, The Bluefrets, before moving to London in the mid-1960s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gallagher And Lyle – Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and pictures at Last.fm )〕 A rare one-off single, "Trees", was issued on UK Polydor 56093 in 1967, under the name Gallagher-Lyle. The pair also backed singer James Galt, a friend of theirs from Largs, on two singles for Pye that are now prized by northern soul collectors: "Comes The Dawn" and "With My Baby".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Galt Discography - All Countries - 45cat )〕 In 1968, Gallagher and Lyle were signed by Apple Records, where they wrote for musicians such as Mary Hopkin ("Sparrow", "The Fields of St. Etienne", "International", "Heritage", and "Jefferson").〔 In 1970, the two Scots became original members of the British band McGuinness Flint, writing nine of the 11 songs on the group's eponymous debut album, including the British hit singles "When I'm Dead and Gone" and "Malt and Barley Blues", which reached No.2 and No.5 respectively in Britain. The pair recorded a second album, ''Happy Birthday Ruthy Baby'', with McGuinness Flint—again writing most of the songs—before leaving to form the duo Gallagher and Lyle in 1972.〔 "When I'm Dead and Gone" is noted for its prominent use of mandolin, played by Lyle. He is also an accomplished fingerstyle acoustic folk guitarist, electric slide guitarist and banjoist. As a duo, Gallagher and Lyle recorded a total of eight albums: ''Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle'', ''Willie and the Lapdog'', ''Seeds'', ''The Last Cowboy'', ''Breakaway'', ''Love on the Airwaves'', ''Showdown'' and ''Lonesome No More''.〔 All these were issued on A&M except for the last, which was released on Mercury. The most successful of these was 1976’s gold-selling ''Breakaway'', which was produced by David Kershenbaum and yielded the British Top 10 hits “I Wanna Stay With You” and “Heart On My Sleeve”, both of which also charted in the US. “Heart On My Sleeve” was subsequently covered by Bryan Ferry, Judith Durham and Ringo Starr. Two other songs from this album were successful in the US: Art Garfunkel's cover of "Breakaway", topped the Adult Contemporary chart,〔Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001. Record Research. p. 99.〕 and Don Williams took "Stay Young" to No. 1 on the Country record chart,〔Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 31.〕 which saw the song receive in excess of one million airplays on American radio. The duo also penned and performed "A Heart in New York", which was later performed by both Simon & Garfunkel and Garth Brooks in their concerts in Central Park, New York to audiences of 500,000 and 750,000, respectively. The pair’s original recording of "A Heart In New York" eventually appeared on 1991's compilation album ''Heart On My Sleeve - The Very Best of Gallagher and Lyle''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Heart on My Sleeve: The Very Best of Gallagher & Lyle by Gallagher and Lyle (Compilation, Folk Rock): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list - Rate Your Music )〕 As session musicians, Gallagher and Lyle also backed numerous big names on disc, including Eric Clapton, Andy Fairweather-Low, Gary Brooker and Fairport Convention. The pair also had a stint in former Faces member Ronnie Lane’s folk rock band Slim Chance during 1973/74. Gallagher and Lyle split in 1980. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Graham Lyle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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