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Paul Vincent Collins (born 1956, New York City) is an American writer, author, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his work in the power pop groups The Nerves, The Breakaways and The Beat. ==Biography== Paul Collins has released several solo projects with his alternative country group The Paul Collins Band, who play Americana music inspired by country rock and folk rock. Collins also continues to tour with his The Beat, an ever changing lineup rock group which combines power pop with Alternative rock and punk rock. Paul Collins began his career as the drummer (and sometime singer & songwriter) in an influential Los Angeles power pop trio The Nerves, alongside Jack Lee and future Plimsouls frontman Peter Case. The band are best remembered for "Hanging on the Telephone", a song later made famous by Blondie. Hanging on the Telephone was written by Jack Lee. After Jack Lee left the Nerves, Paul Collins and Peter Case continued practicing and recording with a variety of guitarists as the Breakaways; their best known song is "Walking out on Love", a song frequently performed by the Nerves in concert but never recorded by them. Tapes of their sessions surfaced in the late 2000s and were released on a compilation album in 2009. Next, Paul Collins formed his own group as singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter for The Beat, sometimes called The Paul Collins Beat to avoid confusion with the British ska group also called The Beat (or The English Beat in the US). The Beat also known as The English Beat, were sued by Sony/Columbia in 1979. The same year, Sony/Columbia released Paul Collins' self-titled debut in 1979. Renamed the Paul Collins' Beat in the early 1980s, the band became icons in the genre of indie rock Paul Collins' Beat were in a constant state of touring and recording around the world. They appeared on Dick Clark's ''American Bandstand'' and contributed a song to the ''Caddyshack'' soundtrack, alongside Journey and Kenny Loggins. The band broke up in 1989, following the release of their sixth album, ''One Night''. Paul Collins continues to perform to this day with ever changing versions of Paul Collins' Beat, in addition to his solo project, country-rock band called the Paul Collins Band. Since the early 1980s, Collins has been living on and off in Spain, where he has a particularly strong following, and spends most of his time performing in Europe and Japan, although he still holds citizenship in the United States. In fact, his two former wives are from Spain. During this time, he produced several Spanish pop bands, including La Granja, Los Limones and Los Protones. In 2005, Collins released his first solo album of the decade, ''Flying High''. The music received strong reviews and is reminiscent of the catchy power pop of The Beat, particularly in the opening song, ''Rock and Roll Shoes''. Additionally, ''Flying High'' showcases Paul Collins' alt-country, roots-rock and Americana styles, with the singles ''Will You Be A Woman'' and ''Afton Place'', which were released worldwide as music videos. During March 2008, Paul Collins released ''Ribbon of Gold'' as the follow-up to 2005's critically acclaimed ''Flying High''. This album contains several songs the band performs live in concert, including ''Falling in Love With Her'', ''I Still Want You'', ''Big Pop Song'' and ''She Doesn't Want To Hang Around With You''. In 2009, Paul Collins released a fictional autobiography, entitled ''Mi madre, mi mentor y yo'', in addition to writing a humour filled fictional autobiography ''8 Million Stories: Pete The Fly''. Copies of which seem nearly impossible to find.Paul Collins' Beat next release will be a split 7" with the Italian powerpop band Radio Days. The split will be released by the Italian label Surfin Ki Records in March 2010, followed by a full-length album released by Alive Naturalsound in Fall 2010. In 2012 Paul Collins recorded a version of "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" for a fund raising cd titled "Super Hits of the Seventies" for radio station WFMU. 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「Paul Collins (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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