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Peter L. Asher CBE (born 22 June 1944) is a British guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop music vocal duo Peter and Gordon, before going on to a successful career as a manager and record producer. ==Early life== Asher was born at the Central Middlesex Hospital. When he was eight years old, he began working as a child actor, and appeared in the film ''The Planter's Wife'', and the stage play ''Isn't Life Wonderful''. At the age of ten, Peter played the appealing central juvenile part in the 1954 film version of ''Isn't Life Wonderful'', along with stars Cecil Parker and Donald Wolfitt. He also appeared in the ITV series, ''The Adventures of Robin Hood''. He is a member of Mensa.〔(It's so easy for music impresario Peter Asher )〕 While attending the independent Westminster School as a day boy, he first met fellow pupil Gordon Waller (1945–2009), and they began playing and singing together as a duo in coffee bars. In 1962, they began working formally as Peter and Gordon. Their first (and biggest) hit was the 1964 Paul McCartney song "A World Without Love." Asher later read philosophy at King's College London.〔''The Times'', obituary of Gordon Waller, 23 July 2009.〕 Asher is the son of Dr Richard Asher and Margaret Eliot, and the older brother of actress and businesswoman, Jane Asher, and radio actress, Clare Asher. Jane Asher was, in the mid-1960s, the girlfriend of Paul McCartney. Through this connection, Asher and Waller were often given unrecorded Lennon-McCartney songs to perform. In 1965, he was best man when singer Marianne Faithfull married John Dunbar in Cambridge. After Peter and Gordon disbanded in 1968, Asher took charge of the A&R department at the Beatles' Apple Records label, where he signed a then-unknown James Taylor and agreed to produce the singer-songwriter's debut solo album. The album was not a success, but Asher was so convinced that Taylor held great potential that he resigned his post at Apple to move to the United States and work as Taylor's manager. Asher produced Paul Jones' rendition of the Bee Gees' "And the Sun Will Shine" which was released as a single (only in the UK).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paul Jones - And The Sun Will Shine - The Dog Presides )〕 He also produced a number of Taylor's recordings from 1970 to 1985, including ''Sweet Baby James, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, JT'' and ''Flag''. In 1969, Asher was asked by George Harrison to look up an American band called Raven while he was in New York City (''The Longest Cocktail Party'', p. 119). He offered Raven an Apple Records recording contract in the kitchen of Steve Paul's Scene but the group turned it down and instead signed with Columbia Records.〔''Once Life Matters: A New Beginning'' pp. 62–65, author Marty Angelo.〕 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「Peter Asher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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