|
Richard Tandy (born 26 March 1948, Birmingham, England), is an English musician, best known as the keyboardist in the rock band Electric Light Orchestra ("ELO"). His palette of keyboards (including Mini Moog, clavinet, mellotron, and piano) was an important ingredient in the group's sound, notably on the albums ''A New World Record'', ''Out of the Blue'', ''Discovery'', and ''Time''. ==Life and career== Tandy was born on 26 March 1948 in Birmingham and educated at Moseley School, where he first met future bandmate Bev Bevan.〔http://theelonetwork.weebly.com/richard-tandy-interview---april-1999.html〕 Tandy would later be reunited with Bevan in 1968 when he played the harpsichord on The Move's number one chart-topper "Blackberry Way" and briefly joined them live playing keyboards, but switched to bass while regular bassist Trevor Burton was sidelined due to a shoulder injury. When Burton was able to play again, Tandy left to join The Uglys. In 1972, Tandy served as the bassist in the first live line-up of Electric Light Orchestra (originally a side project of The Move), before becoming the band's full-time keyboardist. He has collaborated musically with ELO frontman Jeff Lynne on many projects, among them songs for the ''Electric Dreams'' soundtrack, Lynne's solo album ''Armchair Theatre'' and Lynne-produced Dave Edmunds album ''Information''. Tandy's keyboards would be an integral part of ELO's sound, including piano, Minimoog, clavinet, Oberheim, Wurlitzer electric piano, Mellotron, Yamaha CS80, ARP 2600, and harmonium. He was also proficient on guitar. On some albums, he is credited with backing vocals, but it is not clear which songs he sings on. Tandy was Jeff Lynne's right-hand man in the studio and co-arranged the strings with Lynne and Louis Clark from ''Eldorado'' onwards. In 1985 Tandy formed the Tandy Morgan Band featuring Dave Morgan and Martin Smith, both of whom had worked with ELO in live concerts. In 1985, the Tandy Morgan Band released the concept album ''Earthrise''. A remastered version was released on CD on the Rock Legacy label in 2011. A follow-up to ''Earthrise'' with previously unpublished tracks was released as ''The BC Collection'', containing one track written by Tandy: "Enola Sad". Tandy is featured on every ELO album except 2015's ''Alone in the Universe'', on which all of the instruments were played by Lynne. He was also credited as co-arranger from ''Eldorado'' onwards. Some of the ideas for the ELO album titles conceived by Richard Tandy were ''A New World Record'', ''Out of the Blue'', and ''Discovery''. In 2012, Tandy teamed up again with Lynne to record another ELO project, a live set of the band's biggest hits recorded at Lynne's Bungalow Palace home recording studio, which was broadcast on TV.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FULL PERFORMANCE: Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy reunite for Evil Woman )〕 In 2013, Tandy joined Lynne in performing two songs for Children In Need Rocks, "Livin' Thing" and "Mr Blue Sky". He was also part of ELO's set on Radio 2's Festival In A Day in September 2014. 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「Richard Tandy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|