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Martin Gordon began his career in the Seventies as bass player with Californian art band Sparks, who found success in the UK with hits ‘This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us' and ‘Amateur Hour' from their 1974 album ‘Kimono My House'. Following his dismissal for reading the newspaper while rehearsing, he moved swiftly on and formed Jet, described by All Music Guide as ‘the first supergroup of glam'.
Jet featured Gordon, singer Andy Ellison and drummer Chris Townson from legendary proto-punks John's Children. They released a solitary album (working with Queen- and Foreigner-producer Roy Thomas Baker) and dissolved in a welter of ill-feeling and lack of interest. In recent years, the re-released album has established Jet as the 'missing link between glam and punk rock'.
Jet became Radio Stars, who achieved success with two albums ('Songs for Swinging Lovers' and ‘Holiday Album'). Gordon later moved to Paris to work as house producer for Barclay Records and played bass with the Rolling Stones, also in Paris at the time.
He returned to the UK in the early 80s; after forming the short-lived Blue Meanies, he began working as keyboard player/producer with George Michael, Boy George, Blur, Primal Scream, Kylie Minogue, S'Express, the Tiger Lillies and others.
In the nineties, he worked in Bombay with Hindi film singer Asha Bhosle, in Istanbul with Turkish diva Sezen Aksu and became a sought-after location recordist, working in Pakistan, Morocco, Egypt, Ghana, the Gambia and Bali. Simultaneously, he helped out some old pals in a 20th century revisitation of John's Children.
Following his return to pop territory in 2003 with the release of his first solo CD ‘The Baboon in the Basement', he has never looked back, although he will not say why. Gordon, irritatingly described in 2009 by Classic Rock magazine as being 'like Brian Eno fronting 10cc at a cleverness convention, released 'Include Me Out', the sixth and final part of the Mammal Trilogy, in April 2013.
Jet featured Gordon, singer Andy Ellison and drummer Chris Townson from legendary proto-punks John's Children. They released a solitary album (working with Queen- and Foreigner-producer Roy Thomas Baker) and dissolved in a welter of ill-feeling and lack of interest. In recent years, the re-released album has established Jet as the 'missing link between glam and punk rock'.
Jet became Radio Stars, who achieved success with two albums ('Songs for Swinging Lovers' and ‘Holiday Album'). Gordon later moved to Paris to work as house producer for Barclay Records and played bass with the Rolling Stones, also in Paris at the time.
He returned to the UK in the early 80s; after forming the short-lived Blue Meanies, he began working as keyboard player/producer with George Michael, Boy George, Blur, Primal Scream, Kylie Minogue, S'Express, the Tiger Lillies and others.
In the nineties, he worked in Bombay with Hindi film singer Asha Bhosle, in Istanbul with Turkish diva Sezen Aksu and became a sought-after location recordist, working in Pakistan, Morocco, Egypt, Ghana, the Gambia and Bali. Simultaneously, he helped out some old pals in a 20th century revisitation of John's Children.
Following his return to pop territory in 2003 with the release of his first solo CD ‘The Baboon in the Basement', he has never looked back, although he will not say why. Gordon, irritatingly described in 2009 by Classic Rock magazine as being 'like Brian Eno fronting 10cc at a cleverness convention, released 'Include Me Out', the sixth and final part of the Mammal Trilogy, in April 2013.
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11.5.2014