Glenn Gregory Explained

Background:solo_singer
Birth Name:Glenn Peter Gregory
Birth Date:16 May 1958
Origin:Sheffield, England
Years Active:1979–present

Glenn Peter Gregory (born 16 May 1958) is a British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and lead singer of the new wave and synthpop band Heaven 17, which released several UK chart hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including “Temptation”, “Let Me Go”, “Come Live with Me”, “Crushed by the Wheels of Industry”, “Sunset Now”, “This Is Mine”, and “(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang

Early years

Glenn Peter Gregory was born on 16 May 1958 in Sheffield, England. His father, Howard, was a steel worker. As a teenager, he wanted to be an actor, but he worked in London as a photographer.

Music career

In 1977, Gregory was part of the band 57 Men, formed by Jack Hues and Nick Feldman, who both later formed the band Wang Chung.[1]

Gregory knew the founding members of the Human League for many years. He had been singing and playing bass guitar in bands with Ian Craig Marsh since 1973. In early 1981, he was contacted by Martyn Ware after the original incarnation of the Human League broke up, and was asked to join Heaven 17, a new band resulting from the break-up.[2]

The band Heaven 17 included the trio of Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh, and Gregory as lead singer. The band released eight studio albums, and had many hits in the UK. However, by the late 1980s their popularity had declined. The band broke up in 1988, but reunited in 1996, and played their first ever live concert in 1997. Marsh left the band in 2007, but Ware and Gregory continued to perform as Heaven 17.

In 1984, Gregory contributed to the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", singing the line "No rain nor rivers flow".

Outside Heaven 17, Gregory has been a member of the bands Ugly and Honeyroot, as well as working with ABC, Tina Turner, Grace Jones, Propaganda, Terence Trent D'Arby, Ultravox, La Roux and John Lydon.[2] He was a member of the "supergroup" Holy Holy.[3] He has also established a career in soundtrack music, writing for radio, TV and film. He creates scores in a private studio built at the bottom of his garden.

Personal life

In 1983, Gregory married singer Sarah Osborne of the Belgian pop group Allez Allez, but the two divorced after about three years. Gregory then married his second wife Lindsay who works for a design company. The couple have a son, Louis.[4] [5]

Discography

Heaven 17

See main article: Heaven 17 discography.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: An EXCLUSIVE Interview With WANG CHUNG's Jack Hues!. Discussions Magazine. 29 October 2018. 27 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190427184944/http://www.discussionsmagazine.com/2013/08/an-exclusive-interview-with-wang-chungs.html. live.
  2. Web site: Glenn Gregory interview. BBC South Yorkshire. 13 November 2008. 3 January 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090103021126/http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2005/06/07/glenn_gregory_interview.shtml. live.
  3. Web site: Tony Visconti – David Bowie and Holy Holy. 2019-02-05. The Strange Brew. 2023-11-24. 14 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201014080010/https://thestrangebrew.co.uk/articles/tony-visconti/. live.
  4. https://www.chaoscontrol.com/glenn-gregory-afterhere-interview/ Gourley, Bob (2018). "Glenn Gregory interviewed about Afterhere, his new collaboration working with Berenice Scott." Chaos Control Digizine (27 September 2018).
  5. https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1015292/Glenn-Gregory-5-things-I-cant-live-without Benyon, Lucy (2018). "Glenn Gregory: 5 things I can't live without." Express 10 September 2018.