| 词条 | Mike Leander |
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| image = | alt = | caption = | image_size = | background = non_performing_personnel | birth_name = Michael George Farr | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1941|06|30}}[1] | birth_place = Walthamstow (then Essex, now East London), England[2] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1996|04|18|1941|06|30}}[1] | death_place = London, England | genre = {{hlist|Pop|rock|glam rock}} | occupation = {{hlist|Arranger|record producer|songwriter}} | years_active = 1963–1996 | label = {{hlist|Bell|Decca|Atlantic|MCA}} | associated_acts = {{hlist|Marianne Faithfull|The Rolling Stones|David McWilliams|Billy Fury|Marc Bolan|Joe Cocker|Small Faces|Van Morrison|Alan Price|Peter Frampton|Keith Richards|Shirley Bassey|Gary Glitter|Andrew Lloyd Webber|Tim Rice|Lulu|Jimmy Page|Roy Orbison|Brian Jones|Gene Pitney}} | website = }}Michael George Farr[3] (30 June 1941 – 18 April 1996), known professionally as Mike Leander, was an English arranger, songwriter and record producer.[1] He worked variously with The Beatles, David McWilliams ("Days of Pearly Spencer"), Gary Glitter, the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Andrew Loog Oldham, Joe Cocker, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, Small Faces, Van Morrison, Alan Price, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Jimmy Page, Roy Orbison, Ben E. King, the Drifters, and Gene Pitney. Leander also wrote the score for the films, Privilege and Run a Crooked Mile.[1] Early lifeBorn in Walthamstow, East London, Leander won a scholarship to Bancroft's School in Woodford Green, Essex where he was educated from 1952 until 1959. CareerMike Leander started his career as an arranger with Decca Records in 1963 and Bell Records in 1972 and worked with such musicians as Marianne Faithfull, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, Joe Cocker, the Small Faces, Van Morrison, Alan Price, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Jimmy Page, Roy Orbison, Brian Jones and Gene Pitney. He is perhaps best known as co-writer and producer for Gary Glitter throughout the 1970s. Mike Leander worked as a producer and arranger with Ben E. King and the Drifters on the Atlantic record label. He later was requested by Paul McCartney to arrange the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" from the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, as the Beatles’ staple producer and arranger, George Martin was unavailable at the time. Leander thus became the only orchestral arranger other than Martin to work on the recording of a Beatles basic track.[4] He was executive producer of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice concept album Jesus Christ Superstar and in the late 1960s wrote scores for several films, including Privilege[1] with Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton, Run a Crooked Mile[1] with Mary Tyler Moore and Louis Jourdan and The Adding Machine with Billie Whitelaw and Milo O'Shea. Leander first worked with singer "Paul Raven" (born Paul Francis Gadd) in the 1960s and produced various singles for him on MCA Records (now Universal Music Group) and this led to Raven's part on Jesus Christ Superstar. "Raven" later became Gary Glitter and the two began an on/off working relationship that would last until Leander's death. The partnership produced a string of glam rock hits, many of which Leander co-wrote with Glitter, beginning in 1972 with "Rock and Roll, Parts 1 and 2", which reached No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart,[5] No. 1 in France and also the top 10 in many other countries including the US. This was followed by 11 more Top 10 UK singles, including three UK chart-toppers, "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" (1973), "I Love You Love Me Love" (1973) and "Always Yours" (1974).[5] In the 1980s he wrote the musical Matador, which gave Tom Jones a hit album and single, A Boy from Nowhere. Personal lifeHe married Penny in 1974 and they went on to have two children. They remained together until his death from cancer in 1996.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web|author=Doc Rock |url=http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/1996.html |title=The Dead Rock Stars Club 1996 – 1997 |publisher=Thedeadrockstarsclub.com |accessdate=23 December 2012}} 2. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mike-leander-1345603.html|title=Obituary: Mike Leander|author=Edward Seago|publisher=Independent.co.uk|date=4 May 1996|accessdate=7 December 2011}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&mode=results&searchstr=3886500&search_in=c&search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=20&start=1|title=Works written by: FARR MICHAEL GEORGE|work=ACE Title Search|publisher=American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|accessdate=23 November 2008}} 4. ^Phil Spector produced the album "Let It Be", so Leander's work on "She's Leaving Home" doesn't represent the only other arranger than George Martin to have worked on a Beatles recording.{{cite book|last= Martin|first= George|authorlink= George Martin|author2=Pearson, William|title= Summer of Love: The Making of Sgt Pepper|origyear= 1994|year= 1995|publisher= Pan Books|isbn= 0-330-34210-X|pages= 133–134|chapter= Chapter Sixteen. 17 March 1967: Fun is the one thing that money can't buy...|quote= Because Paul wanted to have a string section...}} 5. ^1 {{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006| title= British Hit Singles & Albums| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London| isbn= 1-904994-10-5| pages= 228/9}} External links
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