Joe Leeway, the Glossary
Joseph Martin Leeway (born 15 November 1955) is a British musician and songwriter, who is best known as being a member of the pop band Thompson Twins, joining the band in 1981 after being one of their roadies.[1]
Table of Contents
35 relations: A Product Of... (Participation), Alannah Currie, Arista Records, Bongo drum, Cardiff, Conga, Dance music, Dartford, Demo (music), Here's to Future Days, Hypnotherapy, Into the Gap, Islington, James Ivory, Kent, Los Angeles, Manchester, Neuro-linguistic programming, New wave music, Nike, Inc., Pepsi, Pop music, Quick Step & Side Kick, Recording contract, Road crew, Rock music, Set (Thompson Twins album), Slaves of New York, Sound design, Synth-pop, Tarzana, Los Angeles, Television advertisement, Thompson Twins, Tom Bailey (musician), Young Vic.
- British expatriate musicians in the United States
- British percussionists
- Musicians from the London Borough of Islington
- Thompson Twins members
A Product Of... (Participation)
A Product of... (sometimes known as A Product of... Participation) is the first studio album by the English pop group the Thompson Twins.
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Alannah Currie
Alannah Joy Currie (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand artist based in London. Joe Leeway and Alannah Currie are British percussionists, British synth-pop new wave musicians and Thompson Twins members.
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Arista Records
Arista Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Bongo drum
Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes.
Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales.
Conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.
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Dartford
Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England.
Demo (music)
A demo (shortened from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs typically recorded for limited circulation or for reference use, rather than for general public release.
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Here's to Future Days
Here's to Future Days is the fifth studio album by the British pop group Thompson Twins, released on 20 September 1985 by Arista Records.
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Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy, also known as hypnotic medicine, is the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy.
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Into the Gap
Into the Gap is the fourth studio album by British pop group Thompson Twins, released on 17 February 1984 by Arista Records.
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Islington
Islington is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.
James Ivory
James Francis Ivory born Richard Jerome Hazen June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Ivory, along with Indian film producer Ismail Merchant, his domestic as well as professional partner, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, were the principals in Merchant Ivory Productions.
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Kent
Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.
Neuro-linguistic programming
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development and psychotherapy, that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder's 1975 book The Structure of Magic I. NLP asserts that there is a connection between neurological processes, language and acquired behavioral patterns, and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life.
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New wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.
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Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. (stylized as NIKE) is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, United States.
Pepsi
Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor, manufactured by PepsiCo.
Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Quick Step & Side Kick
Quick Step & Side Kick is the third studio album by the British new wave group Thompson Twins.
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Recording contract
A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording act (artist or group), where the act makes an audio recording (or series of recordings) for the label to sell and promote.
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Road crew
The road crew (also known as roadies) are the support personnel who travel with an artist or band on tour, usually in sleeper buses, and handle every part of the concert productions except actually performing the music with the musicians.
Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Set (Thompson Twins album)
Set is the second studio album by English pop band Thompson Twins.
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Slaves of New York
Slaves of New York is a 1989 American comedy-drama Merchant Ivory Productions film.
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Sound design
Sound design is the art and practice of creating soundtracks for a variety of needs.
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Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.
Tarzana, Los Angeles
Tarzana is a suburban neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.
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Television advertisement
A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.
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Thompson Twins
Thompson Twins were a British pop band, formed in 1977 in Sheffield.
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Tom Bailey (musician)
Thomas Alexander Bailey (born 18 January 1954) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, composer and record producer. Joe Leeway and Tom Bailey (musician) are British male bass guitarists, British synth-pop new wave musicians, English new wave musicians and Thompson Twins members.
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Young Vic
The Young Vic Theatre is a performing arts venue located on The Cut, near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth.
See also
British expatriate musicians in the United States
- Al Stewart
- Alex Gaskarth
- Alexi Murdoch
- Allan Holdsworth
- Andy Fraser
- Barry Gibb
- Billy Idol
- Calvin Harris
- Carol Williams (organist)
- Clive Lythgoe
- DB Burkeman
- Daisy Jopling
- David Newton (guitarist)
- Don Snow
- Fritz McIntyre
- Imogen Heap
- Jack Good (producer)
- Jamie N. Commons
- Joe Leeway
- John Ford (musician)
- John McVie
- John Waite
- Kid Chaos
- Lemmy
- Mams Taylor
- Maurice Gibb
- Mick Fleetwood
- Robin Gibb
- Rod Stewart
- Ryan Jarman
- Seal (musician)
- Tennessee Thomas
- Vivien Goldman
- Walter Susskind
British percussionists
- Alannah Currie
- Carl Palmer
- Colin Sharp
- Craig McClune
- Dave Danford
- Dave Oberlé
- David Arnold (conductor)
- Eddie Prévost
- Eugene Skeef
- Evelyn Glennie
- Frank Holder (musician)
- Frank Ricotti
- Gary Wallis
- Ged Lynch
- Geraint Watkins
- Jamie Cullum
- Jody Linscott
- Joe Leeway
- Kevin Godley
- Marion Coutts
- Martin Ash
- Mo Kolours
- Neil Conti
- Paul Campbell (entrepreneur)
- Paul Clarvis
- Pete Lockett
- Peter Ulrich
- Ravi Apnabeat
- Ray Cooper
- Simon Cheffins
- Snowboy
- Steve Smith (British musician)
- Sudha Kheterpal
- Terl Bryant
- Terri Quaye
- Tim Quy
- Trefor Goronwy
- Tristan Fry
- Victor Feldman
Musicians from the London Borough of Islington
- Alan Murphy
- Andy J. Davies
- Andy Pask
- Ayanna Witter-Johnson
- Brian Glascock
- Cora Cardigan
- Crispin Gray
- Ellie Rowsell
- Geoff Bradford (musician)
- George Martin
- Hugh Cornwell
- J. E. Goodson
- Jakko Jakszyk
- Joe Copcutt
- Joe Gooch
- Joe Leeway
- Jonny Buckland
- Joseph Ebsworth
- Margery Moore
- Mark Bedford
- Patrick Walden
- Paul Bevoir
- Paul Riley (musician)
- Ray Russell (musician)
- Richard Wilson (sculptor)