Guy Chambers
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Guy Chambers (born January 12, 1963 in Liverpool) is an English songwriter and record producer best known for his long partnership with Robbie Williams.
Biography
After graduating from the London Guildhall School of Music where he studied composition, his teachers including George Benjamin, Guy went on to tour as a musician with, among others, Julian Cope and The Waterboys before joining World Party in 1986 and co-writing with Karl Wallinger on Bang, the band’s most successful album.In 1993 Guy formed his own band ' The Lemon Trees ' and wrote, produced and performed with them until they disbanded in 1995. Following the end of The Lemon Trees Guy spent time writing successfully with Cathy Dennis, Bryan Adams and others until an opportune meeting with Robbie Williams in January 1997.
Guy collaborated as both songwriter and producer on all five of Williams' No.1 albums, which have globally sold over 37 million. Penning many tracks including "Angels", "Rock DJ", "Feel", "Millennium", and "Let Me Entertain You". For his work with Williams, he won 3 Brits, 3 Ivor Novello awards, a Q classic Songwriter award and an MMF best produced record award for “I’ve been expecting you”.
In recent years Chambers has written and produced material for a number of different artists, Texas, Will Young, Rachel Stevens, Andrea Bocelli as well as working on a number of different film projects such as Bridget Jones's Diary, Finding Nemo and Love Actually soundtracks and a collaboration with Queen on their classic track "We Are The Champions" for the hit movie A Knight's Tale.
He wrote four songs for Kylie Minogue's 2000 album Light Years, including the single "Kids" (a duet with Williams), and the camp classic "Your Disco Needs You".
Guy and American songwriter Kara DioGuardi co-wrote "Shine" for Hilary Duff's self-titled album, which charted at #2 in the Billboard 200 chart and reached over 1 million in sales. Other US album collaborations include Ryan Cabrera's Take It All Away, "2 Become 1" for Jewel's album 0304 which debuted at #2 in the Billboard 200 chart, and Diana Ross for whom Guy produced the track ‘Goin’ back for life and love’: The best of Diana Ross.
"Lemon Love", the debut album from Aslyn was co-produced by Chambers and Eric Valentine.
2004 saw the release of Brian McFadden’s debut solo album “Irish Son” which Guy heavily contributed to. First single “Real to Me” went straight in at #1 in the UK.
Other album releases that year included Natasha Bedingfield’s debut album Unwritten, Delta Goodrem’s second album Mistaken Identity and Beverly Knight's “Affirmation”. Guy and Beverley wrote 4 tracks for the album including the hit single ‘Come As You Are’. Beverley also performed her own accapella version of the Robbie Williams track ‘Angels’ at this year’s Live 8 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh where Guy was Musical Director.
‘Tears And Rain’ was written by James Blunt and Guy Chambers and features on his debut album ‘Back to Bedlam, one of 2005’s most successful albums which to date has sold over a million copies.
The Isis Project, a French language album featuring lyricist Keren Ann and vocalist Sophie Hunter is Guy’s own personal project, written as an eighteenth birthday present for his daughter Isis while she was four at the time. Track ‘L’onde Amere’ also features on Keren Ann’s latest album ‘Nolita’. Released by Sleeper Music 13th June 2005 It is anticipated that EMI Records’/ Angel Music will be re-releasing the album internationally in Jan/Feb 2006.
Charlotte Church's acclaimed new pop album ‘Tissues and Issues’ features 3 co-written tracks “Confessional Song”, “Let’s Be Alone” and ‘Casulty Of Love”.
Most recently Guy has collaborated with Jamie Cullum's latest album ‘Catching Tales’ on two tracks “London Skies” and “Oh God” released on 26th September on UC&J records.
Chambers has been in LA working with legendary band INXS on their latest [[Rock Star: INXS|Rockstar INXS show]], writing and producing tracks with winner J.D Fortune for the new studio album ‘SWITCH’ due for release on 29th December.
The Lemon Trees Discography
Album:
- Open Book (Oxygen Records/MCA - 1993)
- Love Is In Your Eyes (Oxygen Records/MCA - 1992) #75
- The Way I Feel (Oxygen Records/MCA - 1992)#62
- Let It Loose (Oxygen Records/MCA - 1993) #55
- Child Of Love (Oxygen Records/MCA - 1993)#55
- I Can't Face The World (Oxygen Records/MCA - 1993) #52
Writer's Discography
- 30 Gold / Platinum certified albums
- 19 Top 10 singles
- 6 No.1 singles
- 12 No. 1 albums
Albums
Tracks featured on the following albums:
- Laura Michelle Kelly's The Storm Inside (2006)
- Erin Boheme's What Love Is (2006) #17 USA Bilboard Jazz Charts
- Beverley Knight's Voice (2006)
- INXS's Switch (2005) #17 USA Bilboard 200
- Melanie C's Beautiful Intentions (2005 re-release)
- Geri Halliwell's Passion (2005)
- The Isis Project (2005)
- Jamie Cullum's Catching Tales (2005)
- Keren Ann's Nolita (2005)
- Charlotte Church's Tissues and Issues (2005)
- James Blunt's Back To Bedlam (2005)
- Aslyn's Lemon Love (2005)
- Beverley Knight's Affirmation (2004)
- Brian McFadden's Irish Son (2004)
- Natasha Bedingfield's Unwritten (2004)
- Delta Goodrem's Mistaken Identity (2004)
- Hilary Duff's Hilary Duff (2004)
- Andrea Bocelli's Andrea (2004)
- Kylie Minogue's Ultimate Kylie (2004)
- Jessica Simpson's In This Skin (2004)
- Speedway's Save Yourself (2004)
- Busted's A Present For Everyone (2003)
- Texas' Careful What You Wish For (2003)
- Melanie C's Reason (2003)
- Skin's Fleshwounds (2003)
- Jewel's 0304 (2003)
- Rachel Stevens' funkydory (2003)
- Nick Lachey's SoulO (2003)
- Will Young's From Now On (2002)
- BBMak's Into Your Head (2002)
- Diana Ross' Love & Life (2001)
- Kylie Minogue's Light Years (2000)
- Unamerican's Unamerican (2000)
- Tom Jones' Reload (1999)
- The Waterboys' The Live Adventures of the Waterboys (1999)
- World Party's Egyptology (1997) #3 UK, #83 US
- Cathy Dennis's Am I The Kinda Girl? (1996)
- World Party's Bang! (1993)
- World Party's Goodbye Jumbo (1990)
- Robbie Williams' Greatest Hits (2004) #1 UK, 5 x Platinum
- Robbie Williams' Live At Knebworth (2003) #1 UK, 2 x Platinum
- Robbie Williams' Escapology (2002) #1 UK, 6 x Platinum
- Robbie Williams' Swing When You're Winning (2001) #1 UK, 8 x Platinum
- Robbie Williams' Sing When You're Winning (2000) #1 UK, 8 x Platinum
- Robbie Williams' I've Been Expecting You (1998) #1 UK, 10 x Platinum
- Robbie Williams' Life Thru A Lens (1997) #1 UK, 8 x Platinum
Singles
- "Afterglow" by INXS (2006)
- "Together We Are One" by Delta Goodrem (2006)
- "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by t.A.T.u.
- "Pretty Vegas" by INXS (2005) #9 Australia
- "First Day Of My Life" by Melanie C (2005) #1 Germany
- "Come As You Are" by Beverley Knight (2004) #9 UK
- "Real To Me" by Brian McFadden (2004) #1 UK, #1 Ireland, #1 Denmark, #1 Norway, #2 Sweden, #4 Finland, #54 Australia
- "Irish Son" by Brian McFadden (2004) #6 UK
- "Out Of The Blue" by Delta Goodrem (2004) #9 UK, #1 Australia
- "Together We Are One" by Delta Goodrem (2006) #2 Australia
Robbie Williams
- "Sexed Up" (2003)
- "Something Beautiful" (2003) #3 UK
- "Come Undone" (2003)
- "Feel" (2002) #1 UK
- "Something Stupid" (1998)
- "Eternity"/"The Road To Mandalay" (2001) #1 UK
- "Let Love Be Your Energy" (2001) #10 UK
- "Supreme" (2000) #4 UK
- "Kids" (2000) #2 UK
- "Rock DJ" (2000) #1 UK
- "She's The One"/"It's Only Us" (1998)
- "Strong" (1999) #4 UK
- "No Regrets" (1998) #4 UK
- "Millennium" (1998) #1 UK
- "Let Me Entertain You" (1998) #3 UK
- "Angels" (1997) #4 UK
- "South Of The Border" (1997) #10 UK
- "Lazy Days" (1997) #8 UK
- "Old Before I Die" (1997) #2 UK
Films
- Kinky Boots (2005)
- Fantastic Four (2005) "Always Come Back To You" - Ryan Cabrera
- Love Actually (2003) "I'll See It Through" - Texas
- Finding Nemo (2003) "Beyond The Sea" Robbie Williams
- Bridget Jone's Diary (2001) "Have You Met Miss Jones?", "Not Of This Earth" - Robbie Williams
- A Knight's Tale (2001) "We Are The Champions" Robbie Williams
- Bend It Like Beckham (2002) "Dream The Dream" Shaznay Lewis
- Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998) "Man Machine" Robbie Williams
- Nobody Someday (2002) "Nobody Someday" Robbie Williams
- Mean Machine (2001) "Let Me Entertain You" Robbie Williams
Awards
- 3 Ivor Novello Awards
- 3 Brit Awards
- Q Classic Songwriter Award
- MMF Best Produced Record Award
External links
- [Guy Chambers' Official Website]
- [/Guy Chambers' MySpace Page]
- [The Isis Project]
- [EMI Music Publishing]
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