Profile
Nick Heyward
Singer-songwriter
Male
Born
May 20, 1961
Age
52
Hometown
Beckenham
Genres
Pop music + New W...
Instruments
Guitar + Human voice
Performed With
Haircut One Hundred
Record Label
Arista
Other Names
Heyward, Nicholas
Nick Heyward is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the frontman of the early 1980s band Haircut One Hundred, and also had a briefly successful solo career after he left the band in 1983.
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Penn Festival Announces This Year's Line UpBucks Free Press - Feb 17, 2013
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Celeb Birthdays For The Week Of May 20 26The Palm Beach Post - May 20, 2012
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Party Like It's 1985 Financial TimesGoogle News - Aug 26, 2011
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La Utopía Multicolor De Friendly Fires Zona MusicalGoogle News - Jun 12, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1961
Birth
Born on May 20, 1961.
TWENTIES
1982
21 Years Old
During the sessions for their second album Heyward became unwell and Mark Fox took over vocal duties with the band as songwriters. Heyward departed at the end of 1982.
1983
22 Years Old
Heyward's solo career took off in March 1983 with the single 'Whistle Down The Wind', and the album North of a Miracle, produced by Geoff Emerick.
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In 1984, he released two new singles, "Love All Day" and "Warning Sign", which were both minor Top 40 hits.
THIRTIES
For the next four years, Heyward concentrated on his second career as a graphic artist, until returning to music in 1993 with a new album for Epic Records and tour dates alongside Squeeze and Paul Weller.
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1995
34 Years Old
In 1995, Heyward released the album Tangled on the Epic label, which provided him with his first UK Top 40 single in twelve years when "Rollerblade" reached No. 37 on the UK Singles Chart.
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FORTIES
2010
49 Years Old
Heyward has been involved with a planned re-issue program of his solo catalogue through Cherry Red Records. Starting with two releases in October 2010, the first being a double album deluxe edition of his debut album, North of A Miracle.
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