Profile
Paul Kelly
Singer-songwriter
Male
Born
Jan 13, 1955
Age
58
Hometown
Adelaide
Genres
Traditional folk ...
Instruments
Lee Oskar
Performed With
Stardust Five + P...
Record Label
Capitol Records
Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups… Read More
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Paul Kelly On Mountain StageNPR - Jan 30, 2013
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Winners And Losers Of The Nhl Lockout Yahoo! Sports (Blog)Google News - Jan 07, 2013
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Ri Police To Examine Closed School's RecordsSan Francisco Chronicle - Jan 04, 2013
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Kelly And Finn Team Up For TourThe Canberra Times - Nov 08, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1955
Birth
Paul Maurice Kelly was born on 13 January 1955 in Adelaide, South Australia, to John Erwin Kelly, a lawyer, and Josephine Kelly (née Filippini), as the sixth of nine children (including Josephine, who died young).
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TEENAGE
1973
18 Years Old
Kelly attended Rostrevor College, a Christian Brothers school, where he played trumpet and studied piano. He was a cricket captain, and became dux of his senior year. Kelly studied arts at Flinders University in 1973, but left after a term, disillusioned with academic life.
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1974
19 Years Old
Hobart, looking towards its Arts Centre. In mid-1974 Kelly made his first public performance in a folk club along this street, "It was a row of warehouses gradually being converted into galleries, shops and cafés.
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TWENTIES
1981
26 Years Old
Late in 1981 Paul Kelly and the Dots recorded their second album, Manila, in the Philippines' capital.
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In an October 1982 interview with Australian Women's Weekly, Kelly indicated he was more pleased with Manila than Talk as "It has more unity... with this one we didn't have people dropping into the studio to play."
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1983
28 Years Old
Paul Kelly Band was formed in 1983 with Michael Armiger (Martin Armiger's younger brother, bass guitar), Chris Coyne (saxophone), Maurice Frawley (guitar) and Greg Martin (drums).
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1984
29 Years Old
Problems with his marriage and drug use disrupted his career, and by 1984 the marriage had broken up.
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THIRTIES
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Paul Kelly and the Messengers gave their last performance in August 1991, with Kelly set to pursue a solo career.
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In 1992 he was asked to compose songs for Funerals and Circuses, a Roger Bennett play about racial tensions in small-town Australia.
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1993
38 Years Old
Kelly returned to Australia in 1993 and wrote a collection of lyrics, aptly titled Lyrics, which opens with a quote from Anton Chekhov: "I don't have what you would call a philosophy or coherent world view so I shall have to limit myself to describing how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die and speak."
His next album Wanted Man, released in 1994, reached No. 11.
FORTIES
Kelly's next solo releases were Deeper Water in 1995 and Live at the Continental and the Esplanade in 1996.
1996
41 Years Old
By 1996, Paul Kelly Band members included Stephen Hadley (bass, ex-Black Sorrows), Bruce Haymes (keyboards), Peter Luscombe (drums, ex-Black Sorrows), and Shane O'Mara (guitar).
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In 1997, Kelly released his compilation album, Songs from the South: Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits, on Mushroom Records.
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Kelly won the 'Best Male Artist' award again in 1998, and has been nominated for the same award a further seven times.
Smoke was issued on Kelly's new label, Gawdaggie, through EMI Records in October 1999, and peaked at No. 36.
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During the 2000s Paul Kelly worked as a composer for film and TV scores and soundtracks, including Lantana (also as a member of Professor Ratbaggy), Silent Partner, and One Night the Moon in 2001, Fireflies in 2004, and Jindabyne in 2006.
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In 2002 he undertook a six-week tour of North America, which was followed by a tour of the UK and Ireland later that year.
FIFTIES
Foggy Highway was a second bluegrass-oriented album for Kelly, credited to Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys and issued in 2005.
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On 26 March 2006 Kelly performed at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Melbourne, singing "Leaps and Bounds" and "Rally Around the Drum".
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In the beginning of 2009 he supported Leonard Cohen's tour of Australia – his first return in 24 years.
On 29 September 2012 Kelly performed "How to Make Gravy" and "Leaps and Bounds" at the AFL Grand Final although most of the performance was not broadcast on Seven Network's pre-game segment.
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