Phil Hampson
music
After playing guitar and keyboards in several UK bands, became
involved full time in the music business as a singer/songwriter, session musician and then
engineer/producer.
Started audio production company, building and running
Magnum
Studios in Manchester.
Set up Indie Label 'Sharing Records', producing
Spiritual & World Music albums.
Became MD of Manchester's Indigo Studios. At Indigo worked with a diverse collection of artists and
on novelty records in the late 70's/early 80's,
some good, some bad, all fun...
Includes UK Number One
'Matchstalk Men and
Matchstalk Cats and Dogs'
Top Twenty Hit: 'The Sparrow'
England Football Squad (World Cup 1974);
English and Welsh
Rugby League Squads.
Liverpool FC chart single,
From the early
punk era
Buzzcocks
'Spiral Scratch' EP,
Slaughter and the Dogs
'Cranked up Really High' EP
The Fall
The Drones
Wrote and produced first Prince
single...
Prince the talking dog that is, from BBCTV's 'That's Life'. 'Sausages' !
Music career was wisely put on hold after writing and producing a Christmas Single with 'Madge & Harold' from BBC TV's 'Neighbours' - 22 TV appearances and no hit!
Throughout the 80's and 90's was writing jingles/producing commercials for Radio and TV, and in-house programmes for corporate clients.
Gigging with band Midnight Blue through the 80's
All a long time ago.....
Currently...
Working on getting ' Giaconda!' to
the stage. Charity Gigs with band Grampz
business
Concentrated on business interests in the 90's - see
Hampson Group, acknowledged as the
creator and UK market leader of 'Dedicated Broadcasting' satellite radio.
Stations: ASDA FM, National Lottery Radio, Moto Motorway FM, Alldays
Radio, McColls FM, Allsports FM ...
other stuff
Member of :
Mensa; PRS for Music; British Academy of Songwriters Composers & Authors