Phil Hampson
music
After playing guitar and keys 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 and in-house producer/engineer at Manchester's iconic 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...
Credits Include:
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,
Part of the birth of Punk Rock music in Manchester.
Seminal records
from the early
punk era include
Buzzcocks
'Spiral Scratch' EP,
Slaughter and the Dogs
'Cranked up Really High' EP
The Fall
The Drones
V2
Wrote and produced the 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!
All good fun but a long time ago...
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
Currently...
Writing, and working on getting ' GIACONDA!'
out into the world. 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...
Created and implemented National Lottery Radio for Camelot Group. Provided technical consultancy for Virgin Megastore Radio and Radio 21 Moscow, Russia's first instore service
Sold the Broadcast Group in 2001 and started
a property development company.
other stuff
Member of :
Mensa; PRS for Music; British Academy of Songwriters Composers & Authors