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Bruce Woolley (Bruce Martin Woolley) was born on 11 November, 1953 in Loughborough, is a Bruce Martin Woolley is English musician, singer, songwriter. Discover Bruce Woolley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As Bruce Martin Woolley
Occupation Musician, singer/songwriter, record producer
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 11 November, 1953
Birthday 11 November
Birthplace Loughborough
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1947

The performances celebrated the anniversary of Apollo 11, and included reconstructed tracks for theremin and jazz band from Harry Revel and Les Baxter's 1947 record Music Out of the Moon, played from space by Neil Armstrong in 1969.

1953

Bruce Martin Woolley (born 11 November 1953) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

He wrote songs with artists such as the Buggles and Grace Jones, including "Video Killed the Radio Star" and "Slave to the Rhythm", and co-founded the Radio Science Orchestra.

Woolley was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England on 11 November 1953 and educated at Loughborough Grammar School, where he learned electric guitar.

1974

He lived in Shepshed, playing the UK pub and club circuit extensively for some years, before landing his first professional engagement in 1974, with Ivor Kenney's Dance Band at Leicester Palais.

1976

After a transfer to Derby Tiffany's, Bruce left for London in 1976 to pursue a career in songwriting, after being offered a publishing contract with Everblue Music, in Piccadilly.

Woolley's first hit was "Dancing with Dr Bop" for Australian group the Studs, followed by his first English hit "Baby Blue" for Dusty Springfield, co-written with Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes.

1979

In 1979, Woolley established the new wave music outfit the Camera Club, with Thomas Dolby on keyboards, Matthew Seligman on bass, Dave Birch on guitar and Rod Johnson on drums.

Seligman joined the Soft Boys, and was replaced by Nigel Ross-Scott.

The Camera Club released their debut album English Garden in 1979 and toured England, America and Canada.

They disbanded after two years largely spent on the road, and following disagreements with CBS Records, which refused to release their second album.

In 1979, Woolley co-wrote the Ivor Novello Award-nominated "Video Killed the Radio Star", together with Horn and Downes, who later became the Buggles.

Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club released their own version of the song before the Buggles, but it was not a hit.

1981

In 1981, Woolley and Trevor Horn co-wrote and produced "Hand Held in Black and White" and "Mirror Mirror" for Dollar. In 1983, Magnus Uggla recorded a cover of Woolley's song "Blue Blue Victoria" with new (i.e. not a translation of Woolley's) lyrics in Swedish.

1985

In 1985, Woolley co-wrote Grace Jones' Slave to the Rhythm.

The title track was originally intended for Frankie Goes to Hollywood, but Island Records' founder, Chris Blackwell, suggested using the song for Jones.

The album took nearly a year to produce and made pioneering use of the Synclavier system.

1986

In 1986, Woolley and Grace Jones co-wrote and produced Jones' eighth studio album Inside Story with Nile Rodgers, which spawned the single "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You)".

During production of the music video for this track, Woolley spent time with Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary and also Keith Haring, who were collectively responsible for set design.

1987

The song received an ASCAP Award for Black Music in 1987, presented to Woolley by Cab Calloway.

1989

In 1989, Woolley co-wrote the ambient piece "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld" by the Orb.

The track featured vocals by Woolley and Trevor Horn taken from Slave to the Rhythm.

1994

In 1994, Woolley, Chris Elliott and Andy Visser founded The Radio Science Orchestra (RSO), a theremin-led space age pop ensemble inspired by the birth of electronic music.

The ensemble has recorded for film, television and radio, and provides bespoke arrangements and audio-visual performances combining live music, archive footage and narration.

1996

In 1996, the RSO released a début EP, Memories of the Future.

1997

In 1997, together with Grace Jones, the RSO provided the title track "Storm" for The Avengers movie starring Sean Connery, Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes.

1999

In 1999, the RSO released a follow-up EP, Reverb. The RSO created a live score Ray Santilli's Alien Autopsy, an interactive soundtrack for Superstructure With Satellites at the Tate Gallery.

2002

In 2002, the RSO performed at Shanghai's International Pop Festival.

The same year, Grace Jones and Luciano Pavarotti performed the RSO's arrangement of "Pourquoi me Reveiller".

2004

In 2004, the ensemble provided music for the "Electric Storm" installation at London's South Bank for Shell.

This featured a 24-hour soundtrack with forty loudspeakers, lights, music and artificial fog created from water which was pumped from the Thames.

All the power for the show was derived from a huge wind turbine, specially installed alongside the Waterloo footbridge.

2006

In 2006, the RSO played with Thomas Dolby at London's ICA.

In 2006, Woolley wrote and co-produced tracks for Grace Jones's album Hurricane, together with Brian Eno, Ivor Guest (Bomb the Bass), Pamelia Kurstin, and Sly and Robbie.

2007

Woolley's songs have been covered by John Farnham ("Two Strong Hearts"), Shirley Bassey ("Slave to the Rhythm" on 2007's Get the Party Started), the Feeling, Divine, Cliff Richard, Tori Amos, Tom Jones, Cher ("Love Is the Groove" on 1998's Believe album), and Bebel Gilberto.

2008

The RSO has appeared on MTV, EBN, BBC 1, BBC 2, BBC World Service Television News, ITV, Channel 1, Channel 4, Radio 2, (including the Chris Evans Drivetime show in February 2008), Radio 3, Radio 4 and at Glastonbury Festival.

2009

In 2009, the RSO performed at TED Global with Thomas Dolby.

2013

In 2013, the RSO scored a three-minute viral commercial for Greenpeace.

2017

In 2017, the RSO and Polly Scattergood released "Video Killed the Radio Star (Darkstar)", remixed by Steve Dub of the Chemical Brothers, and used as the soundtrack for trailers for the MTV Music Video Awards.

2019

In 2019, the RSO presented "Music out of the Moon" at Bluedot Festival (Jodrell Bank Observatory), and TED Summit, Edinburgh.