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Judge Smith (Christopher John Judge Smith) was born on 1 July, 1948 in England, is an An english male singer. Discover Judge Smith'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 75 years old?

Popular As Christopher John Judge Smith
Occupation singer, musician, songwriter
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 1 July, 1948
Birthday 1 July
Birthplace England
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1948

Christopher John Judge Smith (born 1 July 1948), is an English songwriter, author, composer and performer, and a founder member of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator.

1967

In 1967, with Peter Hammill, Judge Smith founded the band Van der Graaf Generator.

He was originally a singing drummer and percussionist (sometimes playing a typewriter), but after drummer Guy Evans joined the band, Smith realized that there wasn't a great deal left for him to do, since his role was reduced to being a backing vocalist.

1968

After recording the first Van der Graaf Generator-single ("People You Were Going To" b/w "Firebrand"), Smith amicably left the band in 1968.

He went on to form a jazz-rock band called Heebalob, which included saxophonist David Jackson, who would later join Van der Graaf Generator.

1973

Around 1973, Smith, together with Van der Graaf Generator co-founder Peter Hammill, began work on an opera based on the short story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Smith writing the libretto and Hammill composing the music.

1974

In 1974 Smith wrote and directed a short film titled The Brass Band, which has won several international awards.

1975

Peter Hammill has recorded a number of songs written by Smith, including "Been Alone So Long" and the jointly-written "The Institute of Mental Health, Burning" (both on Nadir's Big Chance, 1975), "Time for a Change" (on pH7, 1979) and "Four Pails" (on Skin, 1986), and plays them live on a regular basis.

1976

These included The Kibbo Kift (produced at the Traverse Theatre for the Edinburgh Festival of 1976 and at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield the following year) and The Ascent of Wilberforce III (subtitled "The White Hell of Iffish Odorabad", and produced at the Traverse Theatre, in 1981, and at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London in 1982).

1978

His own chamber opera, The Book of Hours, was directed by Mel Smith at the Young Vic Theatre, London in 1978.

1979

Lene Lovich also recorded songs written by Smith, including "What Will I Do Without You" and "You Can't Kill Me" (both on Flex, 1979).

1980

Smith also wrote music for the television comedy series Not The Nine O'Clock News in the 1980s, including the punk rock parody "Gob on You".

Defoe is a founder of The Larry Mondello Band, who released numerous cassette tapes of their lo-fi music in the 1980s and 1990s.

1982

Mata Hari (staged at the Lyric Theatre in 1982), was his last musical, co-written with Lene Lovich and Les Chappell, and starring Lovich.

1990

After Van der Graaf Generator, he has written songs, stage musicals and operas, and from the early 1990s on he has released a number of solo CDs, including three "Songstories".

1991

After the demise of Heebalob, Smith pursued a solo career, and wrote and recorded many songs, some of which appeared on his (currently unavailable) first solo album Democrazy (1991).

Smith also wrote several stage musicals as lyricist with composer Maxwell Hutchinson.

The album was finally released in 1991 on Some Bizzare Records, with a cast of singers including Lene Lovich, Andy Bell, Sarah Jane Morris and Herbert Grönemeyer.

A reworked version, titled The Fall of the House of Usher – deconstructed & rebuilt, was released on Hammill's Fie!

1993

In 1993 Dome of Discovery was released, Smith's first CD proper.

Apart from the vocals, virtually every note on the album came from the sampled sounds of real instruments.

Smith spent months making his own samples, hiring various musicians and recording individual notes.

1994

Initially working under the name Chris Judge Smith, he has been known simply as Judge Smith since 1994.

1999

label in 1999.

The new version is notable for having a cleaner, better produced sound, additional guitars and (unlike the first version) no percussion.

2000

After many years of work developing a new form of narrative music he calls "Songstory", Smith completed and released, in 2000, the double CD Curly's Airships, about the 1924 Imperial Airship Scheme and the R101 airship disaster of 1930.

Among many others, Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton, Arthur Brown, David Jackson, John Ellis and Pete Brown performed on the project.

Smith believes that the 2 hr 20 min work might be the largest and most ambitious single piece of rock music ever recorded.

Curly's Airships was to be the first of three Songstories so far written and composed by Smith.

2005

On the same day that Van der Graaf Generator played their reunion concert in the Royal Festival Hall in London, 6 May 2005, Smith played an afternoon concert at the Cobden Club in London.

At this concert his new album, The Full English was launched, and Smith played (among others) all the songs from the album.

He was accompanied by John Ellis on electric guitar, Michael Ward-Bergeman on accordion and René van Commenée on percussion.

2006

Since 2006, a remastered version has been available for download at iTunes.

A DVD recording of a concert by Smith in Guastalla, Italy, Live in Italy 2005, was released on DVD on 20 March 2006.

2006 also saw the release of The Vesica Massage, an album of instrumental music designed for use by massage therapists.

2007

In October 2007 Smith released a two-song single CD, "The Light of the World" / "I Don't Know What I'm Doing", under the name of The Tribal Elders.

This band consisted of Judge Smith, David Jackson, John Ellis, Michael Ward-Bergeman and Rikki Patten.

2008

In January 2008 the full-length album Long-Range Audio Device was released, under the name of L-RAD, a collaboration between Judge Smith and American artist Steve Defoe.

2009

In May 2009 Smith performed the premiere of his second songstory, The Climber (written in 2005).

The work was performed with a Norwegian male-voice choir, the Fløyen Voices, and no other instruments apart from a double bass, at USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway.