Brian Alexander Robertson was born on 14 June 1949 and is a Scottish musician, composer and songwriter.
16 Facts About BA Robertson
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BA Robertson wrote with Mike Rutherford of Genesis the Grammy-nominated and Ivor Novello Award-winning "The Living Years".
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BA Robertson has written music for films and been a television presenter.
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BA Robertson released his debut album Wringing Applause, recorded with Terry Manning, on the Ardent Records label in 1973, but it was to be a further six years until he found success in the United Kingdom chart.
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BA Robertson co-wrote the hit songs "Carrie" and "Wired for Sound" for Cliff Richard and seven of the 12 songs on Richard's Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile album.
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BA Robertson wrote and sang the theme music to the television series Maggie and Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, and wrote and sang backing vocals for the Swap Shop spin-off group Brown Sauce's UK top 20 hit, "I Wanna Be a Winner".
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In 1982, BA Robertson composed "Down at the Superstore", the theme to the BBC1 children's television series Saturday Superstore.
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BA Robertson was a guest presenter on Top of the Pops on 28 August 1980, alongside then-BBC Radio 1 DJ Peter Powell.
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In October 1980, BA Robertson appeared as a guest on the BBC Television chat show Friday Night, Saturday Morning.
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In February 1981 BA Robertson appeared playing live in concert on the BBC joint television and radio programme Rock Goes to College.
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BA Robertson appeared as one of the Entertainers in the movie The Monster Club starring Vincent Price, John Carradine, and Donald Pleasence.
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BA Robertson wrote "We Have a Dream" for the 1982 World Cup Scotland squad, and played the lead in the film Living Apart Together, directed by Charlie Gormley.
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BA Robertson contributed to all the albums released by the original configuration of the band, from Mike + The Mechanics to Rewired.
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The latter was written after BA Robertson's father died twelve weeks before the birth of his own son, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1990.
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In 1987, BA Robertson co-wrote several and produced two tracks on the Eddie and the Tide album Looking for Adventure.
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BA Robertson appeared on the Scottish segment of BBC's Children in Need telethon on 14 November 2008, performing a re-worked version of "We Have a Dream" alongside Edwyn Collins, The Gospel Truth Choir, the Tartan Army, and a host of Scottish celebrities.