17 Facts About Dave Edmunds

David William Edmunds was born on 15 April 1944 and is a Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer.

In 1966, after a short spell in a Parlophone recording band, the Image, with local drummer Tommy Riley, Dave Edmunds shifted to a more blues-rock sound, reuniting with Congo Jones and bassist John Williams and adding second guitarist Mickey Gee to form the short-lived Human Beans, a band that played mostly in London and on the UK university circuit.

Dave Edmunds had intended to record Wilbert Harrison's "Let's Work Together", but when he was beaten to that song by Canned Heat, he adapted the arrangement he intended to use for it to "I Hear You Knocking".

Dave Edmunds' only acting role followed, as a band member in the David Essex movie Stardust.

Dave Edmunds had bought a house in Rockfield, Monmouth, a few miles away from Charles and Kingsley Ward's Rockfield Studios where he became an almost permanent fixture for the next twenty years.

Dave Edmunds's working regime involved arriving at the studio in the early evening and working through till well after dawn, usually locked in the building alone.

Dave Edmunds spent the 1980s collaborating with and producing an assortment of artists, including Paul McCartney, King Kurt, Stray Cats, Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Status Quo.

In 1989, Dave Edmunds produced the album Yo Frankie for Dion.

On his 1983 release, Information, Dave Edmunds collaborated on two songs with Jeff Lynne, the leader of Electric Light Orchestra.

In 1984, Lynne produced six tracks on Dave Edmunds' following album, Riff Raff.

In late 1985, Dave Edmunds was the musical director and a participating band member of Carl Perkins's Rockabilly Session television special.

Dave Edmunds recorded less frequently after the mid-1980s, living in Wales in semi-retirement, but occasionally touring.

Dave Edmunds made an appearance on stage alongside Stray Cats, at the Brixton Academy in London, on 10 September 2008, playing "The Race Is On" and "Tear It Up" with the band.

In 1993 Dave Edmunds was in Cardiff Crown Court as a co-defendant along with Shakin' Stevens facing charges of non-payment of playing royalties from former Sunsets' band members Robert Llewellyn, Carl Petersen, Steve Percy and Paul Dolan.

The prosecution asserted that the former band members were due a share of those additional royalties that Stevens and Dave Edmunds had received from the successful reissue of the album A Legend during the early eighties.

Dave Edmunds was Holland's guest again at Borde Hill Garden on 20 June 2009, on 28 August at open-air concert at Carrickfergus Castle.

In 2015, Dave Edmunds released his first instrumental album On Guitar.