32 Facts About Edwyn Collins

Edwyn Stephen Collins was born on 23 August 1959 and is a Scottish musician, producer and record label owner.

Edwyn Collins's 1994 single "A Girl Like You" was a worldwide hit.

In February 2005, Edwyn Collins was hospitalised after two cerebral haemorrhages which resulted in aphasia, and he needed months to recover.

Edwyn Collins was the co-founder of the indie record label Postcard Records and co-founded a second label, Analogue Enhanced Digital, in 2011.

Edwyn Collins has worked as an illustrator, television actor, television producer and record producer.

Edwyn Collins won an Ivor Novello Award, the Ivor Inspiration Award, in 2009.

Edwyn Collins lived in Dundee from the age of six to 14 after his father got a job as a lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.

Edwyn Collins attended the now-defunct Demonstration School in Park Place, where new educational ideas were tried out by students and teachers from the adjacent teacher training college, before moving to the secondary school, Morgan Academy.

Edwyn Collins co-founded the band the Nu-Sonics in 1976 in the Glasgow suburb of Bearsden.

Edwyn Collins started his solo career in 1986, and signed to Elevation Records, a label that was a co-venture between indie label Creation Records and major label Warner Music.

Edwyn Collins released two singles for the Elevation label in 1987, both produced by Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins, but both failed to enter the UK Singles Chart.

At the request of passionate Orange Juice fans in Germany, Edwyn Collins recorded his next album at a small German studio, with the aid of producer Dennis Bovell, who had worked with Edwyn Collins in Orange Juice, and Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera.

Demon and Edwyn Collins then parted ways and Edwyn Collins embarked on a lengthy hiatus.

Edwyn Collins built his own recording studio in 1994 that was used to record his third solo album, Gorgeous George, which he produced.

In 1994, Edwyn Collins released the single "A Girl Like You", which was a worldwide hit the following year.

Edwyn Collins released his followup to Gorgeous George, I'm Not Following You, in 1997.

Edwyn Collins released his sixth solo album, entitled Home Again, in September 2007 on Heavenly Records.

Edwyn Collins then performed at the Glastonbury Festival, which was broadcast on 28 June 2008 on BBC Two, and at T in the Park on 10 July 2009.

On 30 July 2011, Edwyn Collins performed at the Indietracks festival that was held at the Midland Railway, Butterley, UK.

Edwyn Collins lost the ability to read, write, and lost movement in half of his body, but what he didn't lose was his gift for coming up with an ear-catching tune, as is proved here.

Edwyn Collins has been friends with Roddy Frame, the frontman for the new wave group Aztec Camera, since they were both signed to Postcard Records in the 1980s.

Frame's fourth solo album, Seven Dials, was released in 2014 on Edwyn Collins's AED record label.

Edwyn Collins has worked extensively as a record producer with other artists, including Terrorvision, Vic Godard, Robert Forster, The Cribs, Little Barrie, and Hooton Tennis Club.

In 1999, Edwyn Collins was invited by the band Space to produce what would have been their third album Love You More than Football, which ended up being scrapped.

In 2005 Edwyn Collins produced the Cribs album The New Fellas and co-produced the 2013 album Clarietta, by Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs, with Lewsley.

Edwyn Collins co-produced The Rails' debut album Fair Warning, released on Island Records in 2014.

Edwyn Collins produced The Official Body, the third album by the British post-punk band Shopping, which was released on 19 January 2018.

Edwyn Collins released his first book of illustrations, Some British Birds, with Morel Books in 2009.

In May 2009 Edwyn Collins won the Ivors Inspiration Award in recognition of his struggles following his 2005 brain haemorrhage.

On 21 August 2010, Edwyn Collins attended the Helmsdale Highland Games as the chieftain, an honour previously bestowed on his grandfather.

On 24 August 2022, Edwyn Collins appeared on stage with Coldplay at Hampden Park, Glasgow, to perform "A Girl Like You".

Edwyn Collins is married to Grace Maxwell, who is his manager.