1. Laurence Ivor Juber was born on 12 November 1952 and is an English musician, fingerstyle guitarist and studio musician.
16 Facts About Laurence Juber
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Laurence Juber played guitar in the rock band Wings from 1978 to 1981.
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Laurence Juber began to earn money playing the guitar at 13, and began to study classical guitar at the age of 15.
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In 1977, Laurence Juber was booked, along with session drummer Peter Boita, by London-based orchestral contractor David Katz to go to Paris for a week to record Je n'ai pas vu le temps passer.
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Laurence Juber gave up a lucrative and successful studio career when invited to join the band Paul McCartney and Wings in 1978.
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Laurence Juber later said that he agreed to join immediately "because you don't turn down that kind of job".
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Laurence Juber played on the band's Back to the Egg album, as well as their subsequent UK tour.
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Laurence Juber was miscredited as "Lawrence Tuber" on the sleeve for Ringo Starr's 1981 album, Stop and Smell the Roses.
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Laurence Juber subsequently resumed work as a studio musician and played guitar for numerous television shows, including Happy Days, Family Ties, Home Improvement and 7th Heaven.
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Laurence Juber composed the music for A Very Brady Christmas, World Gone Wild and Little Sweetheart.
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Laurence Juber co-composed the soundtrack of the award-winning video game Diablo III and crafted the score to the Dateline NBC documentary Children of the Harvest.
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Laurence Juber's music is featured in the Ken Burns TV documentary The Tenth Inning.
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In 1990, Laurence Juber released his second solo album, Solo Flight.
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In 2000, Laurence Juber released the solo album LJ plays the Beatles and The Collection and in 2003 the album Guitarist was released to critical acclaim.
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Laurence Juber has released many critically acclaimed solo albums, and has earned a second Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental for his solo guitar arrangement of "The Pink Panther Theme" on the CD Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar.
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Laurence Juber has released a series of instructional CDs that teach basic music theory and arrangement techniques for guitarists and has three folios of his arrangements of pop songs published by Hal Leonard.