1. Martin Gordon was born on 3 May 1954 and is an English musician who plays bass guitar, double bass, and piano.
14 Facts About Martin Gordon
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Martin Gordon was born in Ipswich, and grew up in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
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Martin Gordon studied piano and classical guitar as a child and attended summer schools hosted by the British National Jazz Youth Orchestra, where he took lessons from Nucleus bassist Jeff Clyne.
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Martin Gordon played with Sparks on the album Kimono My House, which featured his trademark Rickenbacker 4001 bass.
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Martin Gordon then formed Jet and then Radio Stars.
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Between the demise of Jet and its reincarnation as Radio Stars in 1976, he performed briefly with pioneer of American punk Ian North; along with drummer Paul Simon, Martin Gordon played a handful of dates with Ian's Radio before rejoining members of Jet to form Radio Stars.
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Martin Gordon returned to the UK at the beginning of the 1980s, and worked as producer and in other capacities with such musicians as George Michael, Boy George, Blur, Primal Scream, Kylie Minogue, S'Express, Tiger Lillies and Robert Palmer, as well as with a host of minor talents.
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Martin Gordon was a member of the SOAS-based Gamelan Kembang Kirang and the South Bank-based New Music Group between 1996 and 1997.
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Martin Gordon has a number of solo albums to his credit, many recorded in collaboration with Swedish vocalist Pelle Almgren.
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In 2007, Martin Gordon made his live debut as a solo performer in Boston, United States.
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At Xmas 2021, Martin Gordon celebrated the political achievements of Boris Johnson with the single release Booster.
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In February 2022 Martin Gordon released an instrumental track in support of Ukraine entitled Slava Ukraini.
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Martin Gordon is known for using the Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar, most notably on the Sparks album Kimono My House and the later album Jet by the British group of the same name.
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Martin Gordon used Rotosound round-wound strings to produce his benchmark sound.