33 Facts About Richard Hawley

Richard Willis Hawley was born on 17 January 1967 and is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.

Richard Hawley has been nominated for a Mercury prize twice and once for a Brit Award.

Richard Hawley has collaborated with Lisa Marie Presley, Shakespears Sister, Arctic Monkeys, Manic Street Preachers, Elbow, Duane Eddy and Paul Weller.

Richard Hawley was born with a cleft palate, which required numerous operations.

Richard Hawley is a lifelong supporter of local football club Sheffield Wednesday.

Richard Hawley noted that "I always wrote songs since childhood" and realising that "you could actually make something up of your own was quite a big one then".

Richard Hawley attended Hucklow Middle School together with future Pulp bassist Steve Mackey, and passed his O-levels.

Richard Hawley used some left-over studio time to demo material and to experiment.

Richard Hawley's eponymous debut was a mini-album that featured seven songs and released in April 2001 through Setanta Records.

Two years later Richard Hawley released Lowedges, named after a suburb of the city.

Again, Richard Hawley mined the theme of his home city, this time referencing the location where courting lovers meet.

Richard Hawley performed a 16-date tour during September 2007 to promote the album.

On 14 January 2008, Richard Hawley was nominated for his first solo Brit Award for Best British Male Performer.

Richard Hawley was a headlining act at the 2008 Festival Internacional de Benicassim in Spain.

Richard Hawley produced, with Colin Elliot, and contributed two songs to the album Made in Sheffield, a compilation of songs by the Sheffield-based songwriters for Tony Christie.

Richard Hawley featured in a BBC6 Music live broadcast with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, which took place at the Magna Science Park, Rotherham.

Richard Hawley provided vocals for the title track of the Manic Street Preachers album, Rewind The Film, released in September 2013.

Richard Hawley contributed a number of songs to the soundtrack of the documentary film Love Is All in 2014.

In September 2015, Richard Hawley released his seventh album Hollow Meadows.

On 31 May 2019, Richard Hawley revealed his eighth studio album Further, released by BMG Rights Management.

Richard Hawley has worked with several musicians, including Hank Marvin, A Girl Called Eddy, and Jarvis Cocker.

Richard Hawley played the guitar solo on All Saints' cover version of "Under the Bridge".

On working with others, Richard Hawley noted that he has always been asked to and he likes "working with other people because you can get too absorbed in your own little bubble".

Richard Hawley produced material by lead singer Tom Hogg's next band The Hosts.

Richard Hawley provided vocals for "Bad Woman", a B-side to Arctic Monkeys' single "Teddy Picker", released on 3 December 2007.

Richard Hawley co-wrote and provided vocals and guitar to the song "The Fix" on Elbow's Mercury Prize-winning 2008 album The Seldom Seen Kid.

Richard Hawley performed the song with the band at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2008, on The Culture Show in June 2008, at Elbow's homecoming gigs in Manchester in 2008, Wembley Arena in March 2009, Blackpool's Empress Ballroom in March 2009 and at the MEN Arena in September 2009.

Richard Hawley reprised his collaboration with Elbow on 17 January 2009 for a special recording of The Seldom Seen Kid with the BBC Concert Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, which was released as a special edition CD and DVD set titled The Seldom Seen Kid Live at Abbey Road in March 2009.

Richard Hawley appeared with Elbow on 19 March 2011 while the band were in Sheffield to perform "The Fix" during their UK tour.

Richard Hawley himself made an appearance in the 2007 film Flick.

In October 2009, Richard Hawley was joined on stage by Lisa Marie Presley in London for an encore; she sang vocals on a song the pair had been working on called "Weary".

Richard Hawley worked again with Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys in January 2012, providing vocals for the "Black Treacle"'s B-side, "You And I", which was released on 23 January that year.

Richard Hawley described himself as "a jack of all trades" when commenting on his career as both a musician and a songwriter, describing them as "running parallel".