Richard Arnold Pleasance is an Australian rock musician and producer.
21 Facts About Richard Pleasance
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Richard Pleasance was a founding member of Boom Crash Opera on guitar, bass guitar, vocals and as a songwriter in 1985; they released three albums before Pleasance left in 1992.
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Richard Pleasance composed the theme music for Australian television series, SeaChange, for 2006 feature film Kenny and more recently he composed the theme music for the prison drama series Wentworth.
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Richard Pleasance is married to Michelle and, as from May 2009, he was living in Hepburn Springs, Victoria where he has a recording studio.
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Richard Pleasance was born in Park Orchards and attended Mitcham High School.
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Richard Pleasance was the founding guitarist for Melbourne-based band Government Drums in 1980 with Steve Bell, Michael Davis, Barbara Hogarth and Willy Zygier.
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Alongside Richard Pleasance were Peter Farnan on guitar and vocals and Mark White on drums but the group soon disbanded.
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Richard Pleasance stated in a radio interview on 21st Sept 2021 that he was never a member of Serious Young Insects - but would liked to have been.
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Richard Pleasance then formed Bang in 1983 which included Karen Ansel, Carol Hitchcock, Laurie McRae, Tim Rosewarne, Nick Seymour, Ren Walters, Oleh Witer and Sherine Abeyratne, and disbanded in 1984.
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Richard Pleasance teamed up again with Farnan in 1985 to form rock music group Boom Crash Opera with Dale Ryder on lead vocals, Peter Maslen on drums and Greg O'Connor on keyboards.
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Richard Pleasance was temporarily replaced by Dorian West and then Ian Tilley.
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Boom Crash Opera recorded an acoustic album entitled Dancing in the Storm in February 2009 with Richard Pleasance guesting on bass, guitar, mandolin, sitar and Oud; he produced the recording as part of the Liberation Blue series which was released in May.
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Richard Pleasance had solo success outside Boom Crash Opera, his 1991 album Galleon featured the singles "Sarah I Miss You" and "Don't Cry".
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Richard Pleasance then toured the album, as a support act for Elvis Costello.
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Also in 1991, Richard Pleasance co-produced and performed on the highly successful debut album for Deborah Conway, String of Pearls and co-wrote, "King of Jordan", with Conway.
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In 1996, Richard Pleasance formed Felt with fellow singer-songwriter Wendy Morrison on piano and they released the self-titled album, Felt, on Gotham and BMG Records.
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Richard Pleasance supplied vocals, guitar, bass guitar and keyboard and produced the album.
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Richard Pleasance wrote and produced the theme for the popular Australian television series SeaChange.
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Richard Pleasance started a band, Pleasantville, which included his wife, Michelle, which released their debut album Hill of Beans in 2004.
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Richard Pleasance composed the theme music for 2006 feature film Kenny.
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In May 2018, Richard Pleasance recorded the original motion picture soundtrack for the film Brothers' Nest.