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Appearances Albums Singles Various Refers
NELSON Bill
(voc,g)

Personal Data:

Born: 18.12.1948 (Wakefield, GB)

Appearances:

? Global Village Trucking Company
? Gentle Revolution
1971-8/78 Be Bop Deluxe
12/78-cca 2/79 Bill Nelson's Red Noise

Albums Discography:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Northern Dream1972 Smile
2.Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam15.05.1981Mercury7
3.Das Kabinet (Of Dr. Cagliari)
(2LP)
11/1981 Cocteau
4.La Belle Et La Bete (The Beauty And The Beast)1982 Cocteau
5.The Love That Whirls (Diary Of A Thinking Heart)
(2LP)
6/1982 Mercury28
6.Permanent Flame
(5x7" box set)
11/1982 Cocteau
7.Chimera
(mini LP)
06.05.1983Mercury30
8.Savage Gestures For Charm's Sake
(mini LP)
25.11.1983Cocteau
9.Vistamix10/1984 Cocteau
10.Trial By Intamacy (The Book Of Splendour)
(4LP box set)
1/1985 Cocteau
11.The Two-Fold Aspect Of Everything
(2LP)
2/1985 Cocteau
12.Iconography
credited to: Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana
1986 Cleopatra
13.Getting The Holy Ghost Across4/1986 Portrait91
14.Chamber Of Dreams6/1986 Cocteau
15.Summer Of God's Piano10/1986 Cocteau
16.Map Of Dreams1/1987 Cocteau
17.Chance Encounters In The Garden Of Light
(2LP)
11/1987 Cocteau
18.Optimism
credited to: Bill Nelson Orchestra Arcana
9/1988 Cocteau
19.Pavillions Of The Heart And Soul8/1989 Cocteau
20.Catalogue Of Obsessions8/1989 Cocteau
21.Duplex: The Best Of Bill Nelson
(2LP)
9/1989 Cocteau
22.Demonstrations Of Affection
(4CD box set)
12/1989 Cocteau
23.Symplex1990
24.Luminous4/1991 Imaginary
25.Blue Moons And Laughing Guitars1992 Imaginary
26.Crimsworth (Flowers Stones Fountains And Flames)2/1995 Resurgence
27.Practically Wired3/1995 All Saints
28.Culturemix With Bill Nelson20.11.1995Resurgence
29.Boxed Set
(4CD box set)
12/1995 Resurgence
30.My Secret Studio, Vol. 11996 Cocteau
31.After The Satellite Sings10.06.1996Resurgence/EFA
32.Magnificent Dream People1997 Populuxe
33.Weird Critters1997 Populuxe
34.Confessions Of A Hyperdreamer21.04.1997Resurgence/EFA
35.Atom Shop12.10.1998Discipline Global/Indigo
36.What Now, What Next12.10.1998Discipline Global/Indigo
37.Three White Roses & A Budd
& Harold Budd & Fila Brazillia
(mini LP)
02.09.200223
38.Noise Candy01.01.2003Cocteau
39.Chameleon04.02.2003United States Dist
40.Orchestra Arcana: The Hermatic Jukebox25.02.2003United States Dist
41.Whimsey13.10.2003United States Dist
42.Getting The Holy Ghost Across (On A Blue Wing)27.11.2006Sololuxe
43.The Practice of Everyday Life: Celebrating 40 Years of Recordings29.11.2011Esoteric
44.Practically Wired...Or How I Became Guitarboy08.05.2012Ais
45.Live In Concert At Metropolis Studios, London
& The Gentlemen Rocketeers
26.06.2012Conveyor
46.Iconography
& Orchestra Arcana
02.07.2013Cocteau Discs
47.Introducing Hope Clayton
& Hope Clayton
08.07.2014Lisem

Singles Discography:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Do You Dream In Colour? / Ideal Homes / Instantly Yours / Atom Man Loves Radium Girl6/1980 Cocteau52
2.Rooms With Brittle Views / Dada Guitars3/1981 Crepescule
3.Banal / Mr. Magnetism Himself
12" + Turn To Fiction / Hers Is A Lush Situation
3/1981 Mercury
4.Youth Of Nation On Fire / Be My Dynamo
7"(2) + Rooms With Brittle Views / All My Wives Were Iron
05.06.1981Mercury73
5.Living In My Limousine / Love In The Abstract
12" + White Sound
21.08.1981Mercury
6.Eros Arriving / Haunting In My Head
7"(2) + Flesh / He And Sleep Were Brothers
4/1982 Mercury
7.Flaming Desire / The Passion7/1982 Mercury
8.Touch And Glow / Dancing In The Wild / Love Without Fear8/1983 Cocteau
9.Acceleration / Hard Facts From The Fiction Department24.08.1984Cocteau49
10.Acceleration / Acceleration (instrumental)7/1985 Cocteau
11.Wildest Dreams / Self Impersonation3/1986 Portrait
12.Secret Ceremony / Wiping A Tear From The Allseeing Eyes5/1987 Cocteau
13.Life In Your Hands / Do You Dream In Colour
12" + Get Out Of That Hole / Dream Demon
12/1988 Cocteau

Various:

produced by SP:

Last Man In Europe: A Certain Bridge (29.5.81, Cocteau)
Nash The Slash: Novel Romance (26.6.81)
A Flock Of Seagulls: (It's Not Me) Talking (26.8.83, Jive)

appeared on the SP:
Monsoon: Tomorrow Never Knows (8.10.82)

appeared on the LP:
David Sylvian: Gone To Earth (9/86, Virgin)

Press References:

Melody Maker
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19764109.10.197642interview
19793011.08.19793News
19795122.12.197932Any Questions?
19802823.08.198013Caught In The Actgig review
19811114.03.19815News
19812123.05.198123Albumsalbum review
19812230.05.198116interview
19812305.06.198135Datelines
19812413.06.198120Singlessingle review
19812413.06.198131Caught In The Actgig review
19815119.12.198115Albumsalbum review
1982820.02.198217interview
19822626.06.198217Albumsalbum review
19831907.05.19834Fast Forward - Record News
19832014.05.198327Albumsalbum review
19832411.06.198310interview
19842718.08.19844Fast Forward - Record News
New Musical Express
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
1975008.11.197545Playing In The Band
1976009.10.197611