Bill Nelson (musician)

Bill Nelson

[Toronto], 22 October 1977
Background information
Birth name William Nelson
Born (1948-12-18) 18 December 1948
Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
Genres
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, artist, writer
Instruments Vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums, bass, percussion
Years active 1970–present
Labels EMI, Enigma, CBS, Cocteau Records, Twentythree Records, Populuxe Records, Sonoluxe
Associated acts Be-Bop Deluxe, Red Noise, John Cooper Clarke, A Flock Of Seagulls, Monsoon, Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), Yukihiro Takahashi, Masami Tsuchiya, Culturemix, Joe Hisaishi, Dr.Jan (guru), Gary Numan, Skids, Fiat Lux, The Revox Cadets, Orchestra Arcana, David Sylvian, Cabaret Voltaire, Rain Tree Crow, Ramon Tikaram, Roger Eno, Kate St. John, Channel Light Vessel, Nautilus Pompilius, Harold Budd, Fila Brazillia, Bill Nelson and the Lost Satellites, Bill Nelson and his Lighthouse Signal Mechanism Orchestra, Orchestra Futura, Bill Nelson and the Gentlemen Rocketeers, Matt Howarth, Reeves Gabrels
Website http://www.billnelson.com/
Notable instruments
Gibson ES-345[1]
Fender Stratocaster[2]
Yamaha SG 2000

Bill Nelson (born William Nelson, 18 December 1948, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England)[3] is an English singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer and experimental musician. He rose to prominence as the chief songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of the rock group Be-Bop Deluxe, which he formed in the 1970s. Nelson has been described as "one of the most underrated guitarists of the seventies art rock movement".[4] In 2015, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the Progressive Music Awards.[5] He currently lives in York.

Career

Born to Jean & Walter Nelson, the latter being a musician, he also had a younger brother Ian and two children Elle and Elliot who were likewise involved in music. Ian (1956–2006) collaborated on the Be-Bop Deluxe song "Ships in the Night" and formed the band Fiat Lux; he also played on the 1979 Red Noise album Sound-on-Sound and with the 2004 touring band Bill Nelson and the Lost Satellites. Elle (b. 1978)[6] and Elliot (b. 1981)[7] played in their own band Honeytone Cody between the late 1990s and 2014.

1970s

Nelson was educated at the Wakefield College of Art, where he developed an interest in the work of poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. At this time, he was also developing as a musician, drawing upon Duane Eddy as a primary guitar influence.

His first record was a brief contribution on the album A-Austr: Musics from Holyground, with Brian Calvert, Chris Coombs, Ted Hepworth, Mike Levon and Brian Wilson. Levon recorded and produced the album which appeared on Levon's own Holyground Records label in 1970. After that, Nelson appeared in a much more substantial role with Lightyears Away on Astral Navigations released in 1971. On one track, "Yesterday", written by Coombs, Levon recorded Nelson's lead guitars in an acid rock style, supporting Coombs' stylophone riff. This track also gave Nelson his first airplay by John Peel[3] on his national BBC Radio 1 programme in the United Kingdom. Nelson's Holyground recordings were released in February 2001 as Electrotype.

The same year, Nelson's debut solo album Northern Dream, released on his own independent Smile label, drew further attention from Peel which eventually led to Nelson's band Be-Bop Deluxe signing to EMI's Harvest Records subsidiary and releasing Axe Victim in 1974. Nelson replaced the original band members for Futurama in 1975. The lineup of Bill Nelson (guitar), Andrew Clark (keyboards), Charlie Tumahai (bass) and Simon Fox (drums) recorded Sunburst Finish and Modern Music in 1976, the live album Live! In The Air Age in 1977 and their final studio album Drastic Plastic in 1978.

However, Nelson found the structure of a permanent band constricting. An instrumental on Drastic Plastic performed by Nelson (acoustic guitar) and Clark (keyboards) anticipated Nelson's later solo ambient work. Other tracks on that album required Fox record drum parts for use as repeating loop backing tracks in the studio. (Performing these songs live on the subsequent tour, Fox would physically play these repeating patterns on drums). This sowed the seeds for later experimentation by Nelson. 1983's Invisibility Exhibition tour would see Bill Nelson (guitar) and Ian Nelson (sax) improvise to the former's self-produced backing audio (and video) tracks (later released as the Chamber of Dreams album), an approach Nelson would repeat for many solo live performances throughout his career. Playing guitar over pre-recorded backing tracks would bear further fruit in later studio recordings, notably the Painting With Guitars series (2003, 2015) and And We Fell Into A Dream (2007).

In Autumn 1978, Nelson halted the Be-Bop Deluxe project, removed Tumahai and Fox from his immediate working band and replaced the name with the moniker Red Noise (releasing the Sound-on-Sound album in February, 1979). Harvest, who had insisted on naming it "Bill Nelson's Red Noise", refused to release the second Red Noise album Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam which was largely recorded by Nelson with contributions on sax from his brother Ian rather than the more-obviously marketable five-piece band Harvest's execs had understandably expected. It remained unreleased in record company limbo.[8]

Meanwhile, with his producer from Harvest John Leckie, Nelson did some production (and, in Nelson's case, sessions keyboards) work for the band Skids,[9] whose guitarist Stuart Adamson was an admirer of Nelson's musicianship.[10][11] Fruitful friendships followed.[12] Vocalist Richard Jobson would appear as a support act reading poetry on the Invisibility Exhibition tour. After Adamson's untimely death in 2001, Nelson composed a piece in memory of his departed friend, called simply "For Stuart",[13] which appeared on 2003's The Romance of Sustain Volume One: Painting With Guitars[10] and (in a live version) on 2011's live at Metropolis Studios DVD.

1980s

Nelson's manager Mark Rye negotiated with Harvest to buy back some of the unreleased songs for Nelson to release under his own name on his own label, Cocteau Records, which Nelson and Rye had set up. Consequently, in July 1980, Nelson was able to release the single "Do You Dream in Colour?", which after airplay on BBC Radio 1 reached No. 52 in the UK Singles Chart.[14] This debut release on the label persuaded Phonogram to acquire the remaining tracks for Cocteau in order to release Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam as a Bill Nelson album on their subsidiary label Mercury Records in 1981. The release contained bonus disc Sounding The Ritual Echo (Atmospheres for Dreaming) featuring experimental, ambient instrumentals which Nelson had recorded privately at his home. Subsequent Mercury releases included The Love That Whirls, which included a bonus disc of Nelson's soundtrack for The Yorkshire Actors' stage production of Jean Cocteau's 1946 film La Belle et la Bête/{{nowrap|Beauty and the Beast}}. Nelson had already contributed music (and released it under the title Das Kabinet on Cocteau) to the same company's similar adaptation of Robert Wiene's 1920 silent film classic {{nowrap|The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari}}.

Freed from the demands of a mainstream, commercial record company, Nelson released considerable quantities of singles and LPs on Cocteau throughout the decade, much of it by himself but also a number of singles by other artists, notably Last Man In Europe, A Flock Of Seagulls, The Revox Cadets, Richard Jobson, Q (16), Fiat Lux, Man Jumping and Yukihiro Takahashi. The more ambitious Cocteau releases by Nelson himself included the 4-LP box set of experimental electronic music Trial by Intimacy (The Book of Splendours) and the later ambient 2-LP collection Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights, which contained music informed by Nelson's Gnostic beliefs. In 1989, he released the 4-CD box set Demonstrations of Affection.

He was hired by British synthpop artist Gary Numan to produce his 1983 album Warriors, with Numan claiming that Bill Nelson was his "favourite guitar player, bar none." However, the two musicians failed to maintain a working relationship, and ultimately Nelson chose not to be credited for his production role on the album. Nelson also contributed towards several tracks on David Sylvian's Gone to Earth (1986).

Nelson had bad luck with major record labels in the 1980s. A deal with CBS Records' Portrait imprint went sour, leaving the one album Getting the Holy Ghost Across (US title: On a Blue Wing) with further tracks from that album's sessions issued on the UK mini-LP Living for the Spangled Moment. In the late 1980s, Nelson signed to Enigma Records who went out of business, although they had just re-released his entire Cocteau catalogue.

As the decade ended, Nelson suffered a series of personal setbacks, including a divorce, tax problems and an acrimonious dispute with his manager over his back catalogue rights. In the case of one album, the unreleased Simplex, Nelson discovered his manager had been selling copies via mail order without Nelson's authorisation or knowledge; Nelson claims he never received any royalties from these sales.[15]

1990s

In 1992, Nelson released Blue Moons and Laughing Guitars on Virgin which consisted of demos for a proposed four guitarists, two drummers band which never materialised. "This is what I do behind locked doors," he wrote on the sleeve, prefiguring much of his later, home recorded work including My Secret Studio (4-CD + 2-CD) and Noise Candy (6-CD). In the same year, Nelson worked with Roger Eno and Kate St. John as producer (with Roger Eno) on the duo's album The Familiar, on which Nelson also played guitar and other instruments. This experience fortuitously not only sowed the seeds of Eno's, Nelson's and St.John's participation in the 'ambient supergroup' Channel Light Vessel, which also featured Laraaji and Mayumi Tachibana, but also introduced Nelson to Voiceprint Records, whose subsidiary labels[16] included All Saints and Resurgence, both of which would release a number of CLV and Nelson recordings over the next few years.

In 1995, Nelson released two very different albums. Crimsworth (Flowers, Stones, Fountains And Flames) was an ambient piece which had provided the soundscape to an art installation. Practically Wired, or How I Became... Guitarboy! was a return to guitar-based instrumental music, something Nelson had barely touched for the previous decade and a half.

In 1996, Nelson augmented his sound with drum and bass for After The Satellite Sings, credited as a major influence on David Bowie's Earthling album by Bowie's then guitarist Reeves Gabrels.

By 1996, Nelson's troubles with his former manager were resolved in a lawsuit which enabled Nelson to recover much of his back catalogue.[15] The fully authorised Simplex was subsequently released in 2001 by Lenin Imports and reissued in 2012 by Esoteric.

In the late 1990s, Nelson created the Populuxe label, with a distribution arrangement via Robert Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile, but his relationship with them stagnated and Nelson's last release on that label was Atom Shop in 1998. Subsequent releases have been on other imprints such as Toneswoon as well as direct mail order (and later internet order) releases.

2000s

2002 saw the release of EP Three White Roses & A Budd (with Fila Brazillia and Harold Budd) on Twentythree Records.

In 2001, Nelson attended a first Nelsonica convention, set up in West Yorkshire by fans in his honour, taking with him drawings to sell to any interested parties.[17] It proved such a good experience that he resolved to contribute live music performances,[18] dedicated CDs of new material, and anything else that seemed appropriate,[19] to any such future events. Nelsonica became an annual fixture in his calendar for the next decade or so. Attendees at 2002's Nelsonica 02 received a copy of Astral Motel, the first convention CD release. Honeytone Cody played one set, Nelson and his brother Ian played a second, while Nelson's newly assembled seven piece band The Lost Satellites,[20] which also included Ian, played a third.[21] It was a resounding success and an annual institution was born.

Three further albums followed in 2003: The Romance of Sustain Volume One: Painting With Guitars, Plaything, and a second Nelsonica CD Luxury Lodge. Since then, Nelson has released an average of four albums a year, often in small runs which soon go out of print. He has accomplished this using his own series of branded record labels: Almost Opaque then Discs Of Ancient Odeon for the Nelsonica releases; Universal Twang then Sonoluxe for the others. (Nelson's Sonic Masonic imprint lasted for only one release, 2004's Satellite Songs.)

Nelson's in-house releasing was made possible by the financial backing of Sound on Sound magazine, whose website hosts his online shop[22] and is named after Red Noise's Sound-on-Sound album.[23][24] In 2004, the magazine also put up the money for Nelson to take his band Bill Nelson and the Lost Satellites on tour around the UK as The Be-Bop Deluxe And Beyond Tour.[24]

Nelson pursued different artistic directions. Two Rosewood releases contained acoustic guitar pieces "submitted to electronic and digital processing." The highly personal The Alchemical Adventures Of Sailor Bill was a concept album about the English coastline, ships and the sea, while its more ambient, instrumental companion piece Neptune's Galaxy comprised five long form instrumental compositions exploring the same subject. Of the former, Nelson wrote, "this set of songs comes (closer) to being personally fulfilling as almost any other album of mine."[25] Most of the decade's remaining albums were lead electric guitar-oriented and non-vocal. Improvisation against pre-recorded backing tracks played a major role in And We Fell Into A Dream while the very different Theatre Of Falling Leaves eschewed lead guitar in favour of keyboards. The decade closed with more voice-based material as Nelson crooned through Golden Melodies Of Tomorrow, delivered more familiar rock and ballad vocals on Fancy Planets and delved into romantic songwriting in The Dream Transmission Pavilion.

In the first half of the decade, Nelson published his collected online diaries from 1999-2003 under the moniker diary of a hyperdreamer. A second volume covering entries from 2005-2006 would appear in 2015. The last ten years of this diary remain on his official website to this day.[26] He also gave extensive interviews to biographer Paul Sutton Reeves for a book, the publication of which was put on hold for around two years when publisher Sean Body died. Music In Dreamland Bill Nelson & Be-Bop Deluxe finally materialised in 2008.

In the second half of the decade, Nelson's live performances (mostly at the Nelsonica events) broadened out from solo work to encompass two other bands. One was the improvisational, three-piece Orchestra Futura consisting of Nelson, Dave Sturt (bass) and Theo Travis (assorted woodwind, brass). (The duo of Sturt and Travis already played together as Cipher.) The other was the more conventional rock oriented, seven-piece Bill Nelson and the Gentlemen Rocketeers (again including Sturt and Travis) which played songs with vocals from the extensive Nelson/Be-Bop Deluxe back catalogue.

By 2006, Universal Music (UK) had re-issued three Mercury albums: Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam, The Love that Whirls and Chimera had all been remastered and released with bonus tracks. Sonoluxe had reissued the CBS album Getting the Holy Ghost Across / On a Blue Wing with all the original tracks including those from Living for the Spangled Moment.

2010s

In 2010, Nelson published the first part of an autobiography.

In March 2011, motivated by a desire to capture the flavour of recent gigs on film for posterity via DVD release, Bill Nelson and the Gentlemen Rocketeers played a concert of songs spanning Nelson's career before a live audience in front of in-house cameras at Metropolis Studios, London. Dissatisfied with the resultant sound mix, Nelson remixed it himself at his own expense. Using Nelson's remix, ITV Studios Home Entertainment released a DVD of the event. This initial release quickly sold out. A promised television broadcast of the recording only materialised in a few selected territories, excluding the UK. The video and audio recording has subsequently been reissued on other formats including CD and LP. However, having signed away his rights to these recordings, Nelson has made no money on these releases.

In 2011, Cherry Red Records' subsidiary Esoteric Recordings commenced a roll-out re-release of Nelson's back catalogue for many of his releases between 1981 and 2002 with the 8-CD compilation The Practice of Everyday Life which covered 40 years of recordings. Other notable reissues have included the 4-CD The Book Of Splendours and the 6-CD Noise Candy. The Esoteric deal did not involve a rights buyout, so Nelson is properly compensated for these reissues.

In 2013, Nelson finally began releasing his out of print CD back catalogue from 2002 onwards as digital downloads via Bandcamp.[27] In 2014, he also released the three volume compilation The Dreamer's Companion and in 2016 the original album Special Metal on this platform.

In addition to his numerous solo releases of recent years, Nelson has also made both film soundtracks and a number of collaborative recordings with other artists. In 2010, he released the soundtrack to the US TV documentary American Stamps as Picture Post while in 2014, he released the soundtrack to UK director Daisy Asquith's paean to cycling Velorama (a tie in with the 2014 Tour de France cycle race which went through Yorkshire) as Pedalscope. In 2012, Nelson finally completed The Last of the Neon Cynics, a long standing project with comic artist Matt Howarth: the latter supplied a comic (a PDF file) while the former provided a soundtrack to it. In 2014, he collaborated with fellow guitarist Reeves Gabrels (who has also worked with David Bowie and The Cure) on Fantastic Guitars.

In 2014, Nelson suffered a complete hearing loss in his right ear.[28] This put a stop to any plans for playing live (and by extension Nelsonica events built around live performance) for the foreseeable future. Yet he continued to record and release music despite this disability. The first album to be affected was Quiet Bells. According to Nelson's sleeve notes, "to slowly adjust to this problem, I decided to make an album that features mainly guitar, a gentle collection of instrumentals in a neo-minimalist, ambient style."

In 2014, Nelson was honoured by Wakefield Council with a Hollywood-style star on the city’s walk of fame.[28][29][30][31][32] He also designed an extremely limited edition 'Astroluxe Custom Ltd' guitar for the Eastwood company.

In 2016, 46 years after recording his original, debut album, Nelson released a sequel entitled New Northern Dream.

Discography

Albums

  • Northern Dream (1971) Smile
  • Axe Victim (1974) (Be-Bop Deluxe) Harvest
  • Futurama (1975) [Be-Bop Deluxe] Harvest
  • Sunburst Finish (1976) [Be-Bop Deluxe] Harvest
  • Modern Music (1976) [Be-Bop Deluxe] Harvest
  • Live! In The Air Age (1977) [Be-Bop Deluxe] Harvest
  • Drastic Plastic (1978) [Be-Bop Deluxe] Harvest
  • The Best of and the Rest Of Be-Bop Deluxe (1978) [Be-Bop Deluxe] Harvest
  • Sound-on-Sound (1979) Harvest
  • Quit Dreaming And Get on the Beam (1981) Mercury
  • Sounding The Ritual Echo (Atmospheres for Dreaming) (1981) Mercury
  • Das Kabinet (1981) Cocteau
  • The Love That Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart) (1982) Mercury
  • La Belle et la Bête (1982) Mercury
  • Chimera mini-LP (1983) Mercury
  • Savage Gestures For Charm's Sake (1983) Cocteau
  • The Two-Fold Aspect of Everything (1984) Cocteau
  • Trial by Intimacy (The Book of Splendours) - The Summer of God's Piano (1985) Cocteau
  • Trial by Intimacy (The Book of Splendours) - Chamber Of Dreams (Music from the Invisibility Exhibition) (1985) Cocteau
  • Trial by Intimacy (The Book of Splendours) - Pavilions of the Heart And Soul (1985) Cocteau
  • Trial by Intimacy (The Book of Splendours) - A Catalogue of Obsessions (1985) Cocteau
  • Chameleon (The Music of Bill Nelson) (1985) Themes International Music
  • Getting The Holy Ghost Across (1986) Portrait
  • Living for the Spangled Moment mini-LP (1986) Portrait
  • On A Blue Wing (1986) US version of Getting The Holy Ghost Across - different cover, slightly different track listing Portrait
  • Iconography (1986) [Orchestra Arcana] Cocteau
  • Map of Dreams (1987) Cocteau
  • Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights - The Angel at the Western Window (1987) Cocteau
  • Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights - The Book of Inward Conversation (1987) Cocteau
  • Optimism (1988) [Orchestra Arcana] Cocteau
  • Demonstrations of Affection - Chimes And Rings (1989) Cocteau
  • Demonstrations of Affection - Nudity (1989) Cocteau
  • Demonstrations of Affection - Heartbreakland (1989) Cocteau
  • Demonstrations of Affection - Details (1989) Cocteau
  • Simplex (1990) Cocteau
  • Altar Pieces (1990) limited edition audio cassette The Orpheus Organisation
  • Luminous (1991) Imaginary
  • Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars (1992) Virgin
  • Automatic (1994) [Channel Light Vessel] All Saints
  • Radioland (1994) [Be-Bop Deluxe] BBC Radio 1 live in concert 1976 Windsong
  • Crimsworth (Flowers, Stones, Fountains And Flames) (1995) Resurgence
  • Practically Wired or how I became…Guitarboy! (1995) All Saints
  • My Secret Studio Volume I - Buddha Head (1995) Resurgence
  • My Secret Studio Volume I - Electricity Made Us Angels (1995) Resurgence
  • My Secret Studio Volume I - Deep Dream Decoder (1995) Resurgence
  • My Secret Studio Volume I - Juke Box For Jet Boy (1995) Resurgence
  • After The Satellite Sings (1996) Resurgence
  • Excellent Spirits (1996) [Channel Light Vessel] All Saints
  • Confessions of a Hyperdreamer: My Secret Studio Volume II - Weird Critters (1997) Populuxe
  • Confessions of a Hyperdreamer: My Secret Studio Volume II - Magnificent Dream People (1997) Populuxe
  • Atom Shop (1998) Discipline Global Mobile
  • Tramcar To Tomorrow (1998) [Be-Bop Deluxe] John Peel BBC Radio 1 Sessions 1974-8 Hux
  • Whistling While The World Turns (2000) Lenin Imports
  • Electrotype - The Holyground Recordings 1968-1972 (2001) Holyground
  • Tremulous Antenna (2002) [Be-Bop Deluxe] Radioland remastered Hux
  • Noise Candy - Old Man Future Blows The Blues (2002) Toneswoon
  • Noise Candy - Stargazing With Ranger Bill (2002) Toneswoon
  • Noise Candy - Sunflower Dairy Product (2002) Toneswoon
  • Noise Candy - King Frankenstein (2002) Toneswoon
  • Noise Candy - Console (2002) Toneswoon
  • Noise Candy - Playtime (2002) Toneswoon
  • Caliban and the Chrome Harmonium (2002) Almost Opaque
  • Astral Motel (2002) Nelsonica convention CD Almost Opaque
  • Whimsy (2003) Fabled Quixote
  • Whimsy Two (A Garage Full of Clouds) (2003) Fabled Quixote
  • The Romance of Sustain Volume One: Painting With Guitars (2003) Universal Twang
  • Luxury Lodge (2003) Nelsonica convention CD Almost Opaque
  • Plaything (2003) Universal Twang
  • Dreamland To Starboard (2004) Universal Twang
  • Custom Deluxe (2004) Universal Twang
  • Satellite Songs (2004) Sonic Masonic
  • Wah-Wah Galaxy (2004) Nelsonica convention CD Almost Opaque
  • Rosewood: Ornaments And Graces For Acoustic Guitar Volume One (2005) Sonoluxe
  • Rosewood: Ornaments And Graces For Acoustic Guitar Volume Two (2005) Sonoluxe
  • Orpheus in Ultraland (2005) Nelsonica convention CD Discs of Ancient Odeon
  • The Alchemical Adventures of Sailor Bill (2005) a coastal song suite by [Bill Nelson and his Lighthouse Signal Mechanism Orchestra] Sonoluxe
  • Neptune's Galaxy (2006) Sonoluxe
  • Return To Jazz of Lights (2006) Sonoluxe
  • Arcadian Salon (2006) Nelsonica convention CD Discs of Ancient Odeon
  • Gleaming Without Lights (2006) Sonoluxe
  • Secret Club For Members Only (2007) Nelsonica convention CD Discs of Ancient Odeon
  • And We Fell Into A Dream (2007) Sonoluxe
  • Silvertone Fountains (2008) Sonoluxe
  • Illuminated at Dusk (2008) Sonoluxe
  • Mazda Kaleidoscope (2008) Sonoluxe
  • Clocks & Dials (2008) Nelsonica convention double CD Discs of Ancient Odeon
  • Golden Melodies of Tomorrow (2008) Sonoluxe
  • Fancy Planets (2009) Sonoluxe
  • Here Comes Mr Mercury (2009) Sonoluxe
  • The Dream Transmission Pavilion (2009) Nelsonica convention CD Discs of Ancient Odeon
  • Theatre of Falling Leaves (2009) Sonoluxe
  • Non-Stop Mystery Action (2009) Sonoluxe
  • Picture Post (2010) Sonoluxe
  • Modern Moods For Mighty Atoms (2010) Blue Shining Fountain Records
  • Captain Future's Psychotronic Circus (2010) Nelsonica convention CD Discs of Ancient Odeon
  • Fables And Dreamsongs (2010) Sonoluxe
  • Fantasmatron (2011) Sonoluxe
  • Hip Pocket JukeBox (2011) The Art School Ascended on Vapours of Roses art exhibition/concert CD
  • Signals From Realms of Light (2011) Sonoluxe
  • Model Village (2011) Sonoluxe Super Listener Series
  • Songs of the Blossom Tree Optimists (2012) Sonoluxe Super Listener Series
  • The Last of the Neon Cynics (2012) Enhanced CD includes PDF file of graphic novel by Matt Howarth Sonoluxe
  • Joy Through Amplification (2012) Sonoluxe
  • Return To Tomorrow (2012) Nelsonica convention CD Discs of Ancient Odeon
  • The Palace of Strange Voltages (2012) Sonoluxe
  • The Dreamshire Chronicles (2012) Sonoluxe
  • Blip! (2013) Sonoluxe
  • Blip!2 - The Tremulous Doo-Wah-Diddy (2013) Blip! Launch Party CD Sonoluxe
  • Albion Dream Vortex (2013) Sonoluxe
  • The Sparkle Machine (2013) Sonoluxe
  • Pedalscope (2014) Sonoluxe
  • Fantastic Guitars (2014) with Reeves Gabrels Sonoluxe
  • Astroloops (2014) given away with extremely limited edition Eastwood 'Astroluxe Custom Ltd' guitar designed by Bill Nelson Astrotone
  • Stereo Star Maps (2014) Sonoluxe
  • Shining Reflector (2014) Sonoluxe
  • Quiet Bells (2015) Sonoluxe
  • Swoons And Levitations (2015) Sonoluxe
  • The Years (2015) Sonoluxe
  • Plectrajet: Painting With Guitars Volume Two (2015) Sonoluxe
  • Electric Atlas (2015) Sonoluxe
  • Loom (Astroloops Volume Two) (2015) Astrotone
  • Perfect Monsters (2016) Sonoluxe
  • Special Metal (2016) Tremelo Boy Records (digital download only)
  • All That I Remember (2016) Sonoluxe Super Listener Series
  • New Northern Dream (2016) Sonoluxe Super Listener Series

Singles

DVDs

Compilation albums

Compilation albums with other artists

Compilation singles

Albums as producer

Singles as producer

Compilation albums as producer

Albums as collaborator

Singles as collaborator

Compilation albums as collaborator

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions about Bill Nelson". Billnelson.com. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Drastic Plastic" booklet
  3. 1 2 3 Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 683–685. ISBN 1-84195-017-3.
  4. ↑ Pete Prown; HP Newquist (1997). Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 86. ISBN 978-0793540426.
  5. ↑ "Singer Steven Wilson crowned prog rock king". BBC News. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  6. ↑ Reeves, Paul Sutton Music In Dreamland Bill Nelson & Be-Bop Deluxe (2008) p.152, Helter Skelter publishing ISBN 978-1-900924-04-7
  7. ↑ Reeves, Paul Sutton Music In Dreamland Bill Nelson & Be-Bop Deluxe (2008) p.184, Helter Skelter publishing ISBN 978-1-900924-04-7
  8. ↑ Robbins, Ira (1984). "Bill Nelson - Autodiscography". Billnelson.com.
  9. ↑ "John Leckie Q & A, Exclusive to Skids Fans Website". 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  10. 1 2 Nelson, Bill diary of a hyperdreamer (2004) p.563 Bill Nelson's collected diaries from between 1999 and 2003, previously published on his official website Pomona ISBN 1-904590-06-3
  11. ↑ Simpson, Bill (2007). "The Skids by Bill Simpson 2007". Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  12. ↑ Nelson, Bill diary of a hyperdreamer (2004) p.369 Bill Nelson's collected diaries from between 1999 and 2003, previously published on his official website Pomona ISBN 1-904590-06-3
  13. ↑ Nelson, Bill diary of a hyperdreamer (2004) Pp.394, 397, 401-3 Bill Nelson's collected diaries from between 1999 and 2003, previously published on his official website Pomona ISBN 1-904590-06-3
  14. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 389. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  15. 1 2 "Judgement - Nelson v. Rye". Ucc.ie. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  16. ↑ "Voiceprint Labels". Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  17. ↑ Nelson, Bill diary of a hyperdreamer (2004) p.353 Bill Nelson's collected diaries from between 1999 and 2003, previously published on his official website Pomona ISBN 1-904590-06-3
  18. ↑ Nelson, Bill diary of a hyperdreamer (2004) Pp. 386, 396, 406-7, Bill Nelson's collected diaries from between 1999 and 2003, previously published on his official website Pomona ISBN 1-904590-06-3
  19. ↑ Nelson, Bill diary of a hyperdreamer (2004) Pp.429-31 Bill Nelson's collected diaries from between 1999 and 2003, previously published on his official website Pomona ISBN 1-904590-06-3
  20. ↑ Nelson, Bill diary of a hyperdreamer (2004) Pp. 425-31 Bill Nelson's collected diaries from between 1999 and 2003, previously published on his official website Pomona ISBN 1-904590-06-3
  21. ↑ Nelson, Bill diary of a hyperdreamer (2004) Pp.453-463 Bill Nelson's collected diaries from between 1999 and 2003, previously published on his official website Pomona ISBN 1-904590-06-3
  22. ↑ "Sound on Sound Bill Nelson Shop". 2003. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  23. ↑ Humberstone, Nigel (1995). "Bill Nelson: Guitar Boy In Wonderland". Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  24. 1 2 "BILL NELSON: Be-Bop Deluxe And Beyond Tour". 2004. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  25. ↑ Nelson, Bill diary of a hyperdreamer vol.2 (2015) p.116 Bill Nelson's collected diaries from between 2005 and 2006, previously published on his official website Pomona 978-190459-031-6
  26. ↑ "William's Study (Diary Of A Hyperdreamer)". 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  27. ↑ "Bandcamp Bill Nelson Shop". 2003. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  28. 1 2 "'Bill Nelson - why deafness won't stop me playing music". 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  29. ↑ "Musician Bill Nelson honoured by Wakefield Star". 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  30. ↑ "Musician Bill Nelson to receive Wakefield Star". 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  31. ↑ "Musician Bill Nelson takes his place on Wakefield's walk of stars". 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
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