1948-01-01. $1.98 - Key West, FlNeed info on this Key West Florida band. Who it is, where it is, when it is and how much is all you need. I am sure he will not mind me saying that he only had two interests..music and girls anything else was largely irrelevant to him. Shell want ginger biscuits and Earl Grey. That was long before there was a Marina, Holiday Inn , Princes Quay shopping centre and Hull Truck Theatre (on the site of the old Mecca Ballroom) and so much else. He had more to worry about with the state of the peas than the Ents Commitee I think. Certain people also didnt like certain people. Ed Bicknell: Managing Dire Straits, The Who Live at Hull, and the Union Ents Committee Continuing our series of first hand accounts of student life, music, and protest in Hull during the late 1960s, we were pleased to receive contact from Ed Bicknell, (BA Social Studies, 1969). In the last 12 months, Bicknells share of Dire Straits back catalog royalties which covers a slice of the profits from all six studio albums, including the runaway hit Brothers in Arms, as well as solo releases from band members John Illsley and Mark Knopfler has earned about $338,000. Can I have it back please? At the Manfred Mann concert at Hull Baths I remember driving Manfred and Paul Jones back to their hotel in the centre of Hull, there were 5 of us in a clapped out mini. The others were a bit later for me ( great lineup though). Marty Bicknell is a chief executive officer of Mariner Wealth Advisors headquartered in Leawood, Kan. However being like you in my seventh decade my winking days are over. After graduation Eds career took him into the music industry where he managed British rock band Dire Straits for many years. Amazing how you forget what you KNOW and then someone flips the switch. This English business-related biographical article is a stub. Yet one of Knopflers new songs immediately stood out from the rest. We played him Money For Nothing and he turned round and said: Youve done it this time, you bastards. Mark said if he thought it was so good why didnt he go and add something to it. Malcolm and Mike both died in car crashes when they were quite young . John Illsley and I meet at a coffee shop in Notting Hill on a bright spring morning. She attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts[3] in Dallas, and later studied at Southern Methodist University[4] until she joined a band and decided to focus on songwriting. i signed the booking contract for a dire straights gig at hull university as vice president around 1978-you must have been the manager ! But in spirit it was closest to another great record released that year, Bruce Springsteens symphony to the working man, Darkness On The Edge Of Town. On the other they had a liberal bias for letting us follow our own path. Wow. So put 20 aside and Ill let you know when Ive done the rest. He was Editor-in-Chief of the music magazines Q and Kerrang! He says of his distinguished career: Everything I learned at University came into play, even parts of the degree!. Everyone was calling Springsteen Boss and he completely called the shots. I would love to be in contact again. I hadnt ever thought this would be possible, Bicknell muses, adding that its very unusual for artist managers to have a post-term commission in perpetuity, like the one he does, in the first place, so he didnt have any prior cases to look at when going into the deal. Knopfler introduced his brother and Illsley to Pick Withers, a propulsive drummer hed first met while doing an aborted session with Rod Clements of Lindisfarne. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. The video for Picture Perfect Morning's "Good Times" was included as part of the multimedia samples featured on Microsoft's Windows 95 Companion CD-ROM. They recorded one album, MissingPresumed Having a Good Time, toured the UK and performed two residencies at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club in London. People love music. They embarked on another mammoth tour on the back of it, playing close to 300 shows in two years. Very little surprised my Dad. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Very different times. The same goes for an affair, but it is less likely to be as successful as a relationship can be. By the time of Making Movies he was king, recalls David. The Ben mentioned above was indeed Ben Newlove who was the catering manager employed by the university not the union (we ran the bars he ran the food). She had read three books a week, interviewed authors,. Amazing the changes to the City. Really dreadful. In January 1978 Ed became their manager, and continued to manage Mark Knopfler as a solo performer for several years after the dissolution of Dire Straits in 1993. What an impressive life! Lyrically evocative, beautifully played and sung by Knopfler in a laconic drawl, the tracks sounded fresh and different. In this hothouse atmosphere the Knopflers were soon at each others throats. I dont know how PC has the time to write. 2 on Barron's 2014 list of Top Independent Wealth Advisors in the. BICKNELL REUNION IN NEW ZEALAND 9th JUNE 2007. Next up was the live double Alchemy, taped on the Love Over Gold tour and showcasing a band at the peak of its powers. Katherine Bicknell. The compact disc had also arrived, and Brothers In Arms exquisite production was tailor-made for the new format. Introducing Muddy Waters, Hull 1968 University of Hull Alumni Association, Promoter 101 Podcast | Creative Law Network, The 1960s In Your Words: campus life as remembered by alumni University of Hull Alumni Association, I was on campus and the banner with us behind you, opportunity ahead of you felt personal to me. Personal relationships were in trouble and it put a terrible strain on everybody emotionally and physically. I met recently with Ed Bicknell and he entertained myself and my wife for hours with his wonderful tales of the music industry.it was brilliant. Id like to try something else now, he said at the time. Subsequently released on 13 May 1985, Brothers in Arms proved to be a cast-iron phenomenon. In this piece, Ed recalls those times and shares some inside stories. The S&T discos were hosted by (cant remember his name) but after he graduated, I took over the S&T nights along with many other private disco nights in the smaller Uni building rooms as well as in The Lawns etc. Alfred James Bicknell Jnr, 1864 - 1929 & Caroline Emma Cragg (1st Wife) 1865 - 1899 . Hi Pete He wrote terrific songs, too: from Sultans Of Swing to Romeo And Juliet, Tunnel Of Love to Private Investigations. Are they supposed to be the same person? I had a look at the old refectory (on the left after you come in) where I used to put on bands (and the one on the right- now a restaurant/ snack bar I think) which we used for discos (pre disco) The centre room/ restaurant right in front as you enter was The Buttery bar back then, and the centre room upstairs we used for films on weekends. The band was Dire Straits and that night changed my life. Someone knows Bens surname! Carpe Diem, Sir Edward Bicknell. Brickell had a role as a folk singer in the 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July. He would have been DELIGHTED by your achievements ( maybe you told him?). The brothers had an explosive argument and David Knopfler quit. Ed, we have all got a lot to thank you for. "I believe that she explained my association with Time Team, the archaeological action programme on Channel 4 Television. Blimey. Brilliant. I slept with him and John Hall once . At its core, Money For Nothing was an old-school boogie, but a dash of studio polish, Stings mannered backing vocal and a computer-generated promo video were enough to turn it, and Dire Straits themselves, into the very embodiment of 80s naff. Royalty Exchange has brokered close to $70 million worth of transactions so far, making deals for songs recorded by artists from Barry White to Coolio.The company determines the starting value of catalogs by tagging price values to metrics like a bands income track record and the number of awards it has won; it also works with young artists as well as established acts, seeing itself as a platform through which music creators can liquidate their product into crucial funds and cash-flush investors can put their money toward a cause they genuinely support. Further research is warranted. As for the Pope of Music..that title belongs to Pope Paul McGuiness who U2 presented with a purple throne when he stepped down. I paid my first visit to Hull for many years about 6 weeks ago ( October 2015) to give advice about turning the Holy Trinity Church into a venue ( whilst keeping it as a place of worship), via an introduction from Jane Bennett Powell, who as many will know runs the London Alumni group ( thank you Jane). Having said all that, the best memory for me? Edie Arlisa Brickell (born March 10, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter widely known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went to No. Iovine brought in Springsteens E Street Band pianist Roy Bittan, and his heart-stopping fills gave wings to another epic, Tunnel Of Love, on which Knopfler located the sweet spot between the E Street Bands hulking engine and Dylans rolling thunder. Three years later his elder brother guested on his debut solo album, but the two of them were estranged. He ran the Union as a kind of full time General Manager on the payroll. Maria Bicknell wife Sarah Reed daughter Mary Dyer daughter John Bicknell, Jr son About John Bicknell, Sr concerns This John resembles Edward Bicknell. Ive been trying to do a book for years and Ive got two chapters done. No one, least of all me, took any notice of fire limits. parish Selbourne County/Island Hampshire Country England Registration district Alton Sub-registration district Binstead ED, institution, or vessel 13 Household schedule number 30 Piece 705 Folio 137 Page number 6 . The Manfred Mann concert wasnt in the Uni but at the local Public Baths (it might even not have been an Ed Bicknell spectacular) and they turned up absolutely stoned and could hardly play their instruments. Great fun. I also remember many good evenings at the Folk Club dont know if Ed was responsible for bringing these people in, but Michael Chapman, Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, Tony Capstick, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick & the wonderful Watersons spring to mind. Bath Ed Bicknell is a British music manager and drummer, best known for managing rock band Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, Gerry Rafferty, Bryan Ferry, Scott Walker and The Blue Nile. Peter Grant once said to me: When youve had an experience like I had with Led Zeppelin and you had with Dire Straits, there is no point trying to reproduce it. And he was exactly right. It cant have done other than develop us all. She also sang a cover version of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" in the 1990 film Flashback. On one hand our parents were horrified that we wanted to make a career of pop music, David Knopfler says now. Ed Bicknell was Chairman of Hull University entertainments committee from October 1967 to June 1969, when he first got a taste for the music industry. [1][2] She was raised with her older sister, Laura Strain. Ed. It cant have done other than develop us all. Air Studios, later razed to the ground by a hurricane, was an idyllic location, and the tranquillity of island life seemed to relax Knopfler to his task. Career. Im absolutely sure in my own mind that Mark would take his copy and put it straight in the bin.. Hearing the latter, and in particular their bespectacled lead guitarist Hank Marvin, opened up a future filled with possibilities for Mark Knopfler. As the 80s unwound Mark Knopfler was like a man released. David- you are correct- Dire Straits played the Union on November 9 1978 . We want to hear it. [6][7] In 2018 they announced their latest album, Rocket, along with dates for a US tour. Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Woody Woodmansey. Maria Bicknell, wife of the celebrated painter John Constable, was a daughter of the Solicitor to the Admiralty. Using 500 Illsley had inherited from his grandmother, the band cut a demo at the tiny Pathway Studios in north London. I recognized the coat hooks! When the family moved to Newcastle in the 50s their English mother became a headmistress, and both boys attended a local grammar school in Gosforth. He was far more withdrawn then as well. Whilst working at NEMS in December 1977, he got a call from Phonogram A&R man John Stainze who had just signed a new band, Dire Straits, to the Vertigo label. What a very sweet and generous thing to say. Fifteen-minute opener Telegraph Road was pieced together during sound-checks on the Making Movies tour and unfolded like a literary novel, documenting Americas industrial revolution. He was peerless as craftsman and virtuoso, able to plug into rocks classic lineage and bend it to sometimes wild forms. When I went into the dressing room to meet the band, the hem of the coat caught the red Stratocaster and knocked it off its stand to the floor. Davids going wasnt nice but it was absolutely inevitable, says Ed Bicknell, who says that same issue of control led to Pick Witherss departure within two years. Much of The Whos Live In Leeds was actually recorded at Hull City Hall (after Id left) but as Pete Townshend (sorry, name drop) said to me many years later Live In Hull doesnt have quite the same ring about it. In 1985, Brickell was invited to sing one night with friends from her high school in a local folk rock group, New Bohemians. The two of them hit it off and began performing together as an acoustic duo called Duolian Stringpickers, and spent the next few years playing gigs in the north-east. So good to read. If you look up Introducing Muddy Waters, Hull 1968 on this site, youll find my recollections which I wrote in response to Ed and you get a mention too. But he hadnt developed his own style. He didnt have the confidence he acquired later as a musician, and didnt see himself as a singer at all. Reg was doing his Jerry Lee Lewis impersonation with Baldry and Elton Dean was sax player which combined with John Baldry is where the name came from. During that time he promoted shows by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Moody Blues, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Family, Ralph Mctell, Bert Jansch, The Kinks, Jethro Tull, John Mayall, Pink Floyd and numerous others. Im very late coming to this correspondence but remember the era very well. The Union Ball in Feb 1968 which featured Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity (number 4 single from memory), Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Blossom Toes, disco, steel band AND a meal was priced at around 1.25p. If I recall correctly it was normally five shillings ( equivalent to four pints of Hull Bitter !!) None of them needs the money. EVERY day. Now I need to be politically correct ( not something on the screen in the late Sixties), but it has to be said that Hull was a very. He appeared more single-minded and attentive to detail than ever, rigorously putting the group through their paces for a month before whisking them off to Air Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat to cut Brothers In Arms. Why the biggest-selling British rock band of the 80s deserve to be rescued from the dustbin of history. The songs were rejected by the record company and remain unreleased. For the ensuing tour Knopfler brought in American guitarist Hal Lindes to fill his brothers shoes and fellow Geordie Alan Clark on keyboards. My memory is getting a little fuzzy and I might be wrong but I also think I saw these at the Uni or The Lawns: Neil Innes (in Bonzos or maybe Grimms), Suzi Quatro, Steeleye Span, Cockney Rebel, Rory Gallagher, Leo Sayer, Sparks, 10cc, Curved Air, Fairport Convention, Man and many others. The only one that found it hard to get a floor was Long John Baldrey but thats another tale and these days he would have far less of a problem. Paul McGuinness sat down with former Dire Straits manager Ed Bicknell at London's Royal Garden Hotel for a wide-ranging discussion about his career and thoughts on the music business as part of . That was a long time ago! One of the most talented Hull student generations had the very best in music. Ed Bicknell says that people ask him regularly when Dire Straits are going to get back together. On Beacon Hill 9 - Ed Bicknell, manager of Dire Straits; Our mission statement and statutes; Phyllis Bicknell Carroll's 1981 Supplement . There was no election as theoretically required. Pete Rowntree !!! Great stuff Steve. In 1976 he struck out on his own on a trip to America, travelling the country on a Greyhound bus and starting work on what would become Dire Straits first set of songs. Knopfler saw this as the end of an era for the band. 4 comes from Ed Bicknell - legendary artist manager to Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits, Bryan Ferry Scott Walker - and his a wonderful. The two fell in love in 1809 but, partly because of the rector's opposition, did not marry until 1816. THEN. J. Mayne, 1951, p.25). I feel/am a generation older graduated 1966. So with no money, no immediate prospects and in spite of the fact he had NO acts, I took up his offer and some years later had the good fortune and HUGE luck to be asked to see a new band looking for management playing in a tiny London club for 25 whilst renting a PA system for 75. Then it was far, far easier to just do things and then manage the consequences. It doesnt sound a lot compared with todays kit but was still plenty loud enough even to fill the whole Lawns bar, dance floor and surrounding seating areas. Am in touch a lot with our mutual friend Paul Charles and waiting for his new book to come out.Cheers Andrew. Finally! Tensions within the band were brewing, intensified by the claustrophobia engendered by being constantly on the road or in the studio, and arising most damagingly between the two brothers. Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed_Bicknell&oldid=1144741890, This page was last edited on 15 March 2023, at 09:28. Fitting that there is a Memorial Stage in his name in Queens Gardens. Of the 29,000 marriage licences issued in London between 1521 and 1869, the name Bicknell is registered only once. Calling all Drama graduates from 1974 to 1978! We were at Hull for a Alumni event (Les Eastham also there) and I took some pictures of what remains of Needler.just the old main building and that is a shellthe rest is an Aldi supermarket..so where your room was is probably the bacon counter. I was at Hull studying law with Fred Fox who was a friend of Ed Bicknell.I also failed an audition to join the Malcolm Haigh Group.Nice to hear about Hull in those days.I remember seeing the Bonzo Dog band and The Move. More for the book A glut of boldly ambitious records came out in 1980 Springsteens The River, John Lennons Double Fantasy, Sandinista! The first album ( the one with Sultans of Swing on it), had just been released ( June 8) and that show was in a nice run, Keele, Hull, York, Sheffield Universities. When I was 19 in 1971, you persuaded John Sherry RIP to lend me 100 so that I could take over 3 more clubs bringing my total to 6. . Continuing our series of first hand accounts of student life, music, and protest in Hull during the late 1960s, we were pleased to receive contact from Ed Bicknell, (BA Social Studies, 1969). document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Ed Bicknell: Managing Dire Straits, The Who Live at Hull, and the Union Ents Committee. You think the tax man is going to take it away or that this is going to stop tomorrow., Bicknell suggests that the tension between the Knopflers ran deeper than Dire Straits. Never lose sight of who you married. Early life [ edit] ), and we went round the US, Europe several times and did several lengthy Royal Albert Hall seasons with him. I recall the best gig there was Cream. By then Mark had cottoned on that this was his group and he edged himself into pole position.. Many Thanks. 125. I loved Eds comments about the lack of red tape needed to put on an event in those days. Very droll is our Pete. He extricated the group from their deal with Warner Bros. 4 on the Billboard albums chart. I arrived at Hull just after Ed left and joined Ents Comm in my second year. His brother and future Dire Straits bandmate David followed three years later. Free from the confines of the studio, Dire Straits were able to stretch out and take flight, nowhere more so than on Sultans Of Swing and Telegraph Road. Though we have one alum who has written to us about The Smiths in their heyday of 1984 on campus. Ed took care of the Students Union Entertainments during that time and was responsible for bringing an incredible list of performers onto campus and into the city. People love music. By the end of it he was their manager and within two months Dire Straits were recording their first album at Island Records Basing Street studios with producer Muff Winwood, elder brother of Stevie and former bassist with the Spencer Davies Group. Whats odd is that I spent three years in Hull 1966-69 and didnt know the Church existed ! The mushy peas David refers to. Music was a fact of life in the Knopfler house. Hi Ed, you were the funkiest drummer in the Front Line Band, I can remember saying to you after you decided to leave the band & concentrate on managing groups that you would not make any money! He returned to Newcastle. MTV was about to launch in the UK, and the music station leapt upon the animated promo for Money For Nothing, choosing it as the first video to be aired on the channel. The old Tech Comm equipment was used for the Uni based Soul & Tamla discos (every Thursday?) My email is edward.bicknell@yahoo.co.uk. Required fields are marked *. Yet his formidable talent was yoked to an iron will. [20] The track appeared on the accompanying soundtrack, Music from The American Epic Sessions. As their whirlwind schedule intensified, the first strains began to show. [5], The band sporadically played gigs after the album Ghost of a Dog in 1990, and in 2006 released Stranger Things. Ed Bicknell was born in 1948 and educated at Yorkshire's Tadcaster Grammar School. In quick time Knopfler was fted by the rock aristocracy. Yep Ed Bicknell did an amazing job booking the best bands; some who were already famous and some who us mere mortals had never heard of but were usually destined for future fame such as Jethro Tull, who Ed got for a pittance and I think we only paid 2s and not the usual 5s. Not sure how this works but Ive attempted to send my email. Ed Bicknell managed Mark Knopfler for several years after the split but has now retired. Im only just catching up with this conversation, as have been away in an area with no wi-fi. Actually there was one Manfred Mann, who we put on at the Beverley Road swimming baths with a wood floor over the pool. We were changed by it. Im sure every other further education establishment across the UK was then and still are, but in terms of Union jobs, running the Entertainments had a certain cachet that didnt really come with the North Sea Fishing Society or the Mens Knitting Association ( no offence intended). Checkmate Coaching And Consulting LLC is a Kentucky Klc - Limited-Liability Company filed On May 24, 2021. During that time he promoted shows by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Moody Blues, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Family, Ralph Mctell, Bert Jansch, The Kinks . ), but here we go: I kept all of the contracts and I cant remember a bad show. Yes! Having run his race with Dire Straits, Knopfler has since contented himself in a quieter, more comfortable niche composing soundtracks, collaborating with the likes of Chet Atkins and Emmylou Harris, and making a succession of roots-based solo albums, of which the latest, and possibly best, is this years Tracker. Our Story Of The Week No. I cant pay you anything but you can have half of everything you earn for the office is stamped into my mind as if it were yesterday. The album sold more than a million copies on CD alone, taking Dire Straits to a new generation of consumers who saw music a status symbol.
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