It’s yours to keep forever. You own the product, you are not renting it from a ‘DSP’ (digital service provider) Baltin: Like you say, you haven't done a video for 30 years. It can become exciting again to do these things. Was that the case for you? O'Sullivan: The last producer didn't come to my home to hear the melodies, to start with. I went to see him in London. But because I'd written all the lyrics this time, he was able to hear 14, 15 songs completed. And then he would choose the 12 or 13 that he wanted to go with. So I'm happy with every song. For me, as a songwriter, success for me is when I've spent the time it's taken to write a song, and usually lyrics take a long time. When I finish that, I'm really happy with that. Nobody else is hearing. My family are not hearing. I'm not saying, "Come and listen to this." It's just me. I'm really happy with that. And then I move on the next one. But I'm enjoying, for example, "Love Casualty." I liked playing that because it has a kind of Stones guitar riff. I had a lot of fun spending the day doing that riff before I got round to write the lyric for it, again, not knowing what it was gonna be about. So things like that are what inspire me or spur me on. I always like "If Only Love Had Ears" because it has that nice musical intro. So everything was built around the excitement and the joy I was getting out of coming up with each song before they finished. O'Sullivan: Yeah. but it didn't take much practice to do it. And so we had great fun doing it 'cause as you know, on videos, you're doing it about 100 times. We had fun 'cause that's the first time I met KT, so here we are together, singing together, and yeah, it was great. Good fun. We're doing more. I think that there will be another one. I think the song "Let Me Know" is being released. I think that's kind of a good pop single. I think that may well be at the next video that we will do, so yeah. Born in Waterford, Ireland, O'Sullivan settled in Swindon, England, as a child. In 1967, O'Sullivan began his music career. Worldwide, he has charted 16 top 40 records including six No. 1 songs, the first of which was 1970's " Nothing Rhymed". Throughout his career, O'Sullivan has recorded 19 studio albums. The music magazine Record Mirror voted him the top UK male singer of 1972. [4] He has received three Ivor Novello Awards, including "Songwriter of the Year" in 1973. [5] Early life [ edit ]

a b c d Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nded.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 318. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.

Driven is released on 22 July 2022 via BMG. TECHNICAL NOTES: This blu-ray audio requires a blu-ray player. Decoding the Dolby Atmos mix requires a Dolby Atmos-certified soundbar or a Dolby Atmos-compatible AV Receiver/Amp. The Dolby Atmos mix will 'fold down' to 5.1 or stereo if a Dolby Atmos decoder is not detected. a b Hutchinson, Martin (26 March 2012). "Interview: Gilbert O Sullivan". Southern Daily Echo . Retrieved 27 August 2020. O'Sullivan's disc sales exceeded ten million in 1972 and made him the top star of the year. [11] O'Sullivan's success led to his taking part in the BBC's anniversary programme Fifty Years of Music in November 1972. O'Sullivan was ranked by Record Mirror as the number 1 male singer of 1972, [28] and in May 1973, he won an Ivor Novello award for "British Songwriter of the Year." [29] Lewis, John (28 September 2007). " 'The equal of any songwriter' ". Financial Times . Retrieved 14 June 2022. O'Sullivan's gifts have been long-established, and his observational style of songwriting, unique blend of melodic craftsmanship, witty wordplay and humour, chimed with the public on both sides of the Atlantic early in his career, as songs like 'Alone Again (Naturally)', and 'Clair' topped the charts in the UK and/or America (in 1972).

I never lost the joy!': singer Gilbert O'Sullivan on love, loss and lawsuits". the Guardian. 8 June 2022. The hits continued in the 1970s, even if – for one reason or another – things were quieter in subsequent decades, but the music endured via regular compilations and Gilbert's songs featuring in films (including 1999 family favourite Stuart Little).Gambaccini, Paul (2 August 1973). "Gilbert O: He Knows He's a Mechanical Man". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016 . Retrieved 4 May 2018. That’s not to say there were not new long-players from time to time, and indeed his last outing, 2018’s well-received Gilbert O’Sullivan, was this 19th studio album and reached number 20 in the UK charts.

The third in the SDE Surround Series is an exclusive blu-ray audio that is channeling some classic seventies songwriting vibes via the brand new album from the legendary Irish-born singer and musician, Gilbert O'Sullivan.Rees, Caroline (14 August 2016). "Gilbert O'Sullivan: 'Success was the postman walking up the garden whistling my song' ". The Telegraph . Retrieved 28 December 2018– via www.telegraph.co.uk. Murphy, Adrienne. "Happy Birthday Gilbert O'Sullivan: Revisiting a Classic Interview". Hot Press . Retrieved 14 June 2022. Baltin: Was there one song early on that jump-started this record and set the tone for what this record was going to be, both musically and lyrically? On 24 August 2018, O'Sullivan released his 19th studio album, Gilbert O'Sullivan. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 20, his first UK charting studio album in over 40 years. [41] Baltin: I just was with Rod Stewart last week. And he has a project he's doing with Jools Holland, which is taking a lot of older songs and doing them with a show tune type vibe. And a lot of these songs, I feel like you have that same sort of timeless old show tune melody.

Reflective songs come in the form of Let Me Know – and another instantly memorable standout on Driven – Blue Anchor Bay. The former recalls the first decade of Gilbert’s career, in which he resisted serious relationships for fear that it might have an effect on his songwriting. The latter, finds him reflecting upon simpler times, retreating to his teenage years in Swindon and the regular school trips which would see him and his friends head out to the Somerset beach immortalised in the song’s title. The result is the sort of sepia jazz standard one might sooner expect to find on an album by Leon Redbone or Mose Allison. a b c d e Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.411. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. O'Sullivan purposely avoided dating at the peak of his career; he feared that doing so would inhibit his songwriting abilities. [43] In January 1980, O'Sullivan married his Norwegian girlfriend Aase Brekke. Later that year, the first of their two daughters, Helen-Marie, was born. Tara was born two years later. [44] Today BMG release Take Love, the first single to be taken from Gilbert O’Sullivan’s twentieth studio album, Driven, out July 22nd. Take Love finds Gilbert and guest vocalist, Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall trading lines over a sizzlingly energetic R&B arrangement. Stanley, Bob (25 August 2011). "Gilbert O'Sullivan: time for a reappraisal?". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 March 2017.O'Sullivan is also noted for his role in bringing about the practice of clearing samples in hip hop music as a result of the 1991 court case Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records, Inc., [37] in which he sued rapper Biz Markie over the rights to use a sample of his song "Alone Again (Naturally)". [6] He won 100% of the royalties and made sampling an expensive undertaking. [38] Gilbert’s new album Driven follows his acclaimed Ethan Johns-produced, self-titled 2018 album which was awarded 4-stars in MOJO magazine. The thirteen songs that comprise Driven reveal a songwriter whose ability to sniff out hitherto undiscovered sources of low-hanging melodic fruit is keener than ever. Produced by Andy Wright and recorded with a live band at the legendary RAK studios, the unexpected velocity at which the songs came together bears testament to the instant chemistry generated between O’Sullivan, Wright and a house band featuring Pat Murdoch (Beyonce, Simply Red, Chrissie Hynde), Rich Milner (Morcheeba, James Morrison) and Geoff Holdroyde (Take That, Big Linda).