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Jackie Leven performs in the Musician Tent at the Summer Sundae, 2005
Jackie Leven performs in the Musician Tent at the Summer Sundae, 2005

Jackie Leven, born June 18, 1950 in Fife, Scotland is a Scottish songwriter and folk music musician. Summer Sundae (also called the Summer Sundae Weekender) is an annual Music festival held in Leicester, England which focuses on indie Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Fife ( Gaelic: Fìobha) is a Council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous

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Biography

Jackie Leven made his first forays into the music business in the late 1960s under the pseudonym "John St Field" and recorded one album Control in 1971.

In the following years he travelled, but enthusiastic about Punk he formed the band Doll by Doll in 1978 who, despite having a unique and powerful live act, never broke through to the mainstream. Doll by Doll was a London based rock band formed by Jackie Leven in 1975. They released four albums between 1979 and 1982. Blending LSD visions, folk, blues, celtic, psychedelic and punk influences the band, who featured Leven as main songwriter, often explored the darker side of human nature (Butcher Boy/Sleeping Partners/The Palace of Love) contrasted by the tough almost macho tenderness of Stripshow/Chances/Janice/Highland Rain/Hey Sweetheart.

After Doll by Doll disintegrated in 1983 Leven embarked on his solo career. However following a vicious and unprovoked attack in the street during the recording of his first solo album in 1984, Jackie was left unable to speak for nearly two years -- the after effects of near strangulation. During that time he slid into heroin addiction. Heroin ( INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from Morphine, a derivative Despite that he, with fellow ex-Doll by Doll's Joe Shaw and David Macintosh plus ex-Sex Pistol Glen Matlock, released a single Big Tears under the name "Concrete Bulletproof Invisible" which was a Melody Maker single of the week in 1988. The Sex Pistols are an English Punk rock band that formed in London in 1975 Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly Music Newspaper He eventually cured himself of his addiction though a mixture of acupuncture and psychic healing, this led him to form the CORE trust, which favours a holistic approach to the treatment of heroin addiction. History Antiquity In China, the practice of acupuncture can perhaps be traced as far back as Distinguish from the suffix -holism, which describes addictions

In 1994 his solo career started in earnest with the release of the album The Mystery of Love is Greater than the Mystery of Death, which earned much critical praise. Since then he has been extremely prolific, releasing another 12 official solo albums and a number of fanclub only releases, including a joint album with crime writer Ian Rankin Jackie Leven Said, featuring the keyboards of Michael Cosgrave. A crime writer is an author of Crime fiction. Crime writers are often but not exclusively authors of Detective fiction, which may form part or all of their work Ian Rankin OBE, DL, (born 28 April 1960 in Cardenden, Fife) is a Scottish Crime writer. His most recent release, in 2007, is the album Oh What a Blow That Phantom Dealt Me!.

In 2006 Jackie released the album Songs For Lonely Americans using the pseudonym Sir Vincent Lone. A second Sir Vincent Lone CD When The Bridegroom Comes (Songs For Women) is now available, initially from live shows and Cooking Vinyl with a full release in February 2008. . . this is what Jackie had to say about SVL from the Cooking Vinyl webpage


A Message From Jackie Leven

Some years ago I noticed that I was writing a lot more songs than I was ever going to record and get released, especially in these times where you can only release one studio album every eighteen months. As I am a writer of genius, this began to worry me more and more. So I went to see my Cooking Vinyl boss, Martin Goldschmidt, to ask him if I could make more records. He said no. I said to him 'look, The Beatles once released four albums in one year, and nobody said to them, hey that's too many records in one year'. Martin said 'Jackie, this is not 1967 and you are not The Beatles'. We talked some more and we agreed that I could make records under a different name - that name is Sir Vincent Lone.

Guitar details

Leven plays in an open E tuning whose notes are from lowest to highest E Ab B E Ab B (as told by Jackie himself). This tuning gives many very distinctive voicings and a unique playing style.

Discography

As John St Field

Leven admits this is probably his favourite album and he loves the bass playing which is all his!


As a member of Doll by Doll

As a solo artist

Persondata
NAME Leven, Jackie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION musician, songwriter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1950-6-18
PLACE OF BIRTH FifeScotland, GB
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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Cooking Vinyl is a UK -based Independent record company, founded in 1986. Ian Rankin OBE, DL, (born 28 April 1960 in Cardenden, Fife) is a Scottish Crime writer. Johnny Cash (born J R Cash; February 26 1932 - September 12 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American country Singer-songwriter. Cooking Vinyl is a UK -based Independent record company, founded in 1986. A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Fife ( Gaelic: Fìobha) is a Council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located
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