Bill Nelson


 * (This page covers Bill Nelson's career outside Be Bop Deluxe, including with Bill Nelson's Red Noise.)

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. (Read more at Wikipedia.)

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Festive Fifty Entries

 * None

Sessions

 * Two sessions, first credited to "Bll Nelson's Red Noise". No known commercial release.
 * See also Be Bop Deluxe.

1. Recorded: 1979-02-17. First broadcast: 1979-02-23 (Friday Rock Show). Repeated: 29 March 1979. 2. Recorded: 1981-06-02. First broadcast: 15 June 1981. Repeated: 02 July 1981, 31 August 1981.
 * Furniture Music / Stay Young / Out Of Touch / Don't Touch Me I'm Electric
 * Rooms With Brittle Views / Stay Young / Sleep Cycle / Jazz

Other Shows Played

 * 1972
 * 25 April 1972: Photograph (A Beginning) (LP – Northern Dream) Smile
 * 26 May 1972: Northern Dreamer (1957) (LP - Northern Dream) Smile


 * 1979
 * 05 February 1979: Furniture Music (7") Harvest (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)
 * 06 February 1979: Don't Touch Me I'm Electric / For Young Moderns / Stop Go Stop (LP-Sound On Sound) Harvest (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)
 * 14 February 1979: Out Of Touch / A Better Home In The Phantom Zone / Substitute Flesh (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)
 * 17 February 1981: A Better Home In The Phantom Zone (album - Sound On Sound) Harvest (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)
 * 21 February 1979: Acquitted By Mirrors (single b/w Furniture Music) Harvest (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)
 * 07 March 1979: Don't Touch Me (LP-Sound On Sound) Harvest (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)
 * 14 March 1979: Radar In My Heart (LP - Sound On Sound) Harvest (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)
 * 15 March 1979: Out Of Touch (LP - Sound On Sound) Harvest (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)
 * 27 March 1979: Revolt Into Style (LP - Sound On Sound) Harvest (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)
 * 16 April 1979: Stop / Go / Stop (LP - Sound On Sound) Harvest (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)


 * 1980
 * 21 May 1980: Do You Dream In Colour? (7”) Cocteau
 * 22 May 1980: Ideal Homes (7" - You Dream In Colour?) Cocteau
 * 22 May 1980: Instantly Yours (7" - You Dream In Colour?) Cocteau
 * 22 May 1980: Atom Man Loves Radium Girl (7” – Do You Dream In Colour?) Cocteau
 * 28 May 1980: Atom Man Loves Radium Girl (7” – Do You Dream In Colour?) Cocteau
 * 03 June 1980: Do You Dream In Colour? (7") Cocteau (John's playing of a new single by Bill Nelson prompts him to dig out Be Bop Deluxe's first single from 1973. He admits having had two copies and lending one to an unknown party at Radio 1 and never getting it back.)
 * 10 June 1980: Ideal Homes (7" EP - Do You Dream In Colour?) Cocteau
 * 17 June 1980: Do You Dream In Colour? (7”) Cocteau
 * 23 June 1980: Do You Dream In Colour? (7") Cocteau
 * 08 July 1980: Do You Dream In Colour? (7") Cocteau


 * 1981
 * 02 February 1981: Art / Empire / Industry (album - Sound On Sound) Harvest (Bill Nelson's Red Noise)
 * 02 February 1981: Interview with Bill Nelson
 * 02 February 1981: Room With Brittle Views (7") Les Disques Du Crépuscule
 * 14 April 1981: Turn To Fiction (12" - Banal) Mercury
 * 21 April 1981: Hers Is A Lush Situation (12" - Banal) Mercury
 * 28 April 1981: A Kind Of Loving (LP - Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam) Mercury
 * 29 April 1981: False Alarms (album - Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam) Mercury
 * 11 May 1981: U.H.F. (Album: Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam) Mercury
 * 13 May 1981: Living In My Limousine (Album: Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam) Mercury
 * 18 May 1981: Life Runs Out Like Sand (LP-Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam) Mercury
 * 19 May 1981: Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam (LP - Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam) Mercury
 * 21 May 1981: U.H.F. (LP – Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam) Mercury (Peel trails upcoming Walters Weekly on the coming Saturday, featuring chat with Bill Nelson)
 * 25 May 1981: Decline And Fall (album - Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam) Mercury
 * 28 May 1981: Youth Of Nation On Fire (7") Mercury
 * 01 June 1981: (Bill Nelson is playing at Heaven in London this evening, but Peel doesn't think he'll go because of the cold he's got.)
 * 09 June 1981 (John Walters): Life Runs Out Like Sand (album - Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam) Mercury
 * 07 September 1981: White Sounds (12" - Living In My Limousine (Remix) / White Sounds) Mercury
 * 14 September 1981: Living In My Limousine (7") Mercury (single from Bill Nelson follows A Flock Of Seagulls, which he produced.)


 * 1982
 * 06 January 1982: Jane Discovers Cesare (LP – Das Kabinett (The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari)) Cocteau
 * 29 April 1982: Eros Arriving (7") Mercury
 * 10 May 1982: Eros Arriving (7") Mercury
 * 22 July 1982: Flaming Desire (LP - The Love That Whirls (Diary Of A Thinking Heart)) Phonopram
 * 02 December 1982: King Of The Cowboys (7" EP) Cocteau


 * 1983
 * 22 May 1983 (BFBS): The Real Adventure (mini-album - Chimera) Mercury


 * 1983
 * 01 April 1986: Wildest Dreams (12") Portrait