Newman, Tom, 1943-

LC control no.	no2018144382
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Newman, Tom, 1943- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Great Britain England
Birth date	1943-07-11
Place of birth	Perivale (London, England)
Field of activity	Sound recordings--Production and direction Guitar
Affiliation	Virgin Records
Profession or occupation	Sound recording executives and producers Guitarists
Found in	The making of Mike Oldfield's Tubular bells, 2017: page x (Tom Newman) page 106 (became a freelance record producer) Wikipedia, viewed October 24, 2018 (Tom Newman; Thomas Dennis "Tom" Newman; born July 11, 1943, in Perivale; English record producer and musician (rhythm guitar); in 1968 he played in a band called July; prior to that he was in a band called The Tomcats; in 1970 he began working with Richard Branson and helped to found The Manor Studio in Oxford for the nascent Virgin Records; there, he produced the recording of Mike Oldfield's Tubular bells; he released some albums as a solo musician and produced several albums for other artists) JHS WWW site, viewed October 24, 2018 Artists page (Tom Newman; guitarist/writer/producer; born in 1943, by the late 1950s he was in a skiffle outfit called The Playboys who turned to rock & roll and R&B during the early 1960s and took a new name, first The Thoughts and then The Tomcats, whose membership later became the lineup of July; following July's breakup in 1969, he went on to a dual career as a session guitarist and solo recording artist; co-producer/co-engineer on Tubular Bells; he was signed to Richard Branson's Virgin Records label, for which he built Manor Studios; founded his own studio, Argonaut, in 1976)
Associated language	eng