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James Whild Lea (born 14 June 1949) is an English musician, most notable for playing bass guitar, keyboards, piano, violin, guitar, and singing backing vocals in Slade from their inception until 1992, and for co-writing most of their songs.
Jim or James Lea may refer to: Jim Lea (athlete) (1932–2010), American sprinter; Jim Lea (musician) (born 1949), English bass guitarist; James Neilson Lea (1815–1884), Louisiana politician and jurist; James Lea (1824–1896), British architect of James & Lister Lea
Slade in their skinhead phase in 1969 from left: Powell, Lea, Holder, Hill. All the members of Slade grew up in the Black Country.Drummer Don Powell and bassist Jim Lea were born and brought up in Wolverhampton, lead vocalist Noddy Holder was born and brought up in nearby Caldmore in Walsall, and lead guitarist Dave Hill moved to Wolverhampton from Holbeton, Devon as a child.
Therapy is the debut studio album by English musician Jim Lea, best known as the former bassist and songwriter of the British rock band Slade. Although Therapy is Lea's first solo album, he had previously released material as singles under various pseudonyms since the early 1980s. [2]
The Dummies was a musical project formed by Slade bassist Jim Lea and his brother Frank Lea in 1979. Between 1979 and 1981, they released three singles and recorded a number of original and Slade songs, which were collected on the 1992 album A Day in the Life of the Dummies.
Jim Lea – bass, keyboards, guitars, backing vocals, lead vocal on verses (track 10), producer; Don Powell – drums, percussion, gongs; Additional personnel. Andy Dummit – saxophone (track 5) Pete Drummond – announcements (track 10) John Punter – producer (tracks 1–2) Andy Miller, Dave Garland – engineers (tracks 3–10)
The song's music video, directed by William Clark, was filmed at a studio in Shepherd's Bush on 21 November 1991. [11] Drummer Don Powell noted in his diary at the time that "we go Amadeus [in] the video", in reference to the 1984 American period drama film of the same name.
In 1979, Jim Lea would record his own version of the song with his brother Frank as part of his side-project The Dummies. It was released as a single by Cheapskate Records in December 1979, [19] added to Radio One's playlist and became Paul Burnett's "Record of the Week". However, the single suffered from distribution problems, and by the time ...