RICHARD PALMER-JAMES

Songwriter and guitarist
Born 11th June 1947 in Bournemouth, England
Plays guitar since 1961; self-taught

1965–1968 University of Wales; BA degree in Fine Art
and English Literature

Professional musician since 1968

First professional band TETRAD (with John Wetton)
disbands after a year in summer 1969

1969–1970
Founder-member of SUPERTRAMP; guitarist and lyricist
on the group’s first album Supertramp (A&M 1970)

Lives in Germany since 1971

1971–1978
Composes and produces film-music for features, PR films,
plays and series for German TV

1972–1973
Guitarist and lyricist with German/Czech jazz-rock formation
EMERGENCY; Metronom/Brain album Get Out To The Country
(1973)

1972–1974
KING CRIMSON lyricist; EG albums Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
(1973), Starless and Bible Black (1974), Red (1974)

Since 1978
Full-time freelance lyric-writer for rock, pop, and dance acts;
over 400 published titles; Top Forty chart appearances in
Germany, Italy, and France with LA BIONDA, GILBERT
MONTAGNÉ, MIREILLE MATHIEU AND PATRICK DUFFY,
PETER KENT, MUNICH, MOTI SPECIAL, MICHAEL CRETU,
SANDRA, HADDAWAY

1985–1987
Guitarist and lyricist with mainstream rock band MUNICH;
Intercord albums The Other Side of Midnight (1986),
You Never Know (1987)

Since 1997
Digital audio pre- and post-production work, such as the
retrospective album John Wetton and Richard Palmer-James:
Monkey Business 1972-1997 (Blueprint 1998)

Since 2005
BLUES MEETS CLASSICAL: plays guitar and mandolin in
acoustic duo concerts (“From John Dowland to Django
Reinhardt”) with classical guitarist Erich Schachtner;
appearances in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy

2007
First appearances of the four-piece RICHARD PALMER-
JAMES BAND in Munich (Backstage) and Koblenz
(Cafe Hahn), leading to –

Since 2011
– the TWO HEADS project: singer/songwriter concerts
in duo with Erich Schachtner