Clive James

Info

Role

Actor | Writer

Date of birth

10/07/1939

Date of death

11/24/2019

Place of birth

Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Clive James

Biography

While at Cambridge, Clive began a fruitful songwriting partnership with Pete Atkin. With Clive's lyrics and Pete's vocals and musical settings, they released six critically-acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful albums in the early 70s before Pete moved on to audio production at the BBC. Clive toured with Pete in a words and music show promoting the final album. They have recently re-united on stage and in the studio for more of their trademark songs, which have been described as "somewhere between The Kinks and Steely Dan" (quote from NY Times).