Richard Jobson (television presenter)
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Richard Jobson D.A., h.c. |
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| Born |
6 October 1960 Kirkcaldy, Scotland |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Occupation | filmmaker, television host, musician |
| Notable work |
16 Years of Alcohol (2003 film) "The Saints are Coming", "Into the Valley" (1979) by The Skids |
| Website | richardjobson |
Richard Jobson (born October 6, 1960) is a Scottish filmmaker (director, writer, producer) who also works as a television presenter. He is also known as the singer-songwriter of Skids.
Jobson was born in Kirkcaldy, and grew up in Ballingry, Fife, the son of a miner and a worker at Rosyth Dockyard, attending St. Columba's R.C. High School, Dunfermline.
He was formerly lead singer with the art-punk rock group Skids. Jobson's singing style with Skids was highly distinctive, and he wrote the lyrics, while Stuart Adamson wrote most of the music.
Scared to Dance, the first Skids album, featured the hit 1979 single "Into the Valley", the group's most successful single. Jobson appeared on BBC Television's Top of the Pops singing it. The album also featured "The Saints are Coming" whose lyrics about storms and drowning came back to light after the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. In September 2006 it was announced that Green Day and U2 were to record a cover version of the song for charitable purposes. Jobson said that he had written the song about the death of a friend in the British Army. Much of Scared to Dance features local references, and also Jobson's fascination with the two world wars.
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