Tony Waddington (songwriter)
| Tony Waddington | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Anthony Brandon Waddington |
| Born | 1 January 1943, Liverpool, England |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer, record producer, songwriter, orchestral arranger, composer, screenplay writer |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
| Website | www |
Anthony Brandon "Tony" Waddington (born 1 January 1943) is an English film producer, songwriter, screenplay writer, record producer, and creative media executive. He became well known, with Wayne Bickerton, as writer and producer of a series of UK chart hits in the 1970s for The Rubettes. He also received an Ivor Novello Award as 'Songwriter of the Year'.
He was born on 1 January 1943 in Liverpool, and studied classical guitar and music theory. His first job was working at a solicitor's office in Liverpool, but he played with several local bands including Lee Curtis and the All-Stars and the Pete Best Four (later the Pete Best Combo), at the same time as his childhood friend Wayne Bickerton was the band's lead vocalist. As well as sharing most of the singing, Bickerton and Waddington became songwriters for the group, which toured mainly in Germany and the US, before they left in 1966. Then Waddington spent time in the United States and on his return to the UK joined Decca Records as a songwriter and record producer. He also studied orchestral writing under the tutelage of Henry Zajaczkowski.
He and Bickerton continued writing songs together. One of the most successful was "Nothing but a Heartache", recorded by American girl singing group The Flirtations, which reached No. 34 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1969, and is now regarded as a Northern soul classic. It was covered by Southside Johnny in 2005.
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