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Jimmy Nail Biography
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In the early days Jimmy Nail was a welder and worked for a double glazing firm in Newcastle. He was a singer in a 70's rock band called the King Crabs, he formed the group and geordie celebrity Mickie Hutton was the drummer. Jimmy's party piece for the band was wearing a girls dress on stage!
In 1985 Jimmy starred in Morons from Outer Space with Griff Rhys Jones. He
played a moron named Desmond Brook.
Auf Wiedersehen Pet was Jimmy Nail's big break. He played Oz a lunatic cowboy builder from Newcastle. Auf Wiedersehen Pet was a big hit it had over 6 million viewers for the 1st series and 13 million for the second. This also stared;Kevin Whatley, Tim Healy, Pat Roach, Timothy Spall, Gary Holten & Chirstopher Fairbank.
After Auf Wiedersehen Pet Jimmy tryed out his music skills and realsed an album in 1986 called Take It Or Leave It with Virgin Records. Making a brillient cover of Love Don't Live Here Anymore.
In '91 '92 & '93 he co wrote the hit TV detective series 'Spender' with Ian La Frencais. Who wrote Auf Wiedersehen Pet with Dick Clemant & Frac Roddram. They had three sucsesful series of Spender. With Jimmy Nail as the main star of the series too.
In '92 he realsed his 2nd album Growing Up In Public with the American company Warner. The hit from that album was Ain't No Doubt.
'94and he's back with a new record & a new TV series starring himself. The
series was called "Crocodile Shoes" so was the album. He wrote the series by himself. He played Jed Shepaard. It also starred James Wilby & Sammy Johnson. All the music from the series made the album. The big hit was "Crocodile Shoes" was a hit in '95 and in '96 got the triple platinum.
'95 he realeses another album "Big River" again with Warner Music with the big hit " Big River" and a cover of John Lennons "Love".
In '96 he had a role in the film "Evita" as Agustin Magaldi. He had a few songs out of it & got to star with Madonna.
Also in '96 he wrote another brillient series of Crocodile Shoes and realesed the album "Crocodile Shoes II". Which was realesed with Warner Music.
Then in '98 he was casted for the Dick Clement & Ian La Frencais film "Still Crazy". He was Les Wickes. He worked with Billy Connely, Timothy Spall, Steaphen Rea & Bill Nighy. It was about a 70's rock band. He performed 3 songs in the film; Bird On A Wire, What Might Have Been & The Flame Still Burns.
'99 he realeses another album with Warner Music "Tadpoles In A Jar".
Then in '01 he realesed a new album with a new record label. This time Papillon records. It is called 10 Great Songs & an OK Voice. It is a mixture of 10 of his favourite songs by diffrent artsits some are; Sting, The Animals, Alan Hull & Stevie Wonder.- James Croll (24/02/02)
Thanks to James Croll tadpolesinajar@aol.com for submitting the biography. |
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looking for some one close | Reviewer: julie taylor | 3/16/09
dear mr nail i am looking for your half brother dennis jackson as a favour to my mother in law she knew him meny years ago it was when he was a tarmacker he used too call her lady in red but they have not seen each other in a long time and she would like to know if he is well he went looking for her about ten years ago in goole but she had mooved to hull her name is jane taylor and she would realy like to get in touch with him wolud you please email me if you have any idea were he may be or leave me a number or address for him thanking you julie taylor
Big River | Reviewer: donna mcneill | 11/8/07
I dont know where to begin, my husband, yorkshire born has just introduced this artist and song to me. I can not believe how moved I am by this song and this artist voice. My father was Belfast born and worked in the shipyard and so the lyrics are special to me. I cant get his voice or the song out of my mind. In Canada we have never heard of Jimmy Nail, but this is our loss. We have missed him, I hope he has not retired.
Fabulous | Reviewer: Stefan Ornerdal | 1/6/07
My all time fav actor.
Just a few years ago I realize that the Actor Jimmy Nail and the Singer Jimmy Nail was the same person, when Swedish Television broadcasted the "Pet-series" for the second time.
How can a actor with only his face express all human feelings - at the same time! Fantastic, fabulous etc!
Now, I give a shit about ManU, Liverpool FC, Fulham and Chelsea. Newcastle is my fav team.
jimmy nail | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/4/06
my first experiance of jimmy nail was his quality series wont even atempt to spell it but it was based in germany the following series showed his acting skils were getting better then i heard him singing in a episode and was astounded have realy enjoyed his material. more please
Give this guy a go ..... | Reviewer: Andrew Rutherford | 9/17/05
An acquired taste is Jimmy Nail. His album 'Tadpoles in a Jar" maybe his best, but trying to pick out one album is unfair. One album worth trying is his covers of better known tunes - "Ten Great Songs and an OK Voice", especially a cover of the Police's "Walking on the Moon" - very big bandish and different.
"Take It or Leave It" is another album of note, some pretty good upbeat popular tracks, but as the title suggests : Jimmy Nail, you can take him or leave him, I prefer to take him....he's great.
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