Martin Briley

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Martin Briley (born in 1950, in London, England) is a British born singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.

He has recorded with and written for a variety of well-known musicians, as well as releasing four solo albums in his own right.

1 Music career
2 Discography
3 External links

Music career

Beginnings and early bands

Briley began playing and writing music when he was ten years old.

At the age of seventeen, he and his band "Mandrake Paddle Steamer" (later shortened to Mandrake) signed their first record deal with Parlophone/EMI, and subsequently recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.

Briley was later signed to George Martin's AIR group of companies and went on to become an important part of the London studio scene as an arranger, vocalist and sought-after session guitarist. He also had a brief stint with the British art rock band Greenslade.

Session work in America

Briley moved to New York, where he found work as a touring and session musician for numerous artists, including Meat Loaf, Julian Lennon, Bonnie Tyler, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Engelbert Humperdinck, Lulu, Mick Jones, Donna Summer, Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John, the Hollies, Tom Jones and Albert Hammond.

Solo work

Briley signed a deal with Mercury Records as a solo artist, releasing three self-written albums. Of his solo work, his single "Salt in My Tears" is probably the best known. It is for this song, that Briley is generally known in the US to be a one-hit wonder, this song reached #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1983. He has also performed as a back-up vocalist on many recordings.