MARK HOLLIS

'Mark David Hollis' (born 4 January 1955 in Tottenham, London, England) is a retired composer, musician, singer-songwriter.

Contents

Career

Solo discography

Collaborations

External links

References

Career

Hollis is most famous as the lead singer of the band, Talk Talk. It was he, and unofficial Talk Talk member Tim Friese-Greene, who took the lead in evolving the band's style from New Romantic, to what would later become known as post-rock.
In 1998 he released an eponymous solo debut album, ''Mark Hollis''. He has now retired from the music business. ^[1]

Solo discography

★ ''Mark Hollis'' (1998)
See also Talk Talk discography''

Collaborations

★ Mark Hollis played the piano on the track "Piano" from the 1998 minimalist album ''AV 1'' by Phill Brown and Dave Allinson (under the pseudonym "John Cope").

★ Mark Hollis played the piano on the track "Chaos" on the 1998 trip-hop album ''Psyence Fiction'' by UNKLE.

★ Mark Hollis provided several roles in support of Anja Garbarek's 2001 album ''Smiling & Waving''.

External links

★ Within Without - large unofficial Mark Hollis and Talk Talk homepage

★ Talkingspace German Mark Hollis and Talk Talk fan page

★ It's My Talk Talk Pages - Unofficial French Talk Talk page

References

1. http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc11425/News.html (search for "retired")