Andrew Roachford MBE (born 22 January 1965) is a British singer-songwriter and the main force behind the band Roachford, who scored their first success in 1989 with the hits "Cuddly Toy" and "Family Man". He has also had a successful solo career.
Andrew Roachford MBE | |
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 Roachford performing with Mike + The Mechanics in 2011 | |
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| Born | 22 January 1965 London, England |
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| Years active | 1987–present |
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| Website | roachford |
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to music.[1]
Early life and career
editAndrew Roachford was born in London, England to parents of West Indian descent. A band of the same name was formed in 1987, the line-up featuring Andrew Roachford (vocals, keyboards, percussion), Chris Taylor (drums), Hawi Gondwe (guitars) and Derrick Taylor (bass guitar).[2] By 1988, the band were touring, supporting acts such as Terence Trent D'Arby and the Christians.[2] Shortly afterward, a seven-album recording contract with Columbia was signed.[2] They went on to have a string of success throughout the 1990s, becoming Columbia's biggest-selling UK act for ten years.[3]
Roachford released his first solo studio album, Heart of the Matter, in 2003. His next studio album Word of Mouth was released in June 2005 under the band name Roachford. In 2010, Roachford joined Mike + The Mechanics along with Tim Howar. The following year the band's seventh studio album The Road was released featuring Roachford and Howar as lead vocalists, as well as their eighth studio album Let Me Fly (2017).
Roachford collaborated with Beverley Knight on his studio album Twice In a Lifetime, which was released in September 2020. It charted at number 31 on the UK Albums Chart. This was the first Roachford album to chart in the top 40 after a 23-year absence, last charting in 1997 with Feel.
Discography
editAlbums
edit| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certification | |||||||
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| UK [4][5] |
AUS [6] |
AUT [7] |
GER [8] |
NZ [9] |
SWE [10] |
SWI [11] |
US [12] | |||
| 1988 | Roachford
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11 | — | — | — | — | 48 | — | 109 | |
| 1991 | Get Ready!
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20 | 176 | — | 36 | — | 49 | — | — | |
| 1994 | Permanent Shade of Blue
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25 | 2 | — | 52 | 11 | — | — | — | |
| 1997 | Feel
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19 | 61 | 47 | 37 | — | — | 50 | — | |
| 2000 | The Roachford Files
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88 | 316 | — | — | — | — | 100 | — | |
| 2003 | Heart of the Matter
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| 2005 | The Very Best of Roachford
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Word of Mouth
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— | — | — | 88 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2011 | Where I Stand
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Addictive
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| 2013 | This Beautiful Moment
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| 2016 | Encore
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| 2020 | Twice in a Lifetime
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31 | — | — | 68 | — | — | 72 | — | |
| 2024 | Than And Now
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||||
Singles
edit| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||
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| UK [4][5] |
AUS [6] |
AUT [7] |
FRA [14] |
GER [15] |
IRE [16] |
NED [17] |
NZ [9] |
SWI [18] |
US [19] | |||
| 1988 | "Family Man" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Roachford |
| "Cuddly Toy" | 61 | 73 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Find Me Another Love" | 100 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1989 | "Cuddly Toy" (re-release) | 4 | — | — | — | 49 | 7 | 17 | — | — | 25 | |
| "Family Man" (re-release) | 25 | 157 | — | — | — | 18 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Kathleen" | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1991 | "Get Ready!" | 22 | — | — | 35 | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | Get Ready! |
| "Stone City" | 77 | — | — | — | — | — | 58 | — | — | — | ||
| "Innocent Eyes" | 91 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Higher" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1994 | "Only to Be with You" | 21 | 18 | — | — | 57 | — | 44 | 24 | — | — | Permanent Shade of Blue |
| "Lay Your Love on Me" | 36 | 26 | — | — | 55 | — | — | 7 | — | — | ||
| "This Generation" | 38 | 53 | — | — | 60 | — | — | 32 | — | — | ||
| "Cry for Me" | 46 | 103 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1995 | "I Know You Don't Love Me" | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1997 | "The Way I Feel" | 20 | 105 | — | — | 91 | — | — | — | 46 | — | Feel |
| 1998 | "How Could I? (Insecurity)" | 34 | 198 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Naked Without You" | 53 | — | — | — | — | — | 71 | — | — | — | ||
| "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" (MOBO Allstars)+ | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1999 | "Walk Away" (PF Project feat. Roachford) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2000 | "From Now On" | 90 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Roachford Files |
| 2001 | "Run Baby Run" (Bustafunk feat. Roachford) | — | — | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | 60 | — | Bustafunk (Bustafunk album) |
| 2003 | "The Pressure" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Heart of the Matter |
| 2004 | "Pop Muzak" (Mousse T. with Roachford) | — | — | 14 | — | 19 | — | — | — | 73 | — | Word of Mouth |
| 2005 | "River of Love" | — | — | — | — | — | — | 85 | — | — | — | |
| "Tomorrow" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2007 | "Ride the Storm" (Roachford & M.Y.N.C. Project) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Ride the Storm" (Remix) (Carl Kennedy vs M.Y.N.C Project feat. Roachford) |
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| 2010 | "Survive" (Laurent Wolf feat Andrew Roachford) | — | — | — | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Harmony (Laurent Wolf album) |
| 2011 | "Wishing You Knew" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Addictive |
| "Complicated" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2019 | "Love Remedy" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Twice in a Lifetime |
| 2020 | "What We Had" (featuring Beverley Knight)[20] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||||||
- + "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" by MOBO Allstars was a charity single released collectively by MOBO Award nominees in 1998, reaching No. 47 on the UK Singles Chart. The artists featured on the recording were Another Level, Beverley Knight, Mica Paris, Damage, Nine Yards, Don-E, Hinda Hicks, Celetia, Dina Carroll, Dru Hill, Shola Ama, Truce, Misty Oldland, Ultimate Kaos, Kleshay, Lynden David Hall, Kele Le Roc, East 17, Conner Reeves, Des'ree, Cleopatra, Glamma Kid, Honeyz, Kelle Bryan, Roachford, Byron Stingily, Alyson Brown, D'Influence, Michelle Gayle, Ignorants, Soundproof, Tony Dortie, David Grant and Carrie Grant.
References
edit- ^ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B20.
- ^ a b c Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1019. ISBN 1-85227-745-9.
- ^ Biography Roachford.co.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2009.
- ^ a b c d UK chart peaks:
- Top 100 peaks, other than "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now": "Official Charts > Roachford". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 30 May 2017. N.B. This site displays 'compressed' chart peaks (exclusion rules applied) between positions 76−100.
- Top 200 peaks from November 1994 to December 2010: "Chart Log UK 1994–2010 > The Rabble Army – RZA". zobbel.de. Retrieved 30 May 2017. N.B. This site displays 'uncompressed' chart peaks (no exclusions applied) for positions 76–200, between November 1994 and May 2001.
- "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now": "Official Charts > MOBO Allstars". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 465. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ a b Australian (ARIA) chart peaks:
- "Cuddly Toy": "The ARIA Report issue 223, week ending 22nd May, 1994: Chartifacts column". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- Top 50 peaks: "australian-charts.com > Roachford in Australian Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- Top 100 peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 237.
- "This Generation": "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 2 Jul 1995". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 30 May 2017. N.B. The HP column displays the highest peak reached.
- All ARIA chart peaks to 26 October 2018: "Response from ARIA re: Roachford ARIA chart history, received 26 October 2018". Imgur.com. Retrieved 3 January 2019. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
- ^ a b "austriancharts.at > Roachford in der Österreichischen Hitparade" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ German albums chart peaks:
- Get Ready!: "Roachford – Get Ready! (album)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- Permanent Shade of Blue: "Roachford – Permanent Shade of Blue (album)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- Feel: "Roachford – Feel (album)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- Word of Mouth: "Roachford – Word of Mouth (album)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ a b "charts.nz > Roachford in New Zealand Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "swedishcharts.com > Roachford in Swedish Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "hitparade.ch > Suche nach: Roachford (alben)" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "Roachford Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1995 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "lescharts.com > Roachford dans les Charts Français" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ German singles chart peaks:
- "Cuddly Toy": "Roachford – Cuddly Toy (single)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- "Get Ready!": "Roachford – Get Ready! (single)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- "Only to Be with You": "Roachford – Only to Be with You (single)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- "Lay Your Love on Me": "Roachford – Lay Your Love on Me (single)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- "This Generation": "Roachford – This Generation (single)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- "The Way I Feel": "Roachford – The Way I Feel (single)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- "Pop Muzak": "Mousse T. with Roachford – Pop Muzak (single)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "The Irish Charts – All there is to know > Search results for Roachford (from irishcharts.ie)". Imgur.com (original source published by Fireball Media). Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "dutchcharts.nl > Roachford in Dutch Charts" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "hitparade.ch > Suche nach: Roachford (songs)" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "Roachford Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ Millar, Mark (12 March 2020). "ROACHFORD has announced a new single 'What We Had' featuring BEVERLEY KNIGHT". xsnoize. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
External links
edit- Roachford official UK site
- Andrew Roachford at AllMusic
- Andrew Roachford discography at Discogs
- Andrew Roachford at IMDb
