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Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson, guitarist, Be Bop Deluxe
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Bill Nelson (born William Nelson on 18 December 1948) is a British guitarist, songwriter, painter and experimental musician from Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, who rose to prominence as the chief songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of the rock group Be Bop Deluxe, which he formed in 1972. Nelson was educated at the Wakefield College of Art, where he developed an interest in the work of poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. At this time he was also developing as a musician, drawing upon Duane Eddy as a primary guitar influence.

Top songs

  1. Do You Dream In Colour
  2. Tender Is The Night
  3. Acceleration
  4. When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True
  5. Flaming Desire
  6. Empire Of The Senses
  7. Banal
  8. The Real Adventure
  9. Hope For A Heartbeat
  10. Eros Arriving
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  1. Living In My Limousine
  2. Glow World
  3. A Private View
  4. Portrait Of Jan With Flowers
  5. The October Man
  6. Waiting Of Voices
  7. The Bride Of Christ In Autumn
  8. Flesh
  9. Everyday Feels Like Another New Drug
  10. He And Sleep Were Brothers
  11. The Crystal Escalator In The Palace Of God
  12. Vertical Games
  13. A Kind Of Loving
  14. False Alarms
  15. Decline And Fall
  16. Another Day Another Ray Of Hope
  17. Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam
  18. Youth Of Nation On Fire
  19. Hard Facts From The Fiction Department
  20. Life Runs Out Like Sand
  21. Haunting In My Head
  22. Echo In Her Eyes
  23. Disposible
  24. The Passion
  25. U.H.F.
  26. Another Day, Another Ray of Hope
  27. Rooms With Brittle Views
  28. Hope for the Heartbeat
  29. The Shadow Garden
  30. White Sounds
  31. Birds Of Tin
  32. All My Wives Were Iron
  33. The Crystal Escalator in the Palace of God Department Store
  34. Be My Dynamo
  35. Furniture Music
  36. Mr Magnetism Himself
  37. Love's a Way
  38. Love In The Abstract
  39. Everyone's Hero
  40. Near East
  41. Ancient Guitars
  42. House of Sand
  43. End of the Seasons
  44. Hope For A Heartbeat - Remix
  45. Rejoice
  46. White Sound
  47. Do You Dream in Colour?
  48. Acceleration - Long Version
  49. Girl From Another Planet
  50. Echo In Her Eyes (The Lamps Of Oblivion)
  51. Waiting for Voices
  52. See It Through
  53. Sad Feelings
  54. West Deep
  55. The Spirit Cannot Fail
  56. Hope for the Heartbeat (remix)
  57. Sleep
  58. Happily Addicted to You
  59. Disposable
  60. Pilots Of Kite
  61. Northern Dreamer
  62. Spinnin' Around
  63. Bloo Blooz
  64. Dada Guitare
  65. Living In My Limousine - Remix
  66. Shaker
  67. Her Presence in Flowers
  68. Opium
  69. Seventh Circle
  70. God Man Slain
  71. Radiant Spires
  72. Night Tides
  73. Humming in the Void/Girl with the Thousand Watt Smile - Old Man Future Blows the Blues
  74. Boat To Forever
  75. Acceleration (Long Version)
  76. Acceleration - Dub Version
  77. Smiles
  78. Contemplation
  79. Phantom Gardens
  80. The Angel at the Western Window
  81. New Moon Rising
  82. Annunciation
  83. The Dead We Wake With Upstairs Drums
  84. Villefranche Interior
  85. The Ritual Echo
  86. Revolt Into Style
  87. Azure Extension
  88. The Angel Of Hearth And Home
  89. First Memory
  90. Threnodia

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