John Beck (songwriter)

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John Beck is a British songwriter, producer, keyboard player and guitarist known for his work with Tasmin Archer and Corinne Bailey Rae.

Beck was signed to EMI Records along with Archer after writing her first hit, "Sleeping Satellite", which went on to be a #1 hit in 16 countries. The album sold 1.5 million copies and went on to receive a Brit Award.

Beck has subsequently been Grammy- and Ivor Novello Award-nominated. In 2008, he won ASCAP’s Song of the Year award for "Put Your Records On", a song he co-wrote with Bailey Rae and Steve Chrisanthou, performed by Bailey Rae.^[1][2]

Beck has worked in New York with Claude Kelly and Andrea Martin, and whilst there was asked to work on a rare co-write with Ashford and Simpson, as well as being invited by Amanda Ghost to write for Epic signing Alice Smith.

He has also worked with and written for Will Young, Paloma Faith, Lisa Mitchell, Pearl and the Puppets, Newton Faulkner, Lianne La Havas and many more.^{[citation needed]}

Joe Goddard re-mixed Beck's track "Gabriel" featuring Valentina which became number 1 in South Africa and was number 1 in the dance charts. It was also number 4 in the Guardians best tracks of 2011, number 3 in Mixmags and in the NME 's top 40 tracks for the same year.

He has recently^[when?] written and produced the debut album for Epic signing Indiana.

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