Michael Tighe

Michael Oliver Tighe is an American singer/songwriter, guitarist and actor. He has worked with Jeff Buckley, Mark Ronson, Adele, Liam Gallagher, The A.M., Niia and others. Tighe's songs are represented by Downtown Music Publishing.

Biography[]

Tighe was born and raised in New York City. As a teenager, he performed in many New York City Downtown theater and music productions, where he met Jeff Buckley.^[1] He was drafted into Buckley's band as a guitarist and songwriter and toured with Jeff until the singer's untimely death. He co-wrote the song "So Real" ,as well as "Vancouver", "Moodswing Whiskey", "Demon John" and "The Sky Is a Landfill". "So Real" appears on Buckley's critically acclaimed album Grace. Grace was voted one of the top 500 albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

In 2002, Tighe formed the band The A.M., with Parker Kindred and Andrew Wyatt. The band released one album, The A.M. on Universal UK and toured for two years before disbanding in 2005.

In 2006 he recorded a cover of the Britney Spears song "Toxic" with Mark Ronson under the alias Tiggers.The song features posthumously recorded verses from O.D.B. and was a minor hit in the United Kingdom; it was included on Ronson's 2007 album Version. Tighe toured with Ronson and The Version Players from 2007-2009.

In 2008 Tighe played electric guitar on "Cold Shoulder" by Adele. The song appears on Adele's debut album 19.

in 2014 he co-wrote "Body" with Niia from her debut EP Generation Blue.

In 2017 Tighe co-wrote the singles "Wall Of Glass" and "Chinatown" by Liam Gallagher along with Gallagher, Andrew Wyatt and Greg Kurstin.

In February 2018 he features on "Saints of the Sinners" by The Faim

Songwriting Credits[]

Year	Artist	Album	Song	Co-written with
1994	Jeff Buckley	Grace	"So Real"	Jeff Buckley
2017	Del Water Gap	1 (646) 943 2672 EP	"High Tops"	Samuel Holden Jaffe
	Liam Gallagher	As You Were	"Wall of Glass"	Liam Gallagher, Andrew Wyatt, Greg Kurstin, Andrew Fox
			"Chinatown"	Andrew Wyatt
			"Paper Crown"	Andrew Wyatt
2018	Kimbra	Primal Heart	"Human"	Kimbra Lee Johnson, Robin Hannibal, Paul Salva Jr
	Kimbra	Primal Heart	"Like They Do on the TV"	Kimbra Lee Johnson, Ian Kirkpatrick
	Kiah Victoria	Memo	"Betsy Ross"	Kiah Victoria, Rahm Silverglade
	Kiiara	TBA	"Gloe"	Kiara Saulters, Ajay Bhattacharya, Teddy Sinclair
2019	Liam Gallagher	Why Me? Why Not.	"Gone"	Liam Gallagher, Andrew Wyatt
2019	Liam Gallagher	Why Me? Why Not.	"Glimmer"	Liam Gallagher, Andrew Wyatt, Constantin Veis
2021	Bebe Rexha	Better Mistakes	"Sabotage"	Bebe Rexha, Michael Matosic, Greg Kurstin, Jonathan Hume

Notes[]

^ Michael Tighe (2000-05-05). "Jeff Buckley You and I". Huntingbears. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2007-09-28.

References[]

External links[]

Michael Tighe at IMDb

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[interview-1] Michael Tighe (2000-05-05). "Jeff Buckley You and I". Huntingbears. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2007-09-28.

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