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Richard Hawley

Richard Hawley

English guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer
Longtime musical wanderer whose melancholy, melodic indie pop bore echoes of Scott Walker, Roy Orbison, and Morrissey.
BornJanuary 17, 1967
HometownPitsmoor, Sheffield, England
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Standing at the Sky’s Edge: a deeply moving, monumental musical that really matters

  • The transfer of Standing at the Sky’s Edge from the Sheffield Crucible to the National last year demonstrated that the most parochial-sounding thing – a musical centred on Park Hill, a housing estate overlooking the UK’s ‘steel’ city – could up sticks and win hearts down south. The show, utilising the back-catalogue of renowned local singer-songwriter Richard Hawley, as woven into a socio-political epic by local playwright Chris Bush, won the Olivier award for Best New Musical and another for it

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Long and Winding Road
Long and Winding Road
1h 45min
2019

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