David Briggs (Australian musician)

David Briggs (born David John Briggs, 26 January 1951, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian musician and record producer, educated at Wesley College, Melbourne best known for his time as a guitarist in the rock band, Little River Band between 1976 and 1981.^[1][2]

In 1976 he joined Little River Band. He wrote their hit single "Lonesome Loser", as well as "Happy Anniversary".^[3] From 1978 until 1981, Little River Band achieved six consecutive U.S. Top 10 singles with "Reminiscing", "Lady", "Lonesome Loser", "Cool Change", "The Night Owls" and "Take It Easy On Me".

Briggs also produced the rock band, Australian Crawl, and co-wrote their single "Hoochie Gucci Fiorucci Mama" with vocalist James Reyne. He produced Russell Morris' Almost Frantic album and started Rough Diamond Records with Ross Gardiner, a Melbourne based music writer, which was distributed through Astor Records and then PolyGram. He signed the band No Fixed Address which is the first Aboriginal band and released in Australia the single "We Have Survived" which was launched by Bob Hawke, who was the Prime Minister of Australia at the time. Briggs has also produced songs with The Orphans, Hop Skip Jump, Big Ronnie, The Stockings and The Young Home Buyers, which were released on Rough Diamond.^[4]

Briggs now works as a recording engineer and producer in Melbourne. Has worked on thousands of records since starting the Production Workshop Recording Studio in 1979. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer at Victoria University, Melbourne, teaching Applied Acoustic Design and Advanced Digital Audio.^[5]

Briggs is soon to be a published author with his autobiography, The Diary of the Lonesome Loser, which is an account of his time in the Little River Band.

References

1. ^ http://littleriverband.org/discography/disc.htm
2. ^ http://www.birtles.com/littleriverband.html
3. ^ BMI.com listing of songs written by Briggs
4. ^ http://hem.passagen.se/honga/aussie.html
5. ^ http://www.productionworkshop.com.au/index.html

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