Peter Blegvad

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Blegvad
Occupation	Songwriter
Date Of Birth	Aug 14, 1951(1951-08-14)
Age	73
Birthplace	New York City
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Leo

Peter Blegvad Biography

Peter Blegvad is one of the most popular and richest Songwriter who was born on August 14, 1951 in New York City, New York, United States.

In 1972, Blegvad followed the itinerant Moore to Hamburg, Germany, where the two formed the avant-pop trio Slapp Happy with Dagmar Krause, Slapp Happy recorded two albums for Polydor Germany with krautrock group Faust as their backing band. Polydor released the first, Sort Of in 1972, but rejected the second, Casablanca Moon. This rejection prompted Slapp Happy to relocate to London where they signed up with Virgin Records and re-recorded Casablanca Moon, released in 1974 by Virgin as Slapp Happy. (The original Casablanca Moon was later released by Recommended Records as Acnalbasac Noom in 1980.) In 1974 Slapp Happy merged briefly with avant-rock group Henry Cow, recording two albums in 1975, Desperate Straights and In Praise of Learning.

Blegvad returned to New York to work as a cartoonist, but maintained his interest in music. In 1977 he reunited with Henry Cow bass player John Greaves to collaborate on the album Kew. Rhone. – an unusual cross-genre release combining elements of minimalism, avant-garde jazz and progressive rock. The album was also notable for its personnel, which included celebrated New York jazz musicians Carla Bley, Michael Mantler, and Andrew Cyrille among the performers. As a musical document Kew. Rhone. remains both ambitious and unclassifiable; Blegvad’s literate and playful lyrics are well-matched by Greaves’ complex song structures. Blegvad would later continue his collaboration with Greaves in 1995 on Unearthed, a collection of spoken word pieces set to Greaves’ music.

Peter Blegvad Net Worth

Peter Blegvad is one of the richest Songwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Blegvad 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Peter Blegvad (born August 14, 1951) is an American musician, singer- songwriter, writer, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of German/English avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums. He is the son of Lenore and Erik Blegvad, who were respectively, a children’s book author and illustrator.

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Shortly after recording In Praise of Learning, first Moore and then Blegvad left Henry Cow due to incompatibilities with the other musicians in the group. Blegvad has confessed that the technical demands of Henry Cow’s music were beyond him (“It was discovered – not to my surprise – that I actually couldn’t play Henry Cow music. The chords and the time signatures were too complicated. And… just generally, Anthony and I felt kinda lost…”) but it was also clear that there were crucial differences in artistic approach. Blegvad would later reveal (in an interview for the Hearsay fanzine) that “the piece that got me kicked out was “Living in the Heart of the Beast”. I was assigned the task for the collective to come up with suitable verbals, and I wrote two verses about a woman throwing raisins at a pile of bones. Tim Hodgkinson just said, I’m sorry, this is not at all what we want. And he wrote reams of this political tirade. I admired his passion and application but it left me cold. I am to my bones a flippant individual, I don’t know why I was created thus or what I’m trying to deny, but it clashed with the extreme seriousness. People who take themselves very seriously make me giggle, unless they’re pointing a weapon at me or my loved ones”. Due to Krause’s decision to remain with Henry Cow, Slapp Happy dissolved and the three members went their separate ways (although the group would periodically reunite in 1982, 1991, 1997, 2000 and 2016–17).

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Deron Ranked on the list of most popular Songwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Peter Blegvad celebrates birthday on August 14 of every year.

His 2015 drama with Iain Chambers for Radio Australia, The Eternal Moment starring John Ramm and Emma Powell, was shortlisted for the 2015 Prix Europa.