Tony Mills

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tony Mills
Occupation	Songwriter
Date Of Birth	Jul 7, 1962(1962-07-07)
Age	62
Date Of Death	September 18, 2019
Birthplace	Solihull
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Solihull
Horoscope	Leo

Tony Mills Biography

Tony Mills is one of the most popular and richest Songwriter who was born on July 7, 1962 in Solihull, Solihull, United Kingdom. Anthony Paul Mills (7 July 1962 – 18 September 2019) was an English rock singer, best known for his work with Shy and TNT.

In 2007, Mills also performed backing vocals on the debut album by UK Band Crimes of Passion. He has numerous credits for, and is in regular demand for, provision of backing vocals, and other recent outputs include The Andersson- Mills Project, China Blue, and backing vocals for Dante Fox in the UK and Norwegian Rock outfit Winterstrain, appearing on their debut album Return to the Mirror as well as Shifting Sands. In 2008, Mills released a more metal oriented solo album Vital Designs, which featured bass by Morty Black, Oddvar Krogstad and Victor Borge (TNT), guitars by Neil Hibbs, keyboards by Shy’s keyboard player Joe Basketts and drums by Shy’s drummer Bob Richards. Also appearing on the album was TNT member Dag Stokke and Erik Ragno from China Blue. In the same year, he also began work with Ronni Le Tekrø on their second TNT collaboration, which resulted in the album Atlantis, featuring the songs Tango Girl and Hello, Hello, which became regular tracks in their setlist for the following tour.

After a full recovery from his heart condition, at the opening of 2011, Mills had relocated to Norway to embrace the release of the latest TNT album and began touring to promote A Farewell To Arms, which in Scandinavia, was titled Engine. The change of album title for different territories was inextricably linked to his heart failure and consequent recovery. Mills’s own engine was running smoothly again. He consequently set to writing tracks toward a rock opera with Trondheim writer Andreas Nergard whilst touring Europe with TNT. Mills was also be part of the Norwegian artist force supporting relief aid in Japan for their recent tragedies.

In 2012, Mills was featured on Douglas R. Docker’s progressive rock space opera Docker’s Guild. He sang on three songs for the debut album “The Mystic Technocracy – Season 1: The Age of Ignorance”: “Legion of Aliens”, “The Gem of Love,” and “The Secret of DNA”.

In 2006 he was asked to join TNT in Oslo, Norway to replace their long-time vocalist Tony Harnell who had decided to leave the band for both personal and professional reasons. The following year Mills sang on TNT’s new album, The New Territory, which despite high sales, was poorly received by several rock magazines, who it seems were somewhat taken aback by the new material. The band toured and gigged extensively throughout 2007 in Norway to support the record, including supports to Ozzy Osbourne, Skid Row and Motorhead. Lasse Dale was also a progressive metal guitarist from Tromso in Norway, that enlisted Mills to write and record his debut album, Screaming For Silence. Mills worked for many European artists between 2006 and 2010, namely Michael Voss and his ‘Voices Of Rock’ project, Liberty ‘n’ Justice in the U.S., Torben Enevoldsen in Denmark, Frederic Hugues and Blackstone and Tor Talle in Norway. Charity involvement for the Autistic Foundation for Children in North Trondelag, also saw the release of a single, ‘Keep The Dream Alive’ along with its associated video through NRK with vocalist, Siv-Anita Strickhert.

Tony Mills Net Worth

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

Mills was born in Birmingham, England. In 1983 he joined the band Shy. He recorded eight albums with the AOR/glam metal band, including the Excess All Areas. He also toured with Shy, supporting Gary Moore, Meatloaf, Twisted Sister, Bon Jovi, Magnum, Manowar, Badlands, Enuff Z Nuff, Sleeze Beez, UFO, and the Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson outfit with whom he performed on stage in Brighton, just prior to Mick’s death. The tours spanned the whole of Europe and North America, it was here that Mills provided backup vocals to the Philadelphia-based band Cinderella on their debut album, Night Songs. Co- writing sessions came about with Don Dokken (Dokken), Michael Bolton, Michael Des Barres (Power Station), John Parker (Chicago), Jeff Paris and Bob Kulick.

Mills left Shy in 1991 when MCA picked him up as a solo artist to record his first album in Manchester with engineer Andy Macpherson and guitarist Bob Maxim along with various members of 10CC and Sad Cafe. Later, forming another band, Siam, he wrote and sang on two albums, Prayer and The Language of Menace. After working as a session vocalist through the 1990s with Slade, Simon Harrison, Dave Saylor and Cozy Powell (unreleased) in conjunction with his recording and touring work with Siam, the band eventually folded in 1996 and Mills spent a year fronting a Rush tribute band, YYZ. In 2000 he reunited with Shy for two more albums, ‘Unfinished Business’ and ‘Sunset and Vine’. At the turn of the millennium, he also released two solo albums, Cruiser and Freeway to the Afterlife. There followed a Danish tour with The Sweet, as bassist and lead vocalist, but this did not work out, and he returned to Shy.

In the winter of 2008, Mills joined the band Serpentine, replacing former singer Greg Flores. In March 2010, Serpentine released their CD A Touch of Heaven on AOR/Metal Heaven in Europe and Marquee Avalon in Japan, gaining a glowing 92% review in rock magazine Burrn! as well as hitting number 72 in the HMV Japan chart. Around the same period, Mills was commissioned to write and record an album for AOR Metal Heaven records in Germany, entitled, ‘State Of Rock’, with Robby Boebel from Nuremberg act, ‘Frontline’. Work was also completed on a more rock oriented TNT release for the end of the year, A Farewell To Arms, which returned to the classic sound of the band and was well received by fans and critics alike. Just after the summer, it was reported that Mills had suffered a heart attack at an airport in Norway, which prompted the singer to announce his departure from Serpentine before the completion of his second album with the band. The album has since been completed. Serpentine moved quickly to recruit 24-year-old British vocalist Matt Black as his replacement to allow the band to commence touring to support the A Touch Of Heaven album. The band’s follow up, ‘Living and Dying in High Definition’ also received great support from the media during its late 2010 release.

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In April 2019, Mills announced that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. ‘Beyond the Law’ became his last album. He died on 18 September 2019 at the age of 57.

Facts & Trivia

Tony Ranked on the list of most popular Songwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tony Mills celebrates birthday on July 7 of every year.