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Richard Clapton

Richard Clapton (born 18 May 1948) is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are "Girls on the Avenue" (1975) and "I Am an Island" (1982). He reached the top 20 on the related albums chart with Goodbye Tiger (1977), Hearts on the Nightline (1979), The Great Escape (1982) and The Very Best of Richard Clapton (1982). Clapton's highest-charting album, Music Is Love (1966–1970) (April 2021), peaked at number 3 on the ARIA Chart.

As a producer he worked on the second INXS album, Underneath the Colours (1981). In 1983, he briefly joined the Party Boys for a tour of eastern Australia and their live album, Greatest Hits (Of Other People) (1983), before resuming his solo career. Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane described Clapton as "one of the most important Australian songwriters of the 1970s." On 12 October 1999, Clapton was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) hall of fame. In August 2014 he published his memoirs, The Best Years of Our Lives.

Albums

1973 Prussian Blue
1975 Girls on the Avenue
1976 Main Street Jive
1977 Goodbye Tiger
1979 Hearts on the Nightline
1980 Dark Spaces
1982 The Great Escape
1984 Solidarity
1987 Glory Road
1993 Distant Thunder
1995 Angeltown
2004 Diamond Mine
2012 Harlequin Nights
2016 The House Of Orange
2021 Music is Love (1966-1970)
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