Tom Newman Biography
Tom Newman (Thomas Dennis Newman) is an English record producer and musician (rhythm guitar). In 1970, Newman began working with Richard Branson and helped to found The Manor Studio in Oxford for the nascent Virgin Records. There, he produced the recording of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells.
Tom Newman Age
Newman was born on May 7, 1943 in Perivale, England (he is 79 years old as of 2022).
Tom Newman Height
Newman stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall.
Tom Newman Family
Newman is private about his personal life, he has not revealed any details about his parents nor if he has any siblings.
Tom Newman Wife
Newman likes to keep personal life private hence there is no any information or news about wife or children.
Tom Newman Salary
Newman earns an estimated salary of about $10000 to $50000 annually.
Tom Newman Net Worth
Newman has an estimated net worth of about $1 million to $5million.
Tom Newman Career
In 1968, Newman played in a band called July whose only album was the eponymous “July” on US Epic and UK Major Minor. Before that, he was in a British band called “The Tomcats” who were based in Spain. In 1966, the band recorded at least three EP’s on Spanish Philips (436387, 436388 and 436826).
In 1970, he began working with Richard Branson and helped build The Manor Studio in Oxford. It was there Newman met the 18-year-old Mike Oldfield who lent him a rough demo tape of what would become Tubular Bells.
In November 1973, he participated in a live-in-the-studio performance of Tubular Bells for the BBC. It is available on Oldfield’s Elements DVD.
Newman released some albums as a solo musician and produced several albums for other artists, most notably Mike Oldfield’s (Heaven’s Open, Tubular Bells, Tubular Bells II).
Reviewing his 1977 Fine Old Tom LP, Robert Christgau wrote in Christgau’s Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981): “Tom seems to have recorded this far across the sea in 1975, but more than that even my Anglophile sources can’t tell me.
Analogies: Ray Davies (vaguely but persistently, for both eccentricity and vocal approach), Dave Edmunds (studiomania and general non-esoteric musical orientation, although Newman isn’t interested in overpowering anyone), Eno (more precisely, not only for eccentricity and vocal approach but also for style of smarts, although Newman isn’t so blatantly avant-garde). Pretty catchy.”
Newman also worked with young NWOBHM-bands like Charlie ’Ungry.
Tom Newman Albums
Solo albums
- Fine Old Tom (1975)
- Live at the Argonaut (1975) – Never released by Virgin, except test-pressings. Only released under Voiceprint label in 1995
- Faerie Symphony (1977)
- Bayou Moon (1986)
- Aspects (1986)
- Ozymandias (1988)
- Hotel Splendide [Live] (1997)
- Snow Blind (1997)
- Faerie Symphony and Other Stories (1999)
- Tall Scary Things (1999)
- The Hound Of Ulster (1999)
- “The Calling” (2015)
As producer
- Not a complete list
- Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield (1973)
- Froggy Went A-Courting – Mike Oldfield (1974)
- Hatfield and the North – Hatfield and the North (1973)
- Hergest Ridge – Mike Oldfield (1974)
- Platinum – Mike Oldfield (1979)
- All Right Now (unreleased single) – Mike Oldfield (1980)
- Celebration – Sally Oldfield (1980)
- 101 Live Letters (1981)
- Doll By Doll – Doll By Doll (1981)
- Grand Passion – Doll By Doll (1982) Co-producer with Jackie Leven
- Five Miles Out – Mike Oldfield (1982) Co-producer
- Captured – Natasha (1982)
- Islands – Mike Oldfield (1987)
- Amarok – Mike Oldfield (1990)
- Heaven’s Open – Mike Oldfield (1991)
- Tubular Bells II – Mike Oldfield (1992)
- Six Elementary Songs – Clodagh Simonds (1996)
- Neon Emptiness EP – Cyan2 (1999)
Tom Newman Songs
- Sad Sing
- Alison Says
- Moonrise
- Superman
- Cycle for Moving Dunes
- The Missing Peace
- Ma Song
- The Rokeby Venus
- Beach Scene
- Goodbye Honey
- A Special Girl
- Lucky to Be Alive
- Here’s to Terry
- Just a Badge
- PC Virus
- Never Can Be Sure
- Passion for Fashion
- Coffee & Whiskey
- Oh so Stuck
- The Nature of Things
- Dance of Daoine Sidhe
- Affluenza
- Medical Marijuana
- Train to Erehwon
- Time for Movin’ On
- Every Dog
- Lettin’ Go
- Big Brother
- Some Wounds
- Too Hot
- The Woods Of…
- The Unseelie Court