Christopher Ward "Chris" Norman (born 25 October 1950) is an English soft rock singer. Norman was the lead singer of Smokie, an English soft rock band from Bradford, which found success in Europe in the 1970s.
With the advent of rock and roll, Norman acquired his first guitar at the age of seven. His early musical influences were Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Lonnie Donegan.
In these early years, Norman's parents moved around the country a lot which resulted in him going to nine different schools, and living in various locations around England, such as, Redcar, Luton, Kimpton and Nottingham. By 1962 however, the family had moved back to Norman's mother's home city of Bradford. Approaching his twelfth birthday, Norman started at St. Bede's Grammar School where he was to meet Alan Silson and Terry Uttley, future members of Smokie.
As teenagers, influenced by the new era of groups such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and then folk singer, Bob Dylan, Norman and Silson began meeting up and spent nearly all their spare time learning new songs on their guitars. They managed to persuade Uttley to join them and, along with a drummer friend called Ron Kelly, they formed their first band. The Yen, Essence, and Long Side Down were just some of a variety of names they called themselves before settling on "The Elizabethans". When Ron Kelly left the group in 1973, an old friend called Pete Spencer was asked to take over on the drums, and the group, which was to become Smokie, was complete.
Chris Cooper Norman (born 1962-05-25 in Albany, Georgia) is a former punter in National Football League. He played his entire 3-year career for the Denver Broncos.
Chris Norman (born in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a flautist. He also plays bagpipes and bodhran and composes music. Specializing in the wooden flute, he has played as a member of groups such as The Baltimore Consort, Helicon, Skyedance, and Concerto Caledonia; and performed and recorded solo. His musical style is very eclectic, with projects including "Celtic Canadian and American traditional music; Renaissance tunes; orchestral, chamber, and solo performance; rock/jazz crossover; classical crossover" and world music. He plays "traditional Celtic, Appalachian and Cape Breton music... and he played the flute for the ceilidh scene in the movie Titanic".
Norman is also the Director of Boxwood Festival, Ltd, a 501(c)3 non profit organization in the United States which aims to provide opportunities for the dissemination, sharing, presentation and celebration of traditional music. Norman and Boxwood have presented workshops in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.
Maybe Tomorrow may refer to:
Maybe Tomorrow was the only album released by Badfinger under the name The Iveys. It was issued in 1969 on the Apple label in Japan, West Germany and Italy. Although the album was scheduled to be released worldwide, the release in the US and UK at that time was halted without explanation. Many reasons for halting the album have been suggested by the band and Apple employees, but the most common theory in that Apple's newly hired president, Allen Klein, stopped all non-Beatle releases on Apple until he could examine the company's finances, which were in disarray at the time.
A majority of the album's songs were later issued as Badfinger songs on the Badfinger album Magic Christian Music.
The Iveys (later known as Badfinger) were a successful live act on the London circuit when they attracted the attention of Apple employee Mal Evans in early 1968. It was through Evans' perseverance that demonstration recordings made by the group were presented to The Beatles (Apple's presidents). Although the band was initially waived by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, the former relented as more impressive Iveys tapes were brought in by Evans.
"Maybe Tomorrow" is the second single released by New Zealand band Goldenhorse from their debut triple platinum selling #1 album, Riverhead. The song, written by Geoff Maddock, has a laid-back guitar based tune and is a song about how that "maybe tomorrow, all of your sorrow ...will fade away in the air". The music video features the band members around several Auckland beaches.
The song was released in 2003 and received major airplay with the single reaching #10 on RIANZ single charts. The song garnered huge popularity, reaching the #10 position on four separate occasions. The single stayed in the charts for 31 weeks, and became the #13 single of the year in New Zealand.
The song was nominated for several awards; it was a finalist in the 2003 Australasian Performing Rights Association's Silver Scroll Awards and a finalist in the 2004 New Zealand Music Awards. "Maybe Tomorrow " itself was also the most played song on New Zealand radio for 2002/2003 (and similarly won the Airplay Record of the Year award at the New Zealand Music Awards and the Most Performed Work award at the 2003 APRA Silver Scroll Awards).
Chris Norman is an English soft rock singer.
Chris Norman may also refer to:
It's just another day
and just cos you've gone away
it doesn't mean I am gonna miss you
there's so many things to do
so why should I think of you
now don't you go thinking I'll be lonely
And don't say I'm going out my mind
'cos that's not funny
I know I'll get used to it in time
so I won't worry now
It's not that I miss you
it's not that I need you
it's just that I cry a lot more now
I've moved to a place that's new
it seemed the right thing to do
'cos there's nothing left here to remind me
surrounded by all my freinds
like a party that never ends
oh please don't you bother tryin' to find me
Ignoring the writing on the wall
I don't regret it
it tell you there's nothing wrong at all
so just forget it now
It's not that I miss you
it's not that I need you