Алан Кларк: Dire Straits тобының мүшесі және музыкалық өмірі

British musician (born 1952)

Alan Clark (born 5 March 1952) is an English musician who was the first keyboardist and co producer of the rock band Dire Straits. In 2018, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a significant member of the band.

As a six year old child, Clark received piano lessons. From the age of nine years, he taught himself. At the age of 13 and while still a pupil at Chester le Street Grammar School, he began to play Hammond organ in working men's clubs in the northeast of England, and thereafter forged a successful career in music which included playing with a reformed Geordie which featured Brian Johnson (who would later join AC/DC), playing and recording with a duo called Splinter who were signed to George Harrison's Dark Horse label, playing and recording with Gallagher & Lyle, and playing on a tour of major UK festivals with Lindisfarne.

Clark joined Dire Straits in 1980 and remained a major influence on the band's music until the band's eventual dissolution in 1995. He co produced the band's final album, On Every Street. He is a member of a band called LEGACY, which features himself, Phil Palmer, Steve Ferrone, Trevor Horn, Danny Cummings, Mel Collins, Primi de Biasse and Marco Caviglia, and in 2017 he wrote and produced, with Phil Palmer, an album for LEGACY called Three Chord Trick. In 2017 he recorded in Real World studios with Italian artist Pacifico. He is a member of Trevor Horn's band and works/records with Horn on other projects. In 2019 he co produced with Trevor Horn and Phil Palmer, Renato Zero's hugely successful record Zero Il Folle and played on several major records including Trevor Horn Reimagines the Eighties and Rod Stewart's You're In My Heart. In June 2019, he played a solo piano concert at the Milan Piano Festival. In 2020, he co wrote and co produced several tracks on Renato Zero's hugely successful Zerosettanta album. In Sept 2021, he released his solo piano record Backstory.