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James Stevenson (born 12 October 1958) is an English punk/alternative rock guitarist, at one time a member of the Alarm, Gene Loves Jezebel, Gen X, the Cult, Holy Holy, the International Swingers and Chelsea. Career Stevenson started his career with the London-based punk band Chelsea in 1977, while he was still at school studying for A Level exams. He contributed to their early singles and also the first album Chelsea and second Alternative Hits. He was asked to join Gen X featuring Billy Idol as its lead guitarist in 1980/1981. After Gen X broke up in early 1981 he worked with Kim Wilde, contributing to her first album, Kim Wilde, and second album, Select, and performing in all of Wilde's early videos including "Kids in America". Stevenson then formed Hot Club with former Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock. They released two singles on RAK Records. In 1983, he toured as a member of Fischer Z singer John Watts' band in support of Watts' album The Iceberg Model. In 1985, he was briefly in a band formed with Glen Matlock and Gary Holton called the Gang Show. Later that year, he was asked to join post-punk band Gene Loves Jezebel when their guitarist left suddenly at the beginning of their first U.S. tour. Stevenson performed on the band's albums Discover, House of Dolls, Kiss of Life, Heavenly Bodies, VII, The Thornfield Sessions, Dance Underwater (2017) and X - Love Death Sorrow (2023) . He produced Gene Loves Jezebel singer Jay Aston's solo album Unpopular Songs, Beki Bondage's solo album Cold Turkey and Gene October's solo album Life and Struggle, among others. During 1994 and 1995, he provided additional guitar playing for the Cult during their world tour. He also contributed guitar to the song "Brand New You're Retro" by Tricky from his Maxinquaye album. He has contributed as a session guitarist on numerous recordings including artists as diverse as Scott Walker (the Drift and Bish Bosch), Henry Badowski (who he was at Chiswick Community School with), Charlie Harper, Duncan "Kid" Reid, Jimmy Nail, Helen Terry, Annabel Lamb, Louise and the Hothouse Flowers among others, and has composed music for TV and film. In 1998, seven years after Mike Peters left the Alarm, he called upon Stevenson to back his solo projects, and the latter has been a permanent fixture in Peters' subsequent musical incarnations, resulting in minor chart success, first under the guise of the Poppyfields with the top 30 hit "45 RPM" in February 2004, and as the Alarm MMVI with the No. 24 single "Superchannel" in February 2006 (from the album Under Attack). He has played on all Alarm albums recorded since 2000 including In the Poppyfields, Under Attack, Counter Attack, Direct Action, Guerilla Tactics, Blood Red, Viral Black, Equals, Sigma, War and Forwards Stevenson still plays with the Alarm and Gene Loves Jezebel (Jay Aston's version). He also rejoined Chelsea, performing on their Faster, Cheaper and Better Looking (2006), Saturday Night Sunday Morning (2015) and Mission Impossible (2017) albums. He also plays in Matlock's band the Philistines, and has contributed to Matlock's Open Mind and Born Running albums. He sometimes turns up in New York singer/songwriter Willie Nile's band when they play in the UK. In 2011, Stevenson and Matlock formed supergroup the International Swingers with vocalist Gary Twinn and drummer Clem Burke. Via PledgeMusic, the band raised the money to record their first full-length album, The International Swingers (mixed by Peter Walsh), which was released in 2015. In January 2013, Stevenson released a three-track CD, "The Shape of Things to Come", via his own website. An album, Everything's Getting Closer to Being Over, followed in March 2014. The album, produced by Peter Walsh, featured Matlock, Steve Norman, Barriemore Barlow, Geoff Dugmore and others. Stevenson rejoined the Cult as second guitarist for their "Electric 13" world tour throughout North America, Europe and Australia in summer 2013 and continued to tour with them in 2014. Since 2014, Stevenson has been playing in the band Holy Holy, performing the music of David Bowie, alongside Mick Woodmansey, Tony Visconti and Glenn Gregory, among others. A recording of their London gig in September 2014 was released by Maniac Squat Records in 2015 as a live album, The Man Who Sold the World Live in London. In the spring of 2017, Gene Loves Jezebel (Jay Aston's version) released their first studio album in 14 years on Westworld Recordings, Dance Underwater. He also contributed to the 2018 Daphne Guinness album Daphne and the Golden Chord, and her 2020 album Revelations, both produced by Tony Visconti. Recently he has adopted a multi-instrumentalist role in the Alarm playing guitar, bass guitar, bass pedals and a bass/six string double-neck guitar made for him by Gordon-Smith Guitars. On 9 July 2021, Stevenson released his second solo album The Other Side of the World, dedicated to his younger brother David and his fight against the terminal illness Pick's disease. It was recorded remotely during lockdown and again produced by Peter Walsh. As well as all guitars and lead vocals, Stevenson played all bass guitars too. Guest musicians include Harriet Stubbs and Terry Edwards, among others. In his review of X - Love Death Sorrow for Goldmine Magazine, Dave Thompson wrote "guitarist Stevenson is simply blazing. Indeed, anyone who thought his recent (2021) solo album The Other Side of the World was the cat’s pajamas has just been introduced to its dressing gown. In terms of (re-)establishing Stevenson’s credentials as the hottest guitarist to emerge from the new wave (he was first sighted in Chelsea, in the first wave of punk), Stevenson is playing some of the most grandiosely incisive guitar of his life right now." Personal life His father was the writer John Stevenson. James has been married twice. His second wife was Westworld singer Elizabeth Westwood. He has an adult son, Oscar, from his first wife. Discography Solo albums Everything's Getting Closer to Being Over (2014) The Other Side of the World (2021) Gene Loves Jezebel Discover (1986) The House of Dolls (1987) Kiss of Life (1990) Heavenly Bodies (1993) Discover (1995) In the Afterglow"" (live) (1995) VII (1999) The Thornfield Sessions (2003) Dance Underwater (2017) X - Love Death Sorrow (2023) Jay Aston Unpopular Songs (1998) References External links Official website The International Swingers' official website. Discover the James Stevenson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular James Stevenson books.
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Tattoos on the Heart
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13 Cat Tales
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Algernon Blackwood, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Booth Tarkington, G H Powell, William Livingston Alden, Peggy Bacon & Charles Dudley Warner"Lords of the Housetops" is a carefully chosen collection of thirteen tales about the beloved, clever and charismatic cat. We see the cat through the eyes of thirteen autho...
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Das Haus der Geheimnisse
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The Outback Court Reporter
Jamelle WellsOne of Australia's most experienced court reporters goes on a judicial road trip. Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on in...
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Walter Scott - The Man Behind the Books
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The Whole Language
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The Complete Autobiographical Writings of Sir Walter Scott
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The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson
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Cherished Belonging
Gregory BoyleAt a time when society is more fractured than ever before, beloved Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle invites us to see the world through a new lens of connection and build the loving com...
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The Baltic Prize
Julian Stockwin1808. Parted from his new bride, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is called away to join the Northern Expedition to Sweden, now Britain's only ally in the Baltic. Following the sudden decla...
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The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told
Stephen BrennanOver the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates, and their rumdrunk exploits and highseas violence never fail to d...
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Seen and Unseen
Marc Lamont Hill & Todd BrewsterA riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times)...
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James A. Stevenson Et Al. v. Jeanette
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The Complete Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis StevensonThis carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 1894) w...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
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Das Haus der Geheimnisse
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My First Book
Various AuthorsWith centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are w...
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7 best short stories by Henry James
Henry James & August NemoHenry James was an AmericanBritish author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest ...
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Shepherds of Pan on the Big Sur-Monterey Coast
ELAYNE WAREING FITZPATRICKSHEPHERDS OF PAN ON THE BIG SURMONTEREY COAST is a medley of lively, literate essays about the Nature wisdom linking some unlikely bedfellows: Robert Louis Stevenson, Gertrude Ath...
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The New Rector
Rebecca ShawPerfect for fans of Barbara Pym'Rebecca's wit, humour and brilliant observational skills put her in the forefront of village storytelling. I never tire of reading her wonderful nov...
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JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Ultimate Collection
James Fenimore CooperMusaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of James Fenimore Cooper's renowned western classics, sea tales and historical novels. This ebook has been desi...
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Novelistas Imprescindibles - Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Greatest Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson & Herman GrafThe Best Short Works of One of English Literature’s Most Masterful Storytellers Collected in a Single Volume Known mostly for his seminal fulllength works, such as the famous class...
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Classic Tales of Horror
Editors of Canterbury Classics & Ernest HilbertSpinetingling tales that will keep you on the edge of your seat!This chilling collection of scary stories will keep you awake for hours! Psychological horrors, disturbing dramas, a...
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Plain Tales from the Hills - All 40 Tales in One Edition
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Travels with My Donkey
Tim Moore"'A donkey?' blurted my family as one. For a moment it didn't seem they'd ever be able to list all the reasons that made this so entertainingly ludicrous. . . .Yes, I'd never ridde...
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THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
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THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF R. L. STEVENSON
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One Tongue Singing
Susan MannCamille Pascal, a young, unmarried French nurse comes to South Africa with her father and her small daughter, Zara, during the closing years of the apartheid regime. The family set...
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Classic Horror Tales
Editors of Canterbury ClassicsCurl up with this collection of classic scary stories from the masters of the genre.With dozens of stories of the macabre, fantastic, and supernatural, Classic Horror Tales is sure...
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The Complete Tales of Sir Walter Scott
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Mobile Offensive Security Pocket Guide
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Dark Beneath The Moon
Christine PurkisRowan's family live deep in the country in a caravan. They are travellers and life is chaotic and very, very happy; until, that is, the day Rowan meets a strange old woman who...
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Invisible Men
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A aventura do estilo
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