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  Peter Asher Around The World!
Peter seems to have particularly enjoyed the Dr. Who television show (perhaps due to its time travel aspect, which was now an everyday part of life for Peter), even after the show's production team decided to recast the old fart Doctor in 1966.
Peter would, again, have a short stay on the Dr. Who program, this time because several perfectly healthy female viewers had to be hospitalized after seeing old fart William Hartnell regenerate into the Amazing Asher right before their eyes.
Sadly, Peter was forced to resign in 1974 when it was revealed that he wasn't actually Richard Nixon at all...
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  Interview With Peter Asher
Peter and Gordon were often called the "Everly Brothers of the British Invasion".
Peter Asher Management became one of the most successful artist management companies in the U.S., handling artists such as Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman and Carole King as well as James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.
Asher has produced nine Grammy Award winning recordings and in 1977 and 1989 was honored with the Grammy Award for Producer Of The Year.
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  Peter Asher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Asher (born on June 22, 1944 in London, England) is a guitarist, singer and record producer.
Asher is best known as 'Peter' of 1960s duo Peter and Gordon, whose biggest hit was "World Without Love"; since Peter and Gordon disbanded, Asher has enjoyed great success as a producer.
Asher is the older brother of actress and businesswoman Jane Asher, who, in the mid-1960s, was the girlfriend of The Beatles' Paul McCartney.
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 Peter & Gordon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter and Gordon were a British Invasion-era performing duo, formed by Peter Asher and Gordon Waller, that rocketed to fame in 1964 with "A World Without Love".
Peter Asher's sister (the actress Jane Asher) was dating Paul McCartney (of The Beatles), and so Peter and Gordon recorded several songs written by McCartney, with or without John Lennon.
Asher has continued his career as a recording executive in California and has managed and produced Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Cher, 10,000 Maniacs and more.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_&_Gordon   (264 words)

  
 Peter and Gordon Page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Peter Asher was born in London in 1944 and Gordon Waller was born in Braemar, Scotland in 1945.
Peter and Gordon had talent, and were fortunate to find and record songs that had been written by other well known performers and which became popular with the record buying public.
Peter and Gordon had talent and some useful connections, and they certainly were a large part of the British Invasion that was so prominent in the music business in the 1960's.
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 Peter and Gordon
Peter Asher & Gordon Waller were called "the Everly Brothers of the British Invasion".
As for Peter Asher, after being named Producer Of the Year for a second time in 1989, he was hired as Senior Vice President of Sony Music Entertainment in February, 1995.
In August, 2005, Peter and Gordon were slated to play at a benefit concert for Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five, who was seriously injured in a fall at his home in 2003.
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 Peter & Gordon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Peter & Gordon: Nostalgia
Peter Asher and Gordon Waller were childhood friends who loved music from an early age and set their sights on a professional music career after graduating from school.
Peter and Gordon announced they were breaking up in 1967 after one last hit, “Knights In Rusty Armor.” However, they continued to perform and record together occasionally until making the split permanent in 1968.
Peter and Gordon have not reunited since their split, but it’s very likely that their gentle, folk-tinged sound will continue to entertain pop fans and influence musicians for a long while.
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 Artist Management - LA Managers - Sanctuary Group Plc
Peter Asher was born in London June 22, 1944, the son of a doctor and a professional musician.
Peter Asher Management became one of the most successful Artist Management companies in the US handling artists such as Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, and Carole King as well as James and Linda.
Asher has produced nine Grammy Award-winning recordings, and in 1977 and 1989 was honored with the Grammy Award for “Producer of the Year”.
www.sanctuarygroup.com /index.php?page=1&l1=6&l2=6&l3=0   (325 words)

  
 Biografia de Peter & Gordon - Univision.com
In June 1964, Peter & Gordon became the very first British Invasion act after the Beatles to take the number one spot on the American charts with "A World Without Love." That hit, and their subsequent successes, were due as much or more to their important connections as to their talent.
Peter Asher was the older brother of Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's girlfriend for much of the 1960s.
This no doubt gave Asher and Gordon Waller access to Lennon-McCartney compositions that were unrecorded by the Beatles, such as "A World Without Love" and three of their other biggest hits, "Nobody I Know," "I Don't Want to See You Again," and "Woman" (the last of which was written by McCartney under a pseudonym).
www.univision.com /uv/music/1005136/Peter_&_Gordon/biografia   (548 words)

  
 CMT.com : Peter & Gordon : Biography
This no doubt gave Asher and Gordon Waller access to Lennon-McCartney compositions that were unrecorded by the Beatles, such as "A World Without Love" and three of their other biggest hits, "Nobody I Know," "I Don't Want to See You Again," and "Woman" (the last of which was written by McCartney under a pseudonym).
But Peter & Gordon were significant talents in their own right, a sort of Everly Brothers-styled duo for the British Invasion that faintly prefigured the folk-rock of the mid-'60s.
Asher and Waller had been singing together since their days at Westminster School for Boys, a private school in London.
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 Peter & Gordon Information
Peter and Gordon were a British Invasion-era performing duo, formed by Peter Asher and Gordon Waller, that rocketed to fame in 1964 with "A World Without Love".
Peter Asher's sister (the actress Jane Asher) was dating Paul McCartney (of The Beatles), and so Peter and Gordon recorded several songs written by McCartney, with or without John Lennon.
Asher has continued his career as a recording executive in California and has managed and produced Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Cher, 10,000 Maniacs and more.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Peter_&_Gordon   (229 words)

  
 YouTube - Woman_Peter and Gordon
Remember, Peter Asher was Jane Asher's brother, she was Paul McCartney's girlfriend back then.
OOOh Peter has such a beautiful hair color, and Austin Powers is a sad comparrison to him.
It is totaly obvious that Peter was some what infact who they had in mind at the time of thinking up the look of Austin Powers, but Austin could not hold a candle to Peter.
www.youtube.com /watch?v=48F5e6XPTWI   (555 words)

  
 Scripps Howard News Service
In the middle and late 1960s, Peter Asher and Gordon Waller were among the hottest of the hot _ riding the wave of the British Invasion launched by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Asher worked for Apple Records, the label the Beatles formed in 1968, and is responsible for signing James Taylor to the label and producing his debut solo album.
And Peter and Gordon were offered the opportunity to continue their collaboration on tour, which they accepted.
www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=PETERGORDON-04-14-06   (833 words)

  
 Peter & Gordon | Biography | MTV
In June 1964, Peter & Gordon became the very first British Invasion act after the Beatles to take the number one spot on the American charts with "A World Without Love." That hit, and their subsequent successes, were due as much or more to their important connections as to their talent.
Peter Asher was the older brother of Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's girlfriend for much of the 1960s.
This no doubt gave Asher and Gordon Waller access to Lennon-McCartney compositions that were unrecorded by the Beatles, such as "A World Without Love" and three of their other biggest hits, "Nobody I Know," "I Don't Want to See You Again," and "Woman" (the last of which was written by McCartney under a...
www.mtv.com /music/artist/peter_gordon/bio.jhtml   (643 words)

  
 Peter Asher at AllExperts
Peter Asher (born on June 22, 1944 in London, England) is a guitarist, singer and record producer.
Asher is the older brother of actress and businesswoman Jane Asher, who, in the mid-1960s, was the girlfriend of The Beatles' Paul McCartney.
The album was not a success, but Asher was so convinced that Taylor held great potential, that he resigned his post at Apple to move to the United States and work as Taylor's manager; he managed Taylor, and produced his albums over several decades.
en.allexperts.com /e/p/pe/peter_asher.htm   (949 words)

  
 The Hudson Reporter - Beatles festival returnsLegendary British invasion duo Peter & Gordon to play in Secaucus
Peter Asher's sister, Jane, was Paul McCartney's steady girlfriend for most of the 1960s.
Peter was also partly responsible for John Lennon's meeting of Yoko Ono in that he was co-owner of the Indica Bookstore and Gallery where John and Yoko first met.
Asher and Waller agreed to join other musical legends of the area last August, including The Zombies, Peter J. Kramer and the Fab Faux for a benefit concert in New York City.
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 ASHER, Peter : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music   (Site not responding. Last check: )
School friends both sang and played guitars; modelled duo on Everly Bros and were nothing if not well-connected: Asher's sister Jane was Paul McCartney's girlfriend; the gift of a Beatle song ensured no. 1 UK/USA with first release 'World Without Love' '64.
As head of A&R at Beatles' Apple label he signed James Taylor, singer/songwriter then living in London; moved with Taylor to LA '69 when flop of debut LP coincided with Allen Klein's purge of Apple staff (one of the problems with the Apple label was that if the record wasn't the Beatles nobody played it).
Exerted consistent influence on '70s West Coast pop, which was not unlike an update of the Peter and Gordon sound.
www.musicweb.uk.net /encyclopaedia/a/A115.HTM   (329 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Peter & Gordon - Greatest Hits [CEMA Special Markets]: Music: Peter & Gordon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The pop duo of Peter And Gordon were one of the truly great groups to emerge from the British invasion of the sixties.
Peter And Gordon fail to get little recognition outside of their hits, which is a real problem, because they has so many non-hit tracks that were excellent.
Peter and Gordon were responsible for three singles of interest; if one needs to hear them again, this is the collection worth buying.
www.amazon.com /Peter-Gordon-Greatest-Special-Markets/dp/B000002TGE   (1565 words)

  
 Amazon.frĀ : The Ultimate Peter & Gordon: Musique: Peter & Gordon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A key thing to remember with these twenty tracks is that they are arranged in chronological order of when they were recorded rather than when they were released, for what that is worth (I am not enough of a fan to catch the value of the resequencing).
With their softer, more acoustic sound, you can see Peter and Gordon as being more in tune with the folk-rock movement than with the British Invasion (Asher would go on to be a producer who helped define the mellow sound of California rock, which would seem to help prove the point).
The only serious knock against them is that Asher and Waller were average songwriters at best (but notice that the album ends with a pair of songs the duo wrote individually).
www.amazon.fr /Ultimate-Peter-Gordon/dp/B00005MHUD   (426 words)

  
 Producer Peter Asher
Asher's productions are known for their clear sonic quality and their enviable ability to yield hits that don't compromise artistic integrity.
Asher's production peak, it could be argued, coincided with Taylor's artistic peak in 1977's "JT", a gorgeous, lush production that featured multiple layers of instrumental and vocal harmonies and some of Taylor's best compositions.
Peter is very strong on organizational stuff and at moving the session along; at knowing when the guys are past it and when is a good time to take a break; at how to speak to people and get a good performance out of them.
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 Peter and Gordon Liner Notes
If you hadn't heard, by the way, Peter is Peter Asher, 19, and Gordon is Gordon Waller, 18, and they started singing and playing guitar in coffee bars and clubs in England after meeting and becoming freinds at school.
As young students just starting their careers, Peter Asher and Gordon Waller every evening climbed a twelve-foot wall to get out of the school grounds and off to the nearby clubs where they were a hit as a singing, guitar-playing duo.
Peter and Gordon have and they've just seen to it that hundreds of millions of other people are equally familiar with that oxidized gallant's every chivalrous squeak.
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Up in the bathroom, Carly and Peter were diligently trying to synchronize two battery-operated cassette recorders so that a few guests could enjoy a closed-door preview of "You're So Vain," in reasonable facsimile of stereo.
I passed Peter and Carly and said, "Hi" and Peter said, "Hi, this is my sister Carly" and then I left.
I remember very early on, when I was four and Peter had just been born, Lucy was seven and very angelically shy, very attractively innocent, reticent, and Joey was very sophisticated - maybe ten years old, and a budding actress and singer.
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 A World Without Love by Peter and Gordon Songfacts
Peter and Gordon are Peter Asher and Gordon Waller.
This was the first and biggest hit for Peter and Gordon.
Peter Asher was the manager of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.
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 RollingSt.htm
Asher, 33, produces, manages and, as he says, is happy to control the records and careers of two of today's most popular
turkeys, and Peter will know instinctively which is gonna be the most appropriate one and how to latch on to some of these developing ideas in their embryonic stage and allow them to bloom.
Asher admits, "I'm not good at asking for as much as I might be entitled to, because you know where the money's coming from out of the pockets of friends.
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