Darren Wharton
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Darren Dean Wharton is a British keyboard player / singer / songwriter born December 25th 1962. He has fronted his own band Dare since 1989 but first came to attention as a member of Thin Lizzy.
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[edit] Biography
Thin Lizzy had not had a keyboard player since their early gigs in Ireland, and Wharton was contacted by Phil Lynott while performing with a cover band. He was only 17 when he contributed keyboards to their 1980 album Chinatown. By the following year on the album Renegade he had become an official member of the band.
Wharton continued with the band on the follow-up Thunder And Lightning in 1983 having an even greater share in the writing credits, most notably on latter day Lizzy classic The Sun Goes Down, but that year Lynott announced the break-up of Thin Lizzy.
Wharton did work with Lynott again on Phil's 1982 solo recording The Philip Lynott Album, where he played on most of the record's 11 tracks.
Darren sank from sight for some years but resurfaced with his own band Dare in 1989. Following Darren's move to his half-native Wales in 1992, their music has come to reflect a more Celtic influence, not unlike Thin Lizzy's occasional hark back to their Irish roots. Since then he has also played with a reunited Thin Lizzy on tours, documented on the 2000 Live album One Night Only but subsequent to this has poured all his energies into Dare.
These days, Darren is also a radio presenter & can be heard on Chester's Dee 106.3, every Friday evening from 6-7pm, where he plays an hour of rock music.
[edit] Discography
[edit] with Thin Lizzy
- Chinatown (1980) as session man
- Renegade (1981)
- Thunder and Lightning (1983)
- Life (farewell concert album) (1983)
- One Night Only (Live) (2000)
[edit] with Philip Lynott
- The Philip Lynott Album (1982)
[edit] with Dare
- Out Of The Silence (1989)
- Blood From Stone (1991)
- Calm Before The Storm (1998)
- Belief (2001)
- Beneath The Shining Water (2004)
- The Power Of Nature (Live in Munich) (2005) also on DVD
- Arc Of Dawn (2008)
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