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Rick Lloyd is a British actor and musical director best known as a member of the original Flying Pickets who had a Christmas number 1 hit in 1983 with a cover of Yazoo's "Only You". Although the Flying Pickets are known for making a cappella covers of other people's songs, there are some original songs on their 1984 ''Lost Boys'' album that were written by Rick Lloyd including the track 'Wide Boy'. Lloyd was born in London. In Easter 1967, during his time at Aberystwyth University, he formed the Welsh-language four-piece rock band Y Blew in which he was the lead guitarist. He composed the song "Dives in Omnia" for the 1987 Channel 4 series ''Porterhouse Blue'', starring David Jason,〔Internet Movie Database He was musical director for the 1999 film 'Julie and the Cadillacs'.,〔Internet Movie Database Other collaborations with John Burrows include the 1980 play ''One Big Blow'' about a group of miners in a colliery brass band. This was originally performed by John McGrath's 7:84 Theatre Company, of which the other members of The Flying Pickets were members. ''One Big Blow'' will be showing at the Romiley Little Theatre later in 2012, following a hugely successful tour in 2007.〔(Alice in Wonderland )〕 He moved to Wales where, as well as composing and now performing with his own band - the Rick Lloyd Trio - he also teaches courses in songs and songwriting. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rick Lloyd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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