Roy Hay (musician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Roy Hay (musician)

British musician

Date of Birth: 12-Aug-1961

Place of Birth: Southend-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom

Profession: musician, guitarist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Roy Hay (musician)

  • Roy Ernest Hay (born 12 August 1961, Southend, Essex, England) is the guitarist-keyboardist with Culture Club, a band of the 1980s fronted by Boy George.
  • Hay, a trained pianist since the age of five, replaced founding member Johnny Suede in 1981.
  • Some of Hay's musical influences were Stevie Wonder, The Isley Brothers and Led Zeppelin.
  • Before his involvement with Culture Club, Hay was a hairdresser in his native Essex. It was during Culture Club's beginnings that Hay met Alison Green.
  • The two married in 1982 and had a child, Sunny, in 1986.
  • They divorced in 2005, although the two had been separated since 1995. According to the "Culture Club" episode the VH-1 series Behind the Music, Hay assisted Boy George in giving up heroin.
  • The singer suffered the painful withdrawal symptoms closely attended by Hay in his Essex home. Following Culture Club, Hay formed another band, called This Way Up.
  • In 1987, they released three singles: "Tell Me Why", "If I Can't Have You" and "Louise".
  • An album, Feeling Good About It, was released in some European countries and in Japan in 1987.
  • All those records flopped, "Tell Me Why" being the only one that charted, for one week at number 72 in the UK Singles Chart.Hay moved to Los Angeles, U.S.
  • in 1989 and from there wrote for and produced young artists and bands for Sony Music.
  • He branched into commercial composing and sound design with his own company Haywired Music. Hay found later success as a composer in Hollywood, California, working with fellow composer Hans Zimmer and composing the music for a series directed by Robert Altman, as well as the music for Cracker and for Stephen King's The Dead Zone.
  • Hay reunited with the three original members of Culture Club in 1998 to record a new album.
  • In a Rolling Stone interview, Hay described the years apart as a healing process.
  • "There was obviously a bit of a healing process that needed to happen between Jon [Moss] and George.
  • They hadn't really spoken to each other in quite a while".
  • The description of the tour was "Older and wiser...We've all been through some good and bad times since the band.
  • I think we've all grown up a bit".

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