Lester Square, Date of Birth

    

Lester Square

Canadian musician

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1954

Profession: guitarist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Lester Square

  • For the London landmark, see Leicester Square.Lester Square (born Thomas Woodburne Bruce Hardy, April 17, 1954, Canada) is the former lead guitarist for The Monochrome Set.
  • He also sang backing vocals, designed some of the band's record sleeves, and co-wrote some of their music.
  • He had been in the original Adam and the Ants, (and its earlier incarnation known as The B-Sides), writing "Fall In" and "Fat Fun" during this period.
  • He left in 1978 to form The Monochrome Set with singer-songwriter Bid, a band cited as "a major influence on the Smiths, Franz Ferdinand, Orange Juice, Fire Engines and a whole host of UK indie and post punk bands." He has also briefly played guitar with The Invisible (1985-1987), ...And the Native Hipsters, plus Jesus Couldn't Drum.
  • Square also composed music for dance performance, most notably Rhythm and Hues, a kinaesthetic exploration of 20th-century works of art in collaboration with the Tate Gallery and Helen McCookerybook.
  • Also in collaboration with McCookerybook, he composed soundtrack music for the Channel 4 documentaries Pictures of Women and No-one Likes Us, We Don't Care, Akiko Hada and Wolfgang Müller's 1991 parable on the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Fall of a Queen, or the Taste of the Fruit to Come. He has released three solo albums since leaving The Monochrome Set: Carcass in 2017, Serotonin in 2018 and Chautauqua in 2019.

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