Matt Savage (Levellers)
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Matt Savage | |
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| Birth name | Matthew Savage |
| Born | August 23, 1972 |
| Origin | Reading, Berkshire, U.K |
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| Years active | 2000 - present |
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| Website | www |
Matt Savage is an English musician, best known as the keyboardist of the British band The Levellers. Savage is the most recent member of the band having joined in 2003.
As a band The Levellers have enjoyed notable success, they were discovered by Derek Green in 1990(the man responsible for signing the Sex Pistols) and signed to independent label China Records.[1] The following year, they released Levelling The Land which was a massive success, entering the charts at number 14 and eventually going platinum. The single One Way, despite not bothering the Top 40, became a live favourite for years to come. Levelling The Land is often cited as an all time classic amongst people who were students or travellers in the early 1990s.[2]
The band have had seven Top 40 albums and 14 Top 40 singles and At the height of their popularity in 1994, The Levellers headlined Glastonbury Festival, they are believed to have performed to Glastonbury's biggest-ever crowd when they headlined the Pyramid on the Friday night in 1994. With no steel fence yet having been erected to keep out gatecrashers, as many as 300,000 people are thought to have seen the show.[3]
Albums
The Levellers (with Savage)
- Truth and Lies (2005)
- Letters from the Underground (2008)
- Static on the Airwaves (2012)
- We the Collective (2018)
References
- ^ Levellers official website. "TOGETHER ALL THE WAY". The Levellers. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ Levellers official website. "TOGETHER ALL THE WAY". The Levellers. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ Jon Kelly BBC. "How do you headline Glastonbury?". BBC. Retrieved 31 March 2018.