Gordon Waller
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Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller (born on June 4, 1945 in Braemar, Scotland) is a singer/songwriter/Guitarist, best known as "Gordon" of 1960s duo Peter & Gordon, whose biggest hit was "World Without Love".
While attending Westminster School, he first met fellow student Peter Asher, and together they began playing together as a duo — Peter & Gordon.
Asher is the older brother of actress and businesswoman Jane Asher, who in the mid-1960s was girlfriend of The Beatles' Paul McCartney. Through this connection he and Waller were often given unrecorded Lennon-McCartney songs to perform, most notably their first and biggest hit, 1964's decidedly Beatlesque 'World Without Love'.
Peter & Gordon disbanded in 1968. Afterwards, Waller attempted a solo career with little success, releasing one record, and Gordon. On this album Gordon used New York based group White Cloud featuring Teddy Wender on keyboards. He also appeared in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as Pharaoh, a performance that he reprised on the LP.
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- In Touch With... (by Peter & Gordon) (1964)
- Peter and Gordon (by Peter & Gordon) (1964)
- World Without Love Peter and Gordon (by Peter & Gordon) (1964)
- Hurtin' 'n' Lovin' (by Peter & Gordon) (1965)
- I Don't Want to See You Again (by Peter & Gordon) (1965)
- I Go to Pieces (by Peter & Gordon) (1965)
- True Love Ways (by Peter & Gordon) (1965)
- Best of Peter and Gordon (by Peter & Gordon) (1966)
- Peter and Gordon Sing & Play the Hits of Nashville (1966)
- Somewhere (by Peter & Gordon) (1966)
- Woman (by Peter & Gordon) (1966)
- In London for Tea (by Peter & Gordon) (1967)
- Knight in Rusty Armour (by Peter & Gordon) (1967)
- Lady Godiva (by Peter & Gordon) (1967)
- Hot Cold & Custard (by Peter & Gordon) (1968)
- and Gordon (solo) (1972)
- Best of Peter and Gordon (by Peter & Gordon) (1983)
- Hits of Peter and Gordon (by Peter & Gordon) (1983)
- Best of Peter and Gordon (by Peter & Gordon) (1991)
- Ultimate Peter and Gordon (by Peter & Gordon) (2001)
- Definitive Collection: Knights in Rusty Armour (by Peter & Gordon) (2003)
