Paul Hardcastle

Paul Louis Hardcastle is a British composer, musician, producer, songwriter, radio presenter, and multi-instrumentalist. Born in London, he is best known for his song 19, which went to No.1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1985, it remained No.1 for 5 weeks. He is one of the progenitors of synthesizer based dance, electro-house and techno - and is directly linked to their transition into the mainstream musical strata.

In 1986 Hardcastle's track The Wizard was adopted as the theme tune for Top of the Pops, it remained the theme until September 1991.

I think if you're an artist my advice to you is really stick to your guns and don't make records for anyone else. If you sign to a record label they always want to change you and you don't really need in a label that much anymore unless you're a real Pop band where they have to spend a lot of money on you.

Hardcastle has continued to record new material with a variety of projects including Jazzmasters.

I say have fun doing it and don't go into it or make records thinking I'm gonna make a lot of money. You have to love it and then hopefully you do well and the rewards can are really good. But it's harder in the music business now, in fact it's very hard so you must be careful.

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