Michael Tighe
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Michael Oliver Tighe is an American singer/songwriter, guitarist and actor. He has worked with Jeff Buckley, Andrew Wyatt, Liam Gallagher, Mark Ronson, Adele, Del Water Gap, Bebe Rexha, Kimbra and others. Tighe's songs are represented by Concord (entertainment company).
Biography
Tighe was born and raised in New York City. As a teenager, he performed in many New York City Downtown theater and music productions, where he met Jeff Buckley.[1] He was drafted into Buckley's band as a guitarist and songwriter and toured with Jeff until the singer's untimely death. He co-wrote the song "So Real", as well as "Vancouver", "Moodswing Whiskey", "Demon John" and "The Sky Is a Landfill". "So Real" appears on Buckley's critically acclaimed album Grace which was voted one of the top 500 albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
After Buckley's passing, Tighe recorded, toured and co-wrote with a number of indie bands in New York City. It was during this time that he met long-time collaborator Andrew Wyatt. In 2006, Tighe recorded a cover of the Britney Spears song "Toxic" with Mark Ronson under the alias Tiggers.The song features posthumously recorded verses from O.D.B. and was a minor hit in the United Kingdom; it was included on Ronson's 2007 album Version. Tighe toured with Ronson and The Version Players from 2007-2009.
In 2008, he played electric guitar on "Cold Shoulder" by Adele, a single on her Grammy winning debut album 19.
In 2017, after signing with Downtown Music Publishing, Tighe began collaborating with Liam Gallagher, Andrew Wyatt and Greg Kurstin, and co-wrote the singles "Wall Of Glass" "Paper Crown" and "Chinatown" on Gallagher's platinum selling debut solo album As You Were (Liam Gallagher album)
In 2021-2022, Bebe Rexha released the single Sabotage (Bebe Rexha song) written by Tighe, Michael Matosic, John Hume, Greg Kurstin and Bebe Rexha.
Tighe collaborated with Andrew Wyatt and Liam Gallagher on Gallagher's third studio album C'mon You Know and co-wrote "Diamond In The Dark" "Better Days" and "I'm Free".
Songwriting credits
| Year | Artist | Album | Song | Co-written with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Jeff Buckley | Grace | "So Real" | Jeff Buckley |
| 2006 | Joan Wasser | Joanthology | "My Gurl" | Joan Wasser |
| 2017 | Del Water Gap | 1 (646) 943 2672 EP | "High Tops" | Samuel Holden Jaffe |
| Liam Gallagher | As You Were | "Wall of Glass" | Liam Gallagher, Andrew Wyatt, Greg Kurstin, Andrew Fox | |
| "Chinatown" | Andrew Wyatt | |||
| "Paper Crown" | Andrew Wyatt | |||
| 2018 | Kimbra | Primal Heart | "Human" | Kimbra Lee Johnson, Robin Hannibal, Paul Salva Jr |
| "Like They Do on the TV" | Kimbra Lee Johnson, Ian Kirkpatrick | |||
| Kiah Victoria | Memo | "Betsy Ross" | Kiah Victoria, Rahm Silverglade | |
| Kiiara | Non-album single | "Gloe" | Kiara Saulters, Ajay Bhattacharya, Teddy Sinclair | |
| Cruel Youth | Non-album single | "Portrait Of A Female" | Teddy Sinclair, Willy Moon | |
| Howard | Together Alone | "Together Alone" | Howard Feibusch, Myles Heff, Chris Holdridge | |
| 2019 | Liam Gallagher | Why Me? Why Not. | "Gone" | Liam Gallagher, Andrew Wyatt |
| "Glimmer" | Liam Gallagher, Andrew Wyatt, Constantin Veis | |||
| 2021 | Bebe Rexha | Better Mistakes | "Sabotage" | Bebe Rexha, Michael Matosic, Greg Kurstin, Jonathan Hume |
| Calvero | Non-album single | "Black Rain" | Gabiel Leibowitz | |
| 2022 | Liam Gallagher | C'mon You Know | "Better Days" | Liam Gallagher, Ebba Tove Nilsson, Andrew Wyatt, Gustav Weber Vernet |
| "Diamond in the Dark" | Liam Gallagher, Andrew Wyatt | |||
| "I'm Free" | Liam Gallagher, Andrew Wyatt |
Notes
- ^ Michael Tighe (2000-05-05). "Jeff Buckley You and I". Huntingbears. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2007-09-28.
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20131029064639/http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/08band.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080410232821/http://www.huntingbears.net/buckley/mtighech.htm
- http://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Tighe
External links
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