Richard Clapton

Richard Clapton is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are "Girls on the Avenue" (1975) and "I Am an Island" (1982) His highest-charting album, Music Is Love (1966–1970) (April 2021), peaked at number 3 on the ARIA Chart. As a producer he worked on the second INXS album, Underneath the Colours (1981). In 1983, he briefly joined the Party Boys for a tour of eastern Australia and their live album, Greatest Hits (Of Other People) (1983), before resuming his solo career. He was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) hall of fame on 12 October 1999. In August 2014 he published his memoirs, The Best Years of Our Lives. He has been described as "one of the most important Australian songwriters of the 1970s" by rock music historian Ian McFarlane. His birth name is elusive; he used the last names of two of his music heroes, Keith Richards and Eric Clpton.