Steve Kipner: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], USU.S.

| associated_acts = {{hlist|Steve & the Board, |[[Bee Gees]], |[[Tin Tin (band)|Tin Tin]], |[[theThe Fut]]}}

| occupation = {{hlist|Singer, |songwriter, |record producer}}

'''Stephen Alan Kipner'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.secondhandsongs.com/artist/8563/works |title=Songs written by Steve Kipner |publisher=SecondHandSongs |access-date=2014-05-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lescharts.com/showperson.asp?name=Steve+Kipner|title=Steve Kipner|work=lescharts.com|langlanguage=fr|accessdateaccess-date=13 January 2021}}</ref> (born 1950) is an American-born Australian [[multi-platinum]]-selling songwriter and record producer, with hits spanning a 40-year period, including chart-topping songs such as [[Olivia Newton-John]]'s "[[Physical (Olivia Newton-John song)|Physical]]", [[Chicago band|Chicago]]'s [[Grammy Award|Grammy]]-nominated "[[Hard Habit to Break]]", "[[Genie in a Bottle]]" by [[Christina Aguilera]],<ref name="AMG"/> for which he won an [[Ivor Novello Award]] for International Hit of the Year, [[Natasha Bedingfield]]'s "[[These Words]]",<ref name="these-words">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsBYhM3ECAM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/wsBYhM3ECAM| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=YouTube - Natasha Bedingfield - These Words |work=youtube.com |access-date=2009-10-25}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and [[Christina Aguilera]]'s "[[Genie in a Bottle]]",<ref name="AMG"/> for which he won an [[Ivor Novello Award]] for International Hit of the Year. Other hits he has writing credits on include [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]]'s "[[Hard Habit to Break]]", [[98 Degrees]]' "[[The Hardest Thing (98 Degrees song)|The Hardest Thing]]" by, [[98Dream Degrees(American group)|Dream]],'s "[[He Loves U Not]]" by, [[DreamKelly (American group)|DreamRowland]], 's "[[Stole (song)|Stole]]" by [[Kelly Rowland]], [[The Script (band)|The Script]]'s "[[Breakeven (song)|Breakeven]]" and "[[The Man Who Can't Be Moved]]", [[American Idol (season 8)|''American Idol'' Season 8]] [[Kris Allen]]'s first top 5 single debut "[[Live Like We're Dying]]", and[[Cheryl Cole]]'s "[[Fight for This Love]]",<ref name="fight-for-this-love">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMiy_UsrPDs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/XMiy_UsrPDs| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=YouTube - Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love |work=youtube.com |access-date=2009-10-25}}{{cbignore}}</ref> by [[CherylCamila ColeCabello]],'s "[[Crying in the Club]]" forand [[CamillaJames CabelloArthur]], and's "[[Say You Won't Let Go]]" for [[James Arthur]].

Born in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], United States, Kipner began his music career in [[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]], [[Australia]], where he grew up.<ref name="AMG">{{cite web|author=Ed Hogan |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-kipner-mn0000044172 |title=Steve Kipner &#124; Biography |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2014-05-13}}</ref>

His first band, Steve & the Board<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.milesago.com/Artists/steveboard.htm |title=MILESAGO - Groups & Solo Artists - Spectrum / Indelible Murtceps |work=milesago.com |access-date=2009-10-25}}</ref> achieved Australian chart success with the song "Giggle Eyed Goo,",<ref name="giggle-eyed-goo">{{cite web |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/steve-and-the-board-and-the-giggle-eyed-goo |title=Steve and the Board…and the Giggle Eyed Goo |work=answers.com |access-date=2009-10-25}}</ref> co-written by his father [[Nat Kipner]] and released on [[Spin Records (Australian Labellabel)|Spin Records]] in 1966.<ref name="nk">[http://lmg.hurstville.nsw.gov.au/Nat-Kipner-and-The-Bee-Gees.html Nat Kipner and The Bee Gees], Hurstville City Library Museum Gallery.</ref> As a result of his father's A&R involvement in Spin Records, the members of Steve & the Board became good friends with the [[Bee Gees]], who were also on the label.<ref name="nk"/> Nat Kipner, interviewed in 2001, said that Steve Kipner sang backing vocals on some songs on the Bee Gees album ''[[Spicks and Specks (album)|Spicks and Specks]]'' which was produced by Nat Kipner ([[Colin Petersen]], the drummer of Steve & the Board, also played on some songs on that album).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/66.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1966 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=26 December 2014}}</ref>

Steve & Thethe Board broke up in early 1967. Kipner then formed a duo with Steve Groves and relocated to England in 1968, where they recorded an unsuccessful LP as ''Steve & Stevie'' on Toast Records. After Kipner ran into [[Barry Gibb]] in 1969, Kipner and Groves were signed to [[Robert Stigwood]] with [[Maurice Gibb]] as their [[Record producer|producer]]. Under the name [[Tin Tin (band)|Tin Tin]], the group scored an international hit, "[[Toast and Marmalade for Tea]],", including an American Toptop 20 placing in 1971. The next year Tin Tin, with additional member [[John Vallins]], supported the Bee Gees on their American tour.

In August 1969, Kipner, Groves, Gibb, and Billy Lawrie recorded the song "[[Have You Heard the Word]]" in a Tin Tin session, with Kipner on piano and participating inon the lead vocals with Groves and Gibb. Maurice Gibb's vocal impersonation of [[John Lennon]] led to the song appearing on [[The Beatles bootleg recordings|Beatles Bootlegbootleg]] albums as supposedly a lost Beatles recording.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/69.html Gibb Songs 1969]</ref>

At that time he met Australian manager [[Roger Davies (manager)|Roger Davies]], who in the earlylate 1980s1970s was working for Olivia Newton-John's manager Lee Kramer. Kipner had co-written a song with English songwriter Terry Shaddick entitledtitled "Let's Get Physical," and played the demo to Davies, imagining the song would be suited to a male singer such as [[Rod Stewart]]. Kramer overheard the song from the next room and thought it would be a way to promote another one of his clients, Mr. Universe, by having him appear with Newton-John on her album cover.<ref name="AMG"/> Retitled "Physical,", the song spent ten weeks at number 1 on the American [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart and was a worldwide hit.

"Catch 22 (2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back)" is Track 4 on the ''[[Two_of_a_Kind_Two of a Kind (soundtrack)|Two Of A Kind]]'' soundtrack and performed by Kipner. "''Two Of A Kind"'' iswas the second movie John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John co-starred in after "''Grease"''.

"[[Physical (Olivia Newton-John song)|Physical]]" was ranked by ''Billboard'' in 2017 as the No. 8 song among all those which charted during the 50+ year history of the Hot 100.<ref name="top100-titles-10">{{cite web |url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-hot-100-singles |title=Billboard Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Songs |work=billboard.com |access-date=2017-04-21}}</ref>

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