Discography ....mainly from way back when....
I was a teenage keyboard legend from Salford Chorlton. Between 1970 - 1990, I scraped a living as a musician, mainly a session keyboard player, but also a composer, arranger, programmer, lounge lizard, jazzer, record producer, teacher and recording engineer.
In 2018, to my own surprise, after retirement, I took up the ivory-tinkling again, forming a new band Dr Hoppo's Urban Rooftops...still going.
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John Cooper Clarke, the 'Bard of Salford' |
Post-War Glamour Girl (1978) Disguise in Love (1978) Snap, Crackle and Bop (1980) Zip Style Method (1982) |
Keyboards, co-production with Martin Hannett |
| Pauline Murray |
Dream sequence (1980) Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls (1980) |
Keyboards, co-production with Martin Hannett |
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Jilted John, aka Graham Fellows, aka John Shuttleworth |
†True Love Stories
(1978) ‡Love at the Hacienda (1985) |
Keyboards Co-production with †Martin Hannett and ‡Graham Fellows |
| Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds | Kinnell Tommy (1978) | Keyboards |
| Gordon The Moron | Sold On You (parody single 1979) | Music/Keyboards Co-produced with M.Hannett |
| Steve Hopkins & The Mercurian |
Accelerate!
((1981 indie album feat. Richard Darbyshire & Jane Martin) (samples Red Secondhand) |
Writer/producer/keyboards |
| The Invisible Girls (Hopkins/Hannett) |
All Sorts of Heroes (Soundtrack of Animated Puppet Film 1976) | Writer/keyboards |
| Nico | All Tomorrow's Parties (cover 1982) | Keyboards Co-arranged with M.Hannett |
| The Bernhardts |
I hear you calling (1984
video director Tosh Ryan) Moonglow (Re-release on Smiling C label 2021) |
Keyboards |
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Zuzu Sharks (founded by Steve Hopkins & Richard Darbyshire) |
(sample After the ship's gone down 1984) | Keyboards |
| Gammer and His Familiars | 'Rocket Ticket'
(1981) 'Won't look out' (1981) |
Some Keyboards |
| Happy Mondays | Bummed (1988) | Keyboards on 'Lazyitis' and other tracks |
| Chris Sievey | 'Baiser', 'Last' singles (1979) | Keyboards |
| Cathy la Creme and the Crotones | I married a punk poet from Salford (1980) (video 2012) by John Crumpton |
Music composer, keys, production |
| Morrissey | 'Ouija board' single (1989) | Keyboards |
| Distant Cousins |
Distant Cousins
album (1989) (sample You used to) |
Keyboards |
| Jazz DefeKtors | The Jazz DefeKtors (1988) (sample Star) | Co-producer with the Jazz Defektors |
| The Archangel Orchestra |
Gig at the Ardri club
(1990)
It's a shame none of this got recorded properly; nevertheless these samples of poorly recorded footage show what a great gig this was |
A fantastic live 18-piece band, but the last straw financially. After this, I divorced music and ran off with laser physics! Now or Never sung by Helen McKilveen Now I'm Home sung by Paul Cummings, features a great percussion break from Myke Wilson, Eryl Roberts and Chris Manis Light Me Up sung by Helen McKilveen |
| Hannett + Hopkins - The Invisible Girls | (2015 Factory Benelux) (sample Huddersfield wastes) | Music composer, keys, production |
| Dr Hoppo's Urban Rooftops | "Persuasive" (2026) Excerpts from forthcoming album | Band leader, songwriter, keys, production |
