Musical career

Being without doubt one of the Seventies' most versatile and creative singer/songwriters, Albert Hammond has remained successful in the music business until now. His songs, older and more recent ones, are played and recorded all over the world - you may just not know it.

Albert Hammond, the singer...

...is probably best-known for It Never Rains In Southern California, The Free Electric Band, I'm A Train and Down By The River, which all entered the worldwide charts. Speaking Spanish fluently, he's also had many hits in the Latin part of the world, among them Echame A Mi La Culpa, Eres Toda Una Mujer, Si Me Amaras and Espinita. There have been no new original albums for a long time - but now he released Revolution Of The Heart.

See Discography

Albert Hammond, the writer...

...had and still has his songs recorded by criticly acclaimed artists such as José Carreras, Johnny Cash, Joe Cocker, Chris de Burgh, Neil Diamond, Céline Dion, Art Garfunkel, The Hollies, Whitney Houston, Julio Iglesias, Tom Jones, Johnny Mathis, Roy Orbison, José Luis Rodriguez, Diana Ross, Leo Sayer, Starship, Tina Turner... Their hits with Hammond's songs include One Moment In Time, Don't Turn Around, Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, When I Need You, The Air That I Breathe, 99 Miles From L.A., to mention just a few.

See Songwriting

Albert Hammond, the producer...

...worked behind the scenes for Julio Iglesias, Lani Hall (on her Grammy winning LP, "Es facil amar", which contains several Hammond tunes), and José Luis Rodriguez, among others. Of course, he produced all of his own recordings himself, too.

See Producing others

His achievements were officially rewarded in 2000, when he received the OBE (Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth II in London.