David Campbell (composer)

David Campbell
Background information
Birth name	David Richard Campbell
Born	February 7, 1948 (1948-02-07) (age 63) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Rock, pop, country, alternative, indie rock, hip hop, r&b, blues, jazz, punk, rock en español, metal, classical
Occupations	Arranger, composer, conductor
Instruments	Viola, violin, piano
Years active	1971–present
Website	http://www.davidmusic.com

David Richard Campbell (born February 7, 1948) is a Canadian-American arranger, composer and conductor. He has worked on over 450 gold and platinum albums including Death Magnetic (Metallica), Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park), KISS Symphony: Alive IV (KISS) Spirit (Leona Lewis), These Days (Bon Jovi), Fallen (Evanescence), and various albums by his son Beck.^[1]

Career

David Campbell was born February 7, 1948 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He moved to Seattle at a young age and took up the violin at age 9. At 12 he began venturing into orchestration, studying the works of Bartók, Schoenberg and Stravinsky.

In the late '60s, after studying at Manhattan School of Music, Campbell moved from New York to Los Angeles and began studying pop music. He studied the music of The Beatles, Leonard Cohen and The Rolling Stones, and he played bluegrass music for crowds in line for movies in Westwood Village.^[2]

At the age of 23, Campbell played on his first major album, Tapestry, by Carole King. This led to his first arranger role, for King's Rhymes and Reasons album. Campbell also played viola on recording sessions such as Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" and Bill Withers' "Lean on Me". Since then he has gone on to arrange songs for such artists as Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Paul McCartney, Green Day, Avril Lavigne, Radiohead, Leona Lewis, Juanes, Dixie Chicks, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Enrique Iglesias, Neil Diamond, and Sheryl Crow.^[1][2] He also arranged strings for Scottish rock trio Biffy Clyro on their 2009 album Only Revolutions.

In addition to his pop music library, Campbell has also worked on many films, including Mind Games (1989), Dead Man Walking (1995), Brokeback Mountain (2005), North Country (2005), Dreamgirls (2007), and many others.^[3] Most recently^[when?] he worked with Nigel Godrich on the score for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.^[4]

In recent years, he has conducted at the Hollywood Bowl for Faith Hill, Death Cab for Cutie, Ray LaMontagne, Beck, Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson.^[5][6] In February 2009 Campbell arranged Radiohead's "15 Step" for the band's collaboration with the USC Marching Band at the 2009 Grammy Awards.^[7]

Campbell will handle string arrangements for Evanescence's third studio album, "Evanescence".^[8] He has also worked on Evanescence's multi-platinum albums Fallen and The Open Door.

His son is the American musician Beck Hansen[1].

He created song arrangements, dance arrangements, underscoring and orchestrations for the upcoming Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, and book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger. The musical is being directed by Julie Taymor and opens December 21, 2010.^[9]

List of album arrangements^[1][10][11]

1971

• Carole King – Tapestry

1972

• Carole King – Rhymes & Reasons
• Jackson Browne – Jackson Browne
• Jimmie Spheeris – Isle of View

1973

• Carole King – Fantasy
• Jimmie Spheeris – Original Tap Dancing Kid

1974

• Carole King – Wrap Around Joy
• Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like a Wheel
• Rita Coolidge – Fall Into Spring

1975

• Jimmie Spheeris – Dragon is Dancing
• Linda Ronstadt – Prisoner in Disguise

1976

• Jackson Browne – The Pretender
• J.D. Souther – Black Rose
• Jimmie Spheeris – Ports of the Heart
• Linda Ronstadt – Hasten Down the Wind
• Melanie – Photograph
• Pure Prairie League – Dance

1977

• Art Garfunkel – Watermark
• Cat Stevens – Izitso
• James Taylor – JT
• Karla Bonoff - Karla Bonoff
• Linda Ronstadt – Simple Dreams
• Olivia Newton-John – Making a Good Thing Better

1978

• Andrew Gold - All This & Heaven Too
• Carole Bayer Sager – Too
• John Hall - John Hall
• Laura Allan - Laura Allan
• Leo Sayer – Leo Sayer

1979

• Louise Goffin - Kid Blue
• Maria Muldaur - Open Your Eyes
• Badfinger - Airwaves

1981

• Art Garfunkel - Scissors Cut
• Rita Coolidge - Heartbreak Radio
• Robin Williamson - Songs of Love and Parting

1986

• 10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe

1987

• Dolly Parton - Rainbow
• Emmylou Harris - Trio
• Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat

1989

• Linda Ronstadt – Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind

1991

• Aaron Neville – Warm Your Heart
• Alice Cooper – Hey Stoopid
• Bonnie Raitt – Luck of the Draw
• Neil Diamond – Lovescape
• Diana Ross – The Force Behind the Power
• The Temptations – Milestone

1992

• Bernadette Peters – Bernadette
• Leonard Cohen – The Future (strings, backing vocals)
• Neil Diamond – Christmas Album
• Roy Orbison – King of Hearts
• Vonda Shepard – Radical Light

1993

• Aerosmith – "Amazing"
• Aerosmith – "Shut Up and Dance"
• Alexander O'Neal – Love Makes No Sense
• Celine Dion – The Colour of My Love
• David Crosby – Thousand Roads (strings)
• Jann Arden – Time for Mercy
• Maria McKee – You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
• Willie Nelson – Across the Borderline

1994

• Aerosmith – Crazy
• Bon Jovi – "Always"
• Bonnie Raitt – Longing in Their Hearts
• Dominic Frontiere – Color of Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• The Rolling Stones – Out of Tears (strings)
• Willie Nelson – Healing Hands of Time

1995

• Bon Jovi – These Days
• Bugs & Friends – Sing The Beatles
• Joshua Kadison – "Delilah Blue"
• Kris Kristofferson – A Moment of Forever
• Medicine – Her Highness
• Melissa Manchester – If My Heart Had Wings
• Tina Arena – Show Me Heaven
• Various Artists – Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

1996

• Cracker – The Golden Age
• Dead Man Walking – Dead Man Walking The Score (choir)
• France Gall – France (strings)
• Joe Cocker – Organic
• John Berry – Faces
• Manowar – Louder Than Hell
• Tina Arena – Don't Ask
• 3T – "Anything" (strings)
• 3T – "Why" (strings)

1997

• Aerosmith – Nine Lives
• Aerosmith – Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)
• Aerosmith – "Pink"
• Beck – Odelay
• Beck – Jack-Ass
• Billy Joel – "To Make You Feel My Love"
• Green Day – Nimrod
• Leonard Cohen – More Best Of
• Stanley Clarke – The Bass-ic Collection

1998

• Aerosmith – I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
• Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (strings)
• Beck – Mutations
• The Black Crowes – By Your Side
• Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy Up the Girl (strings)
• Goo Goo Dolls – "Iris" (strings)
• Hole – Celebrity Skin
• Jude – No One Is Really Beautiful (strings)
• Hootie & the Blowfish – Musical Chairs
• Richie Sambora – Undiscovered Soul

1999

• Amanda Marshall – Tuesday's Child (strings)
• Beck – Midnight Vultures
• Counting Crows – This Desert Life
• Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton – Trio II (strings)
• Enrique Iglesias – Enrique
• Los Fabulosos Cadillacs – Aguila
• Macy Gray – On How Life Is
• Message in a Bottle (film) – Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture Message in a Bottle
• Phil Collins – "You'll Be in My Heart"
• Reef- Rides
• Ricky Martin – Ricky Martin
• Stone Temple Pilots – No. 4
• 21st Century Girls – 21st Century Girls

2000

• BBMak – Sooner or Later
• Bon Jovi – Crush (strings)
• Duran Duran – Pop Trash (strings)
• Duran Duran – "Someone Else Not Me" (strings)
• Everlast – Eat at Whitey's (strings)
• Fuel – Something Like Human (strings)
• XXVII Olympiad – Official Music from the Opening Ceremony
• Green Day – Warning (strings)
• Poe – Haunted (Poe album)
• Sinéad O'Connor – Faith and Courage

2001

• Aerosmith – "Jaded" (strings)
• Aerosmith – Just Push Play (strings)
• Brooks & Dunn – Steers & Stripes
• Jennifer Warnes – The Well
• Leonard Cohen – Ten New Songs
• Lit – Atomic (strings)
• Michael Jackson – Invincible (strings)
• Nikka Costa – Everybody Got Their Something (strings)
• Paul McCartney – Driving Rain (strings)
• Ricky Martin – "Shake Your Bon-Bon" (strings)
• Train (band) – Drops of Jupiter (strings)
• Alien Ant Farm - ANThology (strings)

2002

• Anastacia – Freak Of Nature (strings)
• Beck – Sea Change
• Darren Hayes – Spin
• Def Leppard – X (strings)
• Faith Hill – Cry (strings)
• Good Charlotte – The Young and the Hopeless (strings)
• Laura Pausini – From The Inside
• LeAnn Rimes – Twisted Angel
• Mariah Carey – Charmbracelet (strings)
• Robin Williams – Live 2002
• Sixpence None The Richer – Divine Discontent (strings)
• Treasure Planet – Treasure Planet: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
• The Wallflowers – Red Letter Days (strings)
• 3 Doors Down – Away from the Sun (strings)

2003

• Alien Ant Farm – truANT
• The Bangles – Doll Revolution
• Blackstreet – Level II
• Cat Power – You Are Free
• Def Leppard – Long, Long Way To Go
• Evanescence – Fallen
• Evanescence – "Bring Me to Life"
• Eve 6 – It's All in Your Head
• Lamb – Between Darkness and Wonder
• Linkin Park – Meteora (strings)
• Lisa Marie Presley – To Whom It May Concern (strings)
• Macy Gray – The Trouble with Being Myself
• Maria – My Soul
• Memento – Beginnings
• Michelle Branch – Hotel Paper
• Nelly Furtado – Folklore
• Phil Collins – "Look Through My Eyes"
• Revis – Places for Breathing
• Ricky Martin – Almas del Silencio
• Ruben Studdard – Flying Without Wings
• Ruben Studdard – Soulful (strings)
• The Thrills – So Much for the City
• Year of the Rabbit – Year of the Rabbit

2004

• Alter Bridge – One Day Remains (strings)
• Ashlee Simpson – Autobiography (strings)
• Avril Lavigne – Under My Skin (strings)
• Charlotte Martin – On Your Shore
• Diana DeGarmo – Blue Skies
• Diana DeGarmo – "Dreams"
• Everlast – White Trash Beautiful
• Fantasia – Free Yourself
• Five for Fighting – The Battle for Everything
• Friday Night Lights (film) – Original Soundtrack
• Good Charlotte – Chronicles of Life and Death
• Graham Colton Band – Drive
• Home on the Range (2004 film) – Original Soundtrack
• Jimmy Eat World – Futures
• Kelly Clarkson – Breakaway
• Kelly Clarkson – Because of You
• Ladder 49 – Original Soundtrack
• Linda Ronstadt – Mi Jardin Azul: Las Canciones Favoritas
• Lindsay Lohan – Speak
• Lit – Lit
• Lostprophets – Start Something (strings)
• New Found Glory – Catalyst (strings)
• The Smithereens – From Jersey It Came! The Smithereens Anthology
• Spider-Man 2 – Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man 2
• Spymob – Sitting Around Keeping Score
• Tamyra Gray – The Dreamer
• Tim McGraw – Live Like You Were Dying (strings)
• Train – Alive at Last
• Van Hunt – Van Hunt
• Wilson Phillips – California
• 10,000 Maniacs – Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure & Unknown

2005

• Alex Lloyd – Alex Lloyd
• Anastacia – Pieces of a Dream
• B.B. King – B.B. King & Friends: 80 (strings)
• Beck – Guero
• Billy Joel – My Lives
• Bon Jovi – Have a Nice Day
• David Crowder Band – A Collision (strings)
• Daniel Bedingfield – Second First Impression
• Daniel Bedingfield – The Way
• Eric Benét – Hurricane
• Fort Minor – The Rising Tied (strings)
• Gary Allan – Tough All Over
• Good Charlotte – We Believe
• Gustavo Santaolalla – Brokeback Mountain Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• Idlewild – Not Just Sometimes But Always (strings)
• Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man – Motion Picture Soundtrack
• Lindsay Lohan – A Little More Personal (Raw)
• Lisa Marie Presley – Now What
• Liz Phair – Somebody's Miracle (strings)
• The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute (strings, brass, piano, percussion)
• The Mars Volta – "The Widow" (strings, brass)
• Melanie – Photograph
• Montgomery Gentry – Something to Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999–2005
• Neil Diamond – 12 Songs (horns)
• North Country – Music from the Motion Picture
• Paul McCartney – Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (strings)
• The Prom Kings – The Prom Kings
• Rent (film) – Rent: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• Robbie Williams – Intensive Care (strings)
• Sheryl Crow – Wildflower (strings)
• Smash Mouth – All Star Smash Hits
• Steven Curtis Chapman – "Remembering You" (strings)

2006

• Beck – The Information
• Beyoncé – B'day
• Beyoncé – Listen (strings)
• Celestial Navigations – Connection: Chapter 5
• Celestial Navigations – Live at the Matrix (keyboards, strings, vocals)
• Charlotte Gainsbourg – The Songs That We Sing (strings)
• Dixie Chicks – Taking the Long Way (strings)
• Dixie Chicks – "Not Ready to Make Nice" (strings)
• Dreamgirls – Dreamgirls: Music from the Motion Picture
• Evanescence – The Open Door – (strings)
• Five for Fighting – Two Lights (strings)
• Frankie J – Priceless
• Goo Goo Dolls – Let Love In (strings)
• Jewel – Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
• Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways (strings)
• Josh Groban – You Are Loved (Don't Give Up) (strings)
• Josh Groban – Awake (strings)
• Juanes – Mi Sangre (strings)
• Julio Iglesias – Romantic Classics
• Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds (strings)
• Keith Urban – Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
• Live – Songs from Black Mountain (strings)
• Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose
• Meat Loaf feat. Marion Raven – It's All Coming Back to Me Now
• My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade (strings, horns)
• My Chemical Romance – Welcome to the Black Parade (strings, percussion)
• Nelly Furtado – Loose(strings)
• Rascal Flatts – Me and My Gang (strings)
• Raul Malo – You're Only Lonely
• Sarah Kelly – Where the Past Meets Today
• Tim McGraw – Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2

2007

• Air – Pocket Symphony (strings)
• Ashley Tisdale – Headstrong (strings)
• Avril Lavigne – The Best Damn Thing (strings)
• Ayumi Hamasaki – Talkin' 2 Myself
• Ayumi Hamasaki – Together When...
• Carina Ricco – Viaje Personal
• Celine Dion – Taking Chances (strings)
• Charlotte Gainsbourg – 5:55 (strings)
• David Vandervelde – The Moonstation House Band (strings)
• Enrique Iglesias – Insomniac
• Garth Brooks – The Ultimate Hits (strings)
• Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light (strings)
• Juanes – La vida... es un ratico (strings)
• Kid Rock – Rock n Roll Jesus (strings)
• Linkin Park – Minutes to Midnight – strings
• Maroon 5 – It Won't Be Soon Before Long (strings)
• Martina McBride – Waking Up Laughing (strings)
• Nelly Furtado – In God's Hands (strings)
• Scorpions – Humanity Hour 1 (strings)
• The Spill Canvas – No Really, I'm Fine
• Sum 41 – Underclass Hero (strings)
• X Japan – Jealousy (strings)

2008

• Adam Green – Sixes and Sevens (strings, horns)
• A Fine Frenzy – One Cell In the Sea
• Antonio Carmona – Vengo Venenoso
• Augustana – Can't Love, Can't Hurt (strings)
• Ayumi Hamasaki – Guilty (strings)
• Carly Simon – This Kind of Love (strings)
• Celine Dion – "Alone" (arranger)
• Faith Hill – Joy To The World (big band, orchestral)
• Ferras – Aliens & Rainbows (strings)
• Ferras – Hollywood's Not America (strings)
• Hana Pestle – This Way (strings)
• I Nine – Heavy Weighs The King (strings)
• Lee Seung-Hwan – Tattoo
• Lenka – Lenka (strings)
• Leona Lewis – Spirit (Strings)
• Louis XIV – Slick Dogs and Ponies (strings)
• Metallica – Death Magnetic (strings)
• My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges (strings)
• Neil Diamond – Home Before Dark (strings)
• Rhydian – Rhydian (strings)
• Shinedown – The Sound of Madness (strings)
• Simple Plan – Simple Plan
• Tommy Torres – Tarde O Temprano (strings)
• Trisha Yearwood – Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love
• Was (Not Was) – Boo!

2009

• Ashley Monroe – Satisfied (strings)
• Beck – Modern Guilt (strings)
• Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions (strings, brass, woodwinds)
• Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM (strings)
• Crash Kings – Crash Kings (strings)
• Daniel Merriweather – Love & War (strings)
• Daniel Merriweather – "Red" (strings)
• Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (strings)
• David Cook – David Cook (strings)
• Dido – Safe Trip Home (strings)
• Five for Fighting – Slice (strings)
• The Fray – The Fray (strings)
• Hoobastank – Fornever (strings)
• Laura Izibor – Let The Truth Be Told (strings)
• M. Ward – Hold Time (strings)
• Maroon 5 – The Way You Look Tonight (big band)
• Martina McBride – Shine (strings)
• Oksana Grigorieva – Beautiful Heartache (strings)
• Paolo Spoladore – Shiloh (choir, strings, horns, woodwinds, percussion)
• Paper Route – Absence (strings)
• PT Walkley – Mr. Macy Wakes Alone (strings)
• Rascal Flatts – Unstoppable (strings)
• Rascal Flatts – Unwrapped (strings and horns)
• Small Time Sleeper – Conversations
• Tim McGraw – Southern Voice (strings)
• Uncle Kracker – Happy Hour (strings)

2010

• Adam Lambert – For Your Entertainment (strings and horns)
• Adam Lambert – Time for Miracles (strings and horns)
• Alejandro Sanz – Paraiso Express (strings)
• Debi Nova – Luna Nueva (strings)
• Due Voci – Due Voci (strings and horns)
• Jimmy Eat World – Invented (strings)
• Meat Loaf – Hang Cool Teddy Bear (strings and percussion)
• Miranda Cosgrove – Sparks Fly (strings)
• No Machine – Toast the Toaster (strings)
• The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street (strings)
• Takako Matsu – Time for Music (strings, horns, woodwinds)
• We Are the Fallen – Tear the World Down (strings)
• Michael Jackson – Much Too Soon Michael (album) (strings)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} www.discogs.com
2. ^ ^{a b} Weiss, Niel, "His Strings Really Zing", The Los Angeles Times: Calendar (Jan 16, 1999)
3. ^ www.imdb.com
4. ^ "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World | Original Score ~ Digital Release 10th August 2010". Edgar Wright Here. August 10, 2010. http://www.edgarwrighthere.com/2010/08/09/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-original-score-digital-release-10th-august-2010/. Retrieved August 12, 2010. 
5. ^ www.hollywoodbowl.com
6. ^ Lewis, Randy, "David Campbell Gets It"^{[dead link]}
7. ^ USC Trojan Marching Band + Radiohead @ 2009 Grammys
8. ^ Weingarten, Christopher R (March 2, 2010). "Evanescence Go Electro As Lee Has 'Fun With Music' on Next LP". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/13316/67026/. Retrieved March 2, 2010. 
9. ^ Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
10. ^ albumcredits.com
11. ^ www.allmusic.com

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