Robert john mutt lange3/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Discography Produced albums Īlbums on which Lange produced a majority of the tracks: In 2014, he protected 53,000 hectares (130,000 acres) of his land as Queen Elizabeth II National Trust covenant this is the largest private conservation covenant in New Zealand. In 2011, Lange bought Coronet Peak Station located on the mountain and ski field of the same name in Queenstown, New Zealand. On 1 January 2011, Twain married Frédéric Thiébaud, the former husband of Marie-Anne. ![]() On, a spokesman for his employer Mercury Nashville announced that Twain and Lange were separating, after Lange had an affair with Twain's then best friend and secretary, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, with whom he reportedly later began a relationship and moved to Switzerland with. In August 2001, their son Eja (pronounced "Asia") was born. ![]() Lange had the song " (Everything I Do) I Do It for You" performed as a sign of his dedication to Twain. Lange is a teetotaler and, as a result, they had non-alcoholic champagne at their wedding. They finally met six months after the initial contact and were married on 28 December 1993. While still married, Lange started a five-year relationship with Oonagh O'Reilly, an Irish-born co-worker.Īfter hearing Shania Twain's music, he got in touch with her and they spent many hours on the phone. They played together in a short-lived band named Hocus, and later married and emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1970s. Lange met Stevie Vann when the two attended the same school in Northern Rhodesia in the early 1960s, and the two reconnected a few years later while attending Belfast High School in South Africa. He has not given an interview for decades and prefers to live a secluded life, primarily in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland. Lange is a strict vegetarian and a follower of the egalitarian teachings of Sant Mat. In the 2001 television film Hysteria – The Def Leppard Story, actor Anthony Michael Hall portrayed Lange. Lange produced the single " Make You" from the album Great Escape by Irish singer Tara Blaise which was released in May 2008. In 1991, he produced Bryan Adams's Waking Up the Neighbours, including co-writing " (Everything I Do) I Do It for You", for the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves which, with 16 consecutive weeks at the top, from 7 July to 26 October 1991, holds the record for the longest number of consecutive weeks at Number 1 in the UK singles chart. One of those songs, " Promises", was a Number 1 hit on the mainstream rock charts for the band. In 1999, he returned to working with them in a more limited role, co-writing three tracks for their album Euphoria. He also worked with rock group Foreigner with 4, and with Def Leppard on their hit albums, High 'n' Dry, Pyromania, Hysteria and Adrenalize co-writing most of the songs.Īfter Hysteria, Lange bowed out of working with Def Leppard. He produced two more albums with AC/DC, including Back in Black (1980), which is, as of 2019, the second-best-selling album of all time. He produced a total of five albums for UK band City Boy from 1976 to 1979. 1 single " Rat Trap" for The Boomtown Rats, followed in July 1979 with AC/DC's hard rock album Highway to Hell (#8 UK, No. The song is derived from a previous recording "Give That Thang To Me" by Paul Jones (1977), with some parts rearranged and new lyrics.īeginning production work in 1976, his first major hits came in October 1978 with the UK No. In 1978, Lange wrote and produced Ipswich Town's FA Cup final single "Ipswich Get That Goal", his connection with the club being due to their South Africa-born player Colin Viljoen. In 1971, he started the group Hocus, recording one album and releasing five singles. While studying at Belfast High School in what is now Mpumalanga province, he started a band in which he played rhythm guitar and sang harmonies.Īfter his national service (1966–1967), Lange formed the band Sound Reason in 1969, together with James Borthwick, a South African TV, stage and film actor. Nicknamed "Mutt" at an early age, Lange grew up a fan of country music, in particular the singer Slim Whitman. His German mother came from a prosperous family, and his South African father was a mining engineer. Robert John Lange was born in Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia), and raised in Durban, South Africa. ![]()
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