Thomas Dolby (natural Thomas Morgan Robertson October 14, 1958) is a British musician. His father was the professor of history. A "Dolby" nicktitle comes from a name Dolby Laboratories, and was given to him by friends impressed by using his studio tinkering. Dolby Laboratories wwhen reportedly very displeased sustaining Robertson using the company title as his have stage title & sued him, trying to prevent him from either using the title Dolby totally. inside time, it succeeded in restricting him from either using a word Dolby in any more context more than using the title Thomas.

Musical background

He is associated using synth pop, a pop music form incorporating electronic instruments. His virtually all recognized song is "She Blinded Me With Science" sustaining sound samples from Magnus Pyke although he describes this track as his least favorite. Virtually all of Dolby's function covers the wide range of musical styles and moods distinct from a high-energy pop sound of his few, better known commercial successes.

Peradventure his virtually all popular side-gig wwhen as keyboard streaming video player in Def Leppard's 1983 Pyromania album. Ascribable contractual problems (we.e. it didn't part a equivalent record label), Dolby appeared in Pyromania using the nom de plume Booker T. Boffin.

A few years in a future, Dolby performed at the Live Aid concert in London when a portion of David Bowie's band.

Around 1990, he appeared in the immense charity concert "The Wall" in Berlin, organized by Roger Waters: he played keyboards in "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)" (sung by Cyndi Lauper), so played a Teacher's role in the sequence "The Trial".

Branching Out

Within 1993, Dolby established himself as a successful business entrepreneur fallowing founding Beatnik Inc. (formerly Headspace), a technology company specializing in mobile phone digital audio formats, such as polyphonic ring tones for mobile phones. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0GTV/is_3_19/ai_84237143]

When however remaining on the company board, Dolby stepped down from either his position when CEO of Beatnik to pursue other technologically innovative interests, like initiation Retro Ringtones LLC in 2002, which produces the RetroFolio(TM) ring tone asset management software suite for corporations exposed in the cellular phone ring tone business. At a 2nd annual Mobile Music Awards, Miami, Florida in 2004 RetroFolio won better of Indicate & Right Up to date Technology awards.

Dolby's musical talents have likewise been put to use recently creating hundreds of digital polyphonic ring tones now obtained in mobile phones everywhere (including a polyphonic version of the infamous Nokia signature theme). He is typically the major speaker at technology conferences like Comdex, Websphere and Nokia.

He has as well worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both movies and video games.

Around July 1998, Thomas received the Lifespan Accomplishment inside Internet Music award from Yahoo! Internet Life.

Discography
A Golden Age of Wireless (1982) A Flat Globe (1984) Howard A Duck Soundtrack (tracks) (1986) ''Music From either A Film 'Gothic' (1987) Aliens Ate Our Buick (1988) "The Mirror Song" (from either Toys soundtrack) (1992) Cosmonaut & Heretics (1992) Retrospectacle (right-of) (1994) A Gate To The Mind's Eye (videos soundtrack & album) (1994) 12x12 (remix compilation) (1999) Forty: Survive (2001) One Of My Submarines'' (collection of remixes of original 1981 song) (2003)

Collaborations and connections
A as a result creative person stand worked by owning Thomas Dolby:

Joan Armatrading David Bowie Belinda Carlisle George Clinton Tim Curry Foreigner Peter Gabriel Herbie Hancock Ofra Haza Robyn Hitchcock Def Leppard Lene Lovich Malcolm McLaren Joni Mitchell Andy Partridge Little Richard Ryuichi Sakamoto Prefab Sprout Fiorella Terenzi Roger Waters Whodini Stevie Wonder Akiko Yano Eddie Van Halen

Takeoffs
Mobb Deep's song Got it Twisted contains the rhythm from either "She Blinded me with Science" at a slower speed.