{"id":75,"date":"2017-03-11T11:56:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T16:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2017-03-16T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T13:20:23","slug":"francis-dunnery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/artists-schedule\/2017-artists\/friday\/francis-dunnery\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Dunnery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-148\" src=\"http:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FrancisDunnery.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Francis &#8220;Frank&#8221; Dunnery (born 25 December 1962) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and record label owner.<\/p>\n<p>Dunnery was originally the frontman for British prog-pop band It Bites, working with the band between 1982 and 1990 (during which he co-wrote and sang their No. 6 UK hit single, &#8220;Calling All the Heroes&#8221;). Since 1990 Dunnery has pursued a solo career, and has owned and run his own Aquarian Nation record label since 2001. In addition, he has performed as a sideman and musical contributor for artists as diverse as Robert Plant, Ian Brown, Lauryn Hill, Santana and Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe. He has worked as producer and\/or collaborator with David Sancious, Chris Difford (of Squeeze), James Sonefeld (Hootie and the Blowfish), Erin Moran, Steven Harris (ex-The Cult, Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction), and Ashley Reaks (Younger Younger 28s).<\/p>\n<p>Dunnery was one of the candidates invited to audition as a lead singer and frontman for Genesis following Phil Collins&#8217; departure in 1996 (although the position ultimately went to Ray Wilson). He also played in the reformed 1960s beat\/prog band The Syn between 2008 and mid-2009.<\/p>\n<p>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.francisdunnery.com\/\">https:\/\/www.francisdunnery.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FrancisDunnery\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FrancisDunnery\/<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dunnery\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dunnery<\/a><br \/>\nYouTube:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18ZQK4QcJLa6mdLm0aftLg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18ZQK4QcJLa6mdLm0aftLg<\/a><br \/>\nBandcamp:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/francisdunnery.bandcamp.com\/\">https:\/\/francisdunnery.bandcamp.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nSpotify:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/search\/results\/francis%20dunnery\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/search\/results\/francis%20dunnery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis &#8220;Frank&#8221; Dunnery (born 25 December 1962) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and record label owner. Dunnery was originally the frontman for British prog-pop band It Bites, working with the band between 1982 and 1990 (during which he co-wrote and sang their No. 6 UK hit single, &#8220;Calling All the Heroes&#8221;). Since 1990&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":174,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/342"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}