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  • Genre: Blues / Indie / Rock

    Location London/Tel-Aviv, Please select your region., Un

    Profile Views: 322470

    Last Login: 5/20/2013

    Member Since 3/22/2007

    Website paullyrics.com

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  • Bio

    Bio of Paul Robert Thomas Born, raised, abused and misused in poverty whilst surrounded by the affluent, Paul has always seemed to be the one on the outside looking in - "I stopped asking why, it's just the way it goes" Paul says. As Paul writes in his gospel song 'Years of Plenty':- "To enjoy the good times, you've had to have suffered pain. To walk in the sunshine, you've had to have walked in the rain". Paul grew up in the hope filled 'Love is all there is drug induced stupor of the 60's that promised so much but in the end delivered nothing but pain and broken glass - "The only good to come out of those crazy times was the music". Paul soaked up the sounds and words of the songs he heard all around him like a sponge. He first discovered the music of Buddy Holly, Frank Sinatra, Otis Redding & Count Basie progressing on to The Beatles and other 60's UK bands and artists later to find Bob Dylan - .."Dylan was like the father I never had, he taught me so much and still is". Later, through Dylan's works Paul would discover the new worlds of the great poets and authors as well as the Bible and old folk and gospel songs which were the cornerstones upon which Rock and Roll was born and flourished – on modern day music Paul says - "If a composer or lyricist today has no knowledge of and doesn't draw upon tradition then he ain't worth the pen he writes with, nor is his music". Outside of Paul's back window was the world's busiest train junction, at the front was one of the main highways out of North London. Down the road was the Regents Canal winding it's way from the River Thames west across the English countryside - "All those people constantly on the move going somewhere or other just made me feel like hanging on to that solid ground I was on" and it wasn't till he was 21 that Paul decided that it was time to let go and move on - "Well, to tell you the truth, I had just about had enough of the same repetitive routine and loneliness and emptiness day after day" – Paul sums up his teens in his 'The Grils' song 'The Darkest Days' - .."Yeah, I lied in the arms of Mary/for a while I followed the Son/I believed in Santa Claus and Fairies/until the darkness won". Paul spread his wings to reach the Promised Land - "I knew nothing about this place, only I remember hearing about a couple of big wars where they had survived against all the odds, I guess winning when they were the under-dog kind of appealed to me". Whilst serving as a volunteer on a northern kibbutz Paul met his wife to be who was serving as a soldier protecting the kibbutz from attack. After they'd married Paul returned with his bride to London where Paul fulfilled his life-time's ambition and joined the London police – "I grew up surrounded by police. The flats next to our house were occupied by police families and I played with many of their children". Paul proved to be an outstanding police officer gaining awards for bravery for disarming a man brandishing a loaded gun, for professionalism in achieving a record number of arrests in one year and also for his suggestions on how to improve the police service – "Yeah, I worked hard and achieved good results but I was becoming more and more resented and shunned by my fellow officers who seemed to want an easy life and were just looking forward to their retirement pensions". Paul was subjected to a sustained campaign of racial abuse from his colleagues, the very ones who were supposed to uphold not break the law. Paul had converted from Christianity to Judaism in order to marry his wife - "Also out of respect for Dina's father who is a survivor of Auschwitz Concentration Camp". The abuse grew in its severity and frequency whilst senior officers did nothing to stop it until Paul could take no more. "One day I decided that enough was enough" and Paul then initiated proceedings to take the Metropolitan Police Force to court for their racial abuse of him, no small task one would say! "It took 3 years for the case to come to court. Whenever there were dates set for the court hearing to be heard they would ask for a postponement as well as try other things too. It went on and on like this and was all designed to try to break my resolve, but although they came close to breaking me in the end I stood up to them and beat them and showed them for what they really were". Paul won his court case and decided there was no place for him in an organization he had just proved to be racist and so after 14 years of dedication he left the police force and returned with his young family to Israel. Paul was the first police officer to have beaten the police in court under the Race Relations Act laws whilst still a serving police officer, as he was. It was during the 3 years of waiting for his court case to be heard that Paul started to write song lyrics. "I had written poetry in my teens, in fact I used to give folders of my poems to those girlfriends I had on the kibbutz". In 1996 Paul had made contact with a German composer Stefan Pauleit in Kiel who was looking for a lyricist and together they formed a song collaboration they called 'The Grils' - www.the-grils.com and http://www.myspace.com/grilsongs. After Paul had started his My Space sites he was approached by many more composers and singer/songwriters the world over looking for good song lyrics and the result has been many great songs produced from Paul's lyrics. Paul has risen above all the adversity he has faced - "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger", although his lingering heartache remains the abuse his daughter suffered as a 6 year old when she was sexually abused by a neighbour while living in England. His daughter only started to recall what she had suffered upon entering her teens and while living in Israel which caused her to twice attempt suicide and led her to suffer from the eating disorder bulimia for which she was locked away in a secure eating disorder unit for one solid year. They made an official complaint to the police and were forced to rely on the police's investigations which resulted in Paul and his daughter flying to London in January 2008 to try to identify her abuser from police photo's – "How could someone who was 6 years old at the time be expected to pick out a photo of her abuser when the photo wasn't of him from then but was a recent photo, it just didn't make sense and lo and behold she didn't pick him out and subsequently they didn't proceed with the case and he got off scot free"! Paul now works at the visa section at the Royal Thai Embassy near Tel-Aviv – "Funnily enough my most creative time for writing seems to be on the bus on the way to work in the mornings"! Paul is happy to collaborate with any proficient composer or singer/songwriter willing to put his words to any style of music and Paul's lyrics can be used if you ask his permission but Paul will only work with people who have manners and are looking to share 50/50 - Paul detests and has no time for those many in the 'music world' who are looking to make a 'fast buck' on the back of someone else! The last few years have seen fruitful times for Paul in which he signed to LHP Records for the release of their new EP 'A Pocket Full of Songs' which can be downloaded at http://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/paul-walker/id421400516 & signed a number of publishing deals for some of his songs. One of his songs 'By the Light' was released on Melle Johnson's new album and has seen his songs played live in concert dozens of times in the UK and in Europe. Paul has interviewed many times on UK radio shows (one of the interviews on Saint FM is below). The songs that Paul was involved in creating are played hundred's of times on various radio stations worldwide as well as in TV performances. Paul supports worthwhile causes with his music and one of his and 'The Grils' songs called 'The Evil Sea'.. was chosen to appear on the USA charity cd 'Lafitte's Return' for survivors of the New Orleans Floods. Paul's & 'Guitavio's' song called 'Will Ye Nay Come Back Billy Boy' appears on a Alzheimers Charity cd called 'Forget Me Not' in Ireland and Paul's and 'The Dunno's.. song 'Chip on Your Shoulder' appears on the charity cd Faith' to aid sufferers of Cystic Fibrosis Disease. Paul continues to work with many singer songwriters and composers and he considers himself lucky and honoured to work with such talented artists! Paul, as always, looks to the future with hope and great expectations - 'The best is always yet to come" and for sure he still has many great song lyrics in him waiting to be revealed when the time is deemed to be right - "It's all about timing, everything that happens has to do with timing" - so says Paul! (Paul will only work with people who have manners and are looking to share 50/50 - He detests and has no time for those all too many in the 'music world' who are looking to make a 'fast buck' on the back of someone else)! Paul is also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Paul.Robert.Thomas and Paul would be happy to be added as a Facebook 'friend'. Many more songs can be heard on the 'ReverbNation' song player below. Paul is a member of the MCPS-PRS Alliance (ASCAP), London (CAE. 497904008) and the International ongwriters Association. Please also check out Paul's published Dylan articles too:- On 'Every Grain of Sand', Seven Days', The Basement Tapes' and 'Caribbean Wind' which are all on Paul's Blog. New EP - 'A Pocket Full Of Songs' released! Hi! Check out Paul Walker's and my new LHP Records song video of 'Going Down Fighting' from our EP 'A Pocket Full of Songs' which you can download at http://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/paul-walker/id421400516 - Cheers from Paul and Paul:)! <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XkmBBnhP2Oo?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XkmBBnhP2Oo?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkmBBnhP2Oo<br> Paul's & Paul Walker's 4-song EP called 'A Pocket Full of Songs' has been released by LHP Records of Southampton. You can download the songs from iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/paul-walker/id421400516 and information on the EP and the artist's & also other download sites where you can download the EP's songs can be found by going to Paul's & Paul Walker's site bulit by LHP Records at lhprecords.com/artists/paulandpaul/paulandpaul.htm. 'A Pocket Full Of Songs' contains some great songs - 'Going Down Fighting' / 'Pocket Full of Stones'/ 'Don't Mean Nothing to Me' and 'All the Way to Eden' - some of which you can still preview on Paul's 2nd song player. Click on the badge below to go to Paul's & Paul Walker's Facebook page where you are welcome to join them. Paul Thomas & Paul Walker. Visit 'A Pocket Full of Songs' Shop Here....!.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ......Browse other ..personalized gifts.. from Zazzle... .. <img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyOTU3NTk1NzM*MjEmcHQ9MTI5NTc1OTU4NzA2MiZwPTI3MDgxJmQ9YmFubmVyX2ZpcnN*X2dlbiZnPTEmbz*2Y2Ux/NWFiMjBkYzM*Mzk2YWIyMDczNGE4ZjY2MTA5MyZvZj*w.gif" /><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/c./a4/1457071/140931/Artist/0/User/link"><img alt="Paul%20Lyricist" border="0" src="http://www.reverbnation.com/c./a3/1457071/140931/Artist/0/User/res.gif?1" /></a><a href="http://www.quantcast.com/p-05---xoNhTXVc" target="_blank"><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-05---xoNhTXVc.gif" style="display: none" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast" /></a> New Album - 'The Lyricist' A new full album released on 22nd March 2010 by the independent Uk record label 'All Round Music' www.allroundmusic.co.uk is 'The Lyricist' and features songs from artists worldwide with lyrics by Paul. The artists featured are from The UK, The USA, Germany, Russia and Israel. You can download individual songs from 'The Lyricist' or the whole album from itunes at http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-lyricist/id360947054. Click on 'The Lyricist' poster below to go to 'The Lyricist' Facebook page where you are welcome to join Paul and fellow artists. ....................The Lyricist.................. Released on iTunes on 22nd March 2010........ .. .. 'By the Light' Paul's song with the great Denver singer/songwriter Melle Johnson ..www.myspace.com/jmelees.. called ....'By the Light' has been released on Melle's great new album called 'Sound of Faith' by Linden Tree Music. You can now just purchase 'By the Light' as a single download at:- www.amazon.com/By-the-Light/dp/B002VGO7BE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=125753455. 'Forget Me Not' Please click on the link below for details of how to purchase the 26 song ....'Forget Me Not'.... double Cd to aid sufferers of Alzheimers Disease in Ireland at $12.97 / 9.99 sterling - every penny goes to the sufferers of this terrible disease:-.. .. ........ .. - Thank you so much!.. .. .. ....My Saint FM Radio Interview with Anver Anderson 26/05/09...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ............ .. (Give it a minute to load after you have pressed the 'Play' button - it will usually start playing at 3%). .. .................. .. .. .. .. .. ...................... .. .. ..Orly Vardy.. ..www.myspace.com/orlyvardy.. Live on Antena 1 TV's family entertainment show 'Duminica in Familia' 9/11/08 in Romania performing our new song ....'If You Could Have Loved Me'.... – watch and enjoy:)! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..http://il. youtube. com/watch?v=8qg3Y7ep7wc.. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... .. .. .. This film will shock you (if you have any feelings of course) and shows most of the reasons why I am a vegetarian! ..Meet Your Meat - Peta.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4&feature=player_embedded.. .. .. ....Please leave me a comment in the comment box below, thank you:)!.... <br> <a href='http://tunebreaker.com/profiles.php?id=173'><img src='http://tunebreaker.com/images/soloartbadge.png'></a> <br> ........................ ........

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    I work with artists from all over the world & I write the lyrics (the easy part:) and they compose and perform the music around my words. I don't write lyrics to music that already has been composed as I'm a lazy bugger & I find this difficult and I also find that it detracts from the quality of the lyrics that are produced, so I prefer not to do this, thank you:)! ....Mickey and the Goodfellas - "Mickey and the Goodfellas" 17/01/10 "Le Réservoir" Paris.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U2K9bUeZRk ..www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U2K9bUeZRk>/a> .. .. ....Mickey and the Goodfellas – "The Empty Boulevard" 17/01/10 Le Réservoir Paris.... ....Mickey and the Goodfellas – "The Empty Boulevard" 17/01/10 Le Réservoir Paris.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....Mickey and the Goodfellas – "Stoned Love" 16/05/10 Le China Paris.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....Mickey and the Goodfellas – 'With Your Socks On' 16/05/10 Le China Paris.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ00poO_VkY .. .. ....Mickey and the Goodfellas – "Night Worker" 16/05/10 Le China Paris.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ........ ........ .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ............ ...... .......... .. .. .. ....'The Dunnos' - 'Knocking At Your Door', Bremen 29/05/09.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FQRsmI7XHY.. .. .. ....'The Dunnos' - 'Chip On Your Shoulder', Bremen 29/05/09.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..www.youtube.com/watch?v=clipIfxZV3k.. .. .. ....‘My Angel’ – Performed by Orly Vardy at her wedding.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....'Tears of the Sun'.... Lyrics by me, music by Thom Pearson at www.myspace.com/tompearsonmusic. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENROspm1Qyo&feature=player_embedded .. ....Paul Walker = 'Love and Theft'.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkvY7l3Wc2k&feature=player_embedded.. .. .. ......'How Long'.... Michel Ackermann/Paul Thomas.. ......How Long?...... .. .. .. .. .. ......Michel Ackermann.. | ..MySpace Music Videos.... http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=104548556 .. .. Check out ..Luke Jackson.., he's a great, young talented singer/songwriter who I've been working with at ..www.myspace.com/lukepauljackson.... This is one of our latest songs filmed live at at The Jambu Bar, Islington, North London on 24/05/09. It's called 'Tommy Gunn' & is about our boys fighting & sadly dying in Afghanistan (look out for my cameo appearance singing on the chorus too:)-.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUeOIECzbKQ.. .. .. Luke Jackson ‘One November’ at The Jambu Bar, Islington North London 24/05/09 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Jackson ..www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0YoErb_gwk.. .. .. Luke Jackson - 'Time to Change' (recorded 9/11/08) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5AhmFb-Bk.. .. .. Luke Jackson Live Rainham, Essex 27/09/08 - 'Am I Good Enough For You'? .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....'Knocking On Heavens Door' Jam with Paul Thomas, 'Guitavio' and 'The Grils' in Rodenbek, Germany 30/05/09.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNf7hTW55m8&feature=player_embedded.. .. .. ....Paul being taught how to jive at Orly's wedding 18/06/09.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQE-m4H9M4&feature=player_embedded.. .. .. Craig Glavan ..www.myspace.com/craigglavanmusic.. with our new DVD song ....'Changin' Seasons'..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. <br> <a href='http://tunebreaker.com/profiles.php?id=173'><img src='http://tunebreaker.com/images/soloartbadge.png'></a> <img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyOTU3NTk1NzM*MjEmcHQ9MTI5NTc1OTU4NzA2MiZwPTI3MDgxJmQ9YmFubmVyX2ZpcnN*X2dlbiZnPTEmbz*2Y2Ux/NWFiMjBkYzM*Mzk2YWIyMDczNGE4ZjY2MTA5MyZvZj*w.gif" /><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/c./a4/1457071/140931/Artist/0/User/link"><img alt="Paul%20Lyricist" border="0" src="http://www.reverbnation.com/c./a3/1457071/140931/Artist/0/User/res.gif?1" /></a><a href="http://www.quantcast.com/p-05---xoNhTXVc" target="_blank"><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-05---xoNhTXVc.gif" style="display: none" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast" /></a> <br>

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    Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Buddy Holly, The Jayhawks, The Band, Leonard Cohen, Manitas De Platas, Neil Young, The Eagles, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, The Artic Monkeys, Blur, Oasis, Shlomo Artzi, Ariel Zilber, Arik Einstein & many more ........

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    Good music! <br> <img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyOTU3NTk1NzM*MjEmcHQ9MTI5NTc1OTU4NzA2MiZwPTI3MDgxJmQ9YmFubmVyX2ZpcnN*X2dlbiZnPTEmbz*2Y2Ux/NWFiMjBkYzM*Mzk2YWIyMDczNGE4ZjY2MTA5MyZvZj*w.gif" /><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/c./a4/1457071/140931/Artist/0/User/link"><img alt="Paul%20Lyricist" border="0" src="http://www.reverbnation.com/c./a3/1457071/140931/Artist/0/User/res.gif?1" /></a><a href="http://www.quantcast.com/p-05---xoNhTXVc" target="_blank"><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-05---xoNhTXVc.gif" style="display: none" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast" /></a> <br> <div style="line-height:0px;"><div style="height: 275px; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 0px;"><object id="sticker-D0-001-004628370-7" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" width="278" height="275" data="http://static.eventful.com/store/stickers/flash/split.swf"><param name="flashVars" value="&bg=000000&sid=D0-001-004628370-7&size=278&fg=ffffff&target=myspace&fileHost=static.eventful.com" /><param name="movie" value="http://static.eventful.com/store/stickers/flash/split.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="salign" value="lt" /></object></div><a href="http://eventful.com/demand/paul-walker-and-paul-thomas-/D0-001-004628370-7/join?widget=1&viral=0" target="_new" title="Paul Walker (and Paul Thomas) in London"><div style="background: #000000; text-align: center; width: 278px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><img src="http://static.eventful.com/store/stickers/flash/assets/demand.gif" border="0" /></div></a><div style="width: 278px;"><a href="http://eventful.com/demand/paul-walker-and-paul-thomas-/D0-001-004628370-7/widgets/demands" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.eventful.com/store/stickers/flash/assets/split/themes/widget.gif" style="border: 0px;" /></a><a href="http://eventful.com/demand/learn" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.eventful.com/store/stickers/flash/assets/split/themes/learn.gif" style="border: 0px;" /></a><a href="http://eventful.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.eventful.com/store/stickers/flash/assets/split/themes/eventful.gif" style="border: 0px; width: 125px; height: 28px;" /></a><br /><font color="#999999" style="line-height:30px; font-size: 11px;">View all <a href="http://eventful.com/events?geo=metro_id:67" title="View events in London"><font color="#999999">London events</font></a> on Eventful</font></div> <br> <a href='http://tunebreaker.com/profiles.php?id=173'><img src='http://tunebreaker.com/images/soloartbadge.png'></a> <br>

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The UK's National Number 1 Blues Artist!
Paul is currently Number 1 in the UK National Blues Charts for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and is also Number 1 in the London Blues Charts at http://www.reverbnation.com/paulrobertthomas

Paul%20Robert%20Thomas Paul is also currently Number 1 in the National Folk Charts in Israel at http://www.reverbnation.com/paullyricist and is also currently Number 1 in the UK Local Blues Chart and Number 2 Nationally at http://www.reverbnation.com/paulthomaspaulwalker

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'A Million Love Songs'
Paul's latest project, an album of 11 original songs with lyrics by Paul, music by Ofer Hamerman & wonderful vocals by Orly Vardy at www.reverbnation.com/amillionlovesongs and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/AMillionLoveSongs has just been signed to the legendary ACM Records (New York) and the songs from 'A Million Love Songs' are now available to download at good download sites including Amazon at href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AGTXBGA/ref=sr_1_album_5_rd?ie=UTF8&child=B00AGTXDKY&qid=1354675660&sr=1-5..
- just click on the link to download your favourite song(s) from the album!


'Crossing the Ocean'
9 songs with lyrics by Paul released on the album ‘Crossing The Ocean’ by Guitavio - available to download at http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/crossing-the-ocean/id520842565

New Album - 'Bluezy Rootz''!
'Bluezy Rootz Cafe' released by New York's ACM Records containing 5 Blues songs with lyrics by Paul available to download at http://www.amazon.com/Bluezy-Rootz/dp/B006VWKPZGhttp://www.amazon.com/Bluezy-Rootz/dp/B006VWKPZG
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'Wildcat Cafe'!
'Wildcat Cafe' by 'Beige Fish' contains some of the best Blues songs you're ever likely to hear with 3 songs with lyrics by Paul - 'Falling Twins', 'Crashing Head First' and 'You Hurt My Baby' & is now available to download at i tunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/wildcat-cafe/id439802374 - you can still hear the songs on Paul's song player.

New EP 'Modern Times' released
Our new EP 'Modern Times' has been released on i-Tunes & I’ve just uploaded the songs from the EP to my song player - 'Night After Night', 'Not Waiting For Jesus To Come' & 'Modern Times'. You can download the songs @http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/modern-times-single/id483080124 - Cheers:)!

EP - 'A Pocket Full Of Songs'released!
Paul's & Paul Walker's 4-song EP called A Pocket Full of Songs was released by The UK's LHP Records & you can download the songs individually and also order the whole EP from Amazon at http://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/paul-walker/id421400516 - Information on the EP and us & also other download sites where you can download the EP's songs can be found by going to Paul's & Paul Walker's site bulit by LHP Records at lhprecords.com/artists/paulandpaul/paulandpaul.htm.
'A Pocket Full Of Songs' is available at I-Tunes & all good download sites! 'A Pocket Full Of Songs' contains some great songs - 'Going Down Fighting' 'Pocket Full of Stones' 'Don't Mean Nothing to Me' and 'All the Way to Eden' - some of which you can still preview on Paul's 2nd song player.

Click on the badge below to go to Paul's & Paul Walker's Facebook page where you are welcome to join them. Paul Thomas & Paul Walker



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'By the Light'..

Paul's song with the great Denver singer/songwriter Melle Johnson www.myspace.com/jmelees called 'By the Light' (the 8th song on Paul's song player) has been just released on Melle's great new album called 'Sound of Faith' by Linden Tree Music. You can now just purchase 'By the Light' as a single download at:- www.amazon.com/By-the-Light/dp/B002VGO7BE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=125753455.


'Forget Me Not'


Please click on the link below for details of how to purchase the 26 song 'Forget Me Not' double Cd to aid sufferers of Alzheimers Disease in Ireland at $12.97 / 9.99 sterling - every penny goes to the sufferers of this terrible disease:-

FORGET ME NOT: Forget Me Not

- Thank you so much!


Bio of Paul Robert Thomas..
Born, raised, abused and misused in poverty whilst surrounded by the affluent, Paul has always seemed to be the one on the outside looking in - "I stopped asking why, it's just the way it goes" Paul says.

As Paul writes in his gospel song 'Years of Plenty':-
"To enjoy the good times, you've had to have suffered pain. To walk in the sunshine, you've had to have walked in the rain".

Paul grew up in the hope filled 'Love is all there is' drug induced stupor of the 60's that promised so much but in the end delivered nothing but pain and broken glass - "The only good to come out of those crazy times was the music". Paul soaked up the sounds and words of the songs he heard all around him like a sponge. He first discovered the music of Buddy Holly, Frank Sinatra, Otis Redding & Count Basie progressing on to The Beatles and other 60's UK bands and artists later to find Bob Dylan - "Dylan was like the father I never had, he taught me so much and still is".

Later, through Dylan's works Paul would discover the new worlds of the great poets and authors as well as the Bible and old folk and gospel songs which were the cornerstones upon which Rock and Roll was born and flourished – on modern day music Paul says - "If a composer or lyricist today has no knowledge of and doesn't draw upon tradition then he ain't worth the pen he writes with, nor is his music".

Outside of Paul's back window was the world's busiest train junction, at the front was one of the main highways out of North London. Down the road was the Regents Canal winding it's way from the River Thames west across the English countryside "All those people constantly on the move going somewhere or other just made me feel like hanging on to that solid ground I was on" and it wasn't till he was 21 that Paul decided that it was time to let go and move on - "Well, to tell you the truth, I had just about had enough of the same repetitive routine and loneliness and emptiness day after day" – Paul sums up his teens in his 'The Grils' song 'The Darkest Days' - "Yeah, I lied in the arms of Mary/for a while I followed the Son/I believed in Santa Claus and Fairies/until the darkness won". Paul spread his wings to reach the Promised Land - "I knew nothing about this place, only I remember hearing about a couple of big wars where they had survived against all the odds, I guess winning when they were the under-dog kind of appealed to me".

Whilst serving as a volunteer on a northern kibbutz Paul met his wife to be who was serving as a soldier protecting the kibbutz from attack. After they'd married Paul returned with his bride to London where Paul fulfilled his life-time's ambition and joined the London police – "I grew up surrounded by police. The flats next to our house were occupied by police families and I played with many of their children".

Paul proved to be an outstanding police officer gaining awards for bravery for disarming a man brandishing a loaded gun, for professionalism in achieving a record number of arrests in one year and also for his suggestions on how to improve the police service – "Yeah, I worked hard and achieved good results but I was becoming more and more resented and shunned by my fellow officers who seemed to want an easy life and were just looking forward to their retirement pensions".

Paul was subjected to a sustained campaign of racial abuse from his colleagues, the very ones who were supposed to uphold not break the law. Paul had converted from Christianity to Judaism in order to marry his wife - "Also out of respect for Dina's father who is a survivor of Auschwitz Concentration Camp". The abuse grew in its severity and frequency whilst senior officers did nothing to stop it until Paul could take no more "One day I decided that enough was enough" and Paul then initiated proceedings to take the Metropolitan Police Force to court for their racial abuse of him, no small task one would say!

"It took 3 years for the case to come to court. Whenever there were dates set for the court hearing to be heard they would ask for a postponement as well as try other things too. It went on and on like this and was all designed to try to break my resolve, but although they came close to breaking me in the end I stood up to them and beat them and showed them for what they really were".
Paul won his court case and decided there was no place for him in an organization he had just proved to be racist and so after 14 years of dedication he left the police force and returned with his young family to Israel. Paul was the first police officer to have beaten the police in court under the Race Relations Act laws whilst still a serving police officer, as he was.

It was during the 3 years of waiting for his court case to be heard that Paul started to write song lyrics. "I had written poetry in my teens, in fact I used to give folders of my poems to those girlfriends I had on the kibbutz". In 1996 Paul had made contact with a German composer Stefan Pauleit in Kiel who was looking for a lyricist and together they formed a song collaboration they called 'The Grils' - www.the-grils.com and http://www.myspace.com/grilsongs. After Paul had started his My Space sites he was approached by many more composers and singer/songwriters the world over looking for good song lyrics and the result has been many great songs produced from Paul's lyrics.

Paul has risen above all the adversity he has faced - "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger", although his lingering heartache remains the abuse his daughter suffered as a 6 year old when she was sexually abused by a neighbour while living in England. His daughter only started to recall what she had suffered upon entering her teens and while living in Israel which caused her to twice attempt suicide and led her to suffer from the eating disorder bulimia for which she was locked away in a secure eating disorder unit for one solid year. They made an official complaint to the police and were forced to rely on the police's investigations which resulted in Paul and his daughter flying to London in January 2008 to try to identify her abuser from police photo's – "How could someone who was 6 years old at the time be expected to pick out a photo of her abuser when the photo wasn't of him from then but was a recent photo, it just didn't make sense and lo and behold she didn't pick him out and subsequently they didn't proceed with the case and he got off scot free"!

Paul now works at the visa section at the Royal Thai Embassy near Tel-Aviv – "Funnily enough my most creative time for writing seems to be on the bus on the way to work in the mornings"! He is happy to collaborate with any proficient composer or singer/songwriter willing to put his words to any style of music and Paul's lyrics can be used if you ask his permission but Paul will only work with people who have manners and are looking to share 50/50 - Paul detests and has no time for those many in the 'music world' who are looking to make a 'fast buck' on the back of someone else!..

Check out Paul's new Talent Spotlight Magazine Interview at http://talentspotlightmagazine.com/?p=1258 too!
Paul supports worthwhile causes with his music and one of his and 'The Grils' songs called 'The Evil Sea' was chosen to appear on the USA charity cd 'Lafitte's Return' for survivors of the New Orleans Floods. Paul's & 'Guitavio's' song called 'Will Ye Nay Come Back Billy Boy' appears on a Alzheimers Charity cd called 'Forget Me Not' in Ireland and Paul's and 'The Dunno's song 'Chip on Your Shoulder' appears on the charity cd Faith' to aid sufferers of Cystic Fibrosis Disease. Paul continues to work with many singer songwriters and composers and he considers himself lucky and honoured to work with such talented artists!

Paul, as always, looks to the future with hope and great expectations - 'The best is always yet to come" and for sure he still has many great song lyrics in him waiting to be revealed when the time is deemed to be right - "It's all about timing, everything that happens has to do with timing" - so says Paul! (Paul will only work with people who have manners and are looking to share 50/50 - He detests and has no time for those all too many in the 'music world' who are looking to make a 'fast buck' on the back of someone else)!

Paul is also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Paul.Robert.Thomas and Paul would be happy to be added as a Facebook 'friend'. Many more songs can be heard on the 'ReverbNation' song player below.
Paul is a member of the MCPS-PRS Alliance (ASCAP), London (CAE. 497904008) and the International Songwriters Association.

Please also check out Paul's published Dylan articles too:- On 'Every Grain of Sand', Seven Days', The Basement Tapes' and 'Caribbean Wind' which are all on Paul's Blog.



..Paul's Saint FM Radio Interview with Anver Anderson 26/05/09..


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Orly Vardy www.myspace.com/orlyvardy Live on Antena 1 TV's family entertainment show 'Duminica in Familia' 9/11/08 in Romania performing our new song 'If You Could Have Loved Me' – watch and enjoy:)!
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This film will shock you (if you have any feelings of course) and shows most of the reasons why I am a vegetarian! ..Meet Your Meat - Peta..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4&feature=player_embedded

I work with artists from all over the world & I write the lyrics (the easy part:) and they compose and perform the music around my words. I don't write lyrics to music that already has been composed as I'm a lazy bugger & I find this difficult and I also find that it detracts from the quality of the lyrics that are produced, so I prefer not to do this, thank you:)!

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..Mickey and the Goodfellas - "Mickey and the Goodfellas" 17/01/10 "Le Réservoir" Paris..
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..Mickey and the Goodfellas – "The Empty Boulevard" 17/01/10 Le Réservoir Paris.. ..Mickey and the Goodfellas – "The Empty Boulevard" 17/01/10 Le Réservoir Paris..

..Mickey and the Goodfellas – "Stoned Love" 16/05/10 Le China Paris..

..Mickey and the Goodfellas – 'With Your Socks On' 16/05/10 Le China Paris..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ00poO_VkY

..Mickey and the Goodfellas – "Night Worker" 16/05/10 Le China Paris..




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..'The Dunnos' - 'Knocking At Your Door', Bremen 29/05/09..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FQRsmI7XHY

..'The Dunnos' - 'Chip On Your Shoulder', Bremen 29/05/09..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=clipIfxZV3k

..‘My Angel’ – Performed by Orly Vardy at her wedding..
..'Tears of the Sun'.. Lyrics by me, music by Thom Pearson at www.myspace.com/tompearsonmusic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENROspm1Qyo&feature=player_embedded
..Paul Walker = 'Love and Theft'.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkvY7l3Wc2k&feature=player_embedded

..'How Long' Michel Ackermann/Paul Thomas..
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Michel Ackermann | MySpace Music Videos http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=104548556

..'Knocking On Heavens Door' Jam with Paul Thomas, 'Guitavio' and 'The Grils' in Rodenbek, Germany 30/05/09..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNf7hTW55m8&feature=player_embedded

..Paul being taught how to jive at Orly's wedding 18/06/09.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQE-m4H9M4&feature=player_embedded

Craig Glavan www.myspace.com/craigglavanmusic with our new DVD song 'Changin' Seasons'.


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