Richard Parfitt
Richard [https://nation.cymru/culture/on-being-a-writer-in-wales-richard-john-parfitt/After having several UK Top 40 hits during the 90s, along with moderate success in the US, The 60 ft. Dolls split and Parfitt began working as a professional songwriter and session musician, going on to be credited by Welsh singer Duffy of discovering her talents and 'changing her life'. Parfitt helped write several songs for the artist's deluxe edition of the album Rockferry - which had considerable commercial success around the world, reaching UK No. 1 and becoming one of the ten best-selling albums in the world in 2008 – including the title song from the film How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, 'Enough Love'.
Parfitt also worked as a session guitarist on British artist Dido's second studio album, Life For Rent.
In 2019 Parfitt was shortlisted for the New Welsh Review Rheidol Prize in Writing for his long form essay, Tales From the Riverbank. He published his first novel Stray Dogs with [https://www.thirdmanbooks.com/ Third Man Books], the publishing arm of Third Man Records in 2023.
He has since written articles and papers in various musical contexts, and worked mainly in higher education as well as directing the world's first songwriting degree programme, the MMus in Songwriting, at Bath Spa University in Bath, England. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 2020
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