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Richard Clapton (born 18 May ca. 1949) is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist from Sydney, New South Wales. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are "Girls on the Avenue" (1975) and "I Am an Island" (1982). His top 20 albums on the related Albums Chart are Goodbye Tiger (1977), Hearts on the Nightline (1979), The Great Escape (1982), and The Very Best of Richard Clapton (1982). As a producer he worked on the second INXS album, Underneath the Colours (1981). In 1983, he briefly joined The Party Boys for a tour of eastern Australia and the live album, Greatest Hits (Of Other People) (1983) before resuming his solo career. Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane described Clapton as "one of the most important Australian songwriters of the 1970s". On 12 October 1999, Clapton was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame. As from May 2010, he is writing an autobiography, expected for release later in the year.

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Discography

The Best Years of Our Lives, 1989
Angeltown, 1995
Best Years of Our Lives, 1989
The Great Escape, 1985
Main Street Jive, 1976
Diamond Mine, 2004
Glory Road, 1987
Distant Thunder, 1993
Rewired, 2006
Past Hits & Previews, 1992
Solidarity, 1984
Harlequin Nights, 2012
Prussian Blue, 1973
Dark Spaces, 1992
The Very Best of Richard Clapton, 1981
Hearts on the Nightline, 1979
The Definitive Anthology, 1999
Girls on the Avenue, 1975
Goodbye Tiger, 1977
Up and Down the Glory Road, 2001

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