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- Steve Kipner is an American-born musician and songwriter who began his career in Australia. Kipner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to an American father and Australian mother. The couple had met in Brisbane, Australia during World War II and they returned to Brisbane when Kipner was a baby. His father, Nat Kipner formed the Sunshine Records label with promoter Ivan Dayman in 1965 and he co-produced a number of the label's early releases. After moving to Sydney in 1966 to manage a new music venue for Dayman, Nat Kipner sold his share in Sunshine Records and other Dayman operations (the group went broke in 1967). Nat Kipner was subsequently hired as A&R manager for the independent label Spin Records, founded by a consortium headed by publisher and broadcaster Clyde Packer, the son of media baron Sir Frank Packer. Spin Records is notable as the company that recorded and released The Bee Gees breakthrough hit "Spicks and Specks" (1966) which Nat Kipner co-produced with Ossie Byrne. In 1979 Nat achieved his greatest success as a co-writer of "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late", an American number one hit for Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams. ) Influenced by his father, Steve Kipner began his career in music in Australia as a member of the band Steve & The Board who achieved an Australian number one single with the song "Giggle Eyed Goo", co-written by Nat Kipner and released on the Spin label in 1966. As a result of his father's involvement in Spin Records, the members of Steve & The Board became good friends with labelmates The Bee Gees; members of The Board played contributed to many recordings cut by The Bee Gees in Sydney prior to their return to the UK in early 1967, and Board drummer Colin Petersen followed The Bee Gees to London and became the group's original drummer (1967-70). Steve & The Board broke up in early 1967. Steve Kipner then formed a duo with Steve Groves; they relocated to the UK in 1967 where they recorded one unsuccessful LP as "Steve & Stevie" (Toast Records, 1968) before renaming themselves Tin Tin. Under this name, Kipner and Groves recorded several singles and two albums, scoring an international hit (including an American Top 20 placing) with their 1971 single "Toast and Marmalade for Tea", produced by Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees. The song's success led to Tin Tin supporting the Bee Gees on their American tour of 1972. By this time Kipner was more interested in working as a songwriter and scored his first success when "Catch Me I'm Falling" was recorded by Engelbert Humperdinck in 1974. He recorded a solo album in 1979 during this time met Australian manager Roger Davies. Although Davies' greatest success lay in the future as manager of such artists as Tina Turner and Janet Jackson, he was able to secure contracts for Kipner as a songwriter for CBS Publishing where he worked in various partnerships, writing for Spanish singer Miguel Bose among others. In the early 1980s he co-wrote a song with English songwriter Terry Shaddick titled "Let's Get Physical. " When he played the song for Roger Davies, the manager Lee Kramer heard the song from the next room and thought it would be suitable for his client Olivia Newton-John and to promote another client "Mr. Universe" on her album cover. Retitled "Physical" the song spent ten weeks at number one on the American charts and was a worldwide hit. It also marked a controversial moment in Newton-John's career when Kipner's and Shaddick's suggestive lyrics caused it to be banned in Utah and South Africa. Kipner's songwriting career has continued strongly since this major success, and among the other songs he has co-written are "Heart Attack", "Twist of Fate" and "I Need Love" (all recorded by Newton-John), "Hard Habit to Break" and "If She Would Have Been Faithful... ", "Marrakech" "Moonlight On Water", "Impulsive", "Invisible Man" and "The Hardest Thing", "Genie in a Bottle", "I Don't Care", "He Loves U Not", and "Stole". Steve is a director and shareholder in Phonogenic Records Limited, a UK based record label with Sony BMG. Recently Steve has had big success with the first signing to that label,Natasha Bedingfield's “These Words” and has numerous songs on her new album NB. Steve also has songs on the forthcoming Delta Goodrem, and The Script albums.
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