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Refimprove|date=February 2010Infobox musical artist| name = Sharon O'Neill| image =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Sharon Lea O'Neill| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1952|11|23|df=y|birth_place = Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson , South Island , New Zealand| death_date =| instrument = vocals , guitar , piano | genre = Rock music|Rock , Pop music|Pop , New Wave music|New Wave | occupation = Singer , Musician , Songwriter | years_active = 1970–present| label = Sony Records|Sony , Polydor Records|Polydor | associated_acts =| website = http://www.sharononeill.com.au sharononeill.com.au'''Sharon Lea O'Neill'''cite web|title=Australasian Performing Right Association | publisher= Australasian Performing Right Association|APRA |url= http://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt? action=workSearch | accessdate= 2007-07-27 (born 23 November 1952, Nelson, New Zealand ) is a singer-songwriter and pianist from New Zealand, who had an Australasia|Australasian hit single in 1983 with "Maxine" which reached #16 on both the Australian Kent Music Report and Recording Industry Association of New Zealand charts.cite book|title=The Who's Who of Australian Rock|last=Spencer|first=Chris|coauthors=Zbig Nowara, Paul McHenry with notes by Ed Nimmervoll |url= http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/aboutww.htm|chapter=ONEILL, Sharon|chapterurl= http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php? Band_ID=153600|origyear=1987|year=2002|publisher=Five Mile Press|location= Noble Park, Victoria|Noble Park , Vic.|page=|isbn=1-86503-891-1|accessdate=13 February 2010 Note: on-line version established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.cite book|title= Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location= St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW |year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|accessdate=13 February 2010 NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA created their own ARIA Charts|charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.cite web|url= http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp? interpret=Sharon+O%27Neill|title=Discography: Sharon O'Neill|work=New Zealand charts portal|publisher=Hung Medien|accessdate=13 February 2010
Biography
O'Neill began her career in the 1970s in her home country, then gained moderate success in Australia with the hit "Words" (AUS #56) and the subsequent singles "How Do You Talk to Boys? " (AUS #25, 1980), "Maybe" (AUS #38, 1981), "Losing You" (AUS #26, 1983), and "Power" (AUS #36, 1984).
The early 1980s proved her most commercially successful period, composing and performing the soundtrack to the 1981 film " Smash Palace ", and with the Foreign Affairs album in 1983 spawning her biggest hit "Maxine" (AUS #16, 1983) a song which chronicled the life of a Kings Cross, New South Wales|Kings Cross prostitute. http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/readytoroll/view.php? id=36 Filmarchive.org.nz A legal battle with her then record company Sony Records|Sony caused a delay in her career. During the enforced hiatus, O'Neill wrote songs for Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC TV series Sweet and Sour (TV series)|Sweet and Sour (1984) including the title song performed by Deborah Conway (later recorded by O'Neill as "In Control") and "Glam to Wham". O'Neill met American keyboardist and songwriter, Alan Mansfield on Dragon (band)|Dragon 's Body And The Beat Tour of New Zealand in 1984—they later became domestic and professional partners.cite news |url= http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/interview/2006/08/art100012925.php|title=The Times interview, Sharon O'Neill explain yourself to PJ Taylor |work=Howick and Pakuranga Times|publisher=Times Online|last=Taylor |first=Phil (P J)|date=24 August 2006|accessdate=25 May 2008
In 1987 O'Neill returned with arguably her best album (if under-rated at the time) Danced in the Fire on Polygram Records|Polygram which featured some biographical songs about the legal wrangles with Sony.
O'Neill's last album of new material, Edge of Winter , was released in 1990. A mature work, two singles were taken from this album, "Satin Sheets" and "Poster Girl", both of which failed to find chart success.
In 1991, O'Neill collaborated with Robert Palmer and they wrote "True Love" together for Palmer's Don't Explain . She also contributed vocals on that release. In 1994, O'Neill and Palmer joined forces once again, writing "Love Takes Time" for Palmer's Honey . She contributed vocals to that release, as well as to Palmer's 1999 Rhythm and Blues and 2003's Drive (Robert Palmer album)|Drive .
In 2001 she toured as a guest artist with a New Zealand female act, When the Cat's Away (band)|When The Cat's Away . In 2005 she toured Australia as a support act for Leo Sayer and a comprehensive collection of her greatest hits was released on CD. In 2006 and early 2007 O'Neill again toured Australia supporting Leo Sayer.
In August / September 2007 O'Neill toured as part of the ' Countdown Spectacular 2' concert series Australia-wide cite web | title= The Countdown Spectacular | publisher= Frontier Touring Co. | url= http://www.frontiertouring.com.au/currenttours/The_Countdown_Spectacular_2 | accessdate= 2007-07-27 and toured Australia and New Zealand on The Let It Be Tour ( The Beatles tribute show) in November / December 2007.cite web | title= The Let It Be Tour entry on Sharon O'Neill | publisher= Xazz Media Group | url= http://www.theletitbetour.com/sharon-oneill.html | accessdate= 2007-09-23 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080512142258/ http://www.theletitbetour.com/sharon-oneill.html |archivedate = 2008-05-12
Discography
Singles
Singles discography | all_albums=yes | charts=2 | include_footnote = yes| chartA = Kent Music Report|AUS KMR | chartB = Recording Industry Association of New Zealand|NZL RIANZ | title1 = Love Song | album1 = Non-album single | albumspan1 = 2 | year1 = 1972 | title2 = Luck's on Your Table | year2 = 1978 | yearspan2 = 3 | peak2B = 27 | title3 = This Heart This Song | album3 = This Heart This Song | albumspan3 = 2 | title4 = You Take the Sailor from the Sea | title5 = Don't Say No to Tomorrow | album5 = Non-album single | year5 = 1979 | yearspan5 = 4 | peak5B = 6 | note5 = The Telethon Song | title6 = Words | album6 = Words | albumspan6 = 2 | peak6A = 56 | peak6B = 22 | title7 = Baby Don't Fight | title8 = Don't Let Love Go | peak8A = 32 | album8 = Non-album single | note8 = duet with Jon Stevens | title9 = Asian Paradise | album9 = Words | albumspan9 = 2 | year9 = 1980 | yearspan9 = 2 | peak9A= 76 | peak9B = 24 | title10 = How Do You Talk to Boys? | peak10A = 25 | peak10B = 26 | title11 = Waiting for You | album11 = Maybe | year11 = 1981 | yearspan11 = 2 | peak11A = 50 | albumspan11 = 3 | title12 = Maybe | peak12A = 38 | peak12B = 12 | title13 = For All the Tea in China | peak13A = 98 | year13 = 1982 | yearspan13 = 2 | title14 = Smash Palace | album14 = Smash Palace | note14 = soundtrack | title15 = Losing You | album15 = Foreign Affairs | albumspan15 = 3 | year15 = 1983 | yearspan15 = 3 | peak15A = 26 | title16 = Maxine | peak16A = 16 | peak16B = 16 | title17 = Danger | peak17A = 78 | title18 = Power | year18 = 1984 | album18 = Non-album single | peak18A = 36 Singles discography | all_albums=yes | charts=2 | include_footnote = yes| chartA = Kent Music Report|AUS KMR | chartB = Recording Industry Association of New Zealand|NZL RIANZ | title1 = Physical Favours | album1 = Danced in the Fire | albumspan1 = 3 | year1 = 1987 | yearspan1 = 2 | peak1A = 39 | peak1B = 25 | title2 = Danced in the Fire | peak2A = 98 | title3 = Shock to the Heart" / "We're Only Human | year3 = 1988 | title4 = Water for the Flowers | year4 = 1989 | note4 = shared single with Doug Parkinson | title5 = Satin Sheets | album5 = Edge of Winter | year5 = 1990 | yearspan5 = 2 | albumspan5 = 2 | title6 = Poster Girl | title7 = Asian Paradise | album7 = Live in Paradise | year7 = 2001 | peak7B = 16 | note7 = When the Cat's Away & Sharon O'Neill version
Albums
1979 - This Heart This Song
1980 - ''Sharon O'Neill
1980 - Words
1981 - Maybe
1983 - Foreign Affairs
1983 - Smash Palace (soundtrack)
1984 - So Far - The Best 14 ('best of' compilation)
1984 - How Do You Do? (2CD 'best of' compilation)
1987 - Danced In The Fire
1988 - Four Play EP
1990 - Edge of Winter
1991 - ''The Very Best Of Sharon O'Neill and Collette (with Collette )
http://www.sharononeill.com.au The Official Sharon O'Neill Website
http://web.archive.org/web/20070929131822/ http://www.geocities.com/sharononeillmusic/ The unofficial Sharon O'Neill website
http://www.sharononeill.com The essential Sharon O'Neill fan site
http://www.theletitbetour.com.html The Let It Be Tour
http://www.geocities.com/sharononeillaustralia.html / The Australian Sharon O'Neill Websitedead link|date=November 2010|bot=AnomieBOT
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharononeilldownunder Yahoo group sharononeilldownunder
Persondata | NAME =Oneill, Sharon | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =23 November 1952 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson , South Island , New Zealand | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Oneill, Sharon Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:New Zealand female singers Category:New Zealand film score composers Category:New Zealand musicians Category:New Zealand singer-songwriters
