| Singer, saxophonist, songwriter, and producer Mark Lindsay is best known as the frontman for Paul Revere & the Raiders, who scored a series of hits from the 1960's into the early 1970's. Although the band was named for keyboard player Revere, it was Lindsay who was the most identifiable member, and as time went on, he took over songwriting and producing chores for the group. In the early 1970's he juggled the group duties with a successful solo career that spawned the hits "Silverbird" and "Arizona." In the mid-1970's he dropped out of the limelight and moved to Tennessee to pursue behind the scenes work. Songwriting was always one of his fortes. By 1981 he wrote (along with Perry Botkin Jr. "Nadia's Theme"), arranged, produced and played on the club hit "Disco Kicks." Never one to hog the limelight he released the song under the banner of The Original Mass. The 12" single on JDC records became such a major hit in the clubs that it spawned the Boystown Gang to cover it for their second album. Lindsay married in 1989 and has moved from Nashville to Memphis to Idaho and now resides in Hawaii. Still active in writing he has quit the road to work on new material. |
