Born in Lichfield on March 20, 1964, songwriter Bill Pritchard is particularly well known in France, thanks to his collaboration with Daniel Darc. First noticed for two albums released on Third Mind Records, Bill Pritchard (1987) and Half a Million (1988), he was invited by Daniel Darc to produce a joint album, Parce Que, which brought him a certain notoriety in France. Pritchard's love of literature, cinema and poetry inspired his music, and he composed the album Three Months, Three Weeks and Two Days (1989), produced by Etienne Daho, with Françoise Hardy as backing vocalist on the song "Tommy & Co". The following album, Jolie (1991), also released on the independent PIAS label and produced by Ian Broudie, consolidated the Francophile artist's reputation and won him a loyal following as far afield as Japan. After a brief interlude with Beatitude, Pritchard returned to his solo career with By Paris, by Taxi, by Accident (2005), produced by Thomas Deligny for the AZ label. He continued with a series of albums for Tapete Records, then teamed up with Frédéric Lô for Rendez-Vous Streets (2019), released on the Water Music label, before the 2021 release of Sings Poems by Patrick Woodcock.
