Sam Farrar Biography
Sam Farrar(full name: Samuel John Farrar) is an American musician and record producer. He is best known as a member of the pop-rock band Maroon 5, in which he plays several instruments.
A frequent collaborator with the band since the 1990s, he joined as a touring member in 2012 and was promoted to an official member in 2016. He is also the bassist for the rock band Phantom Planet, which is currently on indefinite hiatus.
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Samuel John Farrar is an Australian-American musician and record producer. He is best known as a member of the pop-rock band Maroon 5, in which he plays several instruments.
A frequent collaborator with the band since the 1990s, he joined as a touring member in 2012 and was promoted to an official member in 2016.
Sam is 41 years old as of 2019. He was born on 29 June 1978 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Sam Farrar Net Worth
Maroon 5 was first formed back in the 1990s, and the band has been a household name for well over a decade now. Their most popular member is lead singer Adam Levine, who has gone on to also become one of the longtime judges on NBC’s The Voice.
Maroon 5 will be performing during this year’s Super Bowl halftime show — but with so many accolades under their belts, how much are each of this band’s members actually worth?
Sam Farrar primarily plays guitar for the band, but he does dabble in bass, percussion, and keyboards for the group every once in a while. He also has co-written and co-produced several of the group’s songs, which has likely earned him some royalty money. He may not be a household name, but he’s earned a good reputation in the music industry and is worth an estimated $8 million.
Musical career
1994–2012: Phantom Planet and other side projects
Farrar is the bass guitar player for the American rock band Phantom Planet. He also joined a band called Operation Aloha with members of Gomez and Maroon 5. He and his wife, Stephanie, have started their own music project, called Bubble and Strife.
2012–present: Maroon 5
In 2012, Farrar became a touring member of Maroon 5, playing various instruments including guitars, bass guitar (occasionally), percussion and additional keyboards, singing backing vocals and providing samples and other special effects (using the MPC).
He formerly co-wrote and co-produced a few of the band’s songs on almost all of their studio albums and also remixed one of their songs, which is called “Woman”, on Call and Response: The Remix Album, released in 2008.
On August 31, 2012 – during a show in Argentina on the Overexposed Tour – Farrar filled-in for Mickey Madden on the bass guitar for the very first time. He subsequently filled-in for Madden on the next few shows of the tour.
After touring with the band as a touring member for the next couple of years, Farrar appeared in an official, promotional photo of Maroon 5 for the first time, in late 2016. He is also featured on the cover of the band’s sixth studio album, Red Pill Blues (2017) – all of this can be seen as confirmation, that Farrar became an official member of Maroon 5, making them a seven-piece band.
Sam Farrar Ballykissangel
Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama created by Kieran Prendiville and set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community.
It ran for six series, which were the first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2001. It aired in Ireland on RTÉ One and in Australia on ABC TV from 1996 to 2001. Reruns have been aired on Drama in the United Kingdom and in the United States on some PBS affiliates.
Significant changes in the cast occurred at the end of series 3 following the departure of central characters Peter Clifford and Assumpta Fitzgerald.
The show faced a decline in ratings from a peak level of 10 million viewers to 4.8 million and was eventually canceled in 2001.
The name of the fictional village in which the show was set is derived from Ballykissane, a townland near Killorglin in County Kerry, where the show’s creator, Kieran Prendiville, holidayed with his family as a child. The village’s name in Irish is shown as “Baile Coisc Aingeal”, which means “The town of the fallen angel”, on the sign outside the post office.
The show was filmed in Avoca and Enniskerry in County Wicklow.
Sam Farrar Wife, Married, Personal life
His father, John Farrar, was a member of The Shadows and also carved a successful songwriting career, penning many of Olivia Newton-John’s big hits as well as producing nearly every one of her albums during her most successful years. His mother, Pat Carroll, was a successful Australian pop singer in the 1960s. He attended The Buckley School.
Sam is married to Stephanie Eitel, formerly a member of the band Agent Sparks. Their daughter Vesper Pearl Farrar was born on August 6, 2009, and their son Flynn Roscoe Farrar was born on January 14, 2014.
He graduated from Pitzer College.
Sam Farrar Father, Parents
John Clifford Farrar is an Australian music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist. He was born on 8 November 1945, and he grew up in Moonee Ponds, a suburb of Melbourne. He has an older brother, Reginald, and the family lived in a large household with aunts and uncles. Farrar’s mother bought him a country music guitar, which he began playing at twelve-years-old.
In 1961, he began playing in a band (The Jaguars) with his older brother (Reg) and at the age of fifteen years, the family relocated to nearby Niddrie. In 1963, he joined The Mustangs, which included Farrar on guitar, Johnny Cooper on vocals, Peter Ramis on bass guitar and Billy on drums.
In late January 1964, Farrar joined The Strangers replacing the founding guitarist Laurie Arthur, and adding another lead vocalist to the group. Other members were Peter Robinson on the bass guitar and lead vocals, Graeme Thompson on drums, and Fred Weiland on guitar and backing vocals.
They had formed as an instrumental band in 1961, working in the Melbourne dance scene. In June 1964, with Farrar on board, the band issued its first vocal single, “If You Gotta Make a Fool of Someone”, which reached the top 30 on the Melbourne charts in July. They became a popular backing and session band.
In August 1964, The Strangers were hired as the house band for the ATV O pop music program, The Go!! Show. Both Farrar’s future wife, Pat Carroll, and their close friend, Olivia Newton-John, appeared on The Go!! Show as singers who were backed by The Strangers.
Carroll and Newton-John formed a vocal duo, “Pat and Olivia”, and in 1967, they first toured the United Kingdom, including a gig at the infamous Raymond Revue Bar Club in Soho.
After returning to Australia from a tour, Carroll was obliged to remain there since her work visa had expired, while the English-born Newton-John stayed on. Farrar dated and married Carroll, and following their wedding in 1969, Carroll ceased to pursue her headliner status.
She settled into occasionally reprising her duo work with Newton-John, and session singing on Farrar’s or Newton-John’s works. During 1968 The Strangers supported the Australian leg of a tour by the British instrumental group, The Shadows. In June 1970, The Strangers released their most successful hit, “Melanie Makes Me Smile”, which peaked at No. 14 on the Go-Set National Top 60 in August.
However, in July 1970, Farrar had left The Strangers, and with Carroll; he moved to Britain, where he was invited to become a member of Marvin, Welch & Farrar, a vocal-harmony group featuring two former members of The Shadows, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch.
By that time Newton-John and Welch were engaged and Farrar and Welch became two of her songwriters and producers. Welch and Farrar co-produced and performed on Newton-John’s cover of Bob Dylan’s track, “If Not for You”, and the album of the same name released in November 1971.
Farrar also worked with Cliff Richard as a backing guitarist and vocalist. Marvin, Welch & Farrar put out two albums, an eponymous one in 1971, and Second Opinion (in both quadraphonic and stereo formats) in 1972. In 1973, a third album featured just Marvin and Farrar.
The Shadows reformed soon after and Farrar joined as second lead guitarist and vocalist. In 1975, the group represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest with “Let Me Be the One”.
In 1973, Farrar had appeared at the same contest as a backing guitarist and vocalist for Richard’s entry, “Power to All Our Friends”; the following year he backed and produced Newton-John on her effort, “Long Live Love”.
From 1971 to 1976, various members of The Shadows were employed as session musicians for Newton-John’s early albums, ones that were recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios.
Aside from Farrar and Welch, they included Brian Bennett, Alan Hawkshaw, Alan Tarney, Dave Richmond, and Trevor Spencer; some other session musicians were the fellow Australians Kevin Peek and Terry Britten – both also worked with Richard – and some other musicians.
They worked under co-producers Farrar and Welch – until midway through Newton-John’s second album, Olivia. Thereafter Farrar was her main producer. He produced her number-one albums, If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974), Have You Never Been Mellow (1975), and Olivia’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1982).
Farrar also produced Newton-John’s first American number-one hit single, “I Honestly Love You”, which was awarded the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1975. His last production for Newton-John was her album, Warm and Tender in 1989.
In 1974, Farrar used the vocoder “SFX unit” on an instrumental track, “No, No, Nina”, well before Peter Frampton’s 1975 single, “Show Me the Way”, and the associated double-live album, Frampton Comes Alive! (1976) which featured the same device for its talkbox effect.
However, Farrar’s track was held back from release by EMI until 1997, when it appeared on the CD album, The Shadows at Abbey Road, containing mostly unreleased material. A vocal version of “No, No, Nina” appeared on the Specs Appeal album as a Eurovision contender track; but it was voted sixth out of six initial entries.
Aside from instrumentation and vocals, Farrar worked as an arranger on The Shadows’ albums: Rockin’ with Curly Leads, Specs Appeal, Tasty and Live at the Paris Olympia.
Farrar’s work with Newton-John embraced a wide range of styles, from “You’re the One That I Want” (duet with John Travolta) to “Physical”. Farrar’s biggest success with Newton-John as a writer-producer came with the film version of the musical, Grease.
In 1977 during filming, its producers were replacing some of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey’s more farcical pieces from the original score and wanted some more commercially friendly songs, including a solo number for Newton-John, so Farrar wrote and submitted two originals, “Hopelessly Devoted To You” and “You’re the One That I Want”.
Both were accepted (despite strong reservations from director Randal Kleiser, who believed that the songs didn’t fit the style) and became two of the soundtrack’s most successful singles, being international number-one hits during 1978.
In June 2004, Farrar recalled writing the two songs: “‘You’re the One That I Want’: The weird thing was it was the fastest song I ever wrote. It came so fast, the actual melody and the feel of it.
‘Hopelessly Devoted To You’: I spent the longest period writing the lyrics of any song I’ve ever written. Every thesaurus and every rhyming dictionary I had, just trying to really make it work properly”. Other number-one hits for Newton-John that were written and produced by Farrar are “Have You Never Been Mellow” (1975), “Don’t Stop Believin’” (an easy-listening chart-topper from 1976, not the Journey song of the same name), and “Magic” (1980).
Farrar produced one side of the Xanadu soundtrack for the 1980 film of the same name. The other side featured tracks by Electric Light Orchestra and was produced by their guitarist-vocalist, Jeff Lynne.
In March 1981, Farrar was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for the song “Suspended in Time” from Xanadu.
In 1995, Farrar collaborated with Newton-John and lyricist Tim Rice for the musical score of Richard’s musical, Heathcliff based on the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights. Farrar also co-wrote songs for a musical based on the 1959 film, Gidget, which, as of April 2012, was indefinitely postponed. Farrar runs the Moonee Ponds Studio at Sweetwater Road in Malibu.
Sam Farrar Phantom Planet
Sam Farrar is a utility musician (samples, keys, guitar, percussion) for Maroon 5 and first appeared on the music scene as the bass player for Phantom Planet.
Since then he’s become a well-regarded songwriter and producer who’s worked with the likes of Sara Bareilles, Gomez, Daryl Hall and Maroon 5 which eventually led to him touring with them beginning in 2012 and continues to this day.
Sam Farrar Chester Rugby
Chester Rugby Union Football Club (also known as Chester RUFC) is a rugby union club based in Chester, Cheshire. The club is governed by the Rugby Football Union and the 1st XV currently competes in the fourth tier of the English rugby union system, National League 2 North. The 2nd XV and 3rd XV play in the North West Intermediate Rugby Union leagues.
Research shows that there was a rugby club in Chester in the 1880s and apparently there was a game between Chester and New Brighton in 1879–80, but the club later disbanded, The ‘new’ Chester RUFC was formed in 1925 at the Chester YMCA.
In 1932 the club moved to rented facilities at Boughton Hall as tenants of the cricket club where they stayed for almost thirty years until the ground at Hare Lane, Vicars Cross was purchased with the club moving there in 1961.
Rugby blossomed in the sixties and seventies with a fixture list including some of the then top clubs in the North and many players awarded county honors. The eighties was a quiet period, with playing strength less than before and the fixture list suffering as a result.
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