Tim Rose
Timothy Alan Patrick Rose (September 23, 1940 – September 24, 2002)[2] was an American singer and songwriter who spent much of his life in London, England, and had more success in Europe than in his native country.
This article is about the singer-songwriter. For the American football coach, see Tim Rose (American football). For the actor-puppeteer, see Timothy D. Rose.
Tim Rose
Timothy Alan Patrick Rose
September 23, 1940
Washington, D.C., U.S.
September 24, 2002 (aged 62)
London, England
Singer-songwriter
Guitar, banjo, vocals
1960s–1978, 1986–2002
Columbia, FM, Capitol, Dawn/Playboy, Tiger Lily, Atlantic, Phonogram, President, See for Miles, Best Dressed, Mystic, Love Label, Cherry Red, Market Square[1]
Biography[edit]
Early years[edit]
Rose was born in Washington, D.C., and raised by his mother Mary, who worked for the Army Corps of Engineers, his aunt, and his grandmother in an area known as South Fairlington Historic District, in Arlington, Virginia, where he was to meet Scott McKenzie, who lived nearby. Rose learned to play the banjo and guitar, and won the top music award in high school. Rose graduated from Gonzaga College Prep School, a noted Jesuit institution in DC, class of 1958. From there he joined the United States Air Force (in the Strategic Air Command), in the pre-Vietnam era, and was stationed in Kansas. He later worked as a merchant seaman on the S.S. Atlantic and in a bank, before becoming involved in the music industry.
His first band was The Singing Strings, which included his friend McKenzie, who later joined with John Phillips (eventually of The Mamas & the Papas) in a local group called The Abstracts, later The Smoothies and eventually The Journeymen. Other members of the Strings were Buck Hunnicutt, Speery Romig and Alan Stubbs. In 1962, Rose teamed up with ex-Smoothie Michael Boran as Michael and Timothy.[3] Jake Holmes, Rich Husson and Rose formed a group called The Feldmans, later known as Tim Rose and the Thorns.