Richard Anthony Hewson is an English producer, arranger, conductor and multi-instrumentalist, who is best recognized for his studio group The RAH Band. Hewson founded The RAH Band - of which he was the sole member and which took its name from his initials - in 1977 - in order to release an instrumental called "The Crunch". The piece climbed to number 6 in the UK Singles Chart. Hewson played all the musical instruments himself. The arrangement involved the use no synthesisers, only conventional guitar and keyboards with pedal effects. A number of jazz funk releases followed. The second big hit single for the RAH Band was in 1985, when the soul ballad "Clouds Across the Moon", also reached number 6 in the UK chart. This single was recorded in conjunction with his then wife, Liz, on vocals.
The drummer on "Clouds Across the Moon" was Peter Boita. The Simmons SDS7 drums that were featured, were recorded at Hewson's home studio, and plugged directly into the recording desk. Boita also played acoustic drums on other RAH Band's tracks: "Falcon", "Perfumed Garden", "Messages from the Stars", "Are You Satisfied? (Funka Nova)" and "Sorry Doesn't Make it Anymore". These were recorded at R.G. Jones's recording studios icn Wimbledon, South London and were engineered by Nick Sykes. The RAH band's releases were issued under a variety of record labels, including Good Earth Records, DJM, KR Records, TMT Records and RCA.
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