Everything about Richard Coles totally explained
Richard Coles (born
26 March 1962,
Northampton,
England) was the multi-
instrumentalist who partnered
Jimmy Somerville in the
1980s band,
The Communards. He was educated at
King's College London.
Career
Coles had previously played the
clarinet on the
song "
It Ain't Necessarily So" which was a
hit in 1984 for
Bronski Beat, a
trio which featured Somerville as its lead
singer. The following year, Somerville quit this band to join Coles.
The Communards were together for just over three years and enjoyed three
UK Top 10 hits, including the biggest-selling single of 1986 with a version of "
Don't Leave Me This Way", which was at Number 1 for four weeks. They split in 1988 and Somerville went
solo.
Coles became a
writer and
journalist afterwards, most notably with the
Times Literary Supplement and the
Catholic Herald. In 1994 he appeared as a guest on the
BBC News
quiz Have I Got News For You.
After a successful career in the
media, Coles was selected for training for
priesthood in the
Church of England. He entered his training at the
monastic College of the Resurrection,
Mirfield before leaving to work as Curate at St. Boltoph’s
Church, ('
The Stump') in
Boston, Lincolnshire, and from there to St Paul's
Church,
Knightsbridge, in
London. He is also Chaplain to the
Royal Academy of Music. He still does occasional
broadcasting work, including
Nightwaves on
BBC Radio 3 which he formerly presented, and
Newsnight Review on BBC2.
On May 15th 2008 he was on the Radio 4 panel game show '
Heresy' with
David Baddiel and
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