Jem Godfrey
Jeremy "Jem" Godfrey is a British music producer, keyboardist and songwriter.
In the early 1990s he was a producer at BBC Radio 1, before going back to Virgin Radio to head up the production department. He subsequently worked at Capital Radio before ultimately ending up at Wise Buddhah.
Godfrey was responsible, with Bill Padley at Wisebuddah music, for Atomic Kitten's number one hit "Whole Again",, and the production and remixing of the international hit version of "Kiss Kiss" by Holly Valance.
He won an Ivor Novello on 25 May 2006 for the best selling single of 2005, "That's My Goal", for The X-Factor's Shayne Ward.
"That's My Goal", was released in the UK on Wednesday, 21 December 2005 and after selling 742,000 copies in the first week, it became the Christmas number one single of 2005, held the top spot for four weeks and stayed in the top 75 until June 2006, which was a 21-week run. "That's My Goal" has sold 1,080,000 copies.
In 2004, Godfrey formed the progressive rock group Frost* who have released four studio albums and a live album.
In the autumn of 2010, Godfrey was asked by ex-Frank Zappa guitarist Mike Keneally to play keyboards for Joe Satriani on tour. Godfrey toured for a week with the band before playing the Glasgow and Birmingham shows in the UK while Keneally went to Europe to play piano at Vai-Fest with Steve Vai. In the summer of 2012, Godfrey toured again with Satriani as well as Steve Vai, playing keyboards for the entire European leg of their G3 Tour.
In July 2012, Radio 2 introduced new jingles created by Godfrey, who appeared briefly on the Chris Evans breakfast show to talk about them.
In 2013, Godfrey mixed and co-produced the second album by LOSERS, signed to Gung Ho! Recordings and featuring XFM's Eddy Temple-Morris and Tom Bellamy from The Cooper Temple Clause. The single "Turn Around" was used as the backing music for the trailer for the fourth season of US television series Game of Thrones, while their single "Azan" was used on the trailer for film Hercules. He played keyboards on Matt Stevens of The Fierce and the Dead's solo album Lucid on Cherry Red Records.
In February 2015, Godfrey mixed and co-produced four songs with Gary Barlow for the soundtrack album of the Broadway Musical "Finding Neverland" for Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez and Trey Songz, Nick Jonas and Kiesza. Later that year Godfrey again worked with Barlow on 4 songs for the album "Fly" for Holly Johnson, Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Paul Young, and Tony Hadley.
Discography
Single composer
Bye Bye Boy – Jennifer EllisonGirl's Mind – PlayI Must Not Chase the Boys – Play Tide Is High – Atomic KittenWhole Again – Atomic KittenThat's My Goal – Shayne Ward- "What's Your Name" – Morcheeba
Other compositions
- Best in Me – Blue
- If It Takes All Night – Blue
- Love R.I.P. – Blue
- Body to Body – Britannia High
- Confessions – Britannia High
- Number 1 – Cherie
- Absolutely – Gareth Gates
- Whole Again – Play
- Miracle in Me – Rik Waller
- Joy and Pain – Ronan Keating
- Where Does It End Now? – Samantha Mumba
- Body to Body – XYP
- Confessions – XYP
Producer
- Blue – All Rise
- Ronan Keating – Destination
- Atomic Kitten – Feels So Good
- Holly Valance – Footprints
- Lulu – Together
- Play – Don't Stop the Music
- Gareth Gates – Go Your Own Way
- Cherie – No. 1, Pt. 2
- Jennifer Ellison – Bye Bye Boy
- Frost* – Experiments in Mass Appeal
- Frost* – The Philadelphia Experiment
- Losers – And So We Shall Never Part