Biography
David Freeman, whose compositions have reached listeners through performances by Annie Lennox, Tom Jones, and Alison Moyet, has maintained a modest yet intensely loyal audience since his mid-1980s stint fronting the new wave duo the Lover Speaks. During the late 1970s he served as guitarist in the punk band the Flys, which issued two full-length albums before disbanding in 1980. Freeman then launched a solo attempt, cutting the single “Stop in the Name of Love.” In 1985 he reunited with former Flys bassist Joseph Hughes to form the Lover Speaks; a demo tape found its way to Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics and then to Jimmy Iovine, who helmed the group’s 1986 A&M Records debut, The Lover Speaks. Although the single “No More ‘I Love You’s” achieved minor U.K. success, the label consigned the second album, The Big Lie, to its vaults, and the project dissolved by 1988. Freeman resumed solo activity in the 1990s, bypassing major-label contracts in favor of independent outlets that granted him the creative latitude withheld during the previous decade, despite the releases attracting little critical or commercial notice.
Albums
Singles
