Biography
English musician Martin Page first reached U.S. dance audiences as the lead singer of the techno-pop band Q-Feel, whose 1982 single “Dancing in Heaven” became a club hit before he established an international profile as a songwriter. After co-writing chart-topping singles for Starship and Heart, he returned to the U.S. Top 20 himself as a solo artist in the mid-1990s.
Born in Southampton, Page spent his childhood on military bases following his father’s postings. Away from school he balanced soccer with music, attending live performances and teaching himself bass guitar. Session work preceded the formation of Q-Feel with co-songwriter and guitarist Brian Fairweather, keyboardist Chris Richardson, and drummer Trevor Thornton. Their only album, Q-Feel, appeared on Jive in 1982 and carried “Dancing in Heaven” to number 18 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. The track resurfaced repeatedly, surfacing on the soundtrack to the 1985 film Girls Just Want to Have Fun and re-entering the Hot 100 at number 75 after its 1989 reissue.
Page had by then relocated to Los Angeles, where he built a songwriting career in collaboration with lyricist Bernie Taupin and veteran writers Dennis Lambert and Peter Wolf, resulting in Starship’s 1985 number-one hit “We Built This City.” He and Taupin repeated that achievement the next year with Heart’s “These Dreams.” Working with Go West’s Peter Cox and Richard Drummie, he co-wrote “King of Wishful Thinking,” a Top Ten single for the group in 1990 that was featured in the film Pretty Woman. Kim Carnes, Paul Young, and Earth, Wind & Fire also recorded his material.
His solo debut, In the House of Stone & Light, arrived on Mercury in 1994. Former Q-Feel colleagues Fairweather and Thornton contributed, and Phil Collins played drums. Two singles reached the Hot 100, among them “Keeper of the Flame” and the title track, which peaked at number 14.
Page continued supplying songs to other artists, including multiple albums by Danish singer Hanne Boel. Josh Groban recorded “Mi Morena” for the 2004 concert album Live at the Greek, and Page later included his own version on the independently released 2008 set In the Temple of the Muse. Temper of Peace followed in 2012, the same year he wrote the title song for the Osmonds’ I Can’t Get There Without You. He issued Hotel of the Two Worlds in 2015, then released the hybrid compilation-and-concept album The Slender Sadness (The Love Songs) in 2017.
Born in Southampton, Page spent his childhood on military bases following his father’s postings. Away from school he balanced soccer with music, attending live performances and teaching himself bass guitar. Session work preceded the formation of Q-Feel with co-songwriter and guitarist Brian Fairweather, keyboardist Chris Richardson, and drummer Trevor Thornton. Their only album, Q-Feel, appeared on Jive in 1982 and carried “Dancing in Heaven” to number 18 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. The track resurfaced repeatedly, surfacing on the soundtrack to the 1985 film Girls Just Want to Have Fun and re-entering the Hot 100 at number 75 after its 1989 reissue.
Page had by then relocated to Los Angeles, where he built a songwriting career in collaboration with lyricist Bernie Taupin and veteran writers Dennis Lambert and Peter Wolf, resulting in Starship’s 1985 number-one hit “We Built This City.” He and Taupin repeated that achievement the next year with Heart’s “These Dreams.” Working with Go West’s Peter Cox and Richard Drummie, he co-wrote “King of Wishful Thinking,” a Top Ten single for the group in 1990 that was featured in the film Pretty Woman. Kim Carnes, Paul Young, and Earth, Wind & Fire also recorded his material.
His solo debut, In the House of Stone & Light, arrived on Mercury in 1994. Former Q-Feel colleagues Fairweather and Thornton contributed, and Phil Collins played drums. Two singles reached the Hot 100, among them “Keeper of the Flame” and the title track, which peaked at number 14.
Page continued supplying songs to other artists, including multiple albums by Danish singer Hanne Boel. Josh Groban recorded “Mi Morena” for the 2004 concert album Live at the Greek, and Page later included his own version on the independently released 2008 set In the Temple of the Muse. Temper of Peace followed in 2012, the same year he wrote the title song for the Osmonds’ I Can’t Get There Without You. He issued Hotel of the Two Worlds in 2015, then released the hybrid compilation-and-concept album The Slender Sadness (The Love Songs) in 2017.
Albums
The First And Last Freedom
2025
The Poetry of Collisions, Vol. 2
2022
The Occupation of Hope
2021
Fugitive Pieces
2021
The Poetry of Collisions, Vol. 1
2020
The Amber of Memory
2018
The Slender Sadness (The Love Songs)
2017
Hotel of the Two Worlds
2015
A Temper of Peace
2012
In the Temple of the Muse
2008
In The House Of Stone And Light
1994