Richard Sohl

Biography

Richard Arthur Sohl (May 26, 1953 – June 3, 1990) was an American pianist, songwriter and arranger, best known for his work with the Patti Smith Group. He also played with Iggy Pop, Nina Hagen and Elliott Murphy. He died on June 3, 1990, of a heart attack while on vacation in Cherry Grove, New York. Sohl was nicknamed DNV by Lenny Kaye, who thought that he resembled Tadzio, the beautiful Polish boy from Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice, played by Björn Andresen. DNV is an abbreviation of the movie title.

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Horses

  1975

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  Easter

  1978

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  Wave

  1979

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  Radio Ethiopia

  1976

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  Dream Of Life

  1988

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  New Wave

  1977

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  Big Music

  2014

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  Strange Language

  1986

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  Teenage Perversity & Ships In The Night

  1976

Credited work

833 releases · 47 albums · active 1974–2026

• Performance · 1,601
• Other credits · 87

Studios: Electric Lady Studios · Record Plant, N.Y.C. · House Of Music, West Orange, NJ · The Hit Factory

Frequent collaborators

• Patti Smith
• Patti Smith Group
• Various
• Morrissey
• Elliott Murphy
• Simple Minds
• Bromide
• X-Press 2

Around the web

• Wikipedia