Accord

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Richard James Burgess

Richard James Burgess (born 29 June 1949) is an English-born New Zealand studio drummer, music-computer programmer, recording artist, record producer, composer, author, manager, marketer and inventor.

Burgess's music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and co-lead singer of the Synthpop band Landscape, which released a top 10 hit in 1981 with the single "Einstein A Go-Go". Burgess is one of the main composers of Landscape's music, and made major lyrical contributions to the band's songs. After the band's break-up, he pursued a brief, moderately successful solo career releasing one mini-album, Richard James Burgess in 1984.

He launched his career as a producer with Spandau Ballet's debut UK hit "To Cut a Long Story Short", which marked the commercial beginnings of the New Romantic movement.

Early years

Richard Burgess was born in London, England, and his family emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand in 1959. He showed an early interest in music, especially drums, and bought his first drum set at the age of 14. As a drummer, he gained experience in local bands including Fred Henry, Orange, Easy Street, The Lordships and Barry Saunders. Burgess also showed an early interest in recording production, buying a portable Tandberg tape recorder when he was sixteen to make amateur recordings.

Accord Coalition

The Accord Coalition is a British campaign coalition, launched in 2008, which brings together a wide range of member organisations, both religious and non-religious, who wish to ensure that matters of religion and philosophical conviction in education do not cause problems, such as for society, by undermining community cohesion and the growth of mutual understanding; for children and young people by denying them a broad and balanced education preparing them for adult life in an increasingly diverse society, or for pupils, staff and families more generally, by not properly respecting their rights and autonomy.

Accord maintains a databank of information, which brings together and summarises research about the current policy implications of state funded faith schools and their practices. It also runs an annual award to celebrate those schools that do most to promote mutual understanding and improve community cohesion.

Accord is particularly concerned at the current ability of most state funded faith schools to discriminate against staff, job applicants and children on the grounds of religion, to only provide pupils with instructional Religious Education (RE), and by the wider effects of these freedoms.