Climie was born in London. He formed Climie Fisher together with Rob Fisher, whom he had met when they were both session musicians at Abbey Road Studios. Climie Fisher had hits in many territories, with the singles "Love Changes ", which won an Ivor Novello Award, "Rise to the Occasion", "This Is Me" and more. After leaving EMI and the final Climie Fisher album Coming in for the Kill, Climie signed to Sony's Columbialabel as a solo artist, releasing an album called Soul Inspiration in 1992. From the mid-90s Climie expanded to production, producing and writing songs for a number of artists, including Eternal, Louise Redknapp, B.B. King, Michael McDonald and Zucchero Fornaciari. In Climie's first couple of years as a songwriter, he had songs recorded by George Michael, Aretha Franklin, Pat Benatar, Frida, Smokey Robinson and Jeff Beck. Then, on the fringes of session work, he did the Fairlight programming for Scritti Politti's legendary album Cupid & Psyche. Climie collaborated with Eric Clapton on his albums Pilgrim, Reptile, Riding with the King, Me And Mr Johnson, Back Home and The Road to Escondido. During this time he produced albums for other artists, including Michael McDonald's Motown, Motown II and Soul Speak. The latter featured collaborations with Stevie Wonder and Toni Braxton, while the Grammy-nominated Motown spawned the US hit "Ain't No Mountain High Enough". In 2011 success continued with Climie's songs. Sara Evans was in the American country music charts for more than six months with "My Heart Can't Tell You No", and Chris Medina – who had already reached number one in a number of territories round the world with his first single – collaborated with Climie on his second single, "One More Time", and several songs on the album What Are Words. Together with U2 member Larry Mullen, Jr., Climie has co-written the movie score and theme for Man on the Train in which Larry stars with Donald Sutherland. In 2013, he worked on production and mixing of Eric Clapton's album Old Sock, which shot to number one in the American Billboard Independent Chart in March 2013 after hitting number seven in the Billboard 200 In 2014 Climie was co-producer again with Eric Clapton of the album, a tribute to Clapton's long time friend, the late singer/songwriter J.J. Cale. In 2016, Climie was the co-producer with Clapton on the album Live in San Diego which was recorded during the "Doyle & Derek World Tour" in 2007.
Personal life
Climie is the son of David Climie, co-writer of the 1960s and 1970s television comedy series, Oh, Brother!, which starred Derek Nimmo. as well as Lulu's Back in Town, the comedy series Bootsie and Snudge, Backs to the Land, Wodehouse Playhouse, That Was The Week That Was, The Army Game, the sci-fi series Out of the Unknown, the radio version of Whack-O! and the comedy filmDesert Mice.
Discography
Includes songs and albums Climie has written, performed and/or produced.
Michael McDonald – "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
Eternal – "Someday"
Zucchero Fornaciari "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime"
"Soul Inspiration"
"Does Your Heart Still Break"
"Oh How the Years Go By"
Rod Stewart, Sara Evans - "My Heart Can't Tell You No"
Chris Medina – "One More Time"
T.D.F.
T.D.F. was a dance act project featuring Climie and Eric Clapton, with Clapton working under the name of x-sample. "TDF" is an acronym for Totally Dysfunctional Family. The project released one album called Retail Therapy on the Reprise record label. The title supposedly alludes to Clapton's "addiction" to buying clothes. Eric Clapton states in his autobiography that he persuaded Giorgio Armani, a friend of Clapton's, to let them do the music for one of his fashion shows. The track "Seven" from the album contains a sample of B. B. King's "How Blue Can You Get".
