Gary Baker, known professionally as Gary Go, is a British songwriter, producer, composer and media artist. He has written and produced songs performed by artists including Rihanna, Robbie Williams, Steve Angello, Benny Benassi, Skrillex, Gryffin, Take That, Celeste, Majid Jordan, Aloe Blacc, Sara Bareilles, Chiiild, Milky Chance, The Knocks, Ruby Rose, Borgore, The 2 Bears, Party Pupils, Kylie, Ronan Keating, Morgxn, Simply Red, Katharine McPhee, Joseph Arthur, Thomas Azier, Carina Round, Laleh, Anthony Ramos, The Kolors and Juliette Lewis.

Overview

His debut artist album Of Youth/Of Beauty spawned the international hit single "Wonderful". Upon the album's release, Lady Gaga referred to Gary Go as "my favourite new artist this year" after performing a rendition of "Just Dance", inspired by his cover of the song.^[1] Gaga then invited Go to join her on her European tour.^[2] Tours with MIKA and Snow Patrol followed.

Gary Go went on to collaborate with electro DJ/producer Benny Benassi, writing and performing three consecutive #1 club records ("Close to Me", "Control" and "Cinema"). "Cinema", rose rapidly to No. 1 on the US Billboard and UK Club charts and received a Grammy Award for the remix by electronic music producer Skrillex. "Cinema" is widely recognised as a seminal dance record, included in Billboard's "Best Dance Songs of the Decade" ^[3] and "Top EDM Love Songs of All Time"^[4] retrospectives. Artist and producer Kanye West referred to it as "one of the greatest works of art ever made".^[5]

As a solo artist, Go went on to release Now Was Once the Future (2012),^[6] a videotape and original soundtrack, and Love Lost Freedom Found (2020), a live museum exhibit and accompanying soundtrack album,^[7] inspired by the Museum of Broken Relationships. Earmilk referred to the album as a "visceral narrative that explores the cavernous depths of human relationships."^[8]

Gary Go composed the original score for two feature films by German filmmaker Simon Verhoeven; the hit cultural comedy Wilkommen bei den Hartmanns^[9] and the cyber-horror Friend Request (included in Metal Hammer's "Ten Horror Soundtracks to Scare Your Pants Off!" feature).^[10]

Innovation

Gary Go has gained publicity and media attention for his use of technology and social media tools. He was the first artist to use Twitter as a tool for collaborative songwriting ^[11] and an early adopter of integrating the iPhone into studio and live applications.^[12]

Works

Artist discography

• 2020 || "Love Lost Freedom Found" (album/exhibit)
• 2018 || "Cinema - Acoustic" (single)
• 2015 || "Crying Sound" (audiovisual)
• 2014 || "Through the Walls" (audiovisual)
• 2012 || "Now Was Once the Future" (audiovisual EP)
• 2009 || "Of Youth/Of Beauty" (album)
• 2009 || "Wonderful" (single)
• 2005 || "The Diary of Rodney Harvey" (EP)
• 2005 || "So So..." (EP)

Songwriter discography

(π Also producer) (∆ Also featured vocalist)

• 2023 || "My Revival" - MORGXN
• 2023 || "The Veldt Cinema" ∆ - deadmau5, Benny Benassi
• 2023 || "Invisible" - Thomas Azier
• 2022 || "It Is What It Is" - Milky Chance
• 2022 || "London Bridge" - Dave Rowntree
• 2022 || "Good Tonight" - Anthony Ramos (OST "The Bad Guys" | Dreamworks)^[13]
• 2022 || "Come With Me" - Yola (Opening titles - "Green Eggs & Ham" Season 2 | Netflix)^[14]
• 2022 || "Ain't Me Without You" - WEISS
• 2021 || "Hold On Til We Get There" - Chiiild
• 2021 || "Tape Over It" - Nathan Ball
• 2021 || "Believe" π - Aloe Blacc - (End titles - "The Rescue" | National Geographic)
• 2021 || "Japanese Trees" π - Koates
• 2021 || "Waves of Blue",^[15] "Forget About The Party", "Life Worth Living" - Majid Jordan
• 2021 || "Cinema" ∆ - Galantis^[16]
• 2020 || "Little Runaway" ^[17] - Celeste
• 2020 || "Wonder" - MORGXN, Sara Bareilles, Jagwar Twin
• 2020 || "West Coast Tears" ∆ - Party Pupils
• 2020 || "Get Older", "Bittersweet", "Lose Touch", "The Moment", "Ghosts" - remme
• 2020 || "Cry ft. John Martin" - Gryffin
• 2020 || "Map Of Your Loneliness" - Thomas Azier
• 2017 || "The Last Spark" - Jamie Lawson
• 2016 || "Love My Life" π - Robbie Williams
• 2015 || "Towards The Sun" π - Rihanna (OST "Home" | Dreamworks)
• 2015 || "Prisoner" ∆ - Steve Angello
• 2015 || "Your Body ft. Giorgio Moroder" - Kylie
• 2015 || "School Daze" - Borgore
• 2014 || "Boom" - Laleh
• 2014 || "Let In The Sun", "Into The Wild" - Take That
• 2014 || "Not This Time" - The 2 Bears
• 2014 || "Let This Last Forever" ∆ - Benny Benassi
• 2014 || "Open Heart" ∆ - (OST Just Before I Go)
• 2013 || "Adrenaline" ∆ - Sam LaMore
• 2012 || "Marcel Marcel (The Arrangement)" - Carina Round
• 2012 || "Guilty Pleasure" ∆ - Ruby Rose
• 2012 || "Wasted Light" - Ronan Keating
• 2012 || "The Song I Sang Before I Met You - Sylvie Lewis (OST "Echo Park")
• 2011 || "Cinema", "Close To Me", "Control" ∆ - Benny Benassi
• 2011 || "Magic" ∆, "The Prize" π, "R.O.Y.L" - The Knocks
• 2010 || "It's Not Right" - Katharine McPhee
• 2009 || "Backseat" - Carina Round
• 2007 || "Sing" ∆ - (OST Freefonix | BBC)
• 2007 || "Come To You" - Carina Round

Composer

• 2020 || U R OK || Digital Media Series || Composer
• 2016 || Wilkommen bei den Hartmanns || Feature || Composer
• 2016 || Friend Request || Feature || Composer
• 2011 || Männerherzen 2 || Feature || Additional Score
• 2007 || Reflections Of A Skyline || Short || Composer

Print

• 2011 || My First Twook || Illustrated book of Gary Go's tweets (illustrations by Flo Chaplin) || Author

References

External linksedit

• Gary Go - Spotify Profile
• Gary Go - Apple Music Profile
• Gary Go - Official Youtube Channel
• Gary Go - IMDb Profile