Timothy John Lever (known as "Tim Lever") is an English musician born on May 21, 1961 in the city of Liverpool, England. He was part of Dead or Alive as a keyboardist, saxophonist and partly a guitarist.
Dead or Alive career:[]
Tim became part of Dead or Alive from 1983, just during the time when the recordings of some demos for the first studio album (Sophisticated Boom Boom) began. During the first album he was in charge of the synthesizers and the saxophone.
In 1988, unfortunately, he retired along with Mike Percy (who was also part of the band as a bass player). In the words of Pete Burns that he declared in some interviews, it was something that greatly displeased him.
For the information booklet about the band in the Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI, Burns stated the following:
"During the first couple of months of writing and recording, Mike and Tim seemed to be acting a little distant and insular, and after a bit of investigation, we discovered that they were building their own professional recording studio where they lived. When we asked why, they said they wanted to move into concentrating on record production work on their own, didn't want to be in a band and touring and away from their families all of the time and say they were leaving the band at the end of the "NUDE" album recording!
Well, excuse me boys, but i don't tolerate disloyality and people making plans behind my back. I discussed it with Steve, and he and i decided that we didn't want them working half-heartedly on an album that we knew had to be the very best we could make, so we fired them on the spot, and told them to go concentrate on giving 100% to their new carreer as producers. It was a tough decision to make, but they made the decision for us."
After Dead or Alive:[]
After retiring with Mike Percy from Dead or Alive, they formed their own studio, and became music producers, while also creating One World Productions, which remained active throughout the 1990s.
After that he stated a business of Handcrafted Guitars.