He was born on 7 July 1951 in South Africa. Chaplin is 69 years old as of 2020.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Blondie Chaplin Career<\/h2>\n

Both Chaplin and Ricky Fataar were members of Durban-based rock band The Flames, which they joined at ages 13 and 9, respectively. Their 1968 album Soulfire produced a hit in South Africa: the band\u2019s cover of \u201cFor Your Precious Love\u201d was #1 on white radio for thirteen weeks.<\/p>\n

Beach Boy\u00a0Carl Wilson\u00a0heard The Flames while the band was performing in London. Wilson signed them to the Beach Boys\u2019\u00a0Brother Records\u00a0label and produced their self-titled album,\u00a0The Flame\u00a0(changed from Flames, to avoid confusion with\u00a0the group\u00a0that played with\u00a0James Brown), which featured soulful rock\/pop songs in the vein of The Beach Boys and\u00a0Badfinger. The Flames were the only band aside from The Beach Boys to record for Brother Records.<\/p>\n

Chaplin, along with drummer\u00a0Ricky Fataar, joined the Beach Boys when original drummer\u00a0Dennis Wilson\u00a0suffered a hand injury that left him unable to play the drums for almost two years. For the Beach Boys, it was a period in which long-time member\u00a0Bruce Johnston\u00a0had departed the band, and one-time leader\u00a0Brian Wilson\u2019s participation in the group was very limited. As a result, Chaplin and Fataar joined the Beach Boys as full-fledged members and not merely as backing musicians. Chaplin left the group in 1973 after a dispute with the Beach Boys\u2019 management; Fataar remained with the band until the following year.<\/p>\n

Chaplin sang lead on various Beach Boys songs from two studio albums, Carl and the Passions \u2013 \u201cSo Tough\u201d and Holland, and plays on the live album The Beach Boys in Concert. \u201cSail On, Sailor\u201d from the album Holland, on which he is the lead singer, is his \u201csignature song\u201d.<\/p>\n

Following his time with the Beach Boys, Chaplin recorded a self-titled album, released on Asylum Records in 1977. He also performed on Rick Danko\u2019s self-titled d\u00e9but album, which also featured each of Rick\u2019s former bandmates from The Band in addition to Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, Doug Sahm, and Danko\u2019s brother, Terry. Chaplin went on to tour with the David Johansen group and participated in producing Johansen\u2019s third solo album Here Comes the Night, on which Chaplin played guitar and sang backing vocals and co-authored seven tracks. During the late 1980s Chaplin toured with The Band, replacing some of Richard Manuel\u2019s vocals and playing guitar and, occasionally, drums. In the 1980s, Chaplin also toured with a band featuring Rick Danko and Paul Butterfield, and was guitarist and vocalist, as well as contributing a tune as songwriter, on Butterfield\u2019s last studio album, The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again, released in 1986. Chaplin was also a featured player in former Byrds members Gene Clark and Michael Clarke\u2019s then new band, The 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Byrds, also known as the Tribute to the Byrds. Chaplin appeared on the Jennifer Warnes albums Shot Through the Heart, The Hunter, and The Well.<\/p>\n

Chaplin also played on\u00a0High on the Hog, the ninth studio album by The Band, released in 1996, to which he also contributed his composition, \u201cWhere I Should Always Be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chaplin toured with former Rolling Stones guitarist\u00a0Mick Taylor\u00a0and performed on his live album,\u00a0Stranger in This Town. Starting in 1997, with the recording and release of the\u00a0Bridges to Babylon\u00a0album and subsequent tour, and, for some 15 years following, Chaplin served as a backing vocalist, percussionist, and, at times, backing guitar player for The Rolling Stones, in the recording studio and on the road.<\/p>\n

The Bridges to Babylon album lists Chaplin\u2019s credits as backing vocals, tambourine, piano, bass guitar, percussion, shakers, and maracas.<\/p>\n

Chaplin is the vocalist, songwriter, and lead guitar player with Skollie, a band formed with fellow South Africans Keith Lentin on bass and Anton Fig (of the CBS Orchestra) on drums. Chaplin has recorded three solo albums, most recently Between Us in 2006.<\/p>\n

In late 2013, Chaplin was featured at select shows of former Beach Boys bandmate Brian Wilson and guitarist\u00a0Jeff Beck. Chaplin also appears on Wilson\u2019s 2015 album\u00a0No Pier Pressure, on which he is the featured vocalist on the song, \u201cSail Away\u201d, and he then went on tour as a featured performer, along with\u00a0Al Jardine, for Brian Wilson\u2019s 2015 tour, with\u00a0Rodriguez\u00a0as the opening act.[3]\u00a0He also joined Wilson\u2019s\u00a0Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour\u00a0in 2016, performing alongside the touring band and has continued to tour with Wilson through 2019.<\/p>\n

On September 29, 2017, Big Noise\u2019s\u00a0Al Gomes\u00a0and Connie Watrous presented a plaque from\u00a0Roger Williams University\u00a0to Chaplin at The Zeiterion Theatre in New Bedford, MA. Chaplin\u2019s response to the sold-out audience at the \u2018Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds\u2019 show\u00a0: \u201cI played a lot in these parts in 1971, and it\u2019s nice to be remembered this way.\u201d The plaque commemorates The Beach Boys\u2019 September 22, 1971 concert at The Ramada Inn in Portsmouth, RI, now RWU\u2019s Baypoint Inn & Conference Center. The concert was a very significant historic event in The Beach Boys\u2019 career \u2013 it was the very first time Chaplin\u2019s fellow member of The Flame\u2019s Ricky Fataar played on-stage as a new member of The Beach Boys, which led to Chaplin joining the band, and essentially changed The Beach Boys\u2019 live and recording act\u2019s line-up into a multi-cultural group. This shifted the band into an essential and important creative period from 1971\u20131974 that included the recording of their stellar\u00a0Holland\u00a0LP, which Rolling Stone magazine named \u2018Album of the Year.\u2019<\/p>\n

<\/span>Blondie Chaplin Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Year<\/th>\n	Album details<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1977<\/td>\n	Blondie Chaplin<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n \n Released: 1977<\/li>\n Label:\u00a0Asylum Records<\/li>\n Tracks: Bye Bye Babe; Can You Hear Me; Crazy Love; Woman Don\u2019t Cry; Loose Lady; Be My Love; Lonely Traveller; Riverboat Queen; Say You Need Me; For Your Love; Gimme More Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll<\/small><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\n	Between Us<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n \n Released: 2006<\/li>\n Label: Big Karma Records<\/li>\n Tracks: Between Us; Heal The Rage; Hurricane; So Hard; Mother Smother; Children Of War; Love Power; Heads On Fire; Love You Till I Die; Crawl<\/small><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Other albums and videos from the Blondie Chaplin catalog:<\/p>\n \n The Flames \u2013\u00a0That\u2019s Enough<\/i>, 1967<\/li>\n The Flames \u2013\u00a0Burning Soul!<\/i>, 1967<\/li>\n The Flames \u2013\u00a0Soulfire!!<\/i>, 1968<\/li>\n The Flames \u2013\u00a0The Flame<\/i>,\u00a0Brother Records, 1970<\/li>\n The Beach Boys \u2013\u00a0Carl and the Passions \u2013 \u201cSo Tough\u201d<\/i>, 1972<\/li>\n The Beach Boys \u2013\u00a0Holland<\/i>, 1973<\/li>\n The Beach Boys \u2013\u00a0The Beach Boys in Concert<\/i>, 1973<\/li>\n David Johansen\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Here Comes The Night<\/i>, Blue Sky Records, 1981<\/li>\n Paul Butterfield\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again<\/i>, Amherst Records, 1986<\/li>\n Anton Fig\u00a0\u2013 \u201cIn The Groove\u201d, DVD, 1994<\/li>\n Blondie Chaplin \u2013\u00a0Fragile Thread<\/i>, unreleased (but in circulation), 2001<\/li>\n Rick Danko\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cryin\u2019 Heart Blues<\/i>, 2005<\/li>\n Anton Fig\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Figments<\/i>, 2002 (with Brian Wilson singing backup vocals on \u201cHand on My Shoulder\u201d, one of several songs on the album composed by Chaplin with Fig)<\/li>\n Lou Pallo of Les Paul\u2019s Trio \u2013\u00a0Thank You Les \/ Tribute to Les Paul<\/i>, CD & DVD 2012<\/li>\n Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa \u2013\u00a0Seesaw<\/i>, 2013<\/li>\n Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa \u2013\u00a0Live in Amsterdam<\/i>, CD & DVD, 2014<\/li>\n Brian Wilson \u2013\u00a0No Pier Pressure<\/i>, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Additional performances are on the following recordings:<\/p>\n \n Bonnie Raitt \u2013\u00a0Nine Lives<\/i><\/li>\n Ray Ohara \u2013\u00a0Picaresque<\/i>, (released 1988 in Japan and on which Blondie was principal songwriter, guitarist, and lead vocalist on all songs)<\/li>\n a Keith Richards-produced project,\u00a0Wingless Angels\u00a0(featuring singers from Jamaica)<\/li>\n Charlie Watts\/Jim Keltner Project<\/i><\/li>\n Two Faced<\/i>\u00a0by Freida Parton (Dolly Parton\u2019s sister)<\/li>\n Ren\u00e9e Geyer\u00a0\u2013\u00a0So Lucky<\/i>\u00a0and her\u00a0self-titled album<\/li>\n Elliott Murphy\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Change Will Come<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Paris\/New York<\/i><\/li>\n Paul Shaffer \u2013\u00a0The World\u2019s Most Dangerous Party<\/i><\/li>\n The Parlor Dogs \u2013\u00a0Social Harem<\/i><\/li>\n Sir Mack Rice\u00a0\u2013\u00a0This What I Do<\/i><\/li>\n Chris Whitley\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rocket House<\/i><\/li>\n Marsha Hansen\u2019s\u00a0My Soul Is a Witness<\/i>\u00a0(a CD accompanying a book with that title)<\/li>\n Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute<\/i>\u00a0album<\/li>\n Hubert Sumlin\u00a0\u2013\u00a0About Them Shoes<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/span>Blondie Chaplin Net Worth<\/h2>\n