He was a keyboard player, songwriter, studio expert and session musician who became the first keyboard player for the successful British group Wham! and at one time collapsed in Hong Kong from exhaustion after 7 months of touring with them.
Having appeared with them on a live television show, he became part of the group Matt Bianco in 1985 after Basia and Danny White had left together to pursue her solo career. He is responsible for their move from their early music to a more contemporary sound but after having hired Emilio Estefan to produce their new material, and the release of the album Indigo, Mark Reilly and Mark Fisher left their record company and went freelance.
After 20 years recording together they decided to go their separate ways but remained friends. The original members of the group got back together and Matt Bianco started re-recording and touring once again.
He has also formed his own successful property selling website www.first4sale.com.
Mark passed away in December 2016 when he was 57 years old.
Matt Bianco Recordings
Good Times (New Version) (Mark Reilly/Mark Fisher)
Tumbao (Edited Version) (Mark Reilly/Mark Fisher)
Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fisher_(musician)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bianco
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/265222-Mark-Fisher
- http://dirkpilat.dyndns.org:8888/mattbianco/?page_id=2
- http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/21635/spending-a-small-fortune.thtml
- http://george.michael.szm.sk/Esection/E1985sh.html