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Nick Coler, Born 10th of April 1952, London is an English musician, producer, composer and songwriter. He has been nominated for and won awards for songwriting and music production and has written, produced and played on hit songs for diverse acts ranging from Goldie, KLF and Alice Cooper through to Girls Aloud, Sugababes and Gabriella Cilmi

Early Life
Nick was educated at St Josephs Roman Catholic nunnery, Redhill, Surrey. (Where he was thrown out.), Alexander road, infants, Woodhatch, Surrey, St johns, Primary, Woodhatch, Surrey. (He was removed), St Mary's preparatory and choir school,Reigate, Surrey. (He was removed), Balcombe road Horley, Surrey. (He was thrown out), Reigate art school, Reigate, Surrey. (He was thrown out)

1970s
His first music related job was working as a session player for Bronze Records in 1978 after being scouted by producer Martin Smith while recording the band he was in “Why Worry” During this time he worked with and appeared live with such bands as Goldie and The Small Lads amongst others In 1979 Nick was signed to Warner Bros. Music with the band The Tigers

1980s
Then was signed to A & M Records in the USA, during this time he worked with bands such as The dynamites, Tokyo Blade, Ya Ya, Angel Witch and the Cutting Crew, The JAMS, Zodiac Mindwarp, Alice Cooper, The Timelords, The KLF

1990s
Nick rented a studio with Hans Zimmer and was an integral creative part of the cult band The KLF. In the book “The Manual” Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond write - “Our programmer, Nick Coler, is a genius. He can play on the piano every piece of music ever written, his left hand a blur of fumbled bass notes, while his spectacles slide down his perspiring nose. His cathedral choir boy sense of fun has never left him and he sports a line of strange hand knitted jumpers. Is continually trying out new haircuts. Drives second hand Audi’s. He plays keyboards with The Rubettes.”

During this time Nick also worked with Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Jesus Jones, Pete Wylie, Shampoo, Cher, The Montrose Avenue, The Young Offenders, The Rubettes, Indecent Obsession and Chicane

2000s
From its inception Nick was a core member of the Xenomania production house along with Tim Powell, Brian Higgins and Miranda Cooper writing, playing and producing on numerous top ten hits for acts such as the Sugababes, Girls Aloud, Gabriella Cilmi, Franz Ferdinand, The Pet Shop Boys, Alesha Dixon, Texas, Kylie Minogue, Enrique Iglesias

He left Xenomania in 2010 and is now signed to BMG Berlin working on new acts with his own independent production company Mr Magus including acts such as CTA, Felony Disco and Randomizer.

During his career Nick has also worked on various soundtracks including Waynes World & Revenge of the nerds and contributed music for numerous television shows from The Tweenies through to Totally Spies.

Nick has also written a track for Starlight Express with Alistair Lloyd Webber, he has been nominated for 3 Ivor Novello Awards and has won the Music Week’s Producer of the year award in 2009