Success As Songwriter and Performer
Born in Glasgow, John Higgins grew up in the East Ayrshire town of Stewarton and subsequently immigrated to the Tamborine Mountain region in the southeastern part of Australian state of Queensland. Using the performing name John Harley Weston, he has been a professional musician since 1990, and the 2005 success of "Last Days Of Summer", co-written with drummer/guitarist Tony Beard (who has worked with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jeff Beck, Hall & Oates and Johnny Winter), extended to its placement in the top 20 at the Unisong International Songwriting Contest 2005–2006 and receiving an Honourable Mention from the 13th annual Billboard World Songwriting Contest. In the same year, at singeruniverse.com, Weston was voted one of the top 5 best vocalists in the Independent Music World by music publisher Dale Kawashima, former executive at Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Irving Azoff's Giant Records and Mercury Records.
Another song (on the same album), "Brothers and Sisters", produced by Sandy Jones at Foundry Music Lab in Motherwell, Scotland, and Graeme Duffin (Wet Wet Wet guitarist). about the conflict between Israel and Palestine held the number one spot on Isonlive Radio (ILR Australian Indie Radio Charts) for an entire six months in 2007.
In 2008, Weston released the album Welcome Back to Reality. Two songs were chosen by Channel 7 Television Australia for their Beijing Olympic Games playlist.
Readers of the Gold Coast Bulletin (a newspaper servicing Gold Coast, Queensland) nominated John Harley Weston for a Gold Coast Honours Award in Entertainment (2008) for his services to music and support of charities such as Cancer Council Queensland.
In 1999, Weston wrote the song "Road To Victory" for the Brisbane Lions Aussie Rules football team (released via Festival Records Fido label now Mushroom Records).
Weston's music has been added to the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive a joint venture by Music Australia to create a database of all written and musical works released in Australia.
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