Editing Andy Partridge (section)

{{Short description|English musician (born 1953)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Andy Partridge
| image             = Andy Partridge.jpg
| caption           = Partridge in Toronto's Music Hall, February 1980
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| landscape         = yes
| birth_name        = Andrew John Partridge
| alias             = Sir John Johns, Sandy Sandwich
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1953|11|11}}
| birth_place       = [[Mtarfa]], [[Crown Colony of Malta|Malta]]
| origin            = [[Swindon]], [[Wiltshire]], England
| instrument        = Vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica
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| occupation        = {{hlist|Musician|songwriter|record producer}}
| years_active      = 1969–present
| label             = [[Virgin Records|Virgin]], [[Sony Music|CBS]], [[Geffen Records|Geffen]], [[Cooking Vinyl]], [[Idea Records|Idea]], Ape House
| associated_acts   = [[XTC]], [[the Dukes of Stratosphear]], Monstrance, [[Peter Blegvad]], [[Robyn Hitchcock]]
| website           = {{URL|ape.uk.net}}
}}
'''Andrew John Partridge''' (born 11 November 1953) is an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer best known for co-founding the band [[XTC]]. He and [[Colin Moulding]] each acted as a songwriter and frontman for XTC, with Partridge writing and singing about two-thirds of the group's material. While XTC were a formative British [[New wave music|new wave]] group, Partridge's songwriting drew heavily from 1960s pop and [[Psychedelic music|psychedelia]] and his style gradually shifted to more traditional pop, often with [[pastoral]] themes. The band's only UK top 10 hit, "[[Senses Working Overtime]]", was written by Partridge.

Partridge is sometimes regarded as the "godfather" of the 1990s [[Britpop]] movement.<ref name="Morrish1999">{{cite news |last1=Morrish |first1=John |date=20 February 1999 |title=Arts: The agony and the XTC |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-the-agony-and-the-xtc-1071947.html |url-access= |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-the-agony-and-the-xtc-1071947.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |work=The Independent}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Since the 1980s, he has worked, written with or produced for many other recording artists, including collaborative albums with [[Peter Blegvad]], [[Harold Budd]] and [[Robyn Hitchcock]]. From 2002 to 2006, Partridge's APE House record label released several volumes of his [[demo (music)|demo]]s and songs as part of the ''[[The Official Fuzzy Warbles Collector's Album|Fuzzy Warbles]]'' series. Beyond music, he is also an illustrator, [[toy soldier]] hobbyist and designer of [[board game]]s.