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- Dwight Twilley was born on June 6, 1951 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for You're Next (2011), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) and Wayne's World (1992). He was married to Jan. He died on October 18, 2023 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
- SpouseJan(? - October 18, 2023) (his death)
- In 1977, the Dwight Twilley Band performed on the short-lived CBS Saturday morning kids show Wacko!.
- In 2009, a tape of the Dwight Twilley Band's October 1976 concert at the Agora Theatre and Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio, which had been recorded for broadcast on Cleveland radio station WMMS, was remastered and released as a live album entitled Live From Agora.
- He attended Edison High Schoo and went to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College from 1971 to 1973.
- Twilley and Phil Seymour met in Tulsa in 1967 at a theater where they had gone to see The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, and soon began writing songs and recording together. They continued their partnership over the next several years under the band name Oister. Denny Cordell changed in 1974 the group's name from Oister to the Dwight Twilley Band, which sowed the seeds for future problems arising from Seymour's anonymity in the partnership.
- After the demise of the Dwight Twilley Band, Twilley continued as a solo act, keeping Pitcock on lead guitar and adding Susan Cowsill on harmony vocals. This lineup released the album Twilley for Shelter/Arista in 1979, although the album's most successful song, "Darlin'", featured backing vocals by Seymour. Twilley's next album, Blueprint, co-produced by Jack Nitzsche, was rejected by Arista after the failure of the 1979 single "Somebody to Love" although it was assigned an Arista release number. Blueprint ultimately was never released, keeping Twilley out of circulation until his Shelter contract expired at the end of 1981.
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