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A Veteran Cosmic Rocker I guess ! I am a huge fan of "YES", "Rick Wakeman", "Pink Floyd", "Tom Petty" and the "Heartbreakers", "Rick Wright", "Fleetwood Mac", "Stevie Nicks", "Lindsey Buckingham", "Emerson Lake and Palmer", "Dave Gilmour", "Trevor Rabin", "The Traveling Wilbury's", "Manfred Mann's Earthband", "Isao Tomita", "Moody Blues","Roger Waters", "The Hellecasters", "Ray Davies", "Mike Pinder", "Tony Banks", "Genesis", "Justin Hayward", "Roger Hodgson", "Clifford T Ward", "Roy Phillips & The Peddlers"- the great 60/70's Jazz Trio, "Malcolm McLaren","Ian Neal" and many others listed on my page.

Do check out Ian Neal's "ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON" album, you will be glad you did! This album has to be the best kept secret, it really is amazing.

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In the early day's I grew up listening to "Elvis", "Bill Haley", "The Everly Brothers", Duane Eddy, Roy Orbison, "Eddie Cochran", "Del Shannon", "Gene Vincent", "Jerry Lee Lewis", "Buddy Holly" & "Lonnie Donegan". I listened avidly to "Radio Luxenbourg" every night.

I feel very fortunate to have been part of the 60's music explosion, especially the Beatles era. No-one who was there at the time could forget the days of Beatlemania and I don't think we shall ever see anything quite like it again.

I was into bands like "The Who"," The Kinks", "Spencer Davis","The Yardbirds", "Argent", "Jefferson Airplane","The Beatles", "The Shadows", "The Byrds" & "The Rolling Stones" who we would go and see at the "Crawdaddy club" in Richmond, my home town. The guitar legend, Chet Atkins, was also a huge influence.

At the end of the sixties I was introduced by a friend to the great jazz trio, "The Peddlers" who were really something very special back then, and from that, my music tastes widened to include Jazz. The 70's came and with it my favorite type of music, "Progressive Rock", with bands like "Emerson Lake & Palmer", "Yes", "Pink Floyd", "Genesis" etc. The synthesiser was also born, thanks to "Robert Moog", and my first taste of that was on the amazing "Six Wives of Henry VIII" album by "Rick Wakeman" who was to become my hero. " Keith Emerson was another huge influence on my musical taste, and ELP became another favorite band of mine.

I have a very broad taste in music as I came from a family of musicians and was introduced at an early age to Big Band music, "The Ted Heath Orchestra", "Glen Miller" etc were embedded in my mind and I still love that stuff today. Also, with my part Yorkshire roots, there is a love for Brass Band music, "The Grimethorpe Colliery Band" being my favorite, and probably the best there is, as witnessed in the film "Brassed Off"

I also like all types of classical music especially by "Claude Debussy" "Maurice Ravel" "Saint Saens" & "Erik Satie", and even some opera, in particular, "Puccini", so I enjoy almost anything if its good.

For film score composers, two that stand out for me, "John Barry" and "Trevor Rabin".

I have an "Out of Control" CD & Vinyl collection and I am rapidly running out of space !. I suppose this page is my kind of tribute to all the artistes mentioned on this page, for all the great pleasure their music & art has given me over the years.

It is not uncommon for my kids to shout at me to turn the music down ! Er ? Shouldn't that be the other way round ?.

FAVORITE QUOTES :-

"If I had the powers of great unlimit, I would stop the world, put it right, and then re-spin it" - Roy Phillips.

"When I die, I want to go like my grandfather - peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like his passengers" - Annonymous

"Get busy living, or get busy dying" - Shawshank Redemption

"I told you I was ill" - Spike Milligan

"Excuse me, I think you have mistaken me for someone who gives a shit" - Annonymous

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DYNAMIC DUO !

RICK'S LEGENDARY "SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII" ALBUM. KEYBOARD PLAYING DOES NOT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS !

CIRCA - TONY KAYE - BILLY SHERWOOD - ALAN WHITE - JIMMY HAUN

LIFT ME UP

"RICKS SOLO SPOT - ABW & H TOUR"

"TREVOR RABIN"

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER

ROGER WATERS

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM - AWESOME!

"ALLEX BESSA" AND FRIEND

"GEORGE HARRISON" - "CHEER DOWN"

THE SYNTHESIZER GENIUS - ISAO TOMITA