17 Facts About Bill MacCormick

William MacCormick was born on 15 April 1951 and is an English bassist and vocalist.

Bill MacCormick is the second son of Ewen and Olwen MacCormick who married in 1946 after serving together in the RAF.

Bill MacCormick's older brother, Ian MacCormick was born in 1948.

In 1966 Bill MacCormick's mother worked with Honor Wyatt, the mother of drummer Robert Wyatt, and Bill MacCormick saw Wyatt's band Soft Machine play their first gig in August 1966 at Coombe Springs in Kingston and, thereafter, became a regular visitor at Honor Wyatt's house in Dalmore Road, West Dulwich, where the band lived and rehearsed.

In 1968 Manzanera and Bill MacCormick formed a band at Dulwich College with a floating membership except for drummer Charles Hayward, two years their junior.

Bill MacCormick, who was to sing and play drums, learnt the bass parts to the various compositions in order for the band to rehearse and continued as the bass player until the band broke up in the summer of 1971.

Bill MacCormick briefly joined Daevid Allen's Gong in France in the autumn of 1972.

That autumn Bill MacCormick played on two tracks of Brian Eno's first solo album Here Come the Warm Jets.

In 1974 Bill MacCormick decided to pursue his interest in politics and was awarded a place at the London School of Economics to start in September 1975.

Ian and Bill MacCormick then continued writing and recording with Manzanera over an extended period producing the album Listen Now, released in 1977.

In early 1978 work started on Manzanera's third solo album, K-Scope, which Bill MacCormick partly wrote and on which he played and sang.

Later that year Bill MacCormick was invited to join Random Hold, a band formed by guitarist David Rhodes and keyboard player the late Dave Ferguson.

The band broke up in the summer of 1980 and Bill MacCormick left the music business to pursue his interest in politics.

Bill MacCormick ran computer operations at numerous by-elections over the next six years including wins in Greenwich, Eastbourne, and Kincardine and Deeside.

Bill MacCormick was the agent in the Liberal Democrats' first by-election in Kensington by-election in 1988.

Bill MacCormick joined a small direct marketing company called PS Mailing but continued to be contracted back to the Liberal Democrats for fundraising and by-elections.

Bill MacCormick had been elected as the London Borough councillor for the Anerley ward of Bromley London Borough Council in 1990 and had retained the seat in 1994 and 1998 but retired in 2002.