1. Christopher John Spedding was born on Peter Robinson, 17 June 1944 and is an English guitarist and record producer.
15 Facts About Chris Spedding
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Chris Spedding has played on and produced many albums and singles.
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Chris Spedding has been a member of eleven rock bands: the Battered Ornaments, Frank Ricotti Quartet, King Mob, Mike Batt and Friends, Necessaries, Nucleus, Ricky Norton, Sharks, Trigger, and the Wombles.
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Chris Spedding appeared regularly during the band's encores, playing the guitar solos on their version of the Kinks' song "Stop Your Sobbing".
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Chris Spedding was born in Staveley, Derbyshire, but was raised in Sheffield and Birmingham by adoptive parents Muriel and Jack Spedding, and renamed Christopher John Spedding.
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Chris Spedding was invited to play on Jack Bruce's first and third solo albums, Songs for a Tailor and Harmony Row.
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Chris Spedding then recorded his own instrumental album, Songs Without Words for Harvest Records, which was released only in Japan.
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Chris Spedding was a session player on Harry Nilsson's breakthrough album, Nilsson Schmilsson, recorded in London.
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Chris Spedding played with Roy Harper's occasional backing band Trigger, notably on 1975's HQ album.
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In 1975, Chris Spedding had a Top 20 solo hit in the UK with "Motor Bikin", which he promoted with popular television appearances on Top of the Pops and Supersonic, dressed in leather motorcycling gear, with greased hair.
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Chris Spedding recorded a version of the American singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys' song, "Wild in the Streets", on his own Hurt album.
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Chris Spedding worked on several solo releases by Jerry Harrison including the critically acclaimed album Casual Gods released in 1988, spawning the No 7 hit on US Album Rock Tracks chart: "Rev It Up".
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Chris Spedding recalls Ringo Starr, engineer Geoff Emerick and producer George Martin working on the same sessions as well as McCartney and his wife, Linda.
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Chris Spedding was producer of the first two albums by the Canadian rockabilly band, The Razorbacks, entitled Go to Town and Live a Little.
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In June 2014 Chris Spedding appeared as a special guest playing guitar with Bryan Ferry at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival.