14 Facts About Dean Parrish

Dean Parrish signed a recording contract with the Laurie record label.

Between 1964 and 1967 Parrish recorded for four major US labels Laurie, Warner Bros.

In 1967 Dean Parrish reverted to his original name, and became an actor, who began to appear on television and in films.

Dean Parrish kept his hand in musically by playing guitar with Herbie Mann, and sometimes as frontman for The Rosecrucians and Steeplechase.

Dean Parrish worked as a session musician with Jimi Hendrix and Santana in 1970, and played guitar with Bob Marley in 1972.

Dean Parrish's recording of "I'm On My Way" came to the attention of Russ Winstanley, a disc jockey at the Wigan Casino.

Dean Parrish began playing the gramophone record and it soon became one of the more popular records at the venue.

Dean Parrish had changed his name back to Phil Anastasi and no one had been able to track him, with his former US labels no longer in touch with him.

However, in 2001, Dean Parrish contacted Winstanley, and he made his first trip to the UK, some thirty years since his last concert performance.

Dean Parrish found himself performing in front of thousands at a Prestatyn, Wales based Northern soul weekend.

Dean Parrish met up with Paul Weller's guitarist and Ocean Colour Scene member, Steve Cradock.

Cradock was a friend of Winstanley's and handed Dean Parrish "Left Right and Centre", a song Weller had composed at the age of fifteen.

Pete Mitchell travels to New York to track down Dean Parrish, revealing a remarkable story that takes in The Sopranos and Jimi Hendrix along the way.

Dean Parrish died on 8 June 2021, at the age of 78.