Robbie McIntosh was born on 25 October 1957 and is an English guitarist.
21 Facts About Robbie McIntosh
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Robbie McIntosh was born in Sutton, Surrey, and started playing the guitar at the age of ten, picking out things from any records listened to at the time.
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Robbie McIntosh's father owned records by jazz artists such as Fats Waller, Django Reinhardt and Louis Armstrong and his mother played piano.
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Robbie McIntosh took A-levels at school but was not able to study biology at university as he had hoped.
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Robbie McIntosh toured and recorded with this band throughout 1977 before the band folded in 1978.
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Robbie McIntosh worked for about six months as a lorry driver for a builder's supply company.
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Night disbanded during 1980 but Thompson and Robbie McIntosh stayed with Thompson to form Chris Thompson and the Islands with Malcolm Foster, Paul "Wix" Wickens who later joined Robbie McIntosh in Paul McCartney's band in 1989 and Mick Clews.
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Robbie McIntosh formed a jam band to play the local pub circuit called "Dean Martin's Dog" along with Malcolm Foster, Mick Clews, Jez Wire, Rupert Black and Mike Dudley.
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Robbie McIntosh toured extensively with the band and was credited on the albums Learning to Crawl and Get Close, before leaving in September 1987.
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In 1985, Robbie McIntosh became the main guitarist on Roger Daltrey's sixth solo album Under a Raging Moon, a tribute to The Who's former drummer Keith Moon who had died in 1978.
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The album was Daltrey's best charting success in the US and Robbie McIntosh was featured on the music video for "Let Me Down Easy" aside Daltrey opposite to Bryan Adams playing guitar.
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Robbie McIntosh appeared on several Talking Heads Jerry Harrison's solo albums including the critically acclaimed Casual Gods album, which included the US Album Rock Tracks chart hit "Rev It Up", which reached number seven in early 1988.
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Robbie McIntosh was credited on the first Kevin McDermott Orchestra album Mother Nature's Kitchen.
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Robbie McIntosh can be seen in the concert films Get Back and Paul Is Live.
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In 2004 Robbie McIntosh joined Norah Jones' touring band staying in the band a year for the "Feels Like Home" world tour playing slide, acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin and backing vocals.
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Robbie McIntosh toured with John Mayer from 2006 to 2010 providing rhythm and lead guitar, dobro and mandolin.
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Robbie McIntosh performed all slide guitar parts during that period as well.
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In 2012 Robbie McIntosh played acoustic and electric guitar on multiple songs from Winter Mountain's self-titled debut album, including the band's debut single "Shed a little light" on which he played slide guitar.
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Robbie McIntosh played live with Sinead O'Connor, Tom Jones, Bluesclub and Los Pacaminos.
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Robbie McIntosh released his fifth album Turn Up for the Books in September 2013.
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In June 2021 Robbie McIntosh released another album of songs called Seaworld, featuring Stephen Darrell Smith on keyboards, Paul Beavis on drums, Steve Wilson on bass, Jody Linscott on percussion and Peter Hope Evans on harmonica.