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Tony Ashton, the Glossary

Edward Anthony Ashton (1 March 1946 – 28 May 2001) was an English rock pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer, producer and artist.^[1]

93 relations: Abbey Road Studios, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, B movie, Back to the Egg, BBC, Before I Forget (album), Bernie Marsden, Blackburn, Blackpool, Blues, Boogie (genre), Chas Cronk, Chicken Shack, Chris Barber, Chris Evans (presenter), David Coverdale, Deep Purple, Eddie Hardin, Electronic keyboard, EMI, EMI Records, Eric Clapton, Ewan McGregor, Family (band), First of the Big Bands, Funk, Gemini Suite, Geoff Emerick, George Harrison, Glenn Hughes (musician), Golders Green Hippodrome, Guitar Shorty, Hamburg, Hammond organ, Herbie Mann, Howie Casey, Ian Paice, It's Only a Movie, Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joe Brown (musician), John Entwistle, Jon Lord, Kim Gardner, Liverpool, London Palladium, London Symphony Orchestra, Mad Dog (album), Malice in Wonderland (Paice Ashton Lord album), McGuinness Flint, ... Expand index (43 more) »
Chicken Shack members
Family (band) members
Musicians from Blackburn
Paice Ashton Lord members

Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Recording Studios) is a music recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London.

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Ashton, Gardner and Dyke

Ashton, Gardner and Dyke were a British rock trio, most popular in the early 1970s.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Back to the Egg is the seventh and final (until 2024's One Hand Clapping) studio album by the British–American rock band Wings, released in June 1979 on Parlophone in the UK and Columbia Records in North America (their first for the label).

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Before I Forget (album)

Before I Forget is a 1982 album by Jon Lord, featuring a largely conventional eight-song line-up, no orchestra.

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Bernie Marsden

Bernard John Marsden (7 May 1951 – 24 August 2023) was an English rock and blues guitarist. Tony Ashton and Bernie Marsden are English rock singers and Paice Ashton Lord members.

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Blackburn

Blackburn is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England.

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Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort town in Lancashire, England.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Boogie (genre)

Boogie (sometimes called post-disco and electro-funk) is a rhythm and blues genre of electronic dance music with close ties to the post-disco style, that first emerged in the United States during the late 1970s to mid-1980s.

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Chas Cronk

Chas Cronk is an English musician, best known as the bass player and acoustic guitarist for the Strawbs from 1973 to 1980 and again from 2004 to the present. Tony Ashton and Chas Cronk are English rock singers.

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Chicken Shack

Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (later McVie) (vocals and keyboards) in 1967.

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Chris Barber

Donald Christopher Barber (17 April 1930 – 2 March 2021) was an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist.

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Chris Evans (presenter)

Christopher James Evans (born 1 April 1966) is an English television presenter, radio DJ and producer for radio and television.

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David Coverdale

David Coverdale (born 22 September 1951) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the founder and lead singer of the hard rock band Whitesnake. Tony Ashton and David Coverdale are 20th-century English singers and English rock singers.

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Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Eddie Hardin

Eddie Hardin (19 February 1949 – 22 July 2015) was an English rock pianist and singer-songwriter. Tony Ashton and Eddie Hardin are English rock keyboardists.

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Electronic keyboard

An electronic keyboard, portable keyboard, or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument based on keyboard instruments.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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EMI Records

EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a British multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Tony Ashton and Eric Clapton are English rock singers.

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Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor (born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor.

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Family (band)

Family were an English rock band, active from late 1966 to October 1973, and again since 2013 for a series of live shows.

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First of the Big Bands

First of the Big Bands is a studio album by Tony Ashton of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke and Jon Lord of Deep Purple, released in April 1974 by Purple Records in the UK and Europe and Warner Bros. Records in the US.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Gemini Suite

After the 1969 classical / rock fusion Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Jon Lord was commissioned to write a follow-up.

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Geoff Emerick

Geoffrey Ernest Emerick (5 December 1945 – 2 October 2018) was an English sound engineer and record producer who worked with the Beatles on their albums Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) and Abbey Road (1969).

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Tony Ashton and George Harrison are English rock keyboardists and English rock singers.

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Glenn Hughes (musician)

Glenn Hughes (born 21 August 1951) is an English musician, best known for playing bass and performing vocals in the hard rock band Trapeze and in the Mk. III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple, as well as briefly fronting Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s. Tony Ashton and Glenn Hughes (musician) are 20th-century English singers and English rock singers.

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Golders Green Hippodrome

The Golders Green Hippodrome was built in 1913 by Bertie Crewe as a 3,000-seat music hall, to serve North London and the new London Underground Northern line expansion into Golders Green in the London Borough of Barnet, London, England.

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Guitar Shorty

David William Kearney (September 8, 1934 – April 20, 2022), known as Guitar Shorty, was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.

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Herbie Mann

Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music.

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Howie Casey

Howard William Casey (born 12 July 1937) is a British rhythm and blues and rock saxophonist.

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Ian Paice

Ian Anderson Paice (born 29 June 1948) is an English musician who is the drummer and last remaining original member of the rock band Deep Purple. Tony Ashton and Ian Paice are Paice Ashton Lord members.

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It's Only a Movie

It's Only a Movie is the seventh and final studio album by the British progressive rock band Family, released in 1973, and their last original studio album before they disbanded that year.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935October 28, 2022) was an American pianist, singer and songwriter.

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Joe Brown (musician)

Joseph Roger Brown, MBE (born 13 May 1941) is an English musician.

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John Entwistle

John Alec Entwistle (9 October 194427 June 2002) was an English musician who was the bass guitarist for the rock band the Who. Tony Ashton and John Entwistle are 20th-century English singers and English rock singers.

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Jon Lord

John Douglas "Jon" Lord (9 June 194116 July 2012) was an English keyboardist and composer. Tony Ashton and Jon Lord are English rock keyboardists and Paice Ashton Lord members.

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Kim Gardner

Kim Gardner (27 January 1948 in Dulwich, London – 24 October 2001 in Los Angeles) was an English musician.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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London Palladium

The London Palladium is a Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street, London, in Soho.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London.

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Mad Dog (album)

Mad Dog is the fourth solo studio album by the English rock musician John Entwistle, who was the bassist for the Who at that time.

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Malice in Wonderland (Paice Ashton Lord album)

Malice in Wonderland is the only studio album by Paice Ashton Lord.

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McGuinness Flint

McGuinness Flint was a rock band formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness, a bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, former drummer with John Mayall; plus vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle.

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Medicine Head

Medicine Head were a British blues rock band – initially a duo – active in the 1970s.

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Micky Moody

Michael Joseph Moody (born 30 August 1950) is an English guitarist, and a former member of the rock bands Juicy Lucy and Whitesnake. Tony Ashton and Micky Moody are English rock singers.

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Mike Figgis

Michael Figgis (born 28 February 1948) is an English film director, screenwriter, and composer.

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Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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New Year's Eve

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve, also known as Old Year's Day, is the evening or the entire day of the last day of the year, 31 December.

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Notting Hill

Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Otis Grand

Fred Bishti (February 14, 1950 – June 2023), known professionally as Otis Grand, was a Lebanese-born American blues musician, best known for his album, Perfume & Grime (1996) and his exciting live performances.

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Paice Ashton Lord

Paice Ashton Lord was a short-lived British rock band featuring Deep Purple band members Ian Paice and Jon Lord with singer Tony Ashton.

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Paul Martinez

Paul Frank Martinez (6 October 1947 – February 2024) was an English session musician and songwriter. Tony Ashton and Paul Martinez are Chicken Shack members and Paice Ashton Lord members.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. Tony Ashton and Paul McCartney are 20th-century British pianists, English rock keyboardists, English rock pianists and English rock singers.

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Paul McCartney and Wings

Paul McCartney and Wings, often billed simply as Wings, were an English-American rock band formed in 1971 in London by former Beatles songwriter, bassist, guitarist; and singer Paul McCartney; his wife Linda McCartney on keyboards; session drummer Denny Seiwell; and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.

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Pete York

Peter York (born 15 August 1942 in Redcar, Yorkshire, England) is a British rock drummer who has been performing since the 1960s.

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Phil Lynott

Philip Parris Lynott (20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish musician, songwriter, and poet.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording act (artist or group), where the act makes an audio recording (or series of recordings) for the label to sell and promote.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Rick Wakeman

Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist and composer best known as a member of the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004, and for his prolific solo career. Tony Ashton and Rick Wakeman are 20th-century British pianists, English rock keyboardists and English rock pianists.

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Rigor Mortis Sets In

Rigor Mortis Sets In is the third solo studio album by the English rock musician John Entwistle, who was the bassist for the Who at that time.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Roger Chapman

Roger Maxwell Chapman (born 8 April 1942 in Leicester), also known as Chappo, is an English rock vocalist. Tony Ashton and Roger Chapman are English rock singers and Family (band) members.

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Roger Glover

Roger David Glover (born 30 November 1945) is a Welsh bassist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a jazz club that has operated in Soho, London, since 1959.

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Roy Dyke

Roy Dyke (born 13 February 1945 in Liverpool), is a rock drummer noted for his playing with The Remo Four, Badger, and Ashton, Gardner and Dyke.

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Soul music

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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St George's School, Blackpool

St.

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Stan Webb (guitarist)

Stanley Frederick Webb (born 3 February 1946) is an English musician who is the frontman and lead guitarist with the blues band Chicken Shack. Tony Ashton and Stan Webb (guitarist) are Chicken Shack members.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast is a concept album and subsequent live rock opera written by Roger Glover.

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The John Barry Seven

The John Barry Seven was a band formed by John Barry in 1957, after he abandoned his original career path of arranging for big bands.

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The Last Rebel (1971 film)

The Last Rebel is a 1971 American Technicolor Western television film directed by Larry G. Spangler (as Denys McCoy) and starring Joe Namath.

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The Remo Four

The Remo Four were a 1950s–1960s rock band from Liverpool, England.

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Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969.

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Tony Fernandez (musician)

Tony Fernandez (born 15 May 1946) is an English drummer for the folk rock band Strawbs.

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Trio (music)

In music, a trio (from the Italian) is any of the following.

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Tucky Buzzard

Tucky Buzzard were a British hard rock band formed in 1969 by three former members of The End.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ashton

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Tony Ashton, the Glossary

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See also

Chicken Shack members

Family (band) members

Musicians from Blackburn

Paice Ashton Lord members

References