Andy Fairweather-Low
| Andrew "Andy" Fairweather Low | |
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Fairweather Low playing at Roskilde Festival on 2 July 2006
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| Background information | |
| Born |
2 August 1948 Ystrad Mynach, Wales |
| Genres | Rock, pop, blues rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, harmonica |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Labels | A&M |
| Associated acts | Eric Clapton, Amen Corner, Fair Weather, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, Andy Fairweather Low & the Lowriders, The Gaddabouts |
| Website | www |
| Notable instruments | |
Andrew "Andy" Fairweather Low (born 2 August 1948) is a Welsh guitarist, songwriter, producer and vocalist. He was a founding member of 1960s British pop band Amen Corner, and in recent years has toured extensively with Roger Waters, Eric Clapton and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.
Fairweather Low was born in Ystrad Mynach, Wales. He first found fame as a founding member of the pop group Amen Corner in the late 1960s. They had four successive Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart, including the #1 single "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice" in 1969. The overnight success and Fairweather Low's teen idol looks, as music journalist William Ruhlmann noted at Allmusic; "... put his attractive face on the bedroom walls of teenage girls all over Britain".
The band split in two in 1970, with Fairweather Low leading Dennis Byron (drums), Blue Weaver (organ), Clive Taylor (bass) and Neil Jones (guitar) into a new band, Fair Weather. The band scored a UK Singles Chart No. 6 hit with "Natural Sinner" in July 1970, although the outfit's albums, Beginning From An End and Let Your Mind Roll On, failed to chart. After twelve months Fairweather Low left to pursue a solo career, releasing four albums up to 1980 on A&M and Warner Bros. These spawned further single chart success with "Reggae Tune" (1974), and "Wide Eyed and Legless", a No. 6 Christmas time hit in 1975. Welsh group Budgie covered "I Ain't No Mountain" off Fairweather Low's 1974 album Spider Jiving on their 1975 release Bandolier.
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