Bob Welch (musician)
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Bob Welch (left) and recording engineer Jimmy Robinson at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Robert Lawrence Welch, Jr. |
| Born |
August 31, 1945 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Died | June 7, 2012 (aged 66) Antioch, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass guitar |
| Years active | 1970–2012 |
| Labels | Capitol, RCA, Curb, Edsel Records, Rhino, One-Way Records |
| Associated acts | Seven Souls (1964–1969) Head West (1970) Fleetwood Mac (1971–1974) Paris (1975–1977) |
| Website | bobwelch.com |
| Notable instruments | |
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Gibson Les Paul Gibson SG Fender Telecaster |
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Robert Lawrence "Bob" Welch, Jr. (August 31, 1945 – June 7, 2012) was an American musician, who was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1971 to 1974. He had a successful solo career in the late 1970s. His singles included "Hot Love, Cold World," "Ebony Eyes," "Precious Love," and his signature song, "Sentimental Lady."
Welch was born in Los Angeles, California, into a show business family. Welch's father was movie producer and screenwriter Robert L. Welch, who worked at Paramount Pictures in the 1940s and 1950s, producing films starring Paramount's top box office stars, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (solo, not as a duo). He also worked as a TV producer, responsible for the 25th Annual Academy Awards TV special in 1953 and The Thin Man TV series in 1958–59. Bob's mother, Templeton Fox, had been a singer and actress who worked with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre in Chicago, Illinois and appeared on TV and in movies from 1962 to 1979.
As a youngster, Welch learned clarinet, switching to guitar in his early teens. He had received his first guitar at the age of eight. The young Welch developed an interest in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock music. After graduating from high school, Welch eschewed attending Georgetown University, where he had been accepted, to move to Paris, professedly to attend the Sorbonne. Welch told People Magazine in a 1979 interview that, in Paris, "I mostly smoked hash with bearded guys five years older." He spent time "sitting in the Deux Magots café" rather than attending to his studies, and eventually returned to Southern California, where he studied French at UCLA.
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