Graham Dee

Graham Dee
Born	1943 London, England
Other names	Graham Davidson
Occupation	Musician
Years active	1967–present
Known for	www.graham-dee.com

Graham Dee (born Graham Davidson, 1943) is an English musician.

Graham Dee was born in London in 1943.

Dee has lived his life with a neuromuscular disorder that results in a series of ticks, twitches, and spasms which has created a weakness in his neck.

He attended boarding school in Hertfordshire, where he started playing guitar after hearing Lonnie Donegan's "Rock Island Line". He then went on to a college for the disabled where he qualified in gardening but kept up his guitar playing, forming an ad hoc group and playing for scrumpy in the cider pubs of Leatherhead.

While working as a gardener, Dee started playing bass semi-pro with a band called The Planets and then returned to the guitar and got a gig backing crooner Steve Arlen. Eventually, he joined the Laurie Jay Combo who backed the likes of Gary US Bonds, Memphis Slim, John Lee Hooker and Kenny Lynch and his band appeared in Michael Winner's 1964 'The System' which starred Oliver Reed.

Dee formed a group called The Quotations and ended up on tour with The Animals and Tommy Tucker. He later played in a band called Bobcats, who were the house band at the Scotch of St James club.

Dee was a session musician in the 1960s, working alongside the likes of future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones.

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