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Mickey Gallagher

Mick Gallagher
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Gallagher on tour with Animals and Friends,
France 2008
Background information
Birth name Michael William Gallagher
Also known as Mickey Gallagher
Born (1945-10-29) 29 October 1945 (age 72)
Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Origin London, England, United Kingdom
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • songwriter
  • record producer
Instruments
  • Keyboards
  • vocals
Years active 1965–present
Associated acts

Michael William "Mick" Gallagher (born 29 October 1945) is an English Hammond organ player best known as a member of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and for his contributions to albums by the Clash. He has also written music for films such as Extremes (1971) and After Midnight (1990), and the Broadway play Serious Money (1987).

Mick Gallagher started his musical career in Newcastle with The Unknowns in the early 1960s. He played with the Animals during 1965, replacing their founding member Alan Price. He moved on to form The Chosen Few, where he played alongside Alan Hull, who later formed Lindisfarne. Other associations include Skip Bifferty, Peter Frampton's Camel and Cochise.

In 1977 Gallagher was playing in a band called Loving Awareness, including John Turnbull, Charley Charles and Norman Watt-Roy. Charles and Watt-Roy worked as sessions musicians with Ian Dury, and when the group went on tour, Gallagher and Turnbull were invited along. This band became the Blockheads.

Under the management of Andrew King and Peter Jenner, the original managers of Pink Floyd, Ian Dury and the Blockheads quickly gained a reputation as one of the top live acts of new wave music. The Blockheads' sound drew from its members' diverse musical influences, which included jazz, rock and roll, funk, reggae and Dury's love of music hall. Gallagher's Hammond sound was a major contribution to the band.


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