Ray Fenwick

Ray Fenwick
Background information
Birth name	Raymond John Fenwick
Also known as	Ray
Born	18 July 1946, Romford, Essex
Genres	Hard rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, jazz fusion
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments	Guitar, keyboards, Vocals
Years active	1962–present
Labels	Angel Air
Associated acts	The Syndicats, Spencer Davis Group, Tee Set, After Tea, Ian Gillan Band, Fancy, Forcefield
Website	rayfenwick.com
Notable instruments
Gibson Les Paul

Raymond John Fenwick (born 18 July 1946) is an English guitarist and session musician, best known for replacing Steve Howe in The Syndicats, and as the lead guitarist of Ian Gillan's post Deep Purple solo project, the Ian Gillan Band.

Fenwick's first professional group was a ska and bluebeat group called "Ray and the Red Devils". In 1964, he joined The Syndicats as replacement to Steve Howe, and he was in turn replaced by Peter Banks. In 1965 he joined the Dutch group "Tee Set", from which developed another group "After Tea".

He was with The Spencer Davis Group from 1967 to 1969. He also co-wrote the theme music to the 1970s cult TV show Magpie, which was credited to "The Murgatroyd Band", which was basically The Spencer Davis Group at the time.

In July 1972, he played guitar on a number of the tracks for Bo Diddley's Chess Records album The London Bo Diddley Sessions. During the '70s he was part of the Ian Gillan Band. He participated in the Jon Lord live album, Windows in 1974. He was also in the group Fancy who had the hits "Touch Me" and a cover of Chip Taylor's "Wild Thing".

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