Roy Young Band

Roy Young
Birth name	Roy Young
Born	1937 London, England
Genres	Rock and roll, boogie-woogie, rock
Instruments	Vocals, piano, keyboards
Years active	Since 1958
Labels	Fontana, Ember, Philips Records, RCA Victor, MCA
Associated acts	Tony Sheridan The Beatles Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers The Roy Young Band
Website	http://www.royyoung.com/

Roy Young (born 1937) is a British rock and roll singer, pianist and keyboard player. He first recorded in the late 1950s before performing in Hamburg with the Beatles. After a stint with Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, he released several albums with his own band as well as recording with Chuck Berry and David Bowie, among others.

He was born in London and moved with his family to Oxford at the age of five. He learned to play boogie-woogie piano at home and in snooker clubs, left school at age 14, and joined the Merchant Navy. While in Australia, he saw the film Blackboard Jungle, and, after returning to England, began a career as a professional singer and musician.

In 1958 he auditioned successfully for Jack Good's TV show Oh Boy!, singing and playing piano in the style of Little Richard, and performed regularly on other British TV pop music shows including Drumbeat, where he was backed by the John Barry Seven, and Boy Meets Girls. Billed as Roy "Rock 'em" Young, he recorded his first single, "Just Keep It Up" / "Big Fat Mama" in 1959 for Fontana Records. He released several more singles on the Fontana and Ember labels over the next two years, but they were not commercial successes. Young performed at the 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho, and toured the UK and Ireland with Cliff Richard and the Shadows, among others.

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