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Raymond Fenwick (born 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.
Biography
Beginning in the '60s as a session musician and also as part of bands, like the Dutch band After Tea and The Spencer Davis Group. During the '70s is part of the "Fancy" and "Ian Gillan Band". He also participated in the Jon Lord live album Windows in 1974.
He returned to sessions and then featured on former Rainbow vocalist, Graham Bonnet's album, Here Comes the Night in 1991. In 2003 Fenwick recorded and toured with Yes guitarist Steve Howe as part of his band Steve Howe's Remedy. He appears on the live concert DVD of Steve Howe's Remedy Elements, having produced the scores for the entire band. He also co-wrote the theme music to the 1970s cult TV show Magpie. Fenwick produced Jo Jo Laine's girl group single "When The Boy's Happy" on Mercury Records under the name Jo Jo Laine & The Firm. He was also in the group Fancy who had the hits "Touch Me" and a cover of Chip Taylor's "Wild Thing".
In July 1972, he played guitar on a number of the tracks for Bo Diddley's Chess Records album The London Bo Diddley Sessions. He also was a member of the band Forcefield (1987–1989) along with Tony Martin (Black Sabbath), Cozy Powell (Rainbow, Black Sabbath), Jan Akkerman and Neil Murray (Whitesnake, Black Sabbath).
Personal life
Fenwick taught guitar and jazz grades at various colleges in Britain, including Boston College, Lincolnshire but has since retired.
