RIP Spencer Davis.

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Last night a BBC story about the death of Spencer Davis popped up. I like the music & decided to click & read the full page.

There was so much more to Spencer Davis than I knew.

The son of a paratrooper, Davis was born in Swansea in 1939 and first started learning harmonica and the accordion at the age of six.

Inspired by blues and skiffle, he formed a band called The Saints with Bill Wyman, later a member of the Rolling Stones; and performed folk music with Christine Perfect - who, as Christine McVie, became a core member of Fleetwood Mac's classic line-up.

Formed in 1963, The Spencer Davis Group featured Davis on guitar, a teenage Stevie Winwood on organ and vocals, his brother Muff Winwood on bass and Peter York on drums.
Originally called The Rhythm & Blues Quartette, they changed their name in 1964 when Muff pointed out that Davis was the only one who enjoyed doing interviews - the logic being that the rest of the band could slope off to the pub while he handled the press.

The Spencer Davis Group also recorded the theme song for the long-running children's TV show Magpie, under the pseudonym The Murgatroyd Band - a reference to the show's mascot, a fat magpie named Murgatroyd.

A job in artist development at Island Records' in the mid-70s, promoting newcomers like Bob Marley, Robert Palmer and Eddie And The Hot Rods, as well as working alongside Stivie Winwood, who was now establishing himself as a solo artist.

The whole story is well worth reading at..https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54619718

RIP Spencer.