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Biography |
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Andy Price has been playing guitar since
the age of 10 years old and has been a professional for 30 years. |
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| Playing in bands from the age
of 16, Andy has worked in hotels, clubs and bars throughout England
and toured extensively throughout Europe including a period in
Scandinavia. |
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| Whilst studying guitar at the
Guitar Institute he was introduced to Mike Alexander, a highly
respected musician, piano player and Musical Director for Shirley Bassey. Mike then joined Andy and his band along with Snake Davis, sax
player from the Lisa Stansfield band & M-People. |
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| The association led to Andy's
first sessions namely "Family Fortunes" for Carlton Television. This
was swiftly followed by albums, the first being Shirley Bassey's album
"Keep The Music Playing" in 1994 and other records including "I Love
You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis which was a Top 10 hit in the UK. |
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| From then on sessions flooded
in. Andy became resident guitarist on the BBC flagship daytime
programme "Pebble Mill" and notched up a staggering 700 live shows in
4 years. The list of the stars he has worked with is obviously
considerable as is his radio credits. |
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| Other TV specials include
"Phantom of the Opera", "Grease". "Tommy" and "Starlight Express". |
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| Andy has also composed music
for television and his collaboration with prolific TV composer David
Lowe resulted in Andy playing many sessions including "Police Camera
Action", "Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld", "Noel's Tele Years", "Really
Wild Show", "Extreme Machines" etc. etc. |
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| During the mid-90s Andy
joined "Guitarist Magazine" as techniques writer along with Brian
Setzer and Eddie Van Halen amongst others! He later was finalist in
'Guitarist of the Year'. |
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| More recently, Andy and his
wife Debby (bass guitar) have toured in the Middle-East playing 5-star
hotels and cruising with Holland America with his band "The View".
They both sing as well. |
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