Clive Edwards

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Clive Edwards
Born (1953-01-19) 19 January 1953
Hounslow, Middlesex, England
Genres Hard rock
Rock
Instruments Drums
Years active 1973 – present
Associated acts UFO
Pat Travers
Lionheart
Wild Horses
Rococo
Wirehead

Clive Edwards (born 19 January 1953, Hounslow, Middlesex, England) is a drummer, who is best known as a former member of the British band, UFO (from August 1989 to June 1993). He also featured on the Bronz second album Carried By The Storm[1] released on 1 January 2010.

Career

Clive Edwards is probably best known for playing with hard rock bands that have included outstanding guitarists, such as Pat Travers, Brian Robertson (Wild Horses), Uli Jon Roth (Electric Sun), Bernie Marsden, John Cale, and Laurence Archer of Medicine Head, and UFO. He is now with the HOUSE OF X and is also playing live shows with Ray Minhinnett in Full House Plays Frankie Miller, and also with Terry Slesser in Kossoff 'The Band Plays On'.

There are also many other projects outside just hard rock, such as working with Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer with Zaine Griff, and also Sally Oldfield.

Edwards has played on many albums, most famously the acclaimed UFO albums High Stakes & Dangerous Men, Headstone, Lights Out in Tokyo Live and the legendary Uli Roth Earthquake. Clive Edwards formed a new band in 2007 called WireHead.[2] He is also involved with the re-formed British heavy rock band Stampede who toured in the summer of 2009[3] and also the AWE Band.

Edwards started playing at an early age, and formed a band with Ian Raines while they were at school together called Stallion. They made an appearance on a BBC Television show for Schools and later went on to become Rococo . A lot of this early information can be found on the Rococo web site. After the Rococo recordings, Clive has gone on to recorded and performed with HOUSE OF X, UFO, X-UFO, LOUDER LIFE LEAGUE, Bronz, Wild Horses, Pat Travers, Phil Lynott, Dave Stewart, Annie Lennox, John Cale, Ollie Halsall, Micky Moody, Bernie Marsden, SOS, Chris Thompson, Lionheart, Uli Jon Roth, Electric Sun, Neil Merryweather and Grand Prix. The full list of recordings seen here can be found on Clive's own web pages. Playing a lot of live concerts during 2016 with bands: Kossoff the Band Plays On, Frankie Millers Full House, House of X, Lionheart, Sidewinder & Stevie Smiths Sin House.

Discography

Screaming Lord Sutch

Rococo

Pat Travers Band

Neil Merryweather

Filthy McNasty

Uli Roth Electric Sun

Wild Horses

Zaine Griff

John Cale

Bernie Marsden's SOS

Lionheart

Bronz

Laurence Archer

UFO

WireHead

X-UFO

X-UFO Vol. 1 The "LIVE" Files

HOUSE OF X

Compilations

Videography

References

  1. ↑ Archived September 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "WireHead | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos". Myspace.com. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
  3. ↑ "Reunited Stampede Schedules First Shows In 26 Years". Blabbermouth. 1 May 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
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