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Spike Edney
Background information
Born
(1951-12-11) 11 December 1951 (age 72) Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Origin
Hackney, London, England
Genres
Rock, pop, hard rock
Occupations
Musician
Instruments
Keyboards, guitar, vocals
Years active
1970s–present
Member of
Queen
SAS Band
Formerly of
The Cross
The Brian May Band
Queen Extravaganza
Musical artist
Philip "Spike" Edney (born 11 December 1951) is an English musician who, since the 1960s, has performed with a number of bands, most notably with Queen in their live concerts, where his participation started in 1984 during Queen's The Works tour. During the mid-1970s, he recorded and toured with The Tymes and Ben E. King. He is primarily known for playing keyboards but also plays bass, guitar, trombone and contributes backing vocals. Subsequently, in the late 1970s, he was musical director for Edwin Starr and, during the early 1980s, worked with Duran Duran, The Boomtown Rats, Dexys Midnight Runners, Bucks Fizz, Haircut One Hundred and The Rolling Stones. He also appeared with Peter Green on his comeback tour.
Edney's collaboration with Queen included mostly keyboards (his main instrument), plus rhythm guitar and backing vocals. Accompanying the band on its tours since 1984, replacing Fred Mandel. He was also part of Roger Taylor's side project The Cross as well as Brian May's band when they toured in 1993 and 1998.
Edney can be seen on Queen's Live at Wembley Stadium and Hungarian Rhapsody concert films, playing rhythm guitar on "Hammer to Fall," and piano on both "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Tutti Frutti." He can also be seen playing in the background during Queen's 1985 Live Aid performance at Wembley Stadium. He would later comment that once Queen got on stage, the "lazy afternoon feeling..." "...changed instantly into a proper gig".[1]
^"Eyewitness History: Queen's Keyboardist Talks About Freddie Mercury, His Unusual Audition Experience, and Performing At Live-Aid! on Apple Podcasts". Podcasts.apple.com.
Philip "Spike" Edney (born 11 December 1951) is an English musician who, since the 1960s, has performed with a number of bands, most notably with Queen...
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session musicians, including Kevin Gilson (saxophone) and Mark Walters and SpikeEdney (trombone). Soon thereafter, Billingham also left the band but continued...
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new material. The songs included Another World, and featured mainly SpikeEdney, Cozy Powell, Neil Murray and Jamie Moses. On 5 April 1998, Cozy Powell...
Roger Cotton and Larry Tolfree, after the departure of Cozy Powell and SpikeEdney. The album won a WC Handy Award in 1999 for "Best Comeback Album". "When...
Rhys Thomas Starring Freddie Mercury Brian May Roger Taylor John Deacon SpikeEdney Music by Queen Release date December 1990 (1990-12) Running time 300...
1985 onward Mercury collaborated with Mike Moran (in the studio) and SpikeEdney (in concert). Mercury played the piano in many of Queen's most popular...
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