Herbie Flowers

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Life and career

Flowers were born in Isleworth, Middlesex, England. He began his musical training in 1956 when he was called into the Royal Air Force, winning first to serve for nine years as a bandman playing tuba. He took up double bass as a second instrument to produce his "junior technician" stripe and then moved to electric bass. He went through the line-ups of several Dixieland jazz bands in the early 1960s and then discovered modern jazz after finishing his military service. He was employed as a bandman on Queen Elizabeth's ocean liner in 1965. He bought his first solid-body electric instrument, a Lake Placid Blue 1960 Fender Jazz Bass, which he bought from Manny's Music in New York City for $79.

Flowers began to work for session musicians such as Shel Talmy, Mickie Most, Steve Rowland, Richard Perry, Gus Dudgeon, and Tony Visconti in the 1960s.

Flowers, a founding member of Blue Mink, appeared on their song "Melting Pot" which reached No. 1 in 1969. 3 on the UK Singles Chart and an early rock band Rumplestiltskin appear. He and Dino Dines were also a member of CCS and the final lineup of T. Rex.

He formed the band Sky in 1979, shortly after participating in the annual A Song For Europe festival, he performed "Mr Moonlight" with his group, the Daisies, and became a co-founder of the band Sky, which was hugely popular in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Flowers is also known for creating the novelty hit "Grandad" for Clive Dunn in 1970. He came up with it after reading a simple primer book on composing, according to Flowers. All he wanted was a hook, and he was having trouble finding something. Ken Pickett, a friend who came round, ringing the doorbell, and the sound of the doorbell provided the hook he needed.

Perhaps Flowers' most popular bass line is the one he created for Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" from the album Transformer (1972), the only song by Reed to reach the Top 20 in the United States, according to him.

He appeared and recorded with Marc Bolan from late 1976 to Bolan's death in September 1977, and he also appeared on the Marc television series in 1977.

Flowers spent the majority of his time playing jazz after Sky's demise in the early 1990s. He has worked as a bass guitar teacher at Ardingly College and is the producer of many "Rockshops" at schools, encouraging young people to write and perform their own songs as well as many others.

On a second album they recorded together, session drummer Peter Boita teamed up with Flowers in 1998 to create a rhythm section in musical settings of poet Sir John Betjeman's words. Betjeman & Read was the album. They had previously worked together on the Poetry in Motion album (which also included Boita and Flowers,), which featured Boita and Flowers, as well as musicians George Martin, who was involved with Beatles' producer George Martin's handling of proceedings. When Poetry in Motion was performed live at the Richmond Theatre on 5 April 1992, Boita and Flowers reprised their roles. Betjeman & Read was one of the last albums to be recorded at the RG Jones Recording Studio in Wimbledon. Cliff Richard, Marc Almond, Paul Young, Jon Anderson, Colin Blunstone, Gene Pitney, Leo Sayer, Donovan, Mike Read, and David Essex appear on this album.

Flowers founded Shoreham Singers-by-Sea, a community choir that has a membership of over 150 people, and the Ditchling Singers followed them in September 2010.

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