Mike Kellie

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Michael Alexander Kellie (24 March 1947 – 18 January 2017) was an English musician, composer and record producer. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Kellie was a member of the rock bands the V.I.P.s, Spooky Tooth and the Only Ones.

He was also a prolific session musician and worked with the Who on the film soundtrack of Tommy, Joe Cocker, Traffic, George Harrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees's Maurice Gibb, Gary Wright, Johnny Thunders, Luther Grosvenor, Neil Innes, Steve Gibbons, Chris Jagger, Nanette Workman, Sean Tyla, Jim Capaldi, Pat Travers and Andy Fraser. In 2014, Kellie released his debut solo album Music from The Hidden, while still a member of the Only Ones.

He died on 18 January 2017 following a short illness.

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Early career

Kellie was born in Birmingham, England, into a non-musical family. He exhibited an early interest in rhythm as a boy, practising on a coal shuttle with hearth trees to imitate a snare drum. He performed with the St. Michael Youth Club band as a drummer in his youth. He appeared on "The Track" at Tudor Grange Sports Centre in Solihull later in life. He was invited by Brian "Monk" Ffinch to perform with Wayne and the Beachcombers in Birmingham, which began his career as a professional musician, as a result of his efforts.

Kellie appeared in Birmingham in the Locomotive band of Chris Wood of Traffic in 1966 and later with the V.I.P. 's (later Art) in Carlisle.

Gary Wright, a guitarist and organist from the New York Times, was recruited to Art's line-up and formed Spooky Tooth with Kellie, Greg Ridley, Jimmy Emerson, Luther Grosvenor, and Mike Harrison.

Kellie joined Johnny Hallyday's band for a summer tour of France in 1974 before forming The Only Ones in 1976 with Peter Persott, Alan Mair, and John Perry.

The Only Ones, who are best known for their song "Another Girl, Another Planet," released three albums for CBS, but their catalog has since expanded to include many compilations and other items, which now outnumber their studio albums.

Johnny Thunders and his family migrated to London in February 1978 and began to perform with a loosening revue dubbed the Living Dead. Kellie, along with Perpett, Sex Pistols, and Paul Cook, were among the movers in this burgeoning line-up, and he and Thunders' So Alone's "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" on his album.

Kellie moved to the countryside north of Toronto, Canada, where he spent four years away from performing after the Only Ones' farewell in 1981 at London's Lyceum. He used this time to learn the piano and compose songs.

Break from music and later career

Kellie spent many years in North Wales and Scotland, becoming a shepherd, before returning to the United Kingdom in 1985. Under the name Spooky Tooth moniker, Kellie reunited with Mike Harrison, Luther Grosvenor, and Greg Ridley in 1999. They also released the Cross Purpose album as a team.

Kellie reunited with Mike Harrison and Gary Wright in Germany in 2004 as a new version of Spooky Tooth. With live performances from Worpswede and Hamburg, Germany, the band later released the DVD Nomad Poets.

The Only Ones reformed in 2007, appearing on BBC TV's Later... with Jools Holland, and touring the United Kingdom, Europe, and Japan.

Kellie began recording his own collection of songs in 2010, which became his first solo album in 2010 with the Only Ones going through another sabbatical. The album was called Music from The Hidden, and Kellie's Other Instruments, organ, bass, and acoustic guitars, percussion, and lead vocals were among the songs on the album. Gordon Jackson (acoustic guitar), Finley Barker and Tony Kelsey (guitars), Steve Winwood (organ, mandolin, and bass), Bill Hunt, Levi French (backing vocals), and Greg Platt Lake (guitar and vocals).

Kellie was one of the artists on the six-CD Jess Roden Anthology, which was presented by Hidden Masters.

He appeared at the 2011 sessions for Distractions' reunion album, The End of the Pier, which was released on Occultation Records in 2012.

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