Biography
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Born
7 May 1948 (age 76)
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Born In
Liphook, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Pete Wingfield (born William Peter Wingfield in Liphook on 7 May 1948) is an English keyboard player, songwriter, singer, record producer, and music journalist.
Wingfield, along with Paul Butler (guitar/vocals), John Best (bass), and Chris Waters (drums) formed blues-rock band Jellybread in 1968 while at Sussex University.
In 1971, Wingfield played the piano on the "B.B. King in London" album, and in the following year received similar credits for "Seventy-Second Brave", the Keef Hartley Band album. Wingfield played keyboards on Bryn Haworth's 1974 album, Let the Days Go By, and on his 1975 follow-up Sunny Side of the Street. In 1983, Wingfield played keyboards on Haworth's album, Pass It On. He also played on several albums by Colin Blunstone including his 1974 album Journey.
Over the same period, as a specialist in soul music Wingfield contributed regular articles and reviews to the monthly journal 'Let It Rock', and the weekly 'Melody Maker' among others.
Wingfield hit the singles charts on both sides of the Atlantic in 1975 with "Eighteen with a Bullet", a pastiche doo-wop number involving word play on hit record chart positions (a bullet, in record-chart parlance, referring to a song still selling strongly and/or moving up the charts). It entered the US Billboard Hot 100 chart on 23 August 1975 and, by the week ending 22 November 1975, the tune lived up to its name by charting at no. 18 – with a bullet. The song peaked at no. 15 a week later. It also reached no. 7 in the UK Singles Chart. Taken from the album, Breakfast Special, "Eighteen with a Bullet" later featured on the soundtrack to the 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
As a performer, he played with the British soul band, Olympic Runners and Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes.
Wingfield played with Van Morrison at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival. Beginning with their 1983 reunion shows, Wingfield spent 18 years handling keyboard duties for The Everly Brothers.
He produced the first album by Dexy's Midnight Runners, and has played on sessions for The Housemartins, The Beautiful South, Van Morrison, Freddie King and Paul McCartney on his Run Devil Run album.
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