Then, throughout the 80s and 90s, he was chosen as support guitarist by a list of names which includes Pete Townshend, Roger Waters, Bill Wyman, Joe Satriani, George Harrison, Van Morrison, Chris Rea, and Eric Clapton – with whom he spent 12 years, starting in 1992, and recorded a total of eight albums. But the other edge of that sword was that it was thanks to those people that we became successful.”Īs founder of Amen Corner in 1966 and as a solo artist in the 70s, he experienced all sides of success and worked with some of the most notorious managers and producers from the 60s/70s music scene: Don Arden, Andrew Loog Oldham, Derek Green (the man who signed the Sex Pistols to A&M) and Stiff Records’ MD, Dave Robinson, to name just four. Those people I could have done without meeting completely – they were not nice people. “And worst of all, the management side of it was absolutely horrendous and financially a total disaster. So at no time could you go out in the garden and relax or something. I had to have all the curtains drawn in the house because there were girls in my garden who would stay out there for what seemed like forever. “Then, not only do people have good opinions of you, people have bad opinions of you – and those people want to tell you as well! It came to the real height of it in 1969, living in Harrow. When you start in the business, the one thing you want is to be really successful and then suddenly you can’t go anywhere because… You’ve become really successful. I didn’t, and it actually soon became a burden. “This whole thing about being a pop idol, as it was then, was that first of all you had to believe in it. He still has a Welsh lilt and recalls events from the distant past in such impressive detail that he makes things sound as though they happened yesterday. After more than 40 years in the music business, Andy Fairweather Low, (born 2 August 1948 in south Wales) has many stories to tell.
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