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Tommy Eyre (5 July 1949 – 23 May 2001) was a session keyboardist from Sheffield, England, who appeared on records by Joe Cocker, John Martyn, Alex Harvey, Greg Lake, Michael Schenker, Gary Moore, B.B. King, John Mayall, Tracy Chapman and Wham!. He is perhaps most famous for playing on Joe Cocker's UK chart-topper "With A Little Help From My Friends", on which he arranged the distinctive organ introduction, and Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street". ==Career== Eyre began piano lessons at the age of four and started playing guitar when he was in his teens . In 1968 he joined Joe Cocker's Grease Band where he played the organ on ''With A Little Help From My Friends''. In the same year Eyre moved to London to work with The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation and later with Dunbar's next rock band called Blue Whale. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = philbrodieband.com )〕 After a short period with the band Juicy Lucy, Eyre joined the duo Mark-Almond and played on two of their albums. After that, in 1972, Eyre and bassist Roger Sutton resumed their own project ''Strabismus'' which they had started in 1969, and which was now called Riff Raff.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = alexgitlin.com )〕 With Riff Raff Eyre recorded three albums, one of them not being released until 2001. Together with singer Alan Marshall from Riff Raff, Eyre joined the band ZZebra in 1974 for their first album, replacing keyboardist and singer Gus Yeadon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = alexgitlin.com )〕 Eyre played on some of the tracks but is not credited on the album. With Zzebra he recorded a second album in 1975. In August 1977, Eyre became a member of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, with whom he stayed until 1979.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = musicmight.com )〕 After that, Eyre recorded an album with John Martyn and did a promotion tour with him in 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = johnmartyn.com )〕 In June 1981, he joined Greg Lake for his solo project, and in 1982 became a member of Gary Moore's band. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tommy Eyre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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