Paul Samwell-Smith

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Name = Paul Samwell-Smith


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Born = Birth date and age|1943|5|8|df=y
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Origin = Richmond, Surrey, England
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Occupation = bassist, record producer
Years_active = 1960s - present
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Associated_acts = The Yardbirds
Renaissance
Box of Frogs
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Paul Samwell-Smith (born Paul Smith, 8 May 1943, in Richmond, Surrey) was a founding member and bassist of the 1960s English band, The Yardbirds.

He attended the Hampton Grammar School with The Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty.

While in The Yardbirds, he worked with record producers such as Mickie Most, Simon Napier-Bell and Giorgio Gomelsky and co-produced and engineered much of their music. He left The Yardbirds in June 1966 to pursue a career as a music producer.

He went on to become a successful producer, with credits including Renaissance, Murray Head, Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, Carly Simon, Chris De Burgh, Beverley Craven, Illusion and Claire Hamill, as well as producing two of Amazing Blondel's albums for Island Records, and the first and second albums by All About Eve for Mercury.

In the world of film, Paul Samwell-Smith was the music producer for "Postcards from the Edge" (1990) and for "Harold and Maude" (1971), and he worked as music recording supervisor.

Samwell-Smith played in the Yardbirds reunion band Box of Frogs in the 1980s, and was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds in 1992.

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