Clive Metcalfe

Clive Metcalfe is a British musician and artist. A student at Southampton Art College and Chelsea School of Art in the early 1960s, Metcalfe played rhythm, and occasionally bass guitar as a member of the 1965 band The Abdabs (also known as The Screaming Abdabs) with Roger Waters (lead guitar), Richard Wright (rhythm guitar), Nick Mason (drums), (Keith Noble), and (Juliette Gale) (vocals).

They were known as Sigma 6, The Tea Set, and The Meggadeaths as well as the Abdab monikers. They played rhythm and blues covers and some original material by the band's manager, Ken Chapman. The group was "available for clubs and parties", according to their calling card.

Clive Metcalfe helped write "A Summer Song", which became a top ten hit for Chad & Jeremy.

In 1965 Noble, Gale, and Metcalfe left the group. The line-up at that point settled around Klose, Syd Barrett (guitar and vocals), Waters (bass guitar) and Wright (moved to keyboards and organ), and Mason (still on drums). Klose left after a short tenure, after parental pressure to concentrate on taking his exams. Barrett took over lead guitar and the bulk of the vocal & song writing duties. The remaining quartet went on, eventually becoming Pink Floyd.

After leaving the band, Metcalfe returned to his artistic roots as a goldsmith and a painter, and also as a tutor at the Sir John Cass School of Art. He established a gallery in 1999 with his wife, Christa Metcalfe-Hofmann, in Deal, Kent. Some of Metcalfe's works are available through the Bridgeman Art Library and in exhibitions.

References

• Allmusic^{[dead link]}
• Bridgeman Art Library
• Visualize The Future
• Miles (1980). Pink Floyd: A Visual Documentary. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-8256-3948-4
• Dallas, Karl (1987). Pink Floyd: Bricks In The Wall. Shapolsky Publishers. ISBN 0-933503-88-1
• Blake, Mark (2007) "Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd". Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1845132613 (published in the United States as Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd. Thunders Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1568583839)

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