Roy Lynes

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Name = Roy Lynes


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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Roy Alan Lynes
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Born = birth date and age|1943|11|25|df=y Redhill, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Instrument = Keyboards
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Occupation = Musician
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Associated_acts = The Spectres, Traffic Jam, Status Quo
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Roy Alan Lynes (born 25 November 1943, in Redhill, Surrey) was the keyboardist and occasional singer with Status Quo (originally The Spectres then Traffic Jam).

He appeared on Status Quo's first three albums, "Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo", "Spare Parts" and "Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon", and wrote "To Be Free", the B-side of the second Quo single, "Black Veils of Melancholy".

According to the group's producer John Schroeder, who wrote the booklet notes for the 3-CD compilation "The Early Years", Lynes was 'the quietest member of the group' and 'somehow always seemed to be the odd one out'. He left the group in 1970 when he fell in love whilst on tour, claiming that he could see how serious the other band members (Francis Rossi, Alan Lancaster, Rick Parfitt and John Coghlan) were about fame and glory, and that he just wanted to settle down to a life with his new found love.

In the group's autobiography "Just For The Record" (1993), Rick Parfitt said Roy was 'a bit laid back, the Open University type who liked tinkering and finding out about things,' and Francis Rossi remarked that he showed up at a gig they were playing in New Zealand about ten years later to say hello; 'He seemed a much happier bloke.'

He is still active in Australia and has lately been touring on his own. No information on these tour dates is currently available.