Paul Riley (musician)

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Name = Paul Riley


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Background = solo_singer
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Alias = Paul "Bassman" Riley
Paul Bass
Born = Birth date and age|1951|10|3|df=yes
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Origin = Islington, London
Instrument = Bass Guitar
Vocals
Genre = Pub Rock
Blues
Occupation = Musician
Singer
Producer
Years_active = 1970s - present
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Associated_acts =Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers
Rockpile
Nick Lowe
The Sinceros
Roogalator
The Balham Alligators
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Paul Riley (born 3 October 1951, Islington, London) is an English bassist, singer and record producer. He was a member of Chilli Willi & the Red Hot Peppers and Roogalator in the 1970s.

Biography

Riley's music career began at the beginning of the 1970s as bass player with various visiting blues artists - notably; Albert Collins, Champion Jack Dupree, Bobby Parker, Lightnin' Slim, Homesick James - and continued through the decade with seminal pub-rockers Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Robin Scott, the embryonic Rockpile (as featured on the album "Get It"), and with the American guitarist Danny Adler's Roogalator.

In the closing years of the 1970s, involvement in artist management and record production found him both managing and producing The Sinceros, and producing and engineering Lew Lewis, Carlene Carter, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Johnny Marr, The Anti-Nowhere League, The Ruts, Robert Wyatt, Edwyn Collins, Squeeze, Kirsty McColl and more through the early 1980s. In 1985, he joined the staff of emergent re-issue label Demon Records. Three years later he could be found moonlighting on bass with The Tex Pistols, and more recently as a member of Nick Lowe's Impossible Birds.

References

* Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, "All Music Guide to Country: The Definitive Guide to Country Music - Page 143", 2003, Backbeat Books, ISBN 0879307609
* Peter Buckley, "The Rough Guide to Rock - Page 465", 2003, Rough Guides, ISBN 1843531054