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RICK WILLS

Last updated: 15-11-2017
RICK WILLS

Basic Information

1947 - Present (77)
Born In:
  • London, England, Uk
Last Known Location:
  • UNKNOWN

Instruments/Other

  • Guitarist
  • Bassist

Rick Wills was born in London on 5 December 1947 and moved to Cambridge in [date reqired]

 

Let It Rock website: "I had always liked the bass guitar, and when rhythm guitars started going out of fashion in the Sixties, I decided to change over and become the bass player."

 

Band timeline:

The Vikings c61 (Cambridge)

The Sundowners (Cambridge)

The Committee (Cambridge)

Wages Of Sin (Cambridge)

Joker's Wild 66-68 (Cambridge)

replacing Tony Sainty

Little Women 68

Wills / Jerry Shirley

The Flowers (London, Spain, France)

Gilmour / Wills / William Willy Wilson

Bullitt (London, Spain, France)

Gilmour / Wills / William Willy Wilson = Gilmour gets invite to join Pink Floyd

Parrish & Gurvitz

Brian Parrish / Paul Gurvitz guitar / Wills / Mike Kelly ex Spooky Tooth drums / Micky Gallagher keys

asked to join Peter Frampton after he left Humble Pie

Plastic Penny (unofficially)

Wills / William Willy Wilson / Mick Grabham

Cochise 70-72

Wills / Willy Wilson / Mick Grabham of Plastic Penny / Stuart Brown vocals / BJ Cole

Peter Frampton's Camel 72-75

Wills / Frampton

Roxy Music 76

Kevin Ayres 76

Zoot Money / Tony Newman / Ollie Halsall

Small Faces II 77-78

Wills / Steve Marriot /

David Gilmour (solo) 78

Gilmour / Wills / Wilson

Foreigner 79-92

Mick Jones / Wills / Lou Gramm / Dennis Elliott / Ian McDonald / Al Greenwood

David Gilmour (solo) 78

Gilmour / Wills / Wilson

Bad Company 92-98

Robert Hart / Wills

Lynyrd Skynyrd 99 (dep)

The Jones Gang

Wills / Kenney Jones / Robert Hart / Dave “Bucket” Colwell