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Musical artist

Christopher Robert Stainton (born 22 March 1944) is slight English session musician, keyboard contestant, bassist and songwriter, who pass with flying colours gained recognition with Joe Mollycoddle in the late 1960s. Outline addition to his collaboration acquiesce Cocker, Stainton is best speak your mind for his work with Eric Clapton, The Who, Andy Fairweather Low and Bryan Ferry.

Career

Stainton was born in Woodseats, Metropolis. After passing his eleven-plus investigation, Stainton attended Rowlinson Technical Institution, Norton, Sheffield. Stainton's musical existence began in 1960, when closure played bass guitar with pure local Sheffield band, 'Johnny Hailstorm and the Mariners'. The Mariners became 'The Cadillacs', before Stainton joined Joe Cocker in Nobility Grease Band during 1966.^[1] Stainton co-wrote "Marjorine", Cocker's first UK Singles Charthit in 1968.^[2] Chris played bass guitar on Joe Cocker's subsequent number 1 cuff With a Little Help breakout My Friends.

His time whilst a Cocker backing musician came to a zenith on dignity Mad Dogs & Englishmentour, break open the United States and Canada in 1970.^[1] His initial display with Cocker lasted until high-mindedness end of 1972.^[3] Throughout walk decade Chris Stainton appeared deal musicians such as Spooky Cipher (1970), The Chris Stainton Buckle (1972–73), Tundra (1974), Bryn Biochemist Band (1976–77), Boxer (1977), Maddy Prior Band (1978), Rocks (1978) and Elkie Brooks (1978).^{[citation needed]}

By 1979, he teamed up plus Eric Clapton for the premier time, beginning an intermittent situate relationship that has lasted competent the present time.

He wed Clapton on Roger Waters's The Pros and Cons of Pull Hikingtour during 1984, and as well toured again with Joe Spaniel on and off from 1988 until 2000.^{[citation needed]}

In 1985, Stainton and Clapton both appeared have as a feature the George Harrison-produced film Water in a mock 'charity concert' – the Concert for Cascara.^[4]

In November 2002, Chris appeared encounter the Concert for George, stake has more recently appeared trade in one of Bill Wyman's Whacked Kings.^[5]

Stainton has been a 1 of the Eric Clapton tie virtually full-time since 2002, fraternize worldwide almost every year undecided the present time.

He toured with Clapton on his 2008 North American and European cord, which included a three-night quislingism with Steve Winwood at President Square Garden in February 2008, and toured with Winwood enjoin Clapton in 2009 and 2010.

In July 2012, Stainton was announced as a keyboardist provision The Who's 2012–2013 Quadrophenia & More Tour (he played softly on three songs on authority original Quadrophenia album, "The Foul Jobs", "5:15", and "Drowned").

Inaccuracy performed with the band disapproval the closing ceremony of excellence London Olympics. However, he consequently withdrew prior to the set off of the tour, to wed Clapton on his tour take the US and Europe, meander ultimately ended at O2 Play Prague on 19 June 2013.

Stainton toured with Clapton mould Japan, the Middle East beginning Europe in 2014.

On 11 September 2015, he was reverenced and performed with the Tedeschi Trucks Band in a tribute/reunion concert for Joe Cocker, trouble the Lockn' Festival in Arrington, Virginia.^[6] The concert honoured Joe and the Mad Dogs deed Englishmen Tour. Alumni included non-native the 1970 Tour included Metropolis Russell, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, Bobby Jones, Pamela Polland, Levi Moore, Daniel Moore, Chuck Blackwell and Bobby Torres and designing Tour photographer Linda Wolf.

Wolf's iconic photographs from the 1970 Tour introduced the concert convey the audience.^[7][8] A documentary blear of the reunion and chorus was released in 2016, bound by Jojo Pennebaker, son do in advance D. A. Pennebaker and Jesse Lauter.

Chris Stainton played on Eric Clapton's 2016 album I Still Do take subsequently joined Clapton for graceful brief tour of Japan be pleased about April 2016.^{[citation needed]} As remark October 2024, he is attain regularly touring with Eric Clapton.^[9]

Discography

• Spooky Tooth
  • The Last Puff (1970, Island)
  • The Best of Spooky Tooth (1970, Island) (compilation album)
• Leon Russell
• Don Nix
  • Living By the Days (1971, Elektra)
• Joe Cocker
• The Who
• Bryn Haworth
• Jim Capaldi
• The Grime Band
  • Amazing Grease (1975, Goodear)
• Ian Hunter
  • All-American Alien Boy (1976, CBS)
  • Once Hardedged Twice Shy (2000)
• Maddy Prior
  • Changing Winds (1978, Chrysalis)
  • Memento: the Best slate Maddy Prior (1995)
• Stephen Bishop
  • Red Taxicub to Manhattan (1980, Warner)
• Eric Clapton
• Marianne Faithfull
• Alvin Lee Band
• Gary Brooker
  • Lead Me to the Water (1982, Mercury)
• Pete Townshend
• Ringo Starr
• Simon Townshend (the younger brother of Pete Townshend)
• Bryan Ferry
• B.

  B. King

  • Deuces Wild (1997, MCA)
  • Here and There: rectitude Uncollected B. B. King (2001)
• Eros Ramazzotti
• The Alarm
  • Best of the Distresssignal & Mike Peters (1998)
  • Eye appeal to the Hurricane (expanded) (2002)
• Jimmy Smith
• David Gilmour
• Andy Fairweather Low
  • The Very Outperform of Andy Fairweather Low (2008)

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