Peter James "Pete" Turner (born 28 August 1974) is a British musician and songwriter who has been the

bassist A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a Bass (instrument), bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), synthbass, keyboar ...

for the rock band

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since the group's formation.

Biography

Turner grew up in

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as an

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British parents. He has cited

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as the first band which he "really loved," and also cited

Duran Duran Duran Duran () are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer and bassist Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor (bass guitarist), John Taylor. With the addition of drummer Roger ...

and

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as early favourites. Turner has credited Duran Duran's John Taylor as being his initial inspiration in becoming a bassist. He has also said that Public Enemy's record

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is his favourite album. Turner was one of the three embryonic founders of what would later become Elbow, as he had formed a band named RPM with future Elbow members Richard Jupp and Mark Potter. Turner befriended future Elbow frontman

Guy Garvey Guy Edward John Garvey (born 6 March 1974) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and BBC Radio 6 Music presenter. He is the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Elbow. Early life Garvey grew up in Bury, Lancashire. His father was a gr ...

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and the latter later joined RPM in 1991, triggering a band name change to Mr. Soft, and eventually later on first to just Soft and finally to Elbow in 1997. Sometime in the

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, Turner relocated from Bury to Manchester's city centre, and then moved again to the suburban area of

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in Manchester's southern half in 2008.

References

External links

Elbow official website
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