Solid Gold Cadillac was a British
jazz-rock
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group set up in the early 1970s.
The band featured, variously,
Roy Babbington
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Biography
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(bass),
Mike Westbrook
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Early work
Mike Westbrook was born in Hig ...
(electric piano),
Fi Trench (piano, organ),
Chris Spedding
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(guitar),
Brian Godding
Brian Godding (born 19 August 1945, Monmouth, South Wales) is a pop, rock and jazz rock guitarist.
Reviews
Regarding his 1988 solo album ''Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue'', Dave Wayne in the ''New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock'', ...
(guitar), Rick Morcombe (guitars), Malcolm Griffiths (trombone),
Phil Minton
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Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's ...
(lead vocals, trumpet), George Khan (sax, flute), Butch Potter (bass) and Alan Jackson (drums).
The band released two albums on
RCA Records
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: ''Solid Gold Cadillac'' (1972) and ''Brain Damage'' (1973), re-released together on CD in 1999.
References
British jazz-rock groups
British jazz ensembles
British rock music groups
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