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Robert Joseph Weston (1 November 1947 – ) was a British
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guitarist, who was a member of
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in the early 1970s. He also recorded and performed with a number of other musicians, including
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,
Long John Baldry John William "Long John" Baldry (12 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was an English musician and actor. In the 1960s, he was one of the first British vocalists to sing the blues in clubs and shared the stage with many British musicians including t ...
,
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,
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, and
Danny Kirwan Daniel David Kirwan (13 May 1950 – 8 June 2018) was a British musician whose greatest success came with his role as guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972. He released three albums as a s ...
.


Early life and career

Weston was born in
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in the county of
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on 1 November 1947, to a
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service family. In his childhood he learned to play the violin, switching to the guitar at the age of 12, being influenced by the music of
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artists such as
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and
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. Moving to London from Devon in the mid-1960s (he retained a soft
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burr to his voice for the rest of his life), in 1967 he became the lead-guitarist with a
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band called The Kinetic, which was based at the time in
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, playing as a support act to
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gigs in France. The band signed to the French label Disques Vogue and released into the French market a long-player entitled ''Live Your Life'' (1967), with Weston being the band's principal songwriter, and two EP's, ''Live Your Life'' (1967), and ''Suddenly Tomorrow'' (1967). The ''Suddenly Tomorrow'' EP drew notices in the British music press to the act as having commercial potential, but no more recordings appeared, and it disbanded within a couple of years of its formation. After The Kinetic had broken up, having returned to London from Paris, in April 1968 Weston joined the British blues heavy rock band
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, replacing
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as its lead-guitarist, and played with it until quitting the act at the end of the year. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Weston worked as a
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, performing and recording with a number of acts of the then in vogue
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movement, including
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and
Long John Baldry John William "Long John" Baldry (12 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was an English musician and actor. In the 1960s, he was one of the first British vocalists to sing the blues in clubs and shared the stage with many British musicians including t ...
, and touring in continental Europe and America. In 1971 he was performing with the
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act Ashman Reynolds as its lead guitarist, songwriting and playing on its long-player release ''Stop Off'' (1972).


Fleetwood Mac

In 1972 Weston was resident in
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in West London, when he joined the British
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band
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as its co-lead guitarist alongside
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, as a replacement for the recently dropped
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. The band was aware of Weston's talent having seen him performing when Long John Baldry had regularly shared the same billing at venues with Fleetwood Mac, and when the guitar vacancy had arrived in Fleetwood Mac's line-up Weston was approached by the band with the offer of joining, which he agreed to in September. In January 1973 Fleetwood Mac recorded the long-player ''
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'', Weston playing the record's distinctive
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on the song "Remember Me", and its
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and
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tracks on "The Derelict". He also sang a duet with
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on the song "Did You Ever Love Me", and wrote the instrumental that closed the album, titled "Caught in the Rain".'Fleetwood Mac: Behind the Mask', by Bob Brunning (Pub. Hodder & Stoughton, 1990). Later in 1973 the band recorded its next album titled ''
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''. Weston contributed more distinctive guitar work, such as the slide intro on the song "Why", and co-wrote the song "Forever" with Welch and
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. In retrospect, Weston felt that his contribution to the band's work in this period did not receive the formal recognition that it deserved. During a tour of the United States in 1973, when the band were beginning to gel particularly well in its live performances, it emerged that Weston had started a clandestine romantic relationship with
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's wife,
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. Fleetwood had got on well with Weston before this, and tried to carry on with the arranged live performance schedule due to the legal and financial penalties that would be incurred by the band for a cancelled tour, but after a gig at
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in October he informed the band in Weston's absence that he was no longer willing to work with him. In consequence the band collectively agreed to drop Weston from the line-up, Weston being told about the decision by the act's tour manager, with the rest of the tour being abandoned by the remaining members. (It was this situation which gave rise to the " Bogus Fleetwood Mac" saga in which its manager Clifford Davis hired a new group of musicians, passed them off as Fleetwood Mac, and sent them out to complete the tour). Weston's involvement in the band had an effect beyond purely the musical, as the spin into which his relationship with Boyd had put it contributed to Bob Welch's departure from its line-up in 1974. This led to a vacancy filled by
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and
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, who brought to the band a more mainstream rock sound, which would in the late 1970s-1980s lead to its greater popularity and commercial success.


Later career

On his return to London in late 1973 from the aborted Fleetwood Mac tour, Weston was approached by
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about a possible collaboration, but this did not develop into anything of a practical nature. Weston went on to record and tour in Europe and North America with
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, playing on his second album ''
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'' (1975), for which he co-wrote the song "Silence Is a Strong Reply". In July 1975 he joined a newly formed band called the
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All Stars, but when Marriott opted to play lead guitar himself, Weston departed in December of the same year, and for the remainder of his career worked primarily as a solo artist or as a session musician. In 1979 he played on Head's third album ''Between Us''. In 1979 he wrote and recorded a blues rock album titled ''Nightlight'', which was produced by
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at
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and at Roundhouse Studio in London, and commercially released the following year through the French record label AZ International. However, with popular taste in music having moved on from the early 1970s, and British blues rock having become a small uncommercial niche market the record failed to enter the charts. A single, "Silver Arrow", was released, but also failed to sell well enough to chart. In 1980 he recorded another blues rock album, ''Studio Picks'', at
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, produced again by Callan, featuring his own material and a cover of
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' " When Will I Be Loved". Mick Fleetwood played drums on one track, "Ford 44", the first time that he and Weston had worked together since the acrimony of 1973. The record was again released by AZ International in 1981, but like ''Nightlight'' it failed to enter the United Kingdom albums chart, and Weston's contract with the label was subsequently terminated. In 1985 Weston made a foray into mainstream pop music with a standalone single, "Desire", released by the French record company Underdog Records, but it also failed to chart and was his last solo commercial record. With his career as a solo artist having failed to take off, in the 1980s Weston returned to working as a professional
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, playing live on tour with a variety of acts, working in London studios, and intermittently in Europe and America. He played on
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's 1986
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album ''
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'', writing one of its songs, and also worked in television music production. He was involved with the soundtrack for the French cinema film ''
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'' (1985), and acted as the musical director for the production of the British television film ''Palmer'' (1991). In the 1990s he retired from professional music for several years, returning to it at the end of the decade with a self-produced album called ''There's a Heaven'' (1999), which was engineered at Studio 125 in
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and released independently. In January 2008 Weston announced that he had started working on recording some new material at Markant Studios in the Netherlands. While working there he met Frank Baijens, a Dutch singer-songwriter who was recording his album ''Odd Man Out'' at the studio at the same time, and Weston played on one of the album's songs, "Where the Heart Belongs". In his last years Weston was resident in North West London, occasionally playing in impromptu sessions at
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and gigging with a local band called Mad Dog Bites.


Death

Weston, who lived alone in his final years, was found dead by police officers in his flat in
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in London on 3 January 2012. They had gained entry to the property after his friends had reported concerns over unexpectedly not hearing from him for several days. He was reported to have died on an unknown date from the effects of a
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caused by
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. He was 64 years old.


Discography


Fleetwood Mac

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'' (Reprise, 1973) * ''
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'' (Reprise, 1973)


Solo albums

* ''Night Light'' (AZ International, 1980) * ''Studio Picks'' (AZ International, 1981) * ''There's a Heaven'' (Private pressing, 1999)


Solo 7" singles

* ''Silver Arrow'' (AZ International, 1980) * ''Desire'' (Underdog Records, 1985)


7" EPs with ''The Kinetic''

* ''Live Your Life'' (Disques Vogue, 1967) * ''Suddenly Tomorrow'' (Disques Vogue, 1967)


Appearances with other artists

* The Kinetic – ''Live Your Life'' (1967) * Ashkan – ''In from the Cold'' (1969) *
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– ''Chimera'' (1970 – Re-released 2002) *
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– ''Bond in America'' (1971) *
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– ''Stop Off'' (1972) *
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– ''
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'' (1972) *
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– ''Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle'' (1974) *
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– ''
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'' (1975) (Co-wrote ''Silence Is a Strong Reply''). *
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– '' Rendezvous'' (1977) *
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– ''Instincts'' (1977) *
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– ''Solo'' (1979) *
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– ''
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'' (1979) * Murray Head – '' Between Us'' (1979) *
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– ''Distant Shores'' (1981) *
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– ''
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'' (1986) *
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and Friends – ''
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'' (2004) *
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– ''Odd Man Out'' (2008)


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Bob Weston
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