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Keyboard player/guitarist (and sometime singer)
Paul Martin Raymond was born in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England in 1945. He made his recording debut as the organist/pianist in the pop/rock quintet
Plastic Penny, where he later took over as vocalist following the departure of original lead singer Brian Keith. Following the split of the group's lineup in 1968,
Raymond jumped to the much more blues-oriented
Chicken Shack, joining after the departure of keyboard player/singer
Christine Perfect. He left that band in 1970 but remained in blues-rock, doing double duty on keyboards and guitar as a member of
Savoy Brown for the next five years. He and
Chicken Shack bassist
Andy Sylvester became part of the band, and he was work behind ex-
Fleetwood Mac guitarist/singer
Danny Kirwan when he cut his debut solo album, Second Chapter, in 1975.
Raymond left
Savoy Brown after the recording of 1976's Skin 'N' Bone, and joined the hard rock outfit
UFO in 1977, succeeding
Danny Peyronel on keyboards for the album
Lights Out. His work in the decades since has mostly been within the context of
UFO or various related solo projects (most notably by
Michael Schenker).
Raymond cut his first solo album in 1998, with Kazuyo Sugimoto, Yuiko Tsubokura, and
Masayoshi Yamashita. Much of his work in the context of his
Paul Raymond Project performances and recordings has involved
UFO alumni Andy Parker,
Pete Way, and
Phil Mogg. ~ Bruce Eder