Rick Fenn

Rick Fenn attended the Dragon School^[2] and Magdalen College School^{[citation needed]} in Oxford. His musical career started in Oxford where he was leader of the school band Bagshot Louie. The band folded with the end of the school year in 1971, and Fenn moved to Cambridge, to attend the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology.^{[citation needed]}

After completing an HND business studies course, Fenn joined a Cambridge band called Hamilton Gray who moved to Manchester and became the band Gentlemen. Their debut TV appearance on a show called So It Goes (along with the Sex Pistols) resulted in friendship with Paul Burgess, who soon afterward recommended him to 10cc, whom he joined towards the end of 1976 at the launch of the Deceptive Bends album and has been part of the team ever since.

From 1979 he also toured and recorded with Mike Oldfield, and with him co-wrote the song "Family Man" which went on to become a big hit for Hall & Oates all over the world and won him an ASCAP award for best song in 1984.

In 1985, Fenn wrote and recorded his own album Profiles with the Pink Floyd’s drummer Nick Mason. The single from the album, "Lie for a Lie" sung by David Gilmour and featuring Maggie Reilly, was a hit in the United States.^{[citation needed]} Also in the 1980s Fenn and Mason formed Bamboo Music, a company that produced music jingles for corporate clients.

Over the years, Fenn has toured with artists such as Rick Wakeman,^[3] Jack Bruce, Elkie Brooks and Wax (with Andrew Gold and Graham Gouldman). As a guitarist he has recorded with numerous artists, among them Cliff Richard, Peter Green, Agnetha Fältskog (ABBA), Marilyn, Sniff 'n' the Tears, John Wetton, and Justin Hayward.

From the late 1980s, Fenn devoted more of his time to composing and wrote countless scores for television documentaries, dramas and comedies (including series for Hale and Pace and Craig Charles) and a number of feature films.^{[citation needed]} Among these was White of the Eye which was another collaboration with Nick Mason. Over the years he has won several awards for high-profile commercial sound tracks.

One soundtrack that won Fenn a Gold Clio award in America in 1989 for best song, featured Peter Howarth on vocals.^{[citation needed]} He went on to form a writing partnership with Howarth, now the lead singer with the Hollies, and in 1990 they wrote a rock opera called "Robin, Prince of Sherwood" which toured the UK for a year and spent four months in the West End. Fenn and Howarth have other projects in the pipeline. They also periodically assemble a troupe of prominent musicians and perform as the Feramones.

In 2008 Fenn toured throughout Germany as part of the Nokia Night of the Proms Band where, as well as 10cc, he played with Tears For Fears, Robin Gibb, Dennis DeYoung and Kim Wilde. ^[4]

When not working with 10cc, Fenn now spends most of his time at his home near Byron Bay, Australia, where he has collaborated with Brian Cadd.^{[citation needed]}

Profiles – 1985

Life Could Be a Dream – 1986 (soundtrack) ^[5]

White of the Eye – 1987 (soundtrack)

Body Contact – 1987 (soundtrack)

Tank Malling – 1989 (soundtrack)

Live and Let Live – 1977

Bloody Tourists – 1978

Look Hear? – 1980

Ten Out of 10 – 1981

Windows in the Jungle – 1983

Alive – 1993

Mirror Mirror – 1995

Clever Clogs – 2008

Girls – 1980

Frooty Rooties – 1982

Animalympics – 1980

And Another Thing... – 2000

Love and Work – 2012

Eyes of a Woman – 1985

Robin Prince of Sherwood – 1992

Androcles and the Lion – 1995

And Still I Fly – 2020

QE2 – 1980

Live at Montreux 1981 – 1981

Five Miles Out – 1982

Crises – 1983

Islands – 1987

Crimes of Passion (soundtrack) – 1984

Silent Nights – 1985

Live at Hammersmith – 1985

Love Action – 1981

Live – 1987 – with Jack Bruce and Nick Mason

Many Have No Speech – with Jack Bruce, Marianne Faithfull and Robert Wyatt (Watt/ECM)

The Watt Works Family Album – (WATT/ECM)

Folly Seeing All This – 1993 (ECM)

Blues for Dhyana – 1998

The Clown – 2001

The Cappucino Songs – 1998

Live in Concert 1987 – 2019