Billy Ritchie (musician)

William Edward Ritchie is a British keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of The Satellites, The Premiers, 123, and Clouds. He is generally acknowledged as being the first keyboard player in rock music to stand and take a leading role, thereby providing a model for others such as Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. He is also credited as being responsible for rewriting standard songs and arranging music in a style that later became fashionable as progressive rock. During a Saville Theatre concert in 1967, he introduced a thenunknown David Bowie to Jimi Hendrix.

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