Lucifer (1970s rock band)

Lucifer was a British solo rock project active in the early 1970s, the alias of Denys Irving. Howard Marks clearly states in his autobiography Mr Nice , that Lucifer was the solo work of Denys Irving. This admission by Marks went unnoticed for years, so the identity of Lucifer was often falsely attributed to Peter Walker of The Purple Gang, due to the fact Walker started calling himself Lucifer in the late sixties. There are also references to Lucifer and Denys Irving in the biography Howard Marks, His Life and High Times by David Leigh, and the ebook Rogue Males Richard Burton, Howard Marks and Sir Richard Burton by Rob Walters. Denys Irving is also mentioned in the book A history of artists film and video in Britain, 1897 2004, by David Curtis. The records were only available via mail order through adverts in papers such as Oz magazine , Record Mirror, New Musical Express amp International Times .

Denys George Irving was born onJanuary 1944 in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, and attended Dulwich College , where he won the Fawkes Memorial Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He was married to the actress Merdelle Jordine , Timeslip , Death May Be Your Santa Claus, Riddles of the Sphinx, The Sweeney with whom he had a child. OnAugust 1976 Denys Irving was killed in a hang gliding accident at Mill Hill, Sussex. Denys was also a pioneer in early computer animation. Some of his work has recently been shown at the Tate Gallery, and his films are held in the LUX collection,.

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