Phil Campbell (musician)
Philip Anthony Campbell is a Welsh rock musician. He is most noted for his time with hard rock band Motrhead. He played with them from 1984 to 2015, and appeared onalbums, including live albums. Aside from Motrhead, Campbell has played for Persian Risk and Phil Campbells All Starr Band.
Campbell was born in Pontypridd, and started playing guitar when he wasyears old, inspired by guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbaths Tony Iommi, Led Zeppelins Jimmy Page, Jan Akkerman, Michael Schenker and Todd Rundgren. At the age of 12, Campbell got Lemmys autograph after a Hawkwind gig. By the time he was 13, he was playing semiprofessionally with a cabaret band called Contrast. Later he played with a pubrock band called Roktopus at gigs in and around South Wales. He bought his first Les Paul in 1978 at a New Years Day guitar sale at a shop on Ealing Broadway, London following the fate of many of his guitars, it was stolen.
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