Biography
Fenwick's first professional group was a ska and bluebeat group called "Ray and the Red Devils". In 1964, he joined The Syndicats as replacement to Steve Howe. In 1965 he joined the Dutch group "Tee Set", from which developed another group "After Tea".
He was with The Spencer Davis Group from 1967 to 1969. He also co-wrote the theme music to the 1970s cult TV show Magpie, which was credited to "The Murgatroyd Band", which was basically The Spencer Davis Group at the time..
In July 1972, he played guitar on a number of the tracks for Bo Diddley's Chess Records album The London Bo Diddley Sessions. During the '70s is part of the "Fancy" and "Ian Gillan Band". He also participated in the Jon Lord live album Windows in 1974. He was also in the group Fancy who had the hits "Touch Me" and a cover of Chip Taylor's "Wild Thing".
He also was a member of the band Forcefield (1987–1989) along with Tony Martin (Black Sabbath), Cozy Powell (Rainbow, Black Sabbath), Jan Akkerman and Neil Murray (Whitesnake, Black Sabbath).
He returned to sessions and then featured on former Rainbow vocalist, Graham Bonnet's album, Here Comes the Night in 1991.
In 2003 Fenwick recorded and toured with Yes guitarist Steve Howe as part of his band Steve Howe's Remedy. He appears on the live concert DVD of Steve Howe's Remedy Elements, having produced the scores for the entire band.
Fenwick produced Jo Jo Laine's girl group single "When The Boy's Happy" on Mercury Records under the name Jo Jo Laine & The Firm.
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