He is a bass player and musician born in Stockport,
Cheshire, England.Starting
out on his professional career he moved further south in England and became
the bass player for the band Farm and moved on to Silverhead who he was a
member of from 1972 to 1974.In 1977 he became part of the New York new wave group Blondie and
saw success with them, including on his co-written songs such as "Eat to
the Beat", "War-Child" and "One Way or Another", until they disbanded in 1982.For the next couple of years after that he performed with
Chequered Past and was with them when they released their 1984 self-titled
album.In 1996 he was asked to
rejoin Blondie after that had got back together, but after recording a few
demos for their album No Exit he was dropped along with their
guitarist Frank Infante. Together they took out a lawsuit against the band but
they were unsuccessful in their attempts.Since the mid-2000s he has been a member of The Grabs
and performed on their Sex, Fashion and Money album in 2005 and in 2006
was the bass player on No More Vinyl by the Little Girls.As a composer he wrote the music
for the 1987 film Nightforce, as a performer he appears on the Repo
Man soundtrack, and his music has appeared in no less than 18 other
movies and programmes.As an
actor he has appeared in the films Captain V and Breeders and
in an episode of the TV series Glam Metal Detectives. He was inducted into the Rock
and Roll of Fame as a member of Blondie in 2006.
