Alan Parker

Alan Parker is an English guitarist and composer, born Alan Frederick Parker in Matlock, Derbyshire, in 1944. Trained under Julian Bream at the Royal Academy of Music, he worked as a session guitarist from the late 1960s, recorded albums for the KPM and De Wolfe music libraries and later wrote widely for film and television. Parker was a member of Blue Mink, The Congregation and CCS, and led his own studio bands Hungry Wolf and Ugly Custard. His guitar is heard on Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man, the Walker Brothers' No Regrets and David Bowie's Rebel Rebel.