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| JOHN SINCLAIR |
John Sinclair has been a touring musician since the age of 15, perhaps mostnoticably having spent 17 years as keyboard player for Ozzy Osbourne (from 1986 to 2003).
He started learning classical piano at the age of 5 and in his own words “should have some idea about what I’m doing by now!”.
After making a solo album at the age of 19 with the now defunct Penny Farthing record label he went on to play with many bands including The Heavy Metal Kids on Mickey Most’s RAK record label, Status Quo and Suzy Quatro and after being voted among the top 10 rock keyboard players in the UK, moved to Los Angeles in 1976 with a band called Lion.
Apart from recording the Lion album, he went on to undertake session work with Jefferson Starship, Eddy Money, Rex Smith, The Outlaws, and The Babies, and in 1980 recorded the pilot, movie soundtrack and played on The Black Album, for the now infamous Spinal Tap.
In 1981 he joined veteran heavy rock band Uriah Heep and as well as 5 years of extensive world touring recorded 3 albums namely “Abominog”, “Head First” and “Equator”.
In 1986 he joined Ozzy’s band and toured and recorded with him apart from a brief stint with the Cult (for about a year) in 1990, during which time he appeared on the live Cult album.
His recording and co-writing credits with Ozzy include “No Rest for the Wicked”(1987), “No More Tears”(1990) and the more recent Japanese “Live at the Budokan” CD/DVD (2002).
He finally quit the road in July 2003 to settle in the Scottish Highlands and act a bit more like a man of 50!!
He also has an extensive back catalogue of material of all styles from rock music to stage musicals and has recently completed a rock musical with well known Scottish author Lin Anderson, with additional musical composition by Steve Webb.
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| LIN ANDERSON |
Lin is co-founder of the international crime writing festival Bloody Scotland which takes place annually in Stirling, Scotland, mid-September and is a current director and organising committee member.
She is a graduate of Glasgow University (MA Maths), Edinburgh University (MA Education), Scottish Screen Academy (Screenwriting MA with distinction).
A novelist and screenwriter best known for her bestselling series featuring forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod of which there are currently fourteen novels, four of which have been long listed for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, with both Paths of the Dead and Follow the Dead being finalists.
Her short film River Child won a Students on Screen Bafta award and the Celtic Film Festival best fiction award and has garnered more than one and a half million views on Youtube.
Lin is currently promoting the rock musical Voice of a Generation for which she wrote the Libretto, with John Sinclair, former keyboard player with Ozzy Osborne, composing the music.
