Pete Wingfield

Pete Wingfield (born 7 May 1948, Hampshire, England) is a British music producer, keyboard player and journalist.

As a specialist in soul music, in the 1970s he contributed regular articles and reviews to the monthly journal 'Let It Rock', and the weekly 'Melody Maker' among others. As a performer, he played with the British soul band, The Olympic Runners and Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes. Wingfield also had a Top 10 solo one hit wonder hit in 1975, with "Eighteen With a Bullet".
He produced the first album by Dexy's Midnight Runners, and has played on sessions for The Housemartins, The Beautiful South, Van Morrison, Freddie King and Paul McCartney on his Run Devil Run album.
Wingfield played with Van Morrison at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival which was one of the two shows featured on Morrison's 2006 first ever issued DVD. Several years later, he also did a summer tour of Europe with Morrison's band featuring the songs from the 1979 album, Into the Music.

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