David Maxwell "Max" Middleton (born 4 August 1946 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England). He is an English composer and keyboardist and was originally a docker on the Liverpool docks. Middleton is known for his work on the Fender Rhodes Electric piano, the Minimoog synthesizer and his percussive playing style of the Hohner Clavinet. He started on his professional music career by playing keyboards for Jeff Beck and is best known for his work on Be...
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David Maxwell "Max" Middleton (born 4 August 1946 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England). He is an English composer and keyboardist and was originally a docker on the Liverpool docks. Middleton is known for his work on the Fender Rhodes Electric piano, the Minimoog synthesizer and his percussive playing style of the Hohner Clavinet. He started on his professional music career by playing keyboards for Jeff Beck and is best known for his work on Beck's Blow by Blow.
After being introduced to Beck by bassist Clive Chaman during 1970 he played keyboards on the third Jeff Beck Group album Rough and Ready and the fourth so-called "orange album" Jeff Beck Group in a line-up with Chaman, vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench and Drummer Cozy Powell. He went on to record Blow by Blow and Wired with Jeff Beck before moving on to record and tour with Nazareth, Hummingbird, Streetwalkers, Chris Rea, Kate Bush, Annette Peacock, Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor and singer-songwriter John Martyn....
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