Alan Warner (aka Allan Warner) (born 21 April 1947, Paddington, West London) is a musician. As a boy he originally wanted to play trumpet but ended up with a toy accordion. He started playing Guitar at the age of 11, his parents bought him a cheap Spanish guitar for Christmas, and he soon realised, listening to the twangy tones of Duane Eddy, Hank Marvin, The Ventures, etc, that this was what he wanted to do.
In the early 1960s after leaving scho...
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Alan Warner (aka Allan Warner) (born 21 April 1947, Paddington, West London) is a musician. As a boy he originally wanted to play trumpet but ended up with a toy accordion. He started playing Guitar at the age of 11, his parents bought him a cheap Spanish guitar for Christmas, and he soon realised, listening to the twangy tones of Duane Eddy, Hank Marvin, The Ventures, etc, that this was what he wanted to do.
In the early 1960s after leaving school at the age of fourteen, Warner played with several semi-professional groups playing local gigs, before becoming a professional musician two years later. Some of the groups he played in were The Leesiders Sect , The Line-up, Tel Thorne and The Dwellers and The Trekkers.
Warner nearly joined a group called The Black Eagles, which featured a bass player called Phil Lynott, who would later go on to find fame as the leader of Thin Lizzy.
In 1966 Warner joined The Ramong Sound and through the bands name change and evolution he was one of the...
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