Chris Spedding

From Wikipedia:

Christopher John Spedding (born Peter Robinson, 17 June 1944) is an English guitarist and record producer. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Spedding is best known for his studio session work. By the early 1970s, he had become one of the most sought-after session guitarists in England. Spedding has played on and produced many albums and singles. He has also been a member of eleven rock bands: the Battered Ornaments, Frank Ricotti Quartet, King Mob, Mike Batt and Friends, Necessaries, Nucleus, Ricky Norton, Sharks, Trigger, and the Wombles. In May 1976, Spedding also produced the first Sex Pistols recordings.

AllMusic has described Spedding as “one of the UK’s most versatile session guitarists, [he] has had a long career on two continents that saw him tackle nearly every style of rock and roll …”.

Spedding, a long-time friend of Chrissie Hynde, was a regular concert feature artist with the Pretenders on their US tour in March/April 1980. He appeared regularly during the band’s encores, playing the guitar solos on their version of the Kinks’ song “Stop Your Sobbing”.

As well as his celebrated work as a session musician, Spedding pursued a solo career, releasing his debut album Songs Without Words in 1970. Since then, he has released fourteen studio albums, and two live albums. His only solo hit was 1975’s “Motor Bikin'”. […]

That was like working with no other musician ever! His status is even greater now because he has this great band and he’s still going out live and doing old Beatles songs.

When I worked with him he was still going through the phase of not wanting to do a Beatles song. It’s like Jack Bruce – when I worked with him he’d never do a Cream song. I just wanted to play Sunshine of Your Love with him, but he just didn’t want to.

So back back then we just did original stuff with Paul. He likes to control things, being who he is – but under the guise of saying, “Play as free as you like; it’ll be fine.” Then he’ll start to pick it all apart. If you’re doing well, he’ll leave it. But if you’re not doing well, he’ll sort of say, “Yeah, that’s great, Chris – but what about this bit here? What about doing this?”

Chris Spedding – From Guitar World, April 17, 2026

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