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Paul Samwell-Smith

Paul Samwell-Smith (born Paul Smith, 8 May 1943, in Richmond, Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a counties of England in the South East England of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire....
) is best known as a founding member and bassist

Bassist

A bass player is a musician who plays a double bass, bass guitar, or another low-pitched instrument, such as keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as tuba or sousaphone....
of the 1960s English

England

The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an England Rock music band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page....
, a group that spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
, Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
, and Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
, of Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
fame, and as a youth, attended Hampton Grammar School with The Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty

Jim McCarty

Jim McCarty is a UK musician, best known as the drummer for The Yardbirds and Renaissance ....
.

While in The Yardbirds, he worked with record producer

Record producer

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s such as Mickie Most

Mickie Most

Mickie Most, born Michael Peter Hayes , was a successful English record producer, with a string of Number One singles with his own RAK Records, and with acts such as The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, and Suzi Quatro and the Jeff Beck Group....
, Simon Napier-Bell

Simon Napier-Bell

Simon Napier-Bell has undertaken many jobs in the music industry, including bandboy, manager, producer, songwriter, journalist and author. But he is best-known as manager, particularly of The Yardbirds, John's Children, Marc Bolan, T....
and Giorgio Gomelsky

Giorgio Gomelsky

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Paul Samwell-Smith (born Paul Smith, 8 May 1943, in Richmond, Surrey

Surrey

Bassist

England

The Yardbirds

Jeff Beck

Eric Clapton

Jimmy Page

Led Zeppelin

Jim McCarty

Jim McCarty is a UK musician, best known as the drummer for The Yardbirds and Renaissance ....
.

While in The Yardbirds, he worked with record producer

Record producer

Mickie Most

Simon Napier-Bell

Giorgio Gomelsky

Giorgio Gomelsky is an United States impresario, music manager and record producer. He owned the Crawdaddy Club where The Rolling Stones were house band, and he was involved with their early management....
and co-produced and engineered much of their music. He left The Yardbirds in June 1966 to pursue a career as a music producer.

He went on to become a successful producer, with credits including the most successful albums of Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam , best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a Great Britain musician of Greek Cypriot and Sweden ancestry. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and prominent Religious conversion to Islam....
, and in addition, Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
, Carly Simon

Carly Simon

Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
, Renaissance

Renaissance (band)

Renaissance were an England progressive rock band, most notable for their 1978 UK top 10 hit "Northern Lights"....
, Murray Head

Murray Head

Murray Head is an English people actor and singer, most recognized for his hit song, "One Night in Bangkok"....
, Chris de Burgh

Chris de Burgh

Chris de Burgh is an Irish-based musician and singer-songwriter who holds British nationality . A musician who writes a variety of mixed instrumental material, Chris de Burgh had huge success in Ireland, Britain and the United States with the 1986 hit "The Lady in Red "....
, Beverley Craven

Beverley Craven

Beverley Craven is a United Kingdom singer-songwriter, who is best known for her hit record single and albums. Her greatest success was in 1991 with her United Kingdom hit single, "Promise Me"....
, Illusion

Illusion

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and Claire Hamill

Claire Hamill

Claire Hamill is a United Kingdom singer-songwriter....
, as well as producing two of Amazing Blondel

Amazing Blondel

Amazing Blondel is an England acoustic progressive folk band, consisting of Eddie Baird, John Gladwin, and Terry Wincott. They released a number of LPs for Island Records in the early 1970s....
's album

Album

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s for Island Records

Island Records

Island Records was a record label that was founded by British record producers in Jamaica. It was based in England for many years, but is now owned by Universal Music Group and is operated in the United States through The Island Def Jam Music Group and in the UK through Island Records Group ....
, and the first

All About Eve (album)

All About Eve is the self-titled first album of All About Eve Commercially this was their most successful, reaching No.7 in the UK Charts and spawning four top 40 singles ....
and second

Scarlet and Other Stories

Scarlet and Other Stories is the second studio album by All About Eve . It is widely held to be considerably darker both in tone and lyrics than their first album, All About Eve ....
albums by All About Eve

All About Eve (band)

All About Eve are a British rock/pop band. The creative core consists of Coventry-born Julianne Regan and Andy Cousin , with other members changing over the years....
for Mercury

Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US, and are both subsidiaries of Universal Music Group....
.

In the world of film

Film

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, Paul Samwell-Smith was the musical producer for Harold and Maude
Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude is a cult classic film directed by Hal Ashby in 1971 in film. The film, featuring slapstick, dark humour, and existentialist drama, revolves around the exploits of a morbid young man – Harold – who drifts away from the life that his detached mother prescribes for him, as he develops a relationship with septua...
in 1971, with music written by Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens

Bud Cort

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and Ruth Gordon

Ruth Gordon

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. In addition, two decades later, he produced Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge (film)

Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 film based on a semi-autobiographical Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher, first published in 1987. The screenplay was adapted by Fisher herself, and the film was directed by Mike Nichols and released by Columbia Pictures....
in 1990, as a music sound recording and recording supervisor.

Samwell-Smith played in the Yardbirds reunion band Box of Frogs

Box of Frogs

Box of Frogs were a band formed in 1983 by former members of The Yardbirds, who released their first album in 1984. The core group comprised Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell-Smith, and Jim McCarty....
in the 1980s, and was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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as a member of the Yardbirds in 1992.