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Phil Manzanera

Phil Manzanera

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Phil Manzanera (born Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams, 31 January 1951, in London
London
[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

) is a musician and record producer
Record producer
In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...

. He was the lead guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as acoustic guitars, electric guitars, classical guitars and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :...

 with Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Roxy Music are an English art rock group initiated during the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson . Former members include Brian Eno , and Eno's replacement Eddie Jobson...

. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour
David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour CBE is an English musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the songwriters in the rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a record producer for a variety of artists, and has enjoyed a successful career as a solo...

's album On An Island
On an Island
On an Island is the third solo album by David Gilmour, best known as a lead vocalist and guitarist for Pink Floyd. It was released in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2006, Gilmour's 60th birthday, and in the U.S. the following day. It is Gilmour's first new solo album in 22 years...

and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America. He wrote and presented a series of 14 one-hour radio programmes for station Planet Rock entitled The A-Z of Great Guitarists and his new instrumental
Instrumental
Rock Instrumentals have a separate page.An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. This term is used when referring to popular music rather than to other musical genres such as European...

 album, Firebird V11
Firebird V11
Firebird V11 is a studio album by Phil Manzanera, guitarist of rock band Roxy Music.. The album's title is inspired by a guitar of the same name, made by Gibson, a guitar with which Manzanera has had a long career with.-Track listing:...

, was released in 2008.

Manzanera was born in London to a Colombian
Colombian people
Colombian people are from a multiethnic nation in South American called Colombia. Colombians are predominantly Roman Catholic and overwhelmingly speakers of Spanish, and that a majority of them are the result of the a mixture of Europeans, Africans, Amerindians.-Demography:With approximately 43.6...

 mother and an English father, and spent most of his childhood in different parts of the Americas, including Hawaii, Venezuela, Colombia and Cuba.
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Phil Manzanera (born Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams, 31 January 1951, in London
London
[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

) is a musician and record producer
Record producer
In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...

. He was the lead guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as acoustic guitars, electric guitars, classical guitars and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :...

 with Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Roxy Music are an English art rock group initiated during the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson . Former members include Brian Eno , and Eno's replacement Eddie Jobson...

. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour
David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour CBE is an English musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the songwriters in the rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a record producer for a variety of artists, and has enjoyed a successful career as a solo...

's album On An Island
On an Island
On an Island is the third solo album by David Gilmour, best known as a lead vocalist and guitarist for Pink Floyd. It was released in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2006, Gilmour's 60th birthday, and in the U.S. the following day. It is Gilmour's first new solo album in 22 years...

and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America. He wrote and presented a series of 14 one-hour radio programmes for station Planet Rock entitled The A-Z of Great Guitarists and his new instrumental
Instrumental
Rock Instrumentals have a separate page.An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. This term is used when referring to popular music rather than to other musical genres such as European...

 album, Firebird V11
Firebird V11
Firebird V11 is a studio album by Phil Manzanera, guitarist of rock band Roxy Music.. The album's title is inspired by a guitar of the same name, made by Gibson, a guitar with which Manzanera has had a long career with.-Track listing:...

, was released in 2008.

Early years (1951–1970)


Manzanera was born in London to a Colombian
Colombian people
Colombian people are from a multiethnic nation in South American called Colombia. Colombians are predominantly Roman Catholic and overwhelmingly speakers of Spanish, and that a majority of them are the result of the a mixture of Europeans, Africans, Amerindians.-Demography:With approximately 43.6...

 mother and an English father, and spent most of his childhood in different parts of the Americas, including Hawaii, Venezuela, Colombia and Cuba. It was in Cuba that the young Manzanera, aged 6, encountered his first guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...

, a Spanish guitar owned by his mother. His earliest musical accomplishments were Cuban folk songs
Cuban folk music
Cuban folk music is very diverse and has been influenced by Spanish people, slaves from Africa and the remaining indigenous population of the Caribbean.- Classification of genres :...

 inspired by the Cuban Revolution
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt that led to the overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista of Cuba on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro....

.

In Venezuela the eight-year-old Manzanera started experimenting with the sounds of the electric guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker. The signal that comes from the guitar is sometimes electronically altered with guitar effects such as...

. During his teenage years he was absorbing the twin influences of 1960s rock and roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States after World War II in the late 1940s, from a combination of the rhythms of the blues, from the African American culture, and from America's country music and gospel music scenes...

 and Latin American rhythms of merengue music
Merengue music
Merengue is a type of music and dance from the Dominican Republic. It is popular in the Dominican Republic and all over Latin America. Its name is Spanish, taken from the Spanish name of the meringue, a dessert made from whipped egg whites and sugar. It is unclear as to why this name became the...

, cumbia
Cumbia
Cumbia is a Colombian musical style and folk dance that is considered to be representative of Colombia, along with Vallenato. Cumbia originated from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, with folkloric variants in Panama....

, and particularly the bolero
Bolero
Bolero is a name given to certain slow-tempo latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms, which are both significant, and which have separate origins. The term is also used for some art music...

s of the Mexican Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché is a Mexican musician and composer of Maya descent, widely considered the premiere Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era...

.

In his late teens Manzanera -- then at boarding school in the UK -- formed a series of groups with his friends Bill MacCormick
Bill MacCormick
Bill MacCormick is an English bassist and vocalist. He was a member of the bands Quiet Sun with Phil Manzanera, brother Ian MacCormick and others; Matching Mole with Robert Wyatt and others; 801 with Manzanera, Brian Eno and others; and Random Hold...

, later a member of Matching Mole
Matching Mole
Matching Mole was a UK progressive rock band from the Canterbury scene best known for the song "O Caroline". Robert Wyatt formed the band in October 1971 after he left Soft Machine and recorded his first solo album The End of an Ear...

 and Random Hold
Random Hold
-History:In late 1976, Dulwich College schoolmates David Ferguson and David Rhodes formed a musical unit together, after attending a gig by the band 801, featuring Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno. The two Davids felt that 801 was too mainstream, underused the talents of its members, and that they...

, MacCormick's brother Ian (better known as music writer Ian MacDonald
Ian MacDonald
Ian MacCormick , who wrote under the pseudonym Ian MacDonald, was a British music critic and author, best known for his detailed history of The Beatles and The New Shostakovich, a controversial study of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.-Biography:He briefly attended King's College,...

) and drummer Charles Hayward
Charles Hayward
Sir Charles Hayward was the 25th mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, from 1900–1902. He had one of the more unusual professions: Starting off as a carpenter, he went into the business of making coffins and turned that into a very successful funeral business, one which remains today....

, later of This Heat
This Heat
This Heat were a British experimental music group formed in late-1975 in Brixton, London by multi-instrumentalists Charles Bullen , Charles Hayward and Gareth Williams .This Heat were active in the ascendancy of British progressive rock and punk rock, but stood apart from...

. The final incarnation of this succession of bands was the progressive rock quartet Quiet Sun with keyboard player Dave Jarrett which broke up when McCormack joined Matching Mole, although Manzanera briefly revived the band in 1975 to record an LP of their original music during the making of his first solo album Diamond Head.

Roxy Music (1971–1983)


Manzanera was determined to join a professional band, and in October 1971 he was one of about twenty players who auditioned as lead guitarist for the recently formed Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Roxy Music are an English art rock group initiated during the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson . Former members include Brian Eno , and Eno's replacement Eddie Jobson...

. Although he did not have the same art school background as Ferry, Mackay and Eno, he had a wide-ranging interest in music, which had been equally influenced by his childhood sojourns in Latin America and his stints at boarding school in the UK, where he saw bands like Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band who, in the late 1960s, earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and in the 1970s, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Pink Floyd's work is marked by philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art,...

 and Soft Machine
Soft Machine
Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the so-called "Canterbury scene," and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre....

. Manzanera also knew several prominent musicians including Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine...

 and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour
David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour CBE is an English musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the songwriters in the rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a record producer for a variety of artists, and has enjoyed a successful career as a solo...

, who was a friend of his older brother.

Although the group were impressed with his playing, Manzanera lost out to David O'List
David O'List
David O'List is a rock guitarist, vocalist and trumpeter.Most notably, he played with The Attack, The Nice and Jet.- Career :...

, former guitarist with noted UK psych-pop combo The Nice
The Nice
The Nice were an English progressive rock band from the 1960s, known for their unique blend of rock, jazz and classical music. Their debut album, The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack was released in 1967 to immediate acclaim. It is often considered the first progressive rock album...

, although Roxy did ask Manzanera to become their roadie. However a few months later O'List quit the band abruptly after an onstage altercation with drummer Paul Thompson, during their audition for David Enthoven of EG Management. Manzanera was invited to the next rehearsal on the pretext of becoming their sound mixer but was asked to sit in on guitar. Unbeknownst to the rest of the group, he had secretly learned their entire repertoire and as a result he was immediately asked to become O'List's permanent replacement, joining on 14 February 1972.

His Roxy bandmates at this time were Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry is an English singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor known for a suave visual and vocal style, earning him the epithet 'The Electric Lounge Lizard'...

, Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as simply Brian Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at art school, taking...

, Paul Thompson
Paul Thompson (musician)
Paul Thompson is the drummer for Roxy Music from 1971 to 1980 and from 2001 onwards.In between those stints with Roxy Music, he was drummer in the Oi! band, Angelic Upstarts and the American alternative rock band Concrete Blonde...

 and Andy Mackay
Andy Mackay
Andrew "Andy" Mackay is an English multi-instrumentalist, is best known for his membership playing the oboe and the saxophone for the art rock group Roxy Music....

. Roxy’s rise was meteoric, with the band being hailed as the stylistic influence of the early 1970s. During the next 12 years, until 1983 when the band members went on a "long break", Roxy Music released a series of internationally best-selling albums, achieving ten UK Top 10 albums and touring extensively throughout the world. In parallel with Roxy Music, Manzanera has always pursued solo projects, both recording his own albums and producing for others. All his previous solo albums have been digitally remastered and re-released with new artwork on his own label, Expression Records.

Solo work (1983–2001)


As a writer, producer and solo artist, Phil Manzanera has worked with many of the luminaries of modern music, such as Steve Winwood
Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English singer-songwriter who performs and writes rock, blues-rock, and jazz. He sings with a tenor voice and is a multi-instrumentalist who plays Hammond organ, guitar, bass, and other string instruments. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of...

, David Gilmour, John Cale
John Cale
John Davies Cale is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....

, Godley & Creme
Godley & Creme
Godley & Creme was an English pop music duo comprising Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. The pair began releasing albums as a duo after splitting from the pop band 10cc. In 1979 they directed their first Music Video for themselves "An Englishman in New York"...

, Nico
Nico
Nico was a German singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, and Warhol Superstar...

 and John Wetton
John Wetton
John Kenneth Wetton is an English singer, bass guitarist and guitarist.Born in Willington, Derbyshire, Wetton grew up in Bournemouth, Dorset...

. He has co-written material with many artists, including Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as simply Brian Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at art school, taking...

, Tim Finn
Tim Finn
Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE is a New Zealand born singer and songwriter. Finn is most known for his music with New Zealand 1970s and 1980s rock group Split Enz, and later for his solo work, a temporary membership in Crowded House and his joint effort with younger brother Neil Finn as the Finn...

, Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine...

 and Gilmour. Manzanera co-wrote Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band who, in the late 1960s, earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and in the 1970s, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Pink Floyd's work is marked by philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art,...

's single "One Slip
One Slip
"One Slip" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason. The album gets its title from a line of this song's lyrics. It was first released as the B side for "Learning to Fly"...

" from their 1987 A Momentary Lapse of Reason
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
A Momentary Lapse of Reason is a studio album by Pink Floyd released by EMI Records on 8 September 1987, in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States by Columbia Records. It was the band's first release after the departure of Roger Waters from the band in 1985...

album.

In the 1990s Manzanera performed in concerts all over the world, including at Guitar Legends, the five-day guitar festival in Seville, where he was musical director for the event as well as playing with Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...

, Keith Richards
Keith Richards
Keith Richards is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 he was ranked 10th on Rolling Stone magazine's "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of...

, Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce
John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician, composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bass guitarist, harmonica player and pianist, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bass guitarist for the 1960s rock band Cream. He lives in Suffolk...

, Vicente Amigo
Vicente Amigo
Vicente Amigo Girol is a Spanish flamenco composer and virtuoso guitarist, born in Guadalcanal, near Seville. He has played as backing guitarist on recordings by flamenco singers El Pele, Camarón de la Isla, Vicente Soto, Luis de Córdoba and the rociero band Salmarina, and he has acted as a...

, Dave Edmunds
Dave Edmunds
Dave Edmunds is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with Pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.-Early years:As a teenager Edmunds first played...

, Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani
Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an American multi-instrumentalist, known as an instrumental rock guitarist, who has been nominated for Grammy Awards. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, and some of his former students have achieved fame with their guitar skills...

, Steve Cropper
Steve Cropper
Steve "The Colonel" Cropper is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. As part of the Stax Records house band Booker T. & The MG's, he played on hundreds of recordings by Stax artists such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla and Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor, also acting as producer on...

, Aterciopelados
Aterciopelados
Aterciopelados , led byAndrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago was one of the first rock bands of Colombia and is among the country's top groups. Their music fuses rock with a variety of Colombian and Latin American musical traditions to create a unique organic rock sound...

, Robert Cray
Robert Cray
Robert Cray is an American blues musician, guitarist, and singer. According to the book Guinness Rockopedia, "the 1980s 'blues revival' revolved around Cray...

 and Richard Thompson. He has also played in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, France, Italy and the UK, including a ten-date European tour with the Cuban band Grupo Moncada. He played at WOMAD festivals in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Manzanera ended the 20th Century by appearing with Bryan Ferry at the British Gas Millennium Concert at Greenwich, the first time they had performed together in 18 years. Manzanera produced in 1993 the highly acclaimed album Severino from the Brazilian rock band Os Paralamas do Sucesso, which included a participation by Brian May
Brian May
Brian Harold May, CBE, is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits such as "Tie Your Mother Down", "We Will Rock You", "Who Wants to Live Forever",...

.

Roxy Music reunion and later work (2001–present)


The Roxy Music "long break" came to an end in 2001 with a critically acclaimed, sold-out, 52-date world tour. In the summer of 2003 Roxy played 10 dates in the US, followed by 13 European gigs in 2004, including performing at Live 8
Live 8
Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 Conference and summit held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland from 6-8 July 2005; they also coincided with the 20th anniversary of Live Aid...

 in Berlin.

Manzanera has a state-of-the-art studio, Gallery Studios, in West London. The first recording was Robert Wyatt's album Cuckooland
Cuckooland
-Track listing:All tracks composed by Robert Wyatt; except where indicated#"Just a Bit" – 5:09#"Old Europe" – 4:15#"Tom Hay's Fox" – 3:33#"Forest" – 7:55#"Beware" – 5:09...

, and the client list also includes Brian Eno, David Gilmour, Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox is a Scottish musician and recording artist. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Lennox showed aptitude in music when she was a child and later studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music in London...

, Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers is an English songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...

, and Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde is an American rock musician, best known as the leader of the rock/new wave band The Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and has been the only constant member of the band throughout its history...

. Wyatt's critically acclaimed album, Comicopera
Comicopera
Comicopera is an album by Robert Wyatt released on 8 October 2007, available on both CD and double vinyl formats . It is Wyatt's first release on the Domino Records label...

, was recorded at Gallery in 2007.

Manzanera began singing on his own albums with Vozero in 2001, followed by 6pm in 2004 and 50 Minutes Later in 2005.
He appeared at the Strat Pack celebration concert at Wembley Arena in 2003, alongside other great players such as Hank Marvin
Hank Marvin
Hank Brian Marvin is an English guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows. The group, which primarily performed instrumentals, was formed as a backing band for vocalist Cliff Richard...

, Ronnie Wood and David Gilmour.

He also collaborated with Eno and David Byrne
David Byrne
David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer...

 on 2008's Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is the second album made in collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno, released on August 18, 2008, by Todo Mundo....

.

Other efforts

  • Phil Manzanera co-produced
    Record producer
    In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...

     David Gilmour
    David Gilmour
    David Jon Gilmour CBE is an English musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the songwriters in the rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a record producer for a variety of artists, and has enjoyed a successful career as a solo...

    's album
    Album
    An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites.-...

     On An Island
    On an Island
    On an Island is the third solo album by David Gilmour, best known as a lead vocalist and guitarist for Pink Floyd. It was released in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2006, Gilmour's 60th birthday, and in the U.S. the following day. It is Gilmour's first new solo album in 22 years...

    . Manzanera also played rhythm guitar on Gilmour's world tour to support the album in 2006 and appears in Gilmour's concert films Remember That Night
    Remember That Night
    Remember That Night is a live concert recording of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's solo concerts at the Royal Albert Hall on 29, 30 & 31 May 2006 as part of his On an Island tour. The title is taken from a line in the song "On an Island". It has been released on both DVD and Blu-ray formats...

    and Live in Gdańsk
    Live in Gdansk
    Live In Gdańsk is a live album by David Gilmour. It is a part of his On an Island project which includes an album, tour, DVD, and live album...

    .

  • Manzanera appears briefly playing a guitar solo in Red Dwarf
    Red Dwarf
    Red Dwarf is a British television situation comedy franchise, primarily comprising eight series of a television sitcom that ran on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and gained a cult following. It was created by, and the first six series were written by, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor...

    series 6 episode "Psirens
    Psirens
    "Psirens" is the first episode of science fiction sit-com Red Dwarf Series VI and the 31st in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel on 7 October 1993. Written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and directed by Andy de Emmony...

    ". Only his hands appeared playing the guitar, and his credit on the Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database
    The Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media...

     lists his role as "Hands of Psiren Lister". http://imdb.com/name/nm1137177/ On screen he is credited as "the hands of Phil Manzanera".

1975-1982

  • 1975 Diamond Head
    Diamond Head (album)
    Diamond Head was first solo album by Phil Manzanera, issued in 1975. It was originally issued in the UK on Island and in US on Atco...

  • 1975 Quiet Sun
    Quiet Sun (band)
    Quiet Sun were an English progressive rock/jazz fusion band from the Canterbury Scene consisting of Phil Manzanera , Bill MacCormick , Dave Jarrett and Charles Hayward .-History:...

    : Mainstream
    Mainstream (album)
    For the self-titled first album of the band called Mainstream see that band's page.Mainstream is the only album of the UK band Quiet Sun...

  • 1976 801 : 801 Live
    801 (band)
    801 were an English experimental rock band that were originally formed in 1976 for three live concerts by*Phil Manzanera *Brian Eno...

  • 1977 801 : Listen Now
  • 1977 801 : Live at Manchester University
  • 1978 K-Scope
  • 1982 Primitive Guitars
  • 1987 Guitarissimo (compilation)
  • 2000 Rare One (rarities during 1975-1991)
  • 2000 801 : Liva at Hull (live in 1977)

1985-1992

  • 1985 The Explorers(Manzanera & Mackay) : The Explorers (later aka The Complete Exploer in 2001)
  • 1986 Wetton Manzanera : One World
  • 1988 Nowomowa - The Wasted Lands
  • 1988 Manzanera & Mackay : Crack the Whip
  • 1989 Manzanera & Mackay : Up in Smoke
    • 1991 Manzanera & Mackay : Manzanera & Mackay (compilation above two albums)
  • ?(1997) The Explorers : Live at the Palace
  • 1990 Southern Cross(aka A Million Reasons Why)
  • 1990 Phil Manzanera & Sérgio Dias
    Sérgio Dias
    Sérgio Dias Baptista , is a Brazilian rock musician, composer and guitar player. He is best known for his work with the band Os Mutantes in the late 60s and 70s.- Discography :Os Mutantes* 1968: Os Mutantes...

     : Mato Grosso
  • 1991 Manzanera & Tania Libertad : Boleros Hoy
  • 1992 Manzanera Moncada : Live at the Karl Marx, Havana

1999-

  • 1999 Vozero
  • 2001 801 : 801 Latino
  • 2004 6PM
  • 2005 50 minutes later
  • 2008 Firebird V11
    Firebird V11
    Firebird V11 is a studio album by Phil Manzanera, guitarist of rock band Roxy Music.. The album's title is inspired by a guitar of the same name, made by Gibson, a guitar with which Manzanera has had a long career with.-Track listing:...


As producer

  • John Cale
    John Cale
    John Davies Cale is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....

    : Fear
    Fear (John Cale album)
    Fear is a 1974 album by John Cale. It was the first of three albums for Island Records, all of which were released in a period of just over a year...

    (1974)
  • Split Enz
    Split Enz
    Split Enz was a successful New Zealand band during the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia and Canada during the early 1980s and built a cult following elsewhere...

    : Second Thoughts (1976)
  • Heroes del Silencio
    Héroes del Silencio
    Héroes del Silencio is a Spanish rock band from Zaragoza formed by Juan Valdivia...

    : "Senderos de Traición
    Senderos de Traición
    Senderos de Traición is the second studio album by the Spanish rock band Héroes del Silencio, released in 1990.- Track listing :All tracks by Enrique Bunbury, Juan Valdivia, Joaquin Cardiel, Pedro Andreu...

    " (1990)
  • Tania Libertad
    Tania Libertad
    Tania Libertad de Souza Zuniga, known as Tania Libertad, is a singer who was born in Peru on October 24, 1952 and has lived in Mexico since 1978....

    : "Boleros Hoy" (1991)
  • Heroes del Silencio
    Héroes del Silencio
    Héroes del Silencio is a Spanish rock band from Zaragoza formed by Juan Valdivia...

    : "El Espíritu del Vino
    El Espíritu del Vino
    El Espiritu Del Vino is the third studio album by the spanish rock band Héroes del Silencio released in 1993. A double disc special edition was released in december, 2006 by EMI.-Track listing:-Personnel:...

    " (1993)
  • Os Paralamas do Sucesso: Severino
    Severino (album)
    Severino was the seventh studio album by Os Paralamas do Sucesso released in 1994. The album was produced by Phil Manzanera-Description:Severino is a disk with many influences from Northeastern Brazil. Political songs and different melodies...

    (1994)
  • Fito Páez
    Fito Páez
    Rodolfo "Fito" Páez Ávalos is an Argentine popular rock and roll pianist, lyricist, Spanish language singer and film director.-First years:...

    : Circo Beat (1994)
  • Aterciopelados
    Aterciopelados
    Aterciopelados , led byAndrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago was one of the first rock bands of Colombia and is among the country's top groups. Their music fuses rock with a variety of Colombian and Latin American musical traditions to create a unique organic rock sound...

    : La Pipa de la Paz
    La Pipa de la Paz
    La Pipa de la Paz is the third album from the Colombian band Aterciopelados.-Track listing:# "Cosita Seria" - 3:27# "No Necesito" - 3:44# "Quemarropa" - 3:25# "Nada Que Ver" - 3:19...

    (1996)
  • Enrique Bunbury
    Enrique Bunbury
    Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izardui , born August 11, 1967 is a Spanish rock singer-songwriter.Bunbury was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He got involved in music in the early 1980s, making his debut in a high school band called Apocalipsis, and later played along with Proceso Entrópico...

    : "Radical Sonora
    Radical Sonora
    Radical Sonora is Enrique Bunbury's first solo album after his involvement with Heroes Del Silencio. It is an electro rock album. It was distributed by Chrysalis Records.-Track listing:#Big-bang#Negativo#Encadenados#Contracorriente#Planeta sur...

    " (1997)
  • David Gilmour
    David Gilmour
    David Jon Gilmour CBE is an English musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the songwriters in the rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a record producer for a variety of artists, and has enjoyed a successful career as a solo...

    : On an Island
    On an Island
    On an Island is the third solo album by David Gilmour, best known as a lead vocalist and guitarist for Pink Floyd. It was released in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2006, Gilmour's 60th birthday, and in the U.S. the following day. It is Gilmour's first new solo album in 22 years...

    (2006)
  • Enrique Bunbury
    Enrique Bunbury
    Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izardui , born August 11, 1967 is a Spanish rock singer-songwriter.Bunbury was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He got involved in music in the early 1980s, making his debut in a high school band called Apocalipsis, and later played along with Proceso Entrópico...

    : "Hellville deluxe" (2008)

External links

  • Viva Roxy Music Site about Manzanera's work with Roxy Music and his solo work, collaborations and sessions]
  • manzanera.com: Phil Manzanera, Expression Records and the Roxy Music Archive]