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Herbie Flowers

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Mouth ♫ by Herbie Flowers (Blue Mink Rumpelstiltskin T Rex Lou Reed Roger Cook)

 

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Herbie Flowers Tuba Smarties 1981

 

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Herbie Flowers - Don't Take My Bass Away [1980 Rock]

 

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Bass Guitar & Percussion vol. 1 - Herbie Flowers & Barry Morgan - KPM Library n°1088 (1971)

 

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Herbie Flowers & Barry Morgan - Light Six (1971)

Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers is an English musician specialising in electric bass, double bass and tuba. He is noted as a member of Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and as one of Britain's best-known session bass players, having contributed to recordings by Elton John, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Melanie, Roy Harper (Bullinamingvase), David Essex, Allan Clarke, Al Kooper, Bryan Ferry, Harry Nilsson, Cat Stevens, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. He also played bass on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. By the end of the 1970s, Flowers had played bass on an estimated 500 hit recordings.