John Spinks

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John Spinks

voc, g, 1953-2014 GB
Singer / Musician / Songwriter of Rock and Pop
A.k.a. John Fredrick Spinks

John Frederick Spinks (November 28, 1953 − July 9, 2014) was an English songwriter and musician. He is best known for being the guitarist and songwriter for The Outfield.Spinks, Tony Lewis, and Alan Jackman first played together in the 1970s band Sirius B. After rehearsing for six months, the group disbanded due to the advent of punk rock. In the 1980s, Spinks recorded several demos under the name Baseball Boys, a name chosen because it closely resembled a gang called The Baseball Furies from the film The Warriors. "Just to be outrageous, I put what I felt was a stupid name on the demos," said Spinks, "and the people I took them to said, `Sounds great. Can we see the band?` And there wasn't really a band." Spinks joined together with Lewis and Jackman to perform as Baseball Boys, and then

Instruments

Vocals
Guitar
Keyboards

Genres

Rock
Pop
Spoken Word
Electronic

Plays With

The Outfield

Band Members

External Links

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To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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