Mark Luckhurst, and nicknamed 'Snake' was a founding member of the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Thunder

Thunder (band)

Thunder were an English hard rock band, who originally formed in 1989 when the band Terraplane broke up, leaving lead singer Danny Bowes and guitarist/main songwriter Luke Morley to form a new group, namely Thunder...

, playing bass

Bass guitar

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 on their first two albums. Backstreet Symphony and Laughing on Judgement Day

Laughing on Judgement Day

Laughing On Judgement Day is the second studio album by English Hard rock band Thunder. Released in August 1992, the album remains the band's most successful in terms of chart position, reaching number 2 on the UK Album Chart in September of that year and later being certified 'Silver' by the BPI...

. He parted company with the band at the end of 1992 citing 'personal differences'. He did not fail the audition for the touring band for the short-lived Coverdale-Page

Coverdale-Page

Coverdale and Page is an album by former Deep Purple and Whitesnake lead vocalist David Coverdale and former Led Zeppelin and London session guitarist Jimmy Page , released by Geffen Records on 15 March 1993.Adding to the Led Zeppelin sound of this album was the John Bonham-influenced and former...

 project, but little was heard from him until he appeared with Def Leppard

Def Leppard

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...

 vocalist Joe Elliott's

Joe Elliott

Joseph Thomas "Joe" Elliott Jr is an English singer-songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead vocalist and occasional rhythm guitarist of the British rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of David Bowie cover band, the Cybernauts and the Mott the Hoople cover band, Down...

 side project Down 'n' Outz

Down 'n' Outz

Down 'n' Outz are an English band featuring members from Def Leppard, The Quireboys, and Raw Glory. The group covers bands and artists related to Mott the Hoople including Mott, British Lions, and Ian Hunter. Their debut album, My ReGeneration Vol...

 in 2011. He is now working in property development.

Before joining Thunder, Luckhurst appeared with Scottish

Scottish people

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 singer, Owen Paul

Owen Paul

Owen Paul , is a Scottish singer, best known in the UK for his 1986 #3 hit single, "My Favourite Waste of Time", a cover version of a song that was originally written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw...

, on his 1986 hit single

Hit single

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, "My Favourite Waste of Time

My Favourite Waste of Time

"My Favourite Waste Of Time" is a single recorded by Scottish singer Owen Paul and released in 1986. It remains his biggest hit single, reaching number 3 in the UK charts in July 1986....

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