Solid Gold Cadillac was a British jazz-rock

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 group set up in the early 1970s.
The band featured, variously, Roy Babbington

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 (bass), Mike Westbrook

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 (electric piano), Fi Trench

Fiachra Trench

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 (piano, organ), Chris Spedding

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 (guitar), Brian Godding

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 (guitar), Rick Morcombe (guitars), Malcolm Griffiths (trombone), Phil Minton

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 (lead vocals, trumpet), George Khan (sax, flute), Butch Potter (bass) and Alan Jackson (drums).

The band released two albums on RCA Records

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: Solid Gold Cadillac (1972) and Brain Damage (1973), re-released together on CD in 1999.