Tony Stevens
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Tony Stevens is an English
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, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

, best known as the bassist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

 with the bands Foghat
Foghat
Foghat are a British rock band that had their peak success in the mid- to late-1970s. Their style can be described as "blues-rock," or boogie-rock dominated by electric and electric slide guitar. The band has achieved five gold records...

 and Savoy Brown
Savoy Brown
Savoy Brown, originally known as the Savoy Brown Blues Band, are a British blues rock band, formed in 1965, in Battersea, South West London...

.

Career

Stevens joined the British blues-rock band Savoy Brown in 1968, and contributed to four of that band's albums over the next two years as bassist and songwriter. Savoy Brown, which also included drummer Roger Earl
Roger Earl
Roger Earl is the drummer of the band Foghat, famed for their relentless touring and strong live performances...

, guitarist Kim Simmonds
Kim Simmonds
Kim Simmonds is a Welsh guitarist, now residing in New York and best known as leader and founding member of the blues/rock band Savoy Brown.-Career:...

 and singer/guitarist "Lonesome" Dave Peverett
Dave Peverett
David Peverett or Lonesome Dave was a British musician. He is best known as the original singer and rhythm guitarist of Foghat, which he founded following his tenure in Savoy Brown....

, built a healthy following in the U.K. and U.S. through extensive touring; they were notable enough in the U.S. that, on 7 September 1969, Stevens became a subject of American performance artist/groupie
Groupie
A groupie is a person who seeks emotional and sexual intimacy with a musician or other celebrity. "Groupie" is derived from group in reference to a musical group, but the word is also used in a more general sense, especially in casual conversation....

 Cynthia Albritton, better known as "Cynthia Plaster Caster
Cynthia Plaster Caster
Cynthia Plaster Caster , whose real name is Cynthia Albritton, is an artist and self-described "recovering groupie" who creates plaster casts of famous persons' penises and breasts. She began her career in 1968 by casting penises of rock musicians. She later expanded her subjects to include...

." Savoy Brown's most successful album during Stevens' tenure with them was Looking In
Looking In (album)
Looking In is the sixth album by the band Savoy Brown.It was released by Parrot in 1970.-Track listing:Side 1# "Gypsy" 0:57 # "Poor Girl" 4:04 # "Money Can't Save Your Soul" 5:34...

, whose centerpiece song, "Leavin' Again," he co-authored. Released in 1970, Looking In reached number 39 on the U.S. Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

 album charts.

After a concert tour of the U.S. to support Looking In, Kim Simmonds, Savoy Brown's de facto leader, disbanded this version of the group. Following this, Stevens, Earl and Peverett, along with guitarist Rod Price
Rod Price
Rod Price was an English guitarist who was best known for his work with the rock band Foghat...

, founded Foghat in January 1971. This line-up of Foghat released four albums through 1974, the most successful of which was Energized
Energized
Energized is the third album by the group Foghat. It was released in January 1974 and certified gold in the US.-Track listing:# "Honey Hush" - 4:19 Energized is the third album by the group Foghat. It was released in January 1974 and certified gold in the US.-Track listing:# "Honey Hush" - 4:19...

 (released February 1974; U.S. Billboard No. 34). The band relocated to the U.S., where Foghat followed Savoy Brown's approach of building a fan base via near-constant touring. Stevens ultimately came to dislike spending so much time on the road and away from England, and announced his departure from the band in 1975.

After leaving Foghat, Stevens returned to England and refocused himself on session work. Most notably, Stevens was a member of the band supporting the Thames Television
Thames Television
Thames Television was a licensee of the British ITV television network, covering London and parts of the surrounding counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....

 TV series Rock Follies
Rock Follies
Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, was a comedy musical drama shown on British television in the mid 1970s. The storyline, over 12 episodes and two series, followed the ups and downs of a fictional female rock band called the "Little Ladies" as they struggled for recognition and...

, whose first soundtrack album entered the U.K. album chart at number 1 in 1976. Rock Follies composer Andy Mackay
Andy Mackay
Andrew "Andy" Mackay is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founder member of the art-rock group Roxy Music....

, best known as saxophonist/oboist with Roxy Music
Roxy Music
Roxy Music was a British art rock band formed in 1971 by Bryan Ferry, who became the group's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson. The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson . Former members include Brian Eno , and Eddie Jobson...

, also enlisted Stevens' services on his 1978 solo album Resolving Contradictions
Resolving Contradictions
Resolving Contradictions is an album by British musician Andy Mackay, released on Bronze Records in 1978.Andy Mackay was once Roxy Music's saxophonist, and some members of the group happen to play on this record. This opus is a "concept album" with references to the Chinese culture. The cover,...

. Stevens launched several new bands during the late 1970s and early 1980s as well, including Midnight Flyer, managed by Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...

 impresario Peter Grant and featuring singer Maggie Bell
Maggie Bell
Maggie Bell is a Scottish rock and blues-rock singer, regarded by some as Britain's answer to Janis Joplin.-Career:...

.

In 1993, music producer Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin
Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin is an American record producer and the co-president of Columbia Records. Along with Russell Simmons, Rubin was the co-founder of Def Jam Records and also established American Recordings...

 approached the four founding members of Foghat about recording a reunion album. While Rubin ultimately was not involved in the project, Stevens rejoined his ex-bandmates to record 1994's Return of the Boogie Men, and toured with Foghat for the next two years in support of the album. Peverett died in 2000 and Price had left the band yet again in 1999, leaving Stevens and Earl to maintain the band through 2004.
Stevens currently performs with the band Slow Ride, which he founded in "the Foghat tradition" in 2005. The band takes its name from one of Foghat's most famous songs - one which, interestingly, was first recorded in 1975, after Stevens initially left the band.

With Savoy Brown

Blue Matter
Blue Matter (album)
Blue Matter is the third album by the band Savoy Brown. Teaming up once again with producer Mike Vernon, it finds them experimenting even more within the blues framework. Several tracks feature piano as well as trombone.This album featured a mix of live and studio recordings...

 (1969)


A Step Further
A Step Further (album)
A Step Further is the fourth album by the band Savoy Brown.It was released by Parrot in 1969.Side Two recorded live at The Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton, London on Monday 12th May, 1969.-Side One:# "Made Up My Mind" – 2:56...

 (1969)


Raw Sienna
Raw Sienna (album)
Raw Sienna is the fifth album by the band Savoy Brown.It was released by Parrot in 1969 in USA, and by Decca in the UK 1970 in both mono and stereo -Track listing:# "A Hard Way to Go"# "That Same Feelin'"# "Master Hare"...

 (1969)


Looking In
Looking In (album)
Looking In is the sixth album by the band Savoy Brown.It was released by Parrot in 1970.-Track listing:Side 1# "Gypsy" 0:57 # "Poor Girl" 4:04 # "Money Can't Save Your Soul" 5:34...

 (1970)

With Foghat

Foghat
Foghat (1972 album)
Foghat is the debut album by the band Foghat. The first of the band's two self-titled albums, it was released in 1972 on Bearsville.-Track listing:# "I Just Want to Make Love to You" - 4:21# "Trouble Trouble" - 3:20...

 (1972)


Foghat
Foghat (1973 album)
Foghat is the second album, as well as the second self-titled album by the band Foghat. It was released in March 1973, and is generally known by fans as Rock and Roll, because of its cover picture depicting a rock and a roll....

 (1973)


Energized
Energized
Energized is the third album by the group Foghat. It was released in January 1974 and certified gold in the US.-Track listing:# "Honey Hush" - 4:19 Energized is the third album by the group Foghat. It was released in January 1974 and certified gold in the US.-Track listing:# "Honey Hush" - 4:19...

 (1974)


Rock & Roll Outlaws
Rock & Roll Outlaws
Rock and Roll Outlaws is the fourth album by Foghat, released in October 1974.-Track listing:# "Eight Days On the Road" - 6:08# "Hate to See You Go" - 4:39# "Dreamer" - 6:39...

 (1974)


Return of the Boogie Men (1994)


Road Cases (1998)


Family Joules (2003)

Sessions

Original TV Soundtrack, Rock Follies
Rock Follies
Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, was a comedy musical drama shown on British television in the mid 1970s. The storyline, over 12 episodes and two series, followed the ups and downs of a fictional female rock band called the "Little Ladies" as they struggled for recognition and...

 (1976)


Original TV Soundtrack, Rock Follies of '77 (1977)


Andy Mackay, Resolving Contradictions
Resolving Contradictions
Resolving Contradictions is an album by British musician Andy Mackay, released on Bronze Records in 1978.Andy Mackay was once Roxy Music's saxophonist, and some members of the group happen to play on this record. This opus is a "concept album" with references to the Chinese culture. The cover,...

(1978)
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