Performance · Production

Bobby Tench

London, United Kingdom

Bobby Tench is credited on 492 releases across 77 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

View as artist →

Start your shelf →Open in app

492

Pressings credited

Albums

Decades active

In collections

Biography

Robert Tench (21 September 1944 – 19 February 2024) was a British singer, guitarist, sideman, songwriter and arranger. Tench was best known for his work with Freddie King and Van Morrison, as well as being a member of the Jeff Beck Group, Humble Pie and Streetwalkers. At the start of his career he performed and recorded with the Gass and also appeared with Gonzalez, before joining the Jeff Beck Group. He recorded with Ginger Baker before touring with Beck, Bogert & Appice as vocalist and recording sessions with Linda Lewis. Associations with Wailer Junior Marvin and blues guitarist Freddie King followed. He signed to A&M Records and formed Hummingbird, later joining Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney in Streetwalkers. During this period he had brief associations with Boxer and Widowmaker, recording album tracks with each before working with Van Morrison. When his commitments with Morrison came to an end he moved on to work and record with Eric Burdon also Axis Point, before Steve Marriott included him as an official band member in a new lineup of Humble Pie. Tench continued to record and make live appearances, until his death in February 2024 at the age of 79.

Bio from Wikipedia