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Tetsu Yamauchi

real name 山内哲夫 (Yamauchi Tetsuo)

Fukuoka, Japan

Tetsu Yamauchi is credited on 619 releases across 134 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1970–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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619

Credits

134

Albums

Decades active

109

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Biography

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Tetsu Yamauchi (山内テツ, Yamauchi Tetsu; 21 October 1946 in Fukuoka, Japan – 4 December 2025) was a Japanese musician. In the 1970s, he was a member of several popular rock bands, including Free, where he replaced original bassist Andy Fraser before the band's final album Heartbreaker, and Faces, where he replaced Ronnie Lane and appears on the band's final single, "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything", as well as touring with them and playing on the live album Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners. He also recorded various solo albums and did extensive work as a session musician before retiring from the music sometime in the late 1990s.

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