Robin Trower

Robin Trower, born in Catford in 1945, spent 1967 to 1971 as the guitarist in Procol Harum, a band better known for its stately progressive rock than for anything like a guitar hero. Once he stepped out on his own, though, he let it all hang out: a power trio built around his blues-soaked playing, all liquid bends, moaning sustain and a tone so thick you could lean on it. Critics compared him to Jimi Hendrix again and again, and Trower has never pretended Hendrix wasn't in his blood.

Bridge of Sighs, in 1974, is the peak, a slow-rolling, sky-high record where the title track drips and churns through a fog of echo and "Day Of The Eagle" charges out of the gate on a riff that could start a stampede. It began a run of four straight gold albums through 1977 that did especially well in America and Canada. Victims of the Fury arrived in 1980, just as the new decade began to knock his career off course.

He rejoined Procol Harum briefly for their 1991 reunion album, The Prodigal Stranger, then went back to his own band, and he never really stopped: Come and Find Me arrived in 2025.

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