Brian Auger
Brian Albert Gordon Auger (born 18 July 1939 in Hammersmith London) is an English jazz and rock keyboardist, who has specialised in playing the Hammond organ.
A jazz pianist, bandleader, session musician and Hammond B3 player, Auger has played or toured with artists such as Rod Stewart, Tony Williams, Jimi Hendrix,John McLaughlin, Sonny Boy Williamson, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon and others. He has incorporated jazz, early British pop, R&B, soul music and rock, and he has been nominated for a Grammy.
Biography
In 1965 Auger formed the group The Steampacket, along with Long John Baldry, Julie Driscoll, Vic Briggs and Rod Stewart. Due to contractual problems, the band did not release anything during its lifetime, and broke up shortly after Stewart left in 1966. In 1965, Auger played on For Your Love by The Yardbirds.
With Driscoll and the band, Trinity, he went on to record several hit singles, notably a cover version of David Ackles' "Road to Cairo" and Bob Dylan's "This Wheel's on Fire", which was featured on Dylan Covered. In 1969 Auger, Driscoll and Trinity appeared performing in the United States on the nationally telecast 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee.
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- Auger Rhythms: Brian Auger's Musical History released: 2003
- Access All Areas: Live released: 1993
- Don’t Send Me No Flowers released: 1982
- Here and Now released: 1982
- Captured Live released:
- The Mod Years 1965 -1969 released:
- Best Of released:
- Get Auger-nized! The Anthology. Disc 2 released:
- This Wheel's on Fire - The Best of Brian Auger With the Trinity Julie Driscoll Oblivion Express released:
- Planet Earth Calling released:
- The Best Of Brian Auger released:
The Mod Years 1965 -1969
- I Am a Lonesome Hobo
- This Wheel's on Fire
- Road to Cairo
- Shadows of You
- Save Me, Parts 1 & 2
- As She Knows
- Tiger
- Kiko
- Fool Killer
- Let's Do It Tonight
- Green Onions 65
- Oh Baby Won't You Come Back Home to Croydon / Where Everybody Beedle an' Bo's
- Back at the Chicken Shack
- The "In" Crowd
- Baby Take Me
- Can I Get a Witness
- Baby Baby
- Holy Smoke
- Cry Me a River
- Oh Baby, Don't You Do It
- Lord Remember Me
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This Wheel's On Fire
by: Brian AugerIf your mem'ry serves you well
We were goin' to meet again and wait
So I'm going to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late
No man alive will come to you
With another tale to tell
But you know that we shall meet again
If your mem'ry serves you well
Wheel's on fire rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode!
If your mem'ry serves you well
I was goin' to confiscate my lace
And wrap it up in a sailor's knot
And hide it in your case
If I knew for sure that it was yours
But it was oh so hard to tell
And you know that we shall meet again
If your mem'ry serves you well
Wheel's on fire rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode!
If your mem'ry serves you well
You'll remember you're the one
That called on me to call on them
To get you your favors done
And after ev'ry plan had failed
And there was nothing more to tell
You knew that we would meet again
If your mem'ry serves you well
This wheel's on fire rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
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