Name Ray Phillips Instruments Drums, percussion Role Musician | Years active 1967-present | |
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Birth name Raymond Anthony Phillips Born 1 March 1949 (age 75) Ely, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, South Wales ( 1949-03-01 ) Music groups Budgie, The Nashville Teens Albums Budgie, Live at the Star Club - Hamburg, Never Turn Your Back on a Friend, Impeckable, An Ecstasy of Fumbling Similar People Tony Bourge, Burke Shelley, Colin Pattenden, Craig Goldy, Jack Clement | ||
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter | ||
Ray Phillips (born Raymond Anthony Phillips, 1 March 1949, Ely, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, South Wales) was the original drummer for the Welsh rock band Budgie. He left the band in 1974.
Phillips formed his own band in the mid 1970s known as Ray Phillips Woman. They pursued a touring schedule, and when the former Budgie guitarist Tony Bourge joined the band in the early 1980s, they became known as simply Woman. In 1982 he rejoined with Bourge and formed Tredegar.
In the 1990s, Phillips founded another band, Six Ton Budgie, alongside his son Justin Phillips on guitar and Tom Prince on bass. Phillips, alongside playing drums, also took over on lead vocals. The band toured the UK extensively for the next few years.
In 2008, he was working on a solo album. In May 2011, his solo album Judgement Day was released.