Bob Andrews

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bob Andrews
Occupation	Keyboardist
Date Of Birth	Jun 17, 1959(1959-06-17)
Age	65
Birthplace	Fulham
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Gemini

Bob Andrews Biography

Bob Andrews is one of the most popular and richest Keyboardist who was born on June 17, 1959 in Fulham, United Kingdom.

Robert Ian Andrews (born 17 June 1959) is a British rock guitarist, and former member of the bands Generation X, Empire and Westworld.

In late 1976, Andrews was playing lead guitar, his preferred instrument being the Fender stratocaster, with an amateur rocker band entitled Paradox. Whilst performing at a gig at the Fulham Arts Centre he was talent-spotted by the punk-rocker Billy Idol, who was at that time looking for a guitar player to complete the line-up of a new band that he had just formed that would be named Generation X. Andrews was recruited to be its lead guitarist, in the process freeing Idol from the band’s guitar role which he held at that moment to become its frontman/singer. Andrews was subsequently christened with the punk pseudonym “Derwood” by the band, a name invented on the spur of the moment by a friend of his whilst under interrogation from Tony James, the band’s strategist, about school nicknames that Andrews had in search of a punk stage- name, to avoid James discovering and using the name “Dobbin”, which Andrews’ prominent front teeth in his school years had attracted. After less than a week in the new band and a handful of rehearsals, Andrews took the stage with it for its first gig at the Central London College of Art & Design on 10 December 1976.

Bob Andrews Net Worth

Bob Andrews is one of the richest Keyboardist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bob Andrews 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Andrews was born in Fulham, England, on 17 June 1959, the son of a mother who was a secretary, and a West London cobbler father. He began to play the guitar at the age of 10, being musically influenced particularly by the work of the British blues rock guitarists Paul Kossoff and Rory Gallagher, and in his youth also rode in junior Motorcycle Speedway competitions in West London. On leaving school at 16, he spent a year as an assistant gardener at Kensington Palace.

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In early 1983, Andrews renamed the act New Empire after recruiting the vocalist Babel Wallace, Mike Gregovich (one of the sound engineers at Alvic Studios who had recorded the band’s Expensive Sound LP) playing bass, and Crispin Taylor on the drums. The new line-up released a white label 12″ titled “Inside You”, and toured in the UK in 1983 as a support act to John Miles and Roman Holliday, and also in Spain, where it found some unanticipated and mysteriously caused popularity with well attended shows. However, without a record label’s support, New Empire’s increasingly adverse financial circumstances led to Andrews ending it in February 1984 at a gig at the Thames Hall in Slough, Berkshire; Andrews signaling the defeat by wrecking his amp with his guitar in the band’s final performance. (A retrospective album of New Empire material would be released in the United States 24 years later entitled Expansive Sound (2009)).

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Brett Ranked on the list of most popular Keyboardist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Bob Andrews celebrates birthday on June 17 of every year.

In 1986 Andrews formed a retro-1950s Americana style “beatbox rock’n’roll”/rockabilly band called Westworld, with the singer Elizabeth Westwood and the guitarist/drummer Nick Burton. It had an early hit with its debut single “Sonic Boom Boy”, which reached No. 11 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1987, which was subsequently commercially used as a backing music track by Sony for one of its television product advertising campaigns.