Fair Weather was a British

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 rock band

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 formed in 1970 by former Amen Corner

Amen Corner (band)

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 guitarist

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 and vocalist, Andy Fairweather Low. They are best known for their track, "Natural Sinner".

Biography

The band evolved from a split within Amen Corner. While saxophone

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 player Allan Jones went on to form Judas Jump

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, Fairweather Low led Dennis Byron (drum

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s), Blue Weaver

Blue Weaver

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 (organ

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), Clive Taylor (bass

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) and Neil Jones (guitar

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) into the new band, Fair Weather. The band scored a UK Singles Chart

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 Number 6 hit

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 with "Natural Sinner"/"Haven't I Tried (To Be A Good Man)" in 1970
and recorded

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 one album

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, Beginning From An End. From the latter were drawn three more singles

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, "Lay It On Me"/"Looking for the Red Label Pt. 2", "Tutti Frutti

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"/"Road To Freedom" and "Poor Man's Bum A Run"/"Don't Mess With Cupid". None charted

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 and Fair Weather disbanded in 1971.

Fairweather Low went on to a successful solo

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 career before taking up regular work with Eric Clapton

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, George Harrison

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 and Roger Waters

Roger Waters

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.

Weaver joined Strawbs and became an in-demand session

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 player with Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople

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, Pet Shop Boys

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 and the Bee Gees

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.

Albums

• Beginning From An End (1971)
  • "God Cried Mother"
  • "Don' Mess With Cupid"
  • "Dead and Past"
  • "I Hear You Knocking
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  • "You Ain't No Friend"
  • "Sit and Think"
  • "Looking for the Red Label"
  • "Poor Man's Bum a Run"
  • "Natural Sinner"
  • "Haven't I Tried"
  • "Tutti Frutti
    Tutti Frutti (song)
    "Tutti Frutti" is a 1955 song by Little Richard, which became his first hit record. With its opening cry of "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bop-bop!" and its hard-driving sound and wild lyrics, it became not only a model for many future Little Richard songs, but also one of the...
    
    "
  • "Road to Freedom"
  • "Lay It on Me"
  • "Looking for the Red Label, Pt. 2"

• Let Your Mind Roll On (1972 - Germany
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   only - Hansa Records
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  ; re-released in 2007 by Dynamic Records)
  • "Let Your Mind Roll On"
  • "Blues Today"
  • "Bring Down the Wall"
  • "Love My Home"
  • "Mona Lisa"
  • "Blue Blue Mohair Suit Shuffler"
  • "Misfortune by My Goodluck Sign"
  • "Hush Hush Push No Evil"
  • "Live off the Land"
  • "Karate Boogaloo"
  • "Lay It on Me"

Singles

• "Natural Sinner" (1970) - RCA
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   (RCA 1977) - No. 6 UK
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• "Lay It On Me"
• "Tutti Frutti"
• "Poor Man's Bum A Run"