Mark Clarke is a British musician, bass player and singer.

In 1966 Mark Clarke played with The Kegmen, in 1968 with The Locomotive and late 1968 with St. James Infirmary. In a Liverpool Echo

Liverpool Echo

The Liverpool Echo is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is published Monday to Saturday, and is Liverpool's evening newspaper while its sister paper, the Liverpool Daily Post, is the morning paper...

 news article, he was called "The Joe Cocker of Liverpool".

Mark Clarke was the bass guitarist for Colosseum

Colosseum (band)

Colosseum is a pioneering British progressive jazz-rock band, mixing progressive rock and jazz-based improvisation.-History 1968 - 1971:The band was formed in September 1968 by drummer Jon Hiseman, tenor sax player Dick Heckstall-Smith and bass player Tony Reeves, who had previously worked together...

 from 1970 until the split of the band in 1971, and again from 1994, after Colosseum's reunion. He was briefly a member of Uriah Heep

Uriah Heep (band)

Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 and regarded as a seminal classic hard rock act of the 1970s. Uriah Heep's progressive/art rock/heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always been massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and David Byron's operatic vocals...

, performing (and co-writing) on one studio track, "The Wizard

The Wizard (Uriah Heep song)

"The Wizard" is a single from rock band Uriah Heep's 1972 album Demons & Wizards and was the first single to be lifted from the album. It was composed by Mark Clarke and Ken Hensley...

", on the 1972 album Demons & Wizards

Demons & Wizards (Uriah Heep album)

Demons and Wizards is the fourth album released by British rock band Uriah Heep.The original vinyl release was a gatefold sleeve, the front of which was designed by Roger Dean and contains a hidden erotic image of male and female genitalia...

. He became a member of Jon Hiseman's Tempest and played bass on the two Tempest studio albums with Allan Holdsworth, Ollie Halsall and Paul Williams, and a live album issued later. He also played bass on Ken Hensley

Ken Hensley

Kenneth William David Hensley is a keyboard player , guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer best known for his work with Uriah Heep during the 1970s....

's solo albums.

In 1975 he went on to join Natural Gas, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Rainbow (band)

Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...

, and in 1980 started working with Billy Squier

Billy Squier

William Haislip "Billy" Squier is an American rock musician. Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is best known for the song "The Stroke" on his 1981 album release Don't Say No...

 and recorded Don't Say No

Don't Say No

-Personnel:*Billy Squier: Vocals, Guitars, Percussion, Piano*Cary Sharaf: Guitars*Alan St. Jon: Keyboards*Mark Clarke: Bass, Backing Vocals*Bobby Chouinard: Drums-Later Samples:*"The Stroke"**"Hip Hop Is Dead" by Nas from the album Hip Hop Is Dead...

, The Stroke

The Stroke

"The Stroke" is the title of a song written and recorded by American rock artist Billy Squier. It was released in May 1981 as the debut single from his 1981 album Don't Say No....

, In the Dark

In the Dark

In the Dark is the twelfth studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between January 6 and 13, 1987 and originally released on July 6, 1987....

and many other albums with him. In 1985 he joined The Monkees

The Monkees

The Monkees are an American pop rock group. Assembled in Los Angeles in 1966 by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork,...

, and until recently still worked with Davy Jones

Davy Jones (actor)

David Thomas "Davy" Jones is an English rock singer-songwriter and actor best known as a member of the Monkees.-Early life:...

. Clarke has also worked with Mountain

Mountain (band)

Mountain is an American hard rock band that formed in Long Island, New York in 1969. Originally comprising vocalist and guitarist Leslie West, bassist Felix Pappalardi and drummer N. D. Smart, the band broke up in 1972 before reuniting in 1974 and remaining active until today...

, Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter (singer)

Ian Hunter Patterson is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer of the English rock band Mott the Hoople from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and he again fronted them at the time of their 2009 reunion. Hunter was a musician and songwriter before Mott The Hoople, and...

 and Torque, recording albums with all of them.

In 2010 Mark Clarke released his first solo album "Moving To The Moon".

Discography

Colosseum

• 1970 - Daughter of Time
  Daughter of Time
  -Personnel:*Mark Clarke - Bass Guitar *Dave "Clem" Clempson - Guitar, Vocal on 3*Chris Farlowe - Vocals *Louis Cennamo - Bass Guitar *Dave Greenslade - Organ, Piano, Vibes, Vocals...
  
  
• 1971 - Colosseum Live
  Colosseum Live
  Allmusic wrote that "With good material, some towering performances, and a powerful atmosphere, this is everything you could hope for from a live album." They made note of the performances of all the players except Dave Greenslade, and commented that the band arrangements, duets during the fills,...
  
  
• 1994 - Colosseum LiveS - The Reunion Concerts
  Colosseum LiveS - The Reunion Concerts
  LiveS  The Reunion Concerts 1994 is a live album by Colosseum. It includes two tracks from their reunion concert at the Zelt-Musik-Festival in Freiburg, Germany and six tracks from the second reunion concert at the E-Werk in Cologne, Germany....
  
  
• 1997 - Bread and Circuses
  Bread and circuses
  "Bread and Circuses" is a metaphor for a superficial means of appeasement...
  
  
• 2003 - Tomorrow's Blues
  Tomorrow's Blues
  Tomorrow's Blues is a 2003 album by Colosseum.-Track listing:#"Tomorrow's Blues" – 6:41#"Come Right Back" – 4:32#"In the Heat of the Night" – 5:37#"Hard Times Rising" – 6:41...
  
  
• 2007 - Live05

Uriah Heep

• 1972 - Demons & Wizards

Tempest

• 1973 - Tempest
• 1974 - Live in London
• 1974 - Living in Fear

Ken Hensley

• 1975 - Eager To Please
• 1980 - Free Spirit

Ian Hunter

• 1983 - All of the Good Ones Are Taken
  All of the Good Ones Are Taken
  All of the Good Ones Are Taken is sixth solo album of Ian Hunter. The album contains a mix of several styles. Longtime collaborator Mick Ronson was mostly absent , because he was seriously considering quitting music business.-Track listing:All songs written by Ian Hunter except where noted#"All of...
  
  

Mountain

• 1985 - Go For Your Life
• 1996 - Man's World

Solo albums

• 2010 - Moving To The Moon

External links

• http://dmme.net/interviews/clarke.html