Timothy "Tim" Staffell is an English rock

Rock music

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 musician

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 and visual artist

Artist

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. He was a member of blues

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-rock outfit 1984 and later Smile

Smile (band)

Smile were a London-based blues rock band best known as the predecessor to renowned rock band Queen. The band was formed in 1968 by Brian May, who was to become Queen's guitarist. The group included Tim Staffell as singer and bassist, and, later, drummer Roger Taylor, who also went on to play for...

, a band which included guitarist Brian May

Brian May

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 and drummer

Drummer

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 Roger Taylor

Roger Meddows-Taylor

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. Upon Staffell's departure, Smile were joined by Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury

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 and John Deacon

John Deacon

John Richard Deacon is a retired English multi-instrumentalist and song writer, best known as the bassist for the rock band Queen. Of the four members of the band, he was the last to join and also the youngest, being only 19 years old when he was recruited by the other members of the band...

 to form the band Queen

Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...

. Staffell and May co-wrote the song "Doing All Right", which Queen included on their eponymous debut album

Queen (album)

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. Following his tenure with Smile, Staffell joined Humpy Bong

Humpy Bong

Humpy Bong was an early 1970s band.Singer and guitarist Jonathan Kelly was playing in a restaurant in London one night in 1969 when in walked Colin Petersen, a former child actor in Australia and drummer with the Bee Gees...

 and then the experimental progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 outfit Morgan

Morgan (band)

Morgan was an English progressive rock band, formed and disbanded in the early 1970s.-History:Featuring former Smile member Tim Staffell on vocals and guitar, Bob Sapsed of Springfield Park on bass, Maurice Bacon on drums and Morgan Fisher on keyboards, Morgan formed in 1971...

, with whom he released the albums Nova Solis

Nova Solis

-Track listing :All tracks composed by Fisher and Staffell , with "Nova Solis" incorporating "April Lady" and "Earth" by Staffell's earlier band, Smile....

and Brown Out (later retitled The Sleeper Wakes).

Staffell later decided to pursue a career as a model maker

Model maker

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 and designer, animator

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 and commercials director. Among the projects upon which he worked were the BBC

BBC

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 television adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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and, for the inaugural series, he was chief model maker for the children's TV show

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 Thomas the Tank Engine

Thomas the Tank Engine

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.

In 2001, Staffell returned to the music industry with a new blues-funk band called aMIGO, who draw inspiration from folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

, Latin and rock. In 2003 they released one eponymous album, with re-recorded versions of the old Smile tunes "Earth" and "Doin' Alright", featuring his former bandmate Brian May on guitars and vocals.

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