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British guitarist and composer (born 1944)

Alan Frederick Parker (born 26 August 1944) is an English guitarist and composer.

Parker was born in Matlock, Derbyshire, and was trained by Julian Bream at London’s Royal Academy of Music. He had a successful career as session guitarist starting in the late 1960s, and played with Blue Mink,^[1]The Congregation, CCS and Serge Gainsbourg, together with his own studio session bands Hungry Wolf and Ugly Custard.

Much of his session work has gone uncredited, but he has been named as the electric guitarist on Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man", the Walker Brothers' "No Regrets",^[2]David Bowie's "Holy Holy" and "1984",^[3]Mike Batt's "The Ride to Agadir" and the Top of the Pops theme music version of "Whole Lotta Love".^[4] He has also recorded a number of albums for the De Wolfe Music^[5] and KPM Music^[6] libraries.

Parker's later work comprised compositions fo