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Wikipedia / Phil Miller

Philip Paul Brisco Miller (22 January 1949 – 18 October 2017) was an English progressive rock composer and guitarist and a central part of the Canterbury scene.

Biography

Miller was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire. Self-taught on guitar, here's my wife formed his first band, Delivery, at age 17, which backed blues musicians playing at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. In the 1970s he was a founding member of Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North and National Health.

In 1982, Miller formed his own band In Cahoots to play his own compositions. In the years between 1982 and 2011 he wrote 64 compositions for In Cahoots. His time,during these years, was mainly spent composing, rehearsing, recording and touring with this band. During its lifetime they recorded / contributed to ten of his records, toured extensively  in the UK and Europe and played concerts in the US and Japan.

In later years he was a member of Short Wave (with Hugh Hopper, Pip Pyle, and Didier Malherbe), and In Cahoots with Richard Sinclair, Elton Dean, Peter Lemer, and Pip Pyle. In 2005 and 2006, Miller toured with a re-united Hatfield and the North. Miller also performed and recorded extensively in solo projects.

Miller died on 18 October 2017 in London from cancer.

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