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| Birth name | Christopher Robert Stainton |
| Born | (1944-03-22)22 March 1944 (age 81) Sheffield,West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Genres | Rock, blues |
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| Years active | 1959–present |
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Christopher Robert Stainton (born 22 March 1944) is an Englishsession musician, keyboard player, bassist and songwriter, who first gained recognition withJoe Cocker in the late 1960s. In addition to his collaboration with Cocker, Stainton is best known for his work withEric Clapton,The Who,Andy Fairweather Low andBryan Ferry.
Stainton was born inWoodseats,Sheffield. After passing hiseleven-plus examination, Stainton attended Rowlinson Technical School, Norton, Sheffield. Stainton's musical career began in 1960, when he played bass guitar with a local Sheffield band, 'Johnny Tempest and the Mariners'. The Mariners became 'The Cadillacs', before Stainton joined Joe Cocker inThe Grease Band during 1966.[1] Stainton co-wrote "Marjorine", Cocker's firstUK Singles Charthit in 1968.[2] Chris played bass guitar on Joe Cocker's subsequent number 1 hitWith a Little Help from My Friends.
His time as a Cocker backing musician came to a zenith on theMad Dogs & Englishmentour, in the United States and Canada in 1970.[1] His initial involvement with Cocker lasted until the end of 1972.[3] Throughout that decade Chris Stainton appeared with musicians such asSpooky Tooth (1970), The Chris Stainton Band (1972–73), Tundra (1974),Bryn Haworth Band (1976–77),Boxer (1977),Maddy Prior Band (1978), Rocks (1978) andElkie Brooks (1978).[citation needed]
By 1979, he teamed up withEric Clapton for the first time, beginning an intermittent working relationship that has lasted to the present time. He joined Clapton onRoger Waters'sThe Pros and Cons of Hitch Hikingtour during 1984, and also toured again with Joe Cocker on and off from 1988 until 2000.[citation needed]
In 1985, Stainton and Clapton both appeared in theGeorge Harrison-produced filmWater in a mock 'charity concert' – the Concert for Cascara.[4]
In November 2002, Chris appeared at theConcert for George, and has more recently appeared as one ofBill Wyman'sRhythm Kings.[5]
Stainton has been a member of the Eric Clapton band virtually full-time since 2002, touring worldwide almost every year until the present time. He toured with Clapton on his 2008 North American and European tour, which included a three-night collaboration withSteve Winwood atMadison Square Garden in February 2008, and toured with Winwood and Clapton in 2009 and 2010.
In July 2012, Stainton was announced as a keyboardist for The Who's2012–2013 Quadrophenia & More Tour (he played piano on three songs on the originalQuadrophenia album, "The Dirty Jobs", "5:15", and "Drowned"). He performed with the band at the closing ceremony of theLondon Olympics. However, he subsequently withdrew prior to the start of the tour, to join Clapton on his tour of the US and Europe, that ultimately ended atO2 Arena Prague on 19 June 2013.
Stainton toured with Clapton in Japan, the Middle East and Europe in 2014. On 11 September 2015, he was honoured and performed with theTedeschi Trucks Band in a tribute/reunion concert forJoe Cocker, at the Lockn' Festival in Arrington, Virginia.[6] The concert honoured Joe and the Mad Dogs and Englishmen Tour. Alumni included from the 1970 Tour includedLeon Russell,Rita Coolidge,Claudia Lennear, Bobby Jones, Pamela Polland, Matthew Moore, Daniel Moore, Chuck Blackwell and Bobby Torres and original Tour photographerLinda Wolf. Wolf's iconic photographs from the 1970 Tour introduced the concert to the audience.[7][8] A documentary movie of the reunion and concert was released in 2016, directed by Jojo Pennebaker, son ofD. A. Pennebaker and Jesse Lauter.
Chris Stainton played onEric Clapton's 2016 albumI Still Do and subsequently joined Clapton for a brief tour of Japan in April 2016.[citation needed]As of October 2024, he is still regularly touring with Eric Clapton.[9]
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