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William "Billy" Wyman Sherwood (born March 14, 1965), is a musician, record producer, and engineer. Billy comes from a musical family which includes his father Bobby, who was a big band leader, his mother Phyllis who is a singer and drummer, and brother Michael who is a pianist, keyboardist, and singer. Image File history File links Billy_225. ...
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March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
Billy's music career started with a band that he formed with his brother Michael while growing up in Las Vegas. The band was called Lodgic, where he played bass and sung while Michael played keyboards and sang back up. The band also included Guy Allison on keyboards, Jimmy Haun on guitar, and Gary Starns on drums. They eventually moved the band to Los Angeles in 1980. After many years of trying to get things together, they recorded their debut album "Nomadic Sands" which was released in 1986. Billy showed his talents not only as a musician, but also as engineer, mixer, and producer of the album. Michael Sherwood is a keyboardist and singer. ...
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Lodgic eventually broke up, and Billy set out to putting a new band together with Guy Allison. They recruited guitarist Bruce Gowdy and drummer Mark T. Williams to form World Trade. They recorded their self-titled debut in 1989, with Billy taking on the roles of engineer, mixer, and producer again, along with his band duties as the bassist and lead singer.
Then through a twist of fate, Billy and Bruce were asked to come and jam with Chris Squire, Alan White, and Tony Kaye of Yes. Singer Jon Anderson was planning on leaving, as guitarist Trevor Rabin. The idea was for Billy and Bruce to replace them in the band. Though they wrote and recorded demos of some material, the plan never developed, as Anderson and Rabin continued on after all. Like Trevor Horn before him, Billy was uncomfortable with the idea of replacing Anderson as the front man of Yes. But he struck up a friendship with Squire that would lead to working with him throughout the next 10 years. Yes co-founder Chris Squire Christopher Russell Edward Squire (born March 4, 1948), better known as Chris Squire is a British musician and the bassist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes, and is the only member of the group to appear on every album (co-founder Jon...
Yes drummer Alan White Alan White (born June 14, 1949 in Pelton, County Durham, England and now resident in Seattle, USA) is a rock and roll drummer best known for his 34 years of work with the progressive rock band Yes. ...
Tony Kaye (born January 11, 1946) was born in England with the name Anthony John Selridge (some mistaken authors spell it Selvidge). Early years Kaye was only four years-old when he started to receive piano lessons. ...
Yes are an English progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968. ...
Yes co-founder Jon Anderson Jon Anderson (born October 25, 1944) is a British musician, best known as the lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes. ...
Trevor Rabin onstage with Yes, 1995 Trevor Rabin (born Trevor Charles Rabin on January 13, 1954) is a South African guitarist and film composer, best known for being the guitarist and songwriter for the progressive rock band Yes from 1983 - 1995, and since then, as a film composer. ...
Trevor Charles Horn, born July 15, 1949 in Durham, England, is a pop music producer and musician. ...
During the hiatus of Yes, Squire put together the Chris Squire Experiment, having Billy as the lead singer while playing some guitar and keyboards. Then he would produce, engineer, and mix a couple of tracks on Yes' "Union" album. These were songs that Billy wrote with Chris and he even performed on. He then would go on to record a project called The Key with guitarist Marty Walsh and drummer Hugh Meign, though they would not release the album until 1997.
His talent behind the board led him to work with Motörhead, Dangerous Toys, and Paul Rodgers formerly of Bad Company as producer and engineer. Billy was also brought in by Toto to sing and play bass on their Kingdom of Desire album. He also produced a couple of tribute albums, including "Jeffology" a tribute to Jeff Beck. Billy then joined Yes on tour as an additional musician, playing guitar and keyboards for their "Talk" tour. Motörhead is an iconic British heavy metal band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy Kilmister (real name Ian Kilmister) after his ejection from space-rock icons Hawkwind. ...
Paul Rodgers (2005) Paul Rodgers is a British singer, born on December 17, 1949 in Middlesbrough. ...
Self-titled album cover Bad Company were a British rock band founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free (Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke), Mott The Hoople (Mick Ralphs) and King Crimson (Boz Burrell). ...
Toto (pronounced toe-toe) is an American rock/prog band which had their greatest commercial success in the 1980s. ...
Kingdom of Desire is a studio album by Toto, released on May 11, 1993. ...
Geoffery Arnold Jeff Beck (born June 24, 1944 in Wallington, Surrey, England) is a rock guitarist who played in several influential bands in the 1960s and 1970s. ...
Billy finally got back together with his band mates from World Trade, and released "Euphoria" in 1995, with Jay Schellen replacing Williams on drums. After this, he worked with a multitude of artists. Most of his work was as producer, mixer, and engineer. Most significantly was his involvement on two more tribute albums. "Dragon Attack", a tribute to Queen, "Salute to AC/DC", and "Crossfire", a tribute to the last Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jay Schellen (born 20 May 1960, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a drummer who has worked with a number of heavy rock and progressive rock bands, including with several members of Yes. ...
Queen is an English rock band formed by Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor in 1970 from the remains of Smile, with John Deacon completing the lineup the following year. ...
AC/DC is a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young and his brother, lead guitarist Angus Young. ...
Stephen (Stevie) Ray Vaughan, commonly SRV, (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990), born in Dallas, Texas, was an American blues guitarist, known as one of the most influential electric blues musicians in history. ...
The call from Yes would come again, as Billy officially joined Yes as a second guitarist alongside Rabin on the 1994-1995 "Talk" tour. Sherwood left Yes the next year, but he would co-produce, engineer, and mix the new studio tracks for their "Keys to Ascension" and "Keys to Ascension 2" albums. After Billy would start putting into the works a third album by World Trade, but the band would fall apart. He would later use much of that material as his debut solo album "The Big Peace", released in 1999.
After the two "Keys to Ascension" albums, Rick Wakeman left Yes. Billy's friendship with Chris Squire would then lead him being asked to join the band again. The material that they had written together was used as the basis of what would become "Open Your Eyes" released in 1997 by Yes. Billy would play guitar and keyboards. Igor Khoroshev would join the band before the tour as the keyboardist leaving Billy to playing guitar and supplying backing vocals. Richard Christopher Wakeman (born May 18, 1949 in Perivale, London, England) is a British progressive rock keyboard player. ...
After returning from the tour, Billy and Yes returned to the studio to record "The Ladder". During this time too, Billy and Chris would start putting the finishing touches on their album "Conspiracy", which was released while Yes was on tour in support of "The Ladder" in 2000. Bill also took time to perform on his brother Michael's album "Tangletown", released in 1999.
Yes recorded a show during "The Ladder" tour in Billy's hometown of Las Vegas at the House of Blues. This was released as an album and DVD titled "House of Yes". Then after the tour, an announcement came that Billy was no longer a member of Yes.
In 2003, Billy released another album with Chris Squire, the project becoming known as Conspiracy. The album is titled "The Unknown". Conspiracy is a progressive rock band largely based on a collaboration between Billy Sherwood (formerly of Yes) and Chris Squire (bassist in Yes). ...
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