Eric Faulkner (born Eric Francis Falconer, 21 October 1953, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a guitarist, songwriter, and singer, best known as a member of the Scottish pop band, the Bay City Rollers. is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... For the UK magazine, see Guitarist (magazine). ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... This article is about the genre of popular music. ... In music, a band is a company of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of or improvising a musical arrangement on different musical instruments. ... The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish Pop/rock band of the 1970s. ...

As a youngster Faulkner learned to play the viola and played for a time in a youth orchestra. He is also adept at playing the violin, mandolin, bass and keyboards. For other uses, see Viola (disambiguation). ... For the Anne Rice novel, see Violin (novel). ... This article is about the musical instrument. ... A sunburst-colored Fender Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass[1][2]; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ...

Faulkner joined the Bay City Rollers in 1972 as their guitarist, after a stint with the group KIP (previously known as Sugar). Faulkner was a member of the Rollers for the duration of their existence into the 1980s. He was a co-writer of many Rollers songs, including the UK Singles Chart hits "Money Honey" and "Love Me Like I Love You". For the UK magazine, see Guitarist (magazine). ... The 1980s is the current decade spanning from 1980 to 1989, also called The Eighties. The decade saw social, economic and general upheaval as wealth, production and western culture migrated to new industrializing economies. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... This article is about the musical composition. ... “British Hit Singles” redirects here. ... In popular music, a chart-topper is an extremely popular recording, identified by its inclusion in a ranked list—a chart—of top selling or otherwise judged most popular releases. ...

In 1976, during the Rollers heyday, Faulkner made headlines for an alleged parasuicide attempt via sleeping pill overdose. The incident was turned into a media opportunity by Bay City Rollers manager, Tam Paton; Faulkner maintains the overdose was accidental, and not a suicide attempt. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Management (disambiguation). ... Thomas Dougal Paton, also Tam Paton (born in Prestonpans, Scotland during August 1937) is the former manager of the Scottish boy band, the Bay City Rollers. ...

In the 1990s, he served as lead singer of a reformed version of the Bay City Rollers, which for a time also featured his wife, singer Karen "Kass" Prosser. He also toured with his own band, The Eric Faulkner Co-operative that he founded with Prosser. For the band, see 1990s (band). ...

More recently, Faulkner performed at Guilfest 2006 with 3 Men & Black, featuring Pauline Black from The Selecter. During the set he led a tribute to the late Syd Barrett and sang "See Emily Play", as well as "Radio Heaven", a recent song he penned, and a rendition of the Bay City Rollers hit "Shang-a-Lang". Faulkner would continue to perform with 3 Men & Black as a support act on their 2006 concert tour. Guilfest, formerly the Guildford Festival, is a British music festival, held in Stoke Park, Guildford each July. ... The Selecters Three Minute Hero single cover The Selecter were a 2 Tone ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in the late 1970s. ... Roger Keith Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. ... See Emily Play was the third single recorded by British psychedelic rock group Pink Floyd, written by original frontman Syd Barrett. ... For other uses, see Concert (disambiguation). ...

Faulkner now tours as a solo act, and opened at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival for Tony Benn, at the Left Field under the banner "Another World is Possible". On the legal front, Faulkner and the other former Bay City Rollers continue to battle for extensive unpaid royalties that they believe are owed them. In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer (solo is an Italian word literally meaning alone). ... The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest[1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ... Anthony Tony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

External links

• Eric Faulkner's blog

References

• Irwin Stambler, Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul. 1974. St. Martin's Press, Inc. New York, N.Y. ISBN 0312025734