Denny Bridges of The Bevans
Denny Bridges is lead vocalist,
guitarist and main songwriter for The Bevans.
He hails from England and during the 1960s played for more bands than you could
shake a stick at. Traveling up and down
the motorways he toured the beat-clubs, dance halls and colleges of Britain. Denny then toured throughout
Britain and Europe playing guitar with the Harvest/EMI stabled The Third
Ear Band frequently on the same bill as major headliners such as The Pink Floyd
and Soft Machine. With an interest, developed
whilst producing the album of the music for Roman Polanski’s ‘Macbeth’,
Denny turned his attention to record producing under the tutelage of George
Martin producer of The Beatles.
Working with Mr. Martin, in London and on the island
of Montserrat, Bridges garnered credits with
acts as varied and notorious as Jeff Beck, Marc Bolan/ T Rex, Joe Cocker,
Annie Lennox, Paul McCartney, E.L.O. Brian Eno, Roxy Music & Carly Simon to
name just a few. Relocating to the USA in the late 1980’s Denny
made New York City his home. His focus in that era was producing and adding his
playing skills for alternative artists. He later evolved into the jazz field
working with the late Bobby Vince Paunetto.
In the 1990s Denny joined forces with Fiona
Frensche a.k.a. Ashley Wilkes, in a music duo under various
names, working in the lounges of the cruise liners of Carnival and Norwegian
Cruise Lines. In 2008 Denny moved onto dry land
staying in Florida and, in cooperation with Pete Wallis of The Junco Partners ,
Carnaby Street W.1 was born. In 2010
circumstance allowed time for Denny to review his
own songbook and, by fundamentally recording anew, complete “Go For Gold”
with his long time cohorts The Bevans.