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Robin George

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British guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Robin George has died of unknown cause at the age of 68.

Born in Wolverhampton in 1956, George had a minor hit with Heartline, a song from his album Dangerous Music, in 1985. He also worked with a variety of big names in rock, including Philip Lynott, Uriah Heep’s David Byron in The Byron Band, Glenn Hughes and Magnum, who he toured with as a rhythm guitarist on a trek for The Eleventh Hour! in 1983. George also wrote Red For Danger with Robert Plant, a song that appears on Plant’s Sixty-Six To Timbuktu compilation.

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