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  • Iain Matthews
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  • Male
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  • Living people
  • Elektra Records artists
  • Vertigo Records artists
  • RSO Records artists
  • 1946 births
  • British soft rock musicians
  • British folk rock musicians
  • Decca Records artists
  • English male singers
  • English songwriters
  • Windham Hill Records artists
  • Electric folk musicians
  • Fairport Convention members
  • People from Scunthorpe
abstract
  • Born 16 Jun 1946, in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, EnglandChanged name to Ian Matthews, then to Iain Matthews, both names are used for releases.British singer and songwriter.
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  • Iain Matthews (born Iain Matthew McDonald, 16 June 1946) is an English musician and songwriter. He was a singer with Fairport Convention, before forming his own band Matthews Southern Comfort, which had a UK number one in 1970 with a cover of Joni Mitchell's %22Woodstock%22.Born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, Matthews was known in the 1960s first as Ian McDonald, then as the 1960s progressed, as Ian Matthews. In 1989, he reverted to the original spelling of his first name.Influenced by both rock and roll and folk music, he has performed mainly as a solo act, although he was a member of Fairport Convention during the early period when they were heavily influenced by American West Coast folk rock. He later had a solo career and fronted the bands Plainsong, Hi-Fi, No Grey Faith, More Than A Song and Matthews Southern Comfort.
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  • Matthews
  • Ian Matthews
  • I. MacDonald
  • I. Matthews
  • Ian M. Matthews
  • Ian MacDonald
  • Ian Mathews
  • Ian McDonald
  • J. Matthews
  • MacDonald
  • No Grey Faith
  • The Iain Adventure
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  • 17c3cfb3-0f55-4734-b9c8-1ee5683cca19
wikipedia
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  • 554446
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  • Ian Matthew MacDonald
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