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Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: stonehearted ()
Date: July 22, 2018 23:40

Gerry Rafferty had a hit in 1979 with the song Get It Right Next Time: [www.youtube.com]

The promo film features a live in-studio performance.

Seventeen seconds along, you see the keyboardist:



Is this Nicky Hopkins?

Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: crholmstrom ()
Date: July 23, 2018 00:56

if it is, he's not credited on the record (per wiki)

Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: schillid ()
Date: July 23, 2018 02:01

There's a clearer view of the keyboardist at 1:53 ...
It does look like Nicky Hopkins

Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: NICOS ()
Date: July 23, 2018 02:01

First look yes second look no. ...

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Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: schillid ()
Date: July 23, 2018 02:05

Hey Nicos, time to edit your signature:
~original appears to not be working anymore ... and Photobucket again allows linking to pictures

Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: NICOS ()
Date: July 23, 2018 02:09

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schillid
Hey Nicos, time to edit your signature:
~original appears to not be working anymore ... and Photobucket again allows linking to pictures
Thanks schillid wil check it out tomorrow

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Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: His Majesty ()
Date: July 23, 2018 12:46

No, it's not Nicky.

He's a multi-instrumentalist called Graham Preskett.

Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: NICOS ()
Date: July 23, 2018 15:15

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NICOS
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schillid
Hey Nicos, time to edit your signature:
~original appears to not be working anymore ... and Photobucket again allows linking to pictures
Thanks schillid wil check it out tomorrow

It works again................and I didn't do anything ;o)

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Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: 35love ()
Date: July 23, 2018 16:37

Nicky never had shoulders like that :-(. (Crohn’s painfully thin)

Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: schillid ()
Date: July 23, 2018 19:52

I found this from Billboard magazine (6-12-93) ...


Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: His Majesty ()
Date: July 23, 2018 20:41

Nicky's involvement as stated relates demo sessions in the 60's.

Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: Rocky Dijon ()
Date: July 23, 2018 23:41

The photo is probably Dave Kusworth. The S.O.B. looks like everybody apparently.

Re: Is this Nicky Hopkins?
Posted by: stonehearted ()
Date: July 24, 2018 02:14

Thanks all for weighing in.

Ask 10 different people and get 10 different answers. smiling smiley

In following HM's response, there isn't much online regarding photos of Graham Preskett (who I'd never heard of before), but did find this 1982 photo. So, could be...

(Graham Preskett, second from left)



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