David
Foster was born September 6, 1946,
in Liverpool, England. His family moved to
Accrington, Lancashire where he attended
Accrington Grammar School. At the age of 12 he
heard rock & roll music and was immediately
afflicted. Two years later he was in his first
band The
Warriors. The Warriors went through
different line up's until the most Successful was
achieved, this being David Foster, Bass and Vocals, Ian Wallace
Drums Rod
Hill, Guitar, Mike Brereton, Guitar Jon Anderson, vocal and Tony
Anderson, Vocals. The Warriors
split up in 1967 in Frankfurt and Foster and
Wallace joined a band called The Big
Sound touring Scandinavia
returning to London in '68 forming Sleepy with Rod Hill. In '69 David
teamed up again with Jon Anderson who was then with Yes and together they
wrote Sweet Dreams and Yours Is No Disgrace, which were
recorded by Yes on the Time And A Word album
and the Yes Album. In 1970
David formed his next band Accrington Stanley. In 1972 David
got together with Tony Kaye and formed Badger recording the
album One Live Badger
David now lives in the Highlands of Scotland
His account of these early years are now featured in his new book
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Yours is no
Disgrace...... The Editor |
England's David Foster not to be confused with
the Canadian born producer-songwriter was a
member of the late '60s group the Warriors, whose members
included Jon Anderson of Yes on backing
vocals and future King Crimson/Bob Dylan
alumnus Ian Wallace. Foster and Anderson were
long-time friends from Accrington, where they both
grew up, and continued to work together writing
music after the Warriors disbanded. The two
composed "Sweet Dreams" and "Time
and A Word" together, and Foster also sang on the former and
played the
acoustic rhythm guitar on the opening of the
latter, on Yes's Time And A Word album. Foster
also claims that he and Anderson also composed
the song at the core of "Yours Is No
Disgrace" from The Yes Album
together, although he never received credit.
Foster emerged from the shadows of his former
bandmate in 1973 when he organized Badger, a progressive
rock outfit whose line-up included ex-Yes
member Tony Kaye on keyboards, who did very
well with their first album and did a tour
opening for Black Sabbath,
before their sound changed and they lost their
audience in the mid-1970's. Foster next turned up
in the mid-1990's, producing modern Celtic music
for several British bands locally, and wrote an unpublished
autobiography
Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
Yours Is No Disgrace
is written by
David, in his own words, and this is David's
account of what happened, and will be available
only from this site very soon
If you have a look through
the picture links you will see just how much
David has contributed to Musical history all of
his life
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