John Beck (It Bites)


John Beck is an English musician, best known for his role as a member of progressive rock/pop fusion band It Bites.
Beck is a multi-instrumentalist, playing keyboards, accordion, guitar, bass guitar and drums: he is also a singer. Onstage and on record he almost entirely restricts himself to keyboards and vocals.
Born and brought up in Whitehaven, Cumbria, Beck spent his early teen years as a country-and-western accordionist on the Cumbrian club circuit before becoming a founder member of It Bites alongside guitarist and lead vocalist Francis Dunnery, bass guitarist Dick Nolan and drummer Bob Dalton. Beck was also a member of Navajo Kiss and Sister Sarah, the two short-lived groups formed by the remaining It Bites members following the 1990 departure of Dunnery. Beck rejoined It Bites for the band's reformation in 2006. Along with Dalton, Beck is one of the two remaining original members of the group as well as being one of its main composers.
Beck has also been a member of Unicorn Jones and of British prog-rock supergroup Kino and guitarist/singer John Mitchell, who released the Picture album in 2005.
As a session or touring musician, Beck has played with John Wetton and Fish and is a longstanding contributor to the live lineup of the Alan Parsons Project.