Keith Hopwood

Keith Hopwood (born 26 October 1946) is an English pop musician who was the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the 1960s band Herman's Hermits.

Born on 26 October 1946 at Park Hospital, Davyhulme area of Trafford, he attended Urmston Grammar School.

Hopwood joined Herman's Hermits as the original rhythm guitarist in 1963. The Hermits frontman Peter Noone credits Hopwood with coming up with the idea of recording "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" as an afterthought, when Herman's Hermits were short of material for their first album.

In 2021 he wrote his first solo album Never Too Late. Containing eleven original songs, it was released 1 February 2022 and has been followed by two more releases in the "Freedom Calls" project – Chapter I and Chapter II, with Chapter III following in 2025. In 2024, Hopwood released his memoir A Hermit's Tale.

During his career he and Malcolm Rowe, composed the music for Cosgrove Hall's The Wind in the Willows, as well as the 1984-1990 tv series, and the 1989 television film A Tale of Two Toads.

Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.