Morgan Fisher

Stephen Morgan Fisher (born 1 January 1950) is an English keyboard player and composer, and is best known as a member of Mott the Hoople in the early 1970s. However, his career has spanned a wide range of musical activities, and he remains active in the music industry. In recent years he has expanded into photography.

From 1966 to 1970, he played the organ with the soul/pop band the Soul Survivors, who in 1967 renamed themselves Love Affair. They had a number one hit single in 1968 with "Everlasting Love", while Fisher was taking a break from the band to complete his final year at Hendon County Grammar school: "I joined the band when I was still at school, and then various people convinced me I ought to stay at school to finish my 'A' Levels. So I left them for about six months, during which time they had a number one hit. I had no plan to come back, but after they had a number one hit".

In late 1968, Fisher asked a friend of his to write a letter to Love Affair to give them an update on his personal life, writing that Morgan was out of school now. The band sent a letter back to Fisher, asking him if he wanted to rejoin the group, as they weren't really getting along with Lynton Guest and were wanting him replaced. Morgan was in Love Affair again, and was so until 1971.

When Fisher left Love Affair in 1971, he formed the progressive rock band called Morgan, with singer Tim Staffell (the lead singer of the band Smile, who later became Queen) and Love Affair drummer Maurice Bacon. They only released one album Nova Solis, in 1972, before disbanding in 1973. A second album, "The Sleeper Wakes", recorded in 1973, was released in 1976.

From 1973 to 1976, after a brief liaison with Third Ear Band, he joined British rock band Mott the Hoople. Morgan was known for his eccentric black suit jacket with piano keys styled on the suit lapels. Meanwhile, Fisher contributed keyboards to John Fiddler's Medicine Head.

Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.