Mike Moran

Keyboard player/composer/producer Mike Moran was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, in 1948. Although he grew up amid the 1960s British beat boom, he was more serious about music than most teenagers, and enrolled at the Royal College of Music. He became a session musician in the late '60s and soon entered the orbit of producer Gus Dudgeon, who used him on John Kongos' self-titled 1971 album -- indeed, with a lineup that featured most of the players from Elton John's recent Dudgeon-produced Madman Across the Water (among them Ray Cooper, Caleb Quaye, Dave Glover, and Roger...