Died: 6 November 2012
Instruments Played: Guitar, Vocals
Groups: The Blue Blood Group, The Accent, Christine Perfect Band, Keef Hartley Band, Jellybread, The Big Easy, A Little Uneasy
Rick Birkett was a guitarist who first found a small amount of success in the Blue Blood Group, who later changed their name to the Accent and recorded a single for the Decca label. Rick was involved in a line up of the Zombies, who began recording an album in 1968. The album was cancelled and the Zombies split up for good. Birkett then rehearsed briefly with the original line-up of Argent before being replaced by Russ Ballard. He later played guitar for Jellybread and Malcolm Tomlinson and also released a solo LP on the Blue Horizon label as Rick Hayward. He recorded a follow up LP which was not released at the time but has since been made available by Sunbeam Records. He was also a session guitarist for Blue Horizon and played with many artists in the studio, such as Eric Clapton, Freddie King, Jack Bruce, Lightnin' Slim and Mitch Mitchell. Rick also found time to be a member of Christine Perfect's band in the late 1960s.
In later life Rick played in the East Anglian rock band The Big Easy and then with Heather Enid Wells in the duo A Little Uneasy.
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