Clive Gates

{{Short description|British musician (born 1956)}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Clive Gates''' (born 11 March 1956, [[Westminster]], [[London]])<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=http://www.discog.info/clivegates-interview.html |title=Interview with Clive Gates |publisher=Discog.info |date= |accessdate=2020-09-11 |archive-date=14 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014201236/http://www.discog.info/clivegates-interview.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> is a British musician who was the [[keyboardist]] and [[synthesizer]] player of the [[synthpop]] [[musical ensemble|band]] [[New Musik]] from 1979 until 1982, replacing original member [[Nick Straker]] who left to form the [[Nick Straker Band]]. Gates remained as a member of the New Musik until they split up.

Gates is a [[classical music|classically]] trained [[piano|pianist]]. He knew [[Tony Mansfield]] in 1972, performing with him in a [[T. Rex (band)|T. Rex]] and [[King Crimson]] oriented band called Reeman Zeegus.<ref name="auto"/>

He also played [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]] on [[Miguel Bosé]]'s 1987 [[album]], ''XXX'', and for [[Silent Running (band)|Silent Running]] on the album ''[[Deep (Silent Running album)|Deep]]'' (1989) and on [[Ana Torroja]]'s ''Puntos Cardinales'' album (1997).

==Instruments== * Wurlitzer, Mini-Korg 700S synthesizer (pre-New Musik) * Logan String synthesizer (pre-New Musik) * Prophet 5 synthesizer * Mini-Korg 700S synthesizer

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