{{Short description|English musician (1949–1995)}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Use British English|date=December 2012}} '''Ian Richard Parkin''' (18 August 1949<ref>[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZ8-BVPY England and Wales Death Registration: Ian Richard Parkin]</ref> – 1 July 1995<ref>Simmonds, Jeremy. ''The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches''. Chicago Review Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-55652-754-8}}</ref>) was an English musician who played rhythm guitar with the first incarnation of Bill Nelson's Be-Bop Deluxe.

Parkin was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, where he befriended Nelson when both were attending Ings Road Secondary Modern School. They made their musical live debut at a school Christmas concert, as a guitar duo. Later, they formed The Cosmonauts, which later became The Strangers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.billnelsonmusic.com/usarchives/news/1995news.htm |title=Bill Nelson News 1995 |access-date=2017-09-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928073754/http://www.billnelsonmusic.com/usarchives/news/1995news.htm |archive-date=28 September 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Later, he and Nelson founded Flagship, later to become Be Bop Deluxe.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.billnelsonmusic.com/usarchives/interview/record97.htm |title=Record Collector (UK) article by Mark Hodkinson |access-date=3 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526000551/http://www.billnelsonmusic.com/usarchives/interview/record97.htm |archive-date=26 May 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, Parkin played only on the first album of the band, ''Axe Victim'', released in 1974, quitting shortly afterwards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jagshouse.com/music/billnelson.html|title=The Story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and How His Record Label Ripped Him Off|quote=The amazing thing about this is that these three people were NOT on any of the Be Bop Deluxe albums except the very first one, 'Axe Victim.'|accessdate=2011-10-09}}</ref> He continued with the music business, married and had three children.

He died on 1 July 1995, aged 45.

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