{{Short description|English musician}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP one source|date=July 2017}} {{Notability|1=Music|date=February 2022}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Phil Kenzie | birth_place = Liverpool, England, United Kingdom | birth_date = | occupation = Musician | instruments = Saxophone | past_member_of = Derry and The Seniors | genre = Rock music }}
'''Phillip John Kenzie''' is an English multi-saxophone player and rock and roll musician.<ref name="Top40-Charts"/> He has been voted by fans as "one of the greatest rock 'n' roll sax players of all time."<ref name="Top40-Charts">{{cite web |url=http://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=106412 |title=Rock Sax Legend From The Beatles To The Eagles, Phil Kenzie Tours To Save Our R&R Sax Solo And Releases New Album |website=top40-charts.com |access-date=7 January 2016}}</ref>
==Biography== Kenzie was born in Liverpool, his first band was Derry Wilkie and The Pressmen.<ref name="Top40-Charts"/> The band sometimes shared billing with The Beatles.<ref name="Top40-Charts"/>
Kenzie has either toured or recorded with The Beatles, Eagles, Graham Nash, Carly Simon, David Crosby, Black Sabbath, Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, Alan Parsons, Al Stewart, David Essex, Leo Sayer, Wishbone Ash, Manfred Mann Chapter Three, Annie Lennox, The Pointer Sisters, The Coasters, The Temptations, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Eric Carmen, America, Vince Gill, and Debbie Gibson, among others.<ref name="Top40-Charts"/>
The Beatles used Kenzie on their album ''Let It Be'', and he also played the blistering sax solo for Eagles' track "The Long Run"<ref name="Top40-Charts"/> from the ''Eagles Live'' album.
Kenzie's sax is featured on the Al Stewart hit record "Year of the Cat", creating the dénouement for the instrumental break, as well as on Stewart's "Time Passages"<ref name="Top40-Charts"/> and "Song on the Radio".
As a session player, Kenzie worked on Roger Daltrey's albums ''Ride a Rock Horse'' and ''One of the Boys'', and Paul McCartney's ''Band on the Run''. He also worked on both the live show and the movie version of ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show''.<ref name="Top40-Charts"/> He also played on the sessions for Poco's album ''Legend'', in particular on their song "Heart of the Night". The arrangement to work with Poco was thanks to the band having hired Steve Chapman and Charlie Harrison (two previous Al Stewart musicians). Chapman later left Poco and became Stewart's manager.
In all, Kenzie has played on nineteen albums that have been certified gold or platinum.<ref name="Top40-Charts"/>
In January 2015, Kenzie released a new CD and kicked off his S.O.S.S. (Save Our Sax Solo) tour on the 15th at Jazziz Nightlife in Boca Raton, Florida.<ref name="Top40-Charts"/>
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