Rick Price was probably the least-known member of the Move, if only because he never really established a well-defined musical (or personal) identity of his own, as the other members did. In the latter regard, Ace Kefford can be pigeonholed (fairly or not) as a drug/acid casualty, Roy Wood as a genius, Jeff Lynne as a pop genius, Trevor Burton as a frustrated rock & roller, the late Carl Wayne as a pop/rock crooner, and Bev Bevan as one of the two or three best drummers ever to come out of Birmingham.
But who, apart from some really inquisitive Move fans, knows anything about Rick Price? His most visible work from the most widely covered part of his career, the Rick Price & Mike Sheridan collaboration referred to as This Is to Certify: Gemini Anthology, released at the start of the 1970s, seems hardly to have sold at all in its own time. And since then, he had to stand in the shadow of the similarly named Australian vocalist.
Price moved into an ultimately unhappy contractual relationship with Gemini Records, recording This Is to Certify with Mike Sheridan. Then he was back with Carl Wayne in an outfit called Light Fantastic, who showed a lot of promise but could never get it together in terms of recording. This was followed by a stint in the progressive rock band Mongrel, which included Keith Smart on guitar and Charlie Grima on drums. From there it was on to Wizzard, Roy Wood's new band (which included Smart, Grima, and, at one point, Mike Sheridan).
The latter group put him back on the charts with a few U.K. hits, "See My Baby Jive," "Angel Fingers," and the holiday hit "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday." Wizzard lasted through 1975, then Price moved on to the Wizzo Band, playing pedal steel guitar, no less. Since the '80s, he worked with his wife Dianne Lee, late of the duo Peters & Lee. Rick Price died on May 17, 2022 at the age of 77.
https://www.rickprice.com/
View more ...