Lu Edmonds

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Robert David "Lu" Edmonds (born 9 September 1957) is an English rock and

Growing up abroad in Poland, South America, Russia and Cyprus, Edmonds was educated in local schools and at Ampleforth College. As of 2024, he resided in London.^{[citation needed]}

Rock music

Edmonds is currently, as of 2018, a vocalist and

Edmonds first came to prominence as a member of the Damned, playing guitar on their second album, 1977's Music For Pleasure.^[2] It was the rest of the band that nicknamed him "Lu"—short for "Lunatic". Billed simply as "Lu" while with the Damned, subsequent bands billed him as Lu Edmonds (or occasionally "Lu Knee").^{[citation needed]} He has played in Public Image Ltd,^[3] the Spizzles, the Mekons, Shriekback, as a Bloke in Billy Bragg & the Blokes as well as on tracks by the Waterboys and Kirsty MacColl.^{[citation needed]} He also co-wrote songs with MacColl for her first album and played lead guitar on her first single "They Don't Know" (and also on the cover of that song by comedian Tracey Ullman).^{[citation needed]}

In 1979 Edmonds was guitarist/vocalist in new-wave band the Edge. This band also featured drummer Jon Moss, (whom Edmonds met in the Damned, and who went on to become the drummer in Culture Club), bassist Glyn Havard (who played in proto neo-age prog-rock gods Jade Warrior) and keyboardist Gavin Povey (who later played with UK virtuoso guitarist Albert Lee in Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes).^{[citation needed]}

Eclectic music

In the early years (1982–?) of the band

c. 2000–2015, Edmonds spent several years helping local musicians in Western Siberia and Central Asia to promote their work^[1] and to set up recording facilities.^{[citation needed]}

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