During the 1960s he played and recorded with several musicians such as Alexis Korner, John McLaughlin, Pete Brown, Denny Laine, Vincent Crane and Duffy Power.
His sister, Candy McKenzie, went on to have a successful music career as a backing singer and recorded with a number of artistes including Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen, Whitney Houston and Diana Ross.
[1] In late 1966, McKenzie joined Hughie Flint as a member Alexis Korner's short lived band Free At Last, replacing Cliff Barton on bass guitar.
He was literally a genius and he was playing with people like Alexis Korner, taking over from Jack Bruce, and he was like, wow, this guy is something else.
His younger brother played guitar and both of them introduced me to lots of other musicians in their area, North London” [5] McKenzie also recorded sessions with Pete Brown during August 1967 and January 1968.
[6] These recordings are held in the archives at the British Library and include an early version of the track "Politician" which subsequently appeared on the Cream album, Wheels of Fire.
When he came out of the ‘nick’ (prison), he was one very, very angry young man indeed.” [4] In 1969 McLaughlin also referred to this initial period of incarceration in the liner notes to ‘Extrapolation’, saying at the time he felt that Binky had been “unjustly jailed with his brother Bunny”.
On Thursday 29 July 1971 at the family home in Cricklewood, North West London, McKenzie went on a violent rampage.