Edmund John 'Ed' Deane (born 18 November 1952 in Dublin) is an Irish guitarist with a career spanning six decades, from the late 1960s to the present day.

[9] Deane went on to replace Gary Moore in Skid Row,[10] before joining Bees Make Honey and cutting an album with them, produced by Nick Lowe.

Returning to London, he recorded with Graham Parker and the Rumour, The Fallen Angels (Pretty Things) and co-founded Juice on the Loose with Ron Kavana and Geraint Watkins.

Later, he appeared in the Mike Figgis movie Stormy Monday[14] (which featured Tommy Lee Jones, Sting and Melanie Griffith).

At this time, Deane was also recording and gigging with R&B artists such as Shuggie Otis, Sonny Rhodes, Larry Johnson, Lowell Fulson, Richard Berry, Big Jay McNeely and George "Wild Child" Butler.

In recent years, Deane has recorded two albums with the Belfast songwriter Bap Kennedy[23] (The Big Picture and Lonely Street).

Before returning to live in Ireland, Deane toured America, the UK and Europe with Nick Lowe, joined by the songwriting team of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham.