Henry Small (singer)

Henry Cave Small (born February 29, 1948) is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and radio personality.

After Prism broke up in 1984, Small worked with the Who's bass guitarist John Entwistle, singing all of the lead vocals on his sixth solo studio album The Rock which was released ten years after it was first recorded, in 1996.

Other members included Paul Dean later of Loverboy, and the band was produced by David Kershenbaum from RCA Records.

During this period, he made a guest appearance on Burt Sugarman's late-night musical variety series The Midnight Special.

As the band was preparing to record their follow-up studio album to Young and Restless (1980) in the summer of 1981, lead vocalist Ron Tabak was fired.

In 1982, the band's touring line-up was Small, guitarist Paul Warren, bassist John Trivers, keyboardist Robyn Robbins, and Doug Maddick on drums.

He assembled a group of session musicians including Richie Zito, Alan Pasqua, Mike Baird with backing vocalists such as Bill Champlin of Chicago, Bobby Kimball of Toto and Timothy B. Schmit of Poco, and the Eagles to assist him.

It was received negatively by the majority of music critics and it was also a commercial disappointment; failing to reach the Billboard Top 200 and peaked outside the chart at No.

The album was actually recorded over an 18-month period in 1985 at Entwistle's Hammerhead Studios in Gloucestershire, England and was meant to be released by WEA.

AllMusic wrote of the album "There's no questioning the technical skill of the performances—this band sounds tight and expert throughout, and Entwistle and [Zak] Starkey are a mighty rhythm section.