After high school, Way left home at 17 and worked at a maritime insurance company and as a civil servant in the Ministry of Defence.

[8] Disliking the more commercially accessible direction UFO were taking in the early 1980s, Way jumped ship to form Fastway with former Motörhead guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke.

Way was unable to extricate himself from a contract he signed with Chrysalis and stepped down to play bass for Ozzy Osbourne during the Diary of a Madman tour.

The band's third album, Save your Prayers, where Muir was replaced by Tyketto vocalist Danny Vaughn (Daniel T. Himler) was their most successful in America where it reached number 185 in the Billboard 200.

During UFO's 1970s heyday, he used a Fender Precision bass, which along with his trademark striped trousers largely influenced the stage appearance of Steve Harris.

[12] In 2017, he released his autobiography, with the aid of professional writer Paul Rees, called A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man.

[2] Way died on 14 August 2020, one week after his 70th birthday,[13] following multiple injuries sustained in an accident two months earlier, in which he fell down stairs at his home.