William Peter Wingfield (born 7 May 1948) is an English record producer, keyboard player, songwriter, singer, and music journalist.
In 1969, he played keyboards and sang on their First Slice album, which was produced by Mike Vernon for the Blue Horizon label.
[3] In the 1970s, Wingfield was a specialist in soul music and regularly contributed articles and reviews to the monthly journals, Let It Rock and Melody Maker.
As a performer, he played with the British soul band Olympic Runners, and Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes.
[8] The song was Wingfield's only charting single in the UK or Australia, or on the American Hot 100; however, the follow-up, "Lovin' As You Wanna Be", made it to no.
[11] He played piano for the Alan Parsons rhythm section at Abbey Road Studios, with Pete Moss on bass guitar, for Dexys Midnight Runners and Paul McCartney.
[1] In 1978, he wrote an amusing cult dance hit for Patti LaBelle titled "Eyes in the Back of My Head", featured on her Tasty album.
[12] Three years later his production credits appeared on The Proclaimers UK Top 20 hit "I'm Gonna Be" and their album Sunshine on Leith.