Philip Sawyer (born 8 March 1947,[1] London) is an English musician who was a member of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s and later recorded under the alias Beautiful World.
In May 1967, at the age of 18, he was one of the two replacements for vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist Steve and bassist Muff Winwood in the Spencer Davis Group, the other being another 18-year-old prodigy, Eddie Hardin on keyboards, bass pedals and vocals,.
The band's spring 1968 album With Their New Face On retained his guitar parts for Time Seller and Don't Want You No More, though his vocal on the former was replaced by Hardin and on the latter it was new guitarist Ray Fenwick.
Following the success of two songs Sawyer wrote for Timotei commercials in 1992, in 1993 he worked under the artistic name 'Beautiful World':[2] the albums In Existence and Forever have been sold internationally.
The Beautiful World albums were regarded as New Age music, and featured vocalists such as Cori Josias, Ella Harper, Russian Roulette (aka Rush Winters), Sawyer's former Shotgun Express colleague Beryl Marsden and Miriam Stockley amongst others.