Richard William Stafford Hudson (born 9 May 1948) is an English musician who played drums and sitar for the Strawbs.
Richard Hudson was a member of Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera,[1] in which he played drums and sitar and sang.
Hudson and Ford began to co-write material which appeared to be aiming in a slightly different direction to the compositions of Strawbs' main writer, Dave Cousins.
Hudson, Ford and Terry Cassidy founded the mock punk group The Monks and, more strangely, High Society, which performed a pastiche of 1930s music.
Hudson rejoined Strawbs for their 1987 album Don't Say Goodbye and stayed on for 1991's Ringing Down the Years on which he co-wrote two tracks with bass player Rod Demick and guitarist Brian Willoughby.