Rob Davis (musician)

Robert Berkeley Davis (born 1 October 1947) is an English guitarist and songwriter who achieved early fame as a founding member of glam rock band Mud in the 1970s.

His first and biggest songwriting hit with Mud was "L'L'Lucy" which reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1975.

[8] Davis worked with several other groups, including the Tremeloes and Darts, but his efforts met with little commercial success.

Although Davis wrote many of Mud's later songs, he achieved songwriting success commercially after the band disbanded starting with a writing and producing partnership with George Stanley Alexander that saw some hits with disco group Liquid Gold.

Following a chance meeting with Paul Oakenfold in the late 1980s, he continued to move genres from rock and disco to writing club and dance songs.

On 14 August 2000, Spiller released "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)", on which he provided important lyrical support.

[13][14] In 2001, Davis scored a UK top 10 hit as one third of the group Stuntmasterz, with the mashup "The Ladyboy Is Mine".

In their first songwriting session together, Davis and Cathy Dennis wrote "Can't Get You Out of My Head" for Kylie Minogue.

[15][16] Davis and Dennis received an Ivor Novello Award for composing the most performed song of the year.

In December 2009, he appeared in the Channel 4 programme The Greatest Songs of the Noughties, which featured "Can't Get You Out of My Head", ranked at No.

In October 2021, he contributed to the Channel 5 series Britain's Biggest 70s Hits[27][28] appearing on the 1970 episode alongside Ray Dorset and David Hamilton.