Roger Allen Cotton (1946 – 1 June 2016) was an English musician, singer, songwriter, producer and engineer.
[2] He was a member of the Peter Green Splinter Group, The Clockwork Orange, The Bandwagon, and The Brothers Grim where he met longtime collaborator Alan Glen.
Cotton, when a member of Peter Green Splinter Group,[3] wrote some of the band's songs, including "Big Change" and "Real World".
He has also written and recorded with Eric Bibb, Dr. Feelgood, The Barcodes, Incredible Blues Puppies, Downliners Sect, Sonny Black and Derek Nash.
In November 2008, after producing and engineering hundreds of albums for other musicians, Cotton released his first album, A Long Way Back, under his own name, featuring many of the musicians he had worked with including Derek Nash, Marcus Malone, Gary Barnacle, Papa George, Buddy Whittington, Paul Cox and Val Cowell.