Morgan Fisher
by Jason AnkenyAn archetypal British eccentric whose extensive career spanned from pop to glam to ambient music, Morgan Fisher was born in London in 1950. He first garnered notice playing Hammond organ with the 1960s pop band the Love Affair, scoring a Number One U.K. hit in 1968 with "Everlasting Love." After buying an early synthesizer, Fisher turned to electronic music, and created a series of scores for experimental films; he also mounted Morgan, a 'classical rock' band fronted by former Queen vocalist Tim Staffell, and briefly tenured with the Third Ear Band.
In 1973 Fisher signed on as the pianist for Mott the Hoople, and continued with the group -- sans Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson -- under the abbreviated name Mott. Later rechristened the British Lions, the group disbanded in the late 1970s; given his musical background and sartorial splendor -- trademark white suit, homburg and waxed moustache -- Fisher seemed an unlikely patron of pun...