Zal Cleminson

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Zal Cleminson
Zal in Perth, Scotland, December 2004
Zal in Perth, Scotland, December 2004
Background information
Birth name Alasdair Cleminson
Born May 4, 1949 (1949-05-04) (age 59) in Glasgow
Genre(s) Rock
Instrument(s) guitar
Associated acts Tear Gas
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Nazareth

Alasdair 'Zal' Cleminson is a Scottish guitarist, best known for his prominent role in the Sensational Alex Harvey Band during the 1970s.

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A self-taught guitarist, at the start of the 1970s he played and recorded with the Glasgow based band 'Tear Gas'. The musicians in that band then provided the backbone for the Sensational Alex Harvey Band (SAHB). In his white-face pierrot make-up, audiences could not mistake him, or his guitar solos on stage with SAHB.

In 1979 he joined Nazareth and recorded two albums with them; No Mean City (1979) and Malice in Wonderland (1980).

He was a regular guitarist with UK songstress Elkie Brooks on many of her tours throughout 1980s. He also wrote and played on the Brooks' album Minutes.

In 2006 he appeared in his début acting role as Wilson in the western, A Shot in the West. In early 2008 he announced his retirement from the music business and stated he would never perform live again.

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