Dave Greenfield

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Dave Greenfield (born David Paul Greenfield, 29 March 1949, in Brighton, England) is the keyboard player with English rock band, The Stranglers. He is noted for his trademark style of playing rapid arpeggios, and his style has sometimes been compared to Ray Manzarek of The Doors.

He also frequently contributes harmony backing vocals to the band's songs, and sang the lead vocals on several of their tracks, including:

"Dead Ringer" and "Peasant in the Big Shitty" from their album No More Heroes
"Do You Wanna?" from Black and White
"Genetix" on the album The Raven
"Four Horsemen" on the album The Meninblack.

Greenfield and fellow-Strangler Jean-Jacques Burnel released a joint album in 1983, Fire & Water, used as the soundtrack for the film "Ecoutez vos murs" directed by Vincent Coudanne.

It was a piece of music written by Greenfield during recording for The Meninblack, which was discarded by other members of The Stranglers, that Hugh Cornwell later adapted into their biggest hit "Golden Brown". Although the band themselves did not initially see this as a potential single, let alone an Ivor Novello award winning, Number 2 hit.

In addition to his duties with The Stranglers, Greenfield also takes part in mediaeval battle re-enactments.

Until 2003, he ran a pub called The Windmill, in Cambridge. He is also known for his cross- handed technique on the keyboard and "downing" pints in the keyboard solo of "No More Heroes", also affectionatly known amongst some fans as the 'Gottle-a-Gear'