Luther Grosvenor

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Luther Grosvenor (born Luther James Grosvenor, 23 December 1946) is a British rock musician, who played guitar in Spooky Tooth, briefly in Stealers Wheel and, under the pseudonym Ariel Bender, in Mott the Hoople.

Luther was born and grew up in Evesham, where he played in local bands. He met Jim Capaldi, later known from Traffic, with whom he formed a group called Deep Feeling.

Later he joined a group called VIP, in which Keith Emerson played for some time. VIP was renamed into Art, and by 1967 into Spooky Tooth.

The years with Spooky Tooth (1967 to 1970), Stealers Wheel 1973 and Mott the Hoople 1973 to 1974 were the most successful years in his musical career.

After leaving Mott the Hoople, Luther published a few solo albums, and formed a group called Widowmaker, that existed until 1977.

In the 1990s Luther Grosvenor returned in a Spooky Tooth reunion. In 2005, he revived his pseudonym, forming the Ariel Bender Band.