Frank Usher

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Frank Usher (born 4 August 1949, Gateshead, County Durham, England) is a English guitarist best known for his work in Fish's band. Usher lives and operates a guitar-manufacturing business at Innerleithen, Scotland. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he has worked with a variety of artists including Mike Heron, John Martyn, Tam White and the locally noted, Border Boogie Band.

In 1980, while in a band called Blewitt, he first met Fish, who became their vocalist for a short time. When Fish left Marillion to start a solo career in 1988, he contacted Usher to become his guitarist. Since then, he has played on five out of eight Fish albums and the accompanying tours.

Usher suffered a heart attack in December 2007, causing three gigs to be cancelled.