Frank Usher

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Frank Usher - Fish live in Italy (2009).

Frank Usher (born 4 August 1949, Gateshead, County Durham, England) is an English guitarist best known for his work in Fish's band. Usher lives and operates a guitar-manufacturing business in Innerleithen, Scotland.^[1] 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.

While playing in a band called Blewitt in 1980, 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. ^[2]

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Solo studio albums	Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors Internal Exile Songs from the Mirror Suits Sunsets on Empire Raingods with Zippos Fellini Days Field of Crows 13th Star A Feast of Consequences

Studio albums with Marillion	Script for a Jester's Tear Fugazi Misplaced Childhood Clutching at Straws

Compilations	Yin and Yang Kettle of Fish Bouillabaisse

Singles	"Shortcut to Somewhere" "State of Mind" "Big Wedge" "A Gentleman's Excuse Me" "The Company" "Internal Exile" "Credo" "Something in the Air" "Lady Let It Lie" "Fortunes of War" "Brother 52" "Change of Heart" "Incomplete" "Arc of the Curve" "Zoe 25"

Contributors	Tony Banks Robin Boult Sam Brown Mark Brzezicki Steve Brzezicki James Cassidy Mark Daghorn Janick Gers Hal Lindes Calum Malcolm Chris Kimsey Jon Kelly Elliot Ness Foster Paterson David Paton Mickey Simmonds Dave Stewart Elizabeth Troy Antwi Tony Turrell Frank Usher Steve Vantsis Bruce Watson John Wesley Kevin Wilkinson Mark Wilkinson Steven Wilson John Young

Labels	EMI Polydor Dick Brothers Record Company Roadrunner Records Chocolate Frog Records Snapper Music

Other	Fish discography Marillion discography

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Name	Usher, Frank
Alternative names
Short description	Guitarist, guitar maker
Date of birth	4 August 1949
Place of birth	Gateshead, County Durham, England
Date of death
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