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Don Airey

Don Airey

Real/full name:
Donald Smith Airey
Age:
76 (born Jun 21st, 1948)
Place of birth:
United Kingdom (Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England)
Gender:
Male

Biography

Don Airey is an English musician best known as the keyboardist of Deep Purple and his work as band member and session musician for many other bands.

Trivia

Brother of Paul Airey.

He was a live keyboardist for Uriah Heep in January 2020 taking over from Phil Lanzon.

Guest for:
- UFO
- Thin Lizzy
- Brian May
- Whitesnake
- Zeno
...

Deep Purple

Keyboards, Organ (2002-present)

2003 Bananas Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks 2-5, 9-11)
2003 Haunted (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2005 Rapture of the Deep Keyboards, Songwriting
2007 Live at Montreux 2006 (Live album) Keyboards
2007 Live at Montreux 2006 (Video) Keyboards
2008 Around the World Live (Video) Keyboards
2011 Live at Montreux 2011 (Live album) Keyboards, Organ
2011 Live at Montreux 2011 (Video) Keyboards, Organ
2013 Now What?! Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11, 1-13, 2-3, 2-5, 2-7, 2-9)
2013 The Now What?! Live Tapes (Live album) Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks: 3, 5, 7, 9)
2013 All the Time in the World (Single) Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks: 1, 2, 4)
2013 All the Time in the World (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2013 Hell to Pay / All the Time in the World (Single) Keyboards, Songwriting
2013 Now What?! Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks: CD-1 to CD-11, DVD-2, DVD-4)
2013 Now What?! Keyboards, Songwriting
2013 First Sign of Madness (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2013 Now What?! Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks: A1 to D2)
2013 Vincent Price (Single) Songwriting, Keyboards
2013 Vincent Price (Single) Keyboards, Songwriting
2013 Live At Montreux 1996 | 2006 (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 2-1 to 2-12)
2013 Above and Beyond (Single) Songwriting (track: A), Keyboards
2013 Above and Beyond (Single) Songwriting (tracks: 1, 2), Keyboards
2013 The Now What?! Live Tapes (Live album) Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks: A3, B2, C1, C3)
2013 Now What?! Songwriting (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11, 2-2, 2-4, 3-3, 3-5, 3-7, 3-9, 4-1, 4-2, 4-4, 5-1 to 6-2)), Keyboards
2013 The Now What?! Live Tapes (Live album) Keyboards, Organ
2013 The Now What?! Live Tapes (Live album) Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks: 1-3, 1-5, 1-7, 1-9, 2-1 to 2-3)
2014 Live in Verona (Live album) Keyboards, Organ
2014 Live in Verona (Video) Keyboards, Organ
2015 Out of Hand (Single) Songwriting (tracks: A1, A2, B2), Keyboards
2015 ...to the Rising Sun (In Tokyo) (Live album) Songwriting (tracks: 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13), Keyboards
2015 From the Setting Sun... (in Wacken) (Live album) Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks: 1-4, 1-7, 1-8, 2-1, 2-3, 3-4, 3-7, 3-8, 3-10, 3-12, 3-18)
2015 From the Setting Sun... (in Wacken) (Live album) Songwriting (tracks: 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 18), Keyboards
2015 ...to the Rising Sun (In Tokyo) (Live album) Songwriting (tracks: 1-1, 1-5, 1-7, 1-8, 1-10, 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-5, 3-7, 3-8, 3-10, 3-12, 3-13), Keyboards
2016 Live at the NEC (Video) (tracks: 1 to 10, 14, 16 to 18)
2017 From Here To Infinite - The Movie (Video) Keyboards
2017 Time for Bedlam (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2017 All I Got Is You (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2017 Limitless (Compilation) Songwriting (tracks: 1 to 4), Keyboards
2017 Infinite Songwriting (tracks: CD-1 to CD-9, A1 to D1, E1, H [Uncommon Man], I1), Keyboards
2017 Infinite Songwriting (tracks: CD-1 to CD-9), Keyboards
2017 Infinite Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks 1-9)
2017 Johnny's Band (Single) Keyboards
2017 From the Setting Sun (In Wacken) ... To the Rising Sun (In Tokyo) (Video) Songwriting (tracks 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 18, 19, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31), Keyboards
2017 Classic Songs Live in Concert (Compilation) Keyboards, Organ
2017 The Infinite Live Recordings, Vol. 1 (Live album) Songwriting (tracks: A1, B2, C1, D1, D2), Keyboards
2017 A Fire in the Sky (Compilation) Organ (tracks A1 to A4), Songwriting, Keyboards (tracks A1 to A4)
2017 Infinite - The Gold Edition Songwriting (tracks: 1-1 to 1-9, 2-1, 2-5, 2-6, 2-8), Keyboards
2019 Live in Rome 2013 (Live album) Organ, Songwriting (tracks: 1-5, 1-9, 1-10, 1-12, 2-1, 2-3)
2019 Live in Rome 2013 (Live album) Organ, Songwriting (tracks: A5, B4, B5, C2, D1, D3)
2020 Man Alive (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2020 Throw My Bones/Man Alive (Single) Keyboards, Songwriting
2020 Throw My Bones (Single) Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks: 1, 2)
2020 Whoosh! Songwriting (tracks 1-11, 13), Keyboards
2020 Die Grössten Erfolge (Compilation) Songwriting (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 6), Organ, Synths
2021 7 and 7 Is (Single) Keyboards
2021 Oh Well (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2021 A Taste Of Crime (Single) Keyboards, Songwriting (track: 2)
2021 (I'm a) Roadrunner (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2021 Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2021 Turning to Crime Keyboards
2021 Turning to Crime Keyboards
2022 Extras: The Now What?! B-Sides and Bonus Songs (Compilation) Keyboards, Organ
2022 Extras: The Infinite B-Sides and Bonus Songs (Compilation) Keyboards, Organ
2024 Portable Door (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2024 Pictures of You (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2024 Lazy Sod (Single) Keyboards, Organ
2024 =1 Keyboards, Organ
(show all)

Don Airey

Keyboards

Air Pavilion

Keyboards

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Piano

Colosseum II

Keyboards (1975-1978)

Cozy Powell's Hammer

Keyboards (1974)

Empire

Keyboards (2002-2004)

2003 Trading Souls Keyboards

English Steel

Keyboards

Gary Moore

Keyboards (1982)

Hammer

Keyboards (1974-1975)

Jethro Tull

Keyboards (1987-1988)

Living Loud

Keyboards (2003-2005)

Ozzy Osbourne

Keyboards (1980, 1981-1982, 1983-1985)

1980 Crazy Train (Single) Keyboards
1981 Mr. Crowley (Single) Keyboards
1981 Mr. Crowley - Live (Single) Keyboards
1982 Revelation (Mother Earth) (Single) Keyboards
1982 Speak of the Devil (Live album) Keyboards
1983 Bark at the Moon (Single) Keyboards
1983 Bark at the Moon Keyboards
1983 So Tired (Single) Keyboards
1984 Bark at the Moon (Video) Keyboards
1984 Heavy Metal Killers (Split) Keyboards
1984 Four Super Rocks (Split) Keyboards
1984 Metal Fusion (Split) Keyboards
1987 Crazy Train (Single) Keyboards
1988 Back to Ozz (Single) Keyboards
1990 Speak of the Devil (Video) Keyboards
(show all)

Quatermass

Keyboards (1994-1999)

Rainbow

Keyboards (1978-1981)

1979 Since You Been Gone (Single) Keyboards
1979 Down to Earth Keyboards
1980 All Night Long (Single) Keyboards
1980 Monsters of Rock (Split) Keyboards (track 5)
1981 Jealous Lover (Single) Keyboards
1981 Magic / Freedom Fighter (Single) Keyboards
1981 Can't Happen Here (Single) Keyboards
1981 I Surrender (Single) Keyboards
1981 Difficult to Cure Keyboards
1981 The Best of Rainbow (Compilation) Keyboards
1981 The Best of Rainbow (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 1-1, 1-3, 1-4, 2-1, 2-4, 2-5, 2-7)
1986 Finyl Vinyl (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 1-8, 1-9, 2-6), Arrangements (track: 2-1)
1993 Purple Rainbows (Split) Keyboards
1997 The Very Best of Rainbow (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks 8-12)
2000 Millennium Collection: Rainbow (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 7 & 8)
2001 Best - Since You've Been Gone (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 5, 6 & 8)
2001 The Universal Masters Collection - Classic Rainbow (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 1, 3 & 4)
2001 Universal Masters Collection (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks 1, 3, 4, 13)
2002 Pot of Gold (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 6 to 9), Songwriting (track: 9)
2002 All Night Long: An Introduction (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 5 to 8 & 11)
2003 Winning Combinations (Split) Keyboards
2003 Catch the Rainbow: The Anthology (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 2-1 to 2-8), Arrangements (track: 2-16)
2006 Live Between the Eyes / The Final Cut (Video) Arrangements (tracks: 1-10, 2-6), Keyboards (tracks: 2-3 to 2-5, 2-9)
2007 Colour Collection (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 1, 3, 4 & 13)
2009 The Masters Collection - Classic Rainbow (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 1, 3, 4 & 13)
2009 Star-Club Präsentiert Rainbow (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 1, 3, 4 & 13)
2009 Anthology 1975 - 1984 (Compilation) Songwriting (track: 2-7), Keyboards (2-1 to 2-8)
2013 Since You Been Gone: The Best Of (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 1, 2, 7 to 10 & 14)
2014 Essential (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks: 1 to 3 & 11 to 13)
2015 A Light in the Black 1975-1984 (Compilation) Arrangements (tracks: 3-9, 5-12), Songwriting (track: 4-4), Keyboards (tracks: CD3-1 to CD4-7, DVD-1 to DVD-8)
2015 Difficult to Cure Arrangements (track: B4), Keyboards, Songwriting (tracks: A3, A5)
2015 Down to Earth Tour - Denver 1979 (Live album) Keyboards
2015 Down to Earth Tour - Long Island 1979 (Live album) Keyboards
2015 Down to Earth Tour 1979 (Live album) Keyboards
2016 Monsters of Rock: Live at Donington 1980 (Live album) Arrangements (tracks: CD1-7, DVD-6), Keyboards
2016 Monsters of Rock: Live at Donington 1980 (Live album) Keyboards
2016 Boston 1981 (Live album) Arrangements (track: 8), Keyboards
2017 Since You Been Gone - The Essential (Compilation) Keyboards (tracks:1-3to1-5,1-10,1-11, 2-5,2-8,2-10, 2-12,2-13, 3-1,3-3, 3-5, 3-7, 3-12, 3-15&3-16), Songwriting (track: 3-5), Arrangements (track: 2-8)
(show all)

Silver

Keyboards

Strawbs

Keyboards (1993)

Ten

Keyboards (2000-2001)

The Cage

Keyboards

1998 The Cage Keyboards

The Company of Snakes

Keyboards (1998-2005)

Deep Purple

Keyboards, Organ (2001)

Graham Bonnet

Keyboards

Micky Moody

Keyboards

The Snakes

Keyboards

Uli Jon Roth

Keyboards

Uriah Heep

Keyboards (2020)

Anthem

1990 No Smoke Without Fire Keyboards
1992 Domestic Booty Keyboards

Black Sabbath

1978 Never Say Die! Keyboards

Bruce Dickinson

1990 All the Young Dudes (Single) Keyboards (track 2)
2001 The Best of Bruce Dickinson (Compilation) Keyboards (Disc 2, track 2)
2005 Tattooed Millionaire Keyboards (disc 2, track 4)

Empire

2001 Hypnotica Keyboards (track 5)

Glasgow

1987 Zero Four One Keyboards
1988 Under the Lights (Single) Keyboards

Glenn Tipton

1997 Baptizm of Fire Church organ (track 6)
2006 Give Blood / Paint It Black (Single) Keyboards (track 1)
2006 Edge of the World (Single) Keyboards
2006 Edge of the World Keyboards

Graham Bonnet Band

2022 Day Out in Nowhere Keyboards (track 9)

Holy Tide

2019 Aquila Organ (track 11)

Iommi

2004 The 1996 DEP Sessions Keyboards

Jorn

2007 Unlocking the Past Keyboards (track 1)
2007 The Gathering (Compilation) Keyboards (track 8)

Judas Priest

1990 A Touch of Evil (Single) Keyboards
1990 Painkiller (Single) Keyboards
1990 Painkiller Keyboards (track 8), Synthesizer (Moog bass)
2001 Demolition Keyboards
2005 Angel of Retribution Keyboards
2008 Visions (Single) Keyboards
2008 Nostradamus EP (Single) Keyboards
2008 Nostradamus Keyboards

Mad Max

2008 Here We Are Keyboards (track 2)

Metalium

2002 Hero Nation - Chapter Three Keyboards (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6)
2004 As One - Chapter Four Keyboards
2005 Demons of Insanity - Chapter Five Keyboards
2006 Metalian Attack Part Two (Video) Menu music

Millenium

2000 Hourglass Keyboards (tracks 3, 10)

Ozzy Osbourne

1980 Blizzard of Ozz Keyboards
2002 Blizzard of Ozz Keyboards

Paul Di'Anno

1999 The Masters (Compilation) Keyboards

Persian Risk

2012 Once a King Keyboards
2014 Who Am I? Keyboards

Rainbow

2013 Black Masquerade (Video) Keyboards

Saxon

2011 Call to Arms Keyboards (track 4), Keyboard solo (track 8)

Sinner

1986 Hypnotized (Single) Keyboards
1986 Comin' Out Fighting Keyboards
1987 Rebel Yell (Single) Keyboards

Wolfpakk

2013 Cry Wolf Keyboards (track 4)

Rainbow

2013 Black Masquerade (Live album) Arrangements (track: 1-6 "Difficult To Cure (Beethoven's Ninth)"
2014 Black Masquerade (Live album) Arrangements (track: C1 "Difficult To Cure (Beethoven's Ninth)")
2019 Live in Birmingham 2016 (Live album) Arrangements (track: B3)
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