David O'List

David O'List is the eternal almost-legend, and that is precisely why I find him fascinating. He played in The Attack and The Nice, sat in Roxy Music before Phil Manzanera took the chair, and even deputised in Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd. Born in 1948 in London, he was right at the heart of British psychedelia, yet always seemed to stand half a step outside stardom. I have a soft spot for craftsmen like him, the players who were unmistakably there in rooms where history was made. His career is a glorious footnote that deserves to be read aloud.

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Name (English)

David O'List

Name (Japanese)

デヴィッド・オリスト

Reading

でゔぃっど・おりすと

Born

December 13, 1948 (age 77)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

musician / guitarist / songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rat

• Official sitehttps://davyolist.wordpress.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20O'List
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4355847

Tags

• musician
• guitarist
• songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.