Lora Logic

Lora Logic (born Susan Whitby 1960) is a British saxophonist, singer and songwriter from Wembley, London. Logic was a founding member of London punk band X-Ray Spex, and wrote the saxophone parts for their debut album, Germfree Adolescents. After leaving X-Ray Spex, Logic founded her own band, Essential Logic, which released one album in 1979. Logic has been called "one of post-punk's most notable atypical girls."

Career Susan Whitby was born in Wembley to a Finnish mother who worked as an air hostess and a British father. She attended an all-girls school. Her mother encouraged her and her brother to learn piano and violin, which she disliked. When she was thirteen, she asked her parents to buy her a saxophone after hearing it on several David Bowie records.

Logic was only briefly a member X-Ray Spex, and had left the group by the time they recorded their first album, Germfree Adolescents, which nevertheless used her uncredited saxophone arrangements.

A year later, she formed Essential Logic. This group recorded one self-titled EP, five singles, and an album, Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?). During the recording of the second Essential Logic album, the group broke up, and Logic finished the recording as a solo album, Pedigree Charm. She also played on recordings by The Raincoats, The Stranglers, , Swell Maps, and later, Boy George. In 1984, she had an arranged marriage at the Krishna temple, and she and her husband have two children.

In 1995, she rejoined X-Ray Spex when Styrene reformed the group, but it was brief as their egos clashed again. In 2003, the Kill Rock Stars label reissued most of the early Essential Logic material, alongside newer recordings by Logic under the Essential Logic name, as Fanfare in the Garden.

In 2022, a second Essential Logic album, Land of Kali, was released.