Tony Butler

Anthony Earle Peter Butler (born 13 February 1957)

Early life Butler was born at Hammersmith Hospital in White City, London, England. Butler's father was killed in a road accident in 1963, when he was six years old.

Butler has a multi-racial heritage, as his great-grandfather had been Scottish, and had moved to the Caribbean from Edinburgh for business reasons, and had lived with a local woman as a concubine. Butler has attributed his Scottish heritage for his love of Celtic music.

He also did session work with other artists including Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and The Pretenders among others, and declined an invitation by Chrissie Hynde to join The Pretenders. and was also co-opted by The Rush Limbaugh Show as its opening theme.

In 2018, Butler released an autobiography and a solo album, My Time. One Day To The Next (A Song for ME Awareness) (1998) The Great Unknown (Slight Return) (2001) My Time (2018)