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Moving from Category:Male bass guitarists to Category:British male bass guitarists using Cat-a-lot

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{{Infobox musical artist 
| name = Tony Friel
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| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|5|4|df=y}}
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| origin = [[Birkenhead]], England
| instrument = Bass guitar, guitar
| genre = [[Punk rock]], [[New wave music|new wave]], [[post-punk]], [[synth-pop]]
| occupation = Musician
| years_active = 1976–present
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| associated_acts = [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]], Contact, [[The Passage (band)|the Passage]], [[The Teardrops (band)|the Teardrops]], Woodband Streetband
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'''Tony Friel''' (born 4 May 1958)<ref name="fallonline">[http://www.visi.com/fall/bio/biography.html The Fall online – Previous band members & producers (A–Z), Tony Friel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205052605/http://www.visi.com/fall/bio/biography.html |date=5 February 2009 }}</ref> is an English bass guitarist, known for his role in different [[New wave music|new wave]] bands.

He attended Heys Boys Secondary School, where he met [[Martin Bramah]] and attained an art [[O-Level]]. He and Bramah shared many interests. In the mid-1970s, they were introduced by their friend Barbara Smith to her brother [[Mark E. Smith]] and his friend [[Una Baines]]. Smith, Baines, Bramah and Friel shared interests in music, and formed their first band, [[The Fall (band)|the Fall]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Middles |first1=Mick |last2=Smith |first2=Mark E. |title=The Fall| page=64 |publisher=Omnibus Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-7119-9762-4 }}</ref> Friel remained until December 1977, then he left.

After the Fall, Friel formed a project called Contact and a band called [[The Passage (band)|the Passage]]. In late 1978, he and his former Fall bandmate [[Karl Burns]] joined [[The Teardrops (band)|the Teardrops]], a group which included [[Buzzcocks]] bassist [[Steve Garvey (musician)|Steve Garvey]]. They released the ''Leave Me No Choice'' EP, and in 1980, the ''Final Vinyl'' album, before breaking up.

In subsequent years Friel played with R&B bands. Later he was member of the Woodbank Streetband.<ref name="fallonline"/>

==Discography==
*''Bingo-Master's Break-Out'' – The Fall (1978)
*''New Love Songs'' 7-inch EP – Passage (Object Music, 1978)
*''Future'' 7-inch EP – Contact (Object Music, 1979)

==See also==
* [[List of The Fall members]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081214193030/http://www.atomicsoup.co.uk/ The website of Tony Friel]

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