Paul Dean

Paul was the founding member (along with Ray Sparrow) and main songwriter of the legendary early 1970's heavy rock band Jerusalem, produced and managed by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple. The band released the album ‘Jerusalem’ worldwide in 1972 plus a single ‘Kamikaze Moth’. The band's raunchy, unpolished and brutal rock was "way ahead of its time" and remains a cult band to this day. They were very much a "live" band and whilst many other Rock bands were into getting their audiences to sit down and listen, Jerusalem were all about making their audiences stand up, move and join in. They gigged throughout Europe and shared the same stage as bands such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zepplin, Uriah Heep and Status Quo. They also played at many of the major Festivals in Europe to audiences of 50,000+ and usually went down a storm, because they were different, raw and uninhibited. It has often been stated within the music business, that Jerusalem were a substantial influence on many of the 2nd generation Rock "metal" bands and Punk bands of the 80's. Although Jerusalem signed with Decca Records, Nick Mobbs head of the EMI also wanted them; he was the man who signed the Sex Pistols. In recent years Jerusalem's album has been re-issued by Universal in Japan (2005) and was also available from many Rock music websites. An official re-mastered version CD with extras was released by Rockadrome Records (www.rockadrome.com) on 22nd January 2009. Vinyl version May 2011.

He went on to form the three piece band Pussy with Ray & Bob, also managed and produced by Ian Gillan, and although they recorded an album, only the single 'Feline Woman' was released on the Deram label in 1973. Bob was eventually replaced by Brian Goff. The first ever release of this album will be through Rockadrome Records in 2011.

He also worked with Ian for a number of years helping to run a number of Ian's other business interests including Management/Publishing companies, Recording Studio, Motorbike Company and Racing Team. They were also good mates and did a lot of things together e.g. motorbike scrambling, football, horseriding, golf, cricket, darts, boating, drinking!! etc.

Paul came into contact with many top artists over the ensuing years including Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Bob Marley and Eric Clapton. He spent much of his time finding new bands for Ian’s companies and also managed/produced some of them. His last recording was the Gillan/Dean album 'Rocks On' released in 1984 Thunderbolt Records. This was with Ian's sister Pauline Gillan.

Since then Paul has moved around the World – Africa, S.America/Caribbean, Europe and now Asia. He has continued to help other musicians whenever possible. Whilst living in Africa he took up golf and within three years turned professional. He is also a fully qualified golf coach and has played in many competitions as well as the EPD and Senior Professional Golf Challenge Tours in Europe. He is still active in the Music Industry (record producer, advisor, PR, journalist). He has written articles for a number of publications over the years and at one time he also had small parts in various feature films such as Reign of Fire (double for Gerry Butler - Creedy), Count of Monte Cristo, Veronica Guerin, The Actors. For any further information, questions, whatever, please feel free to contact Paul - pauldeanmusic@yahoo.com