Graham Dee (born Graham Davidson, 2 March 1943) is an English musician. Early life Graham Dee was born in Whitechapel, East London, England. Dee has lived his life with a neuromuscular disorder that results in a series of ticks, twitches, and spasms which has created a weakness in his neck. He attended boarding school in Hertfordshire, where he started playing guitar after hearing Lonnie Donegan's "Rock Island Line". He then went on to a college for the disabled where he qualified in gardening but kept up his guitar playing, forming an ad hoc group and playing for scrumpy in the cider pubs of Leatherhead. Career While working as a gardener, Dee started playing bass semi-pro with a band called The Planets and then returned to the guitar and got a gig backing crooner Steve Arlen. Eventually, he joined the Laurie Jay Combo who backed the likes of Gary US Bonds, Memphis Slim, John Lee Hooker and Kenny Lynch and his band appeared in Michael Winner's 1964 The System, which starred Oliver Reed. Dee formed a group called The Quotations and ended up on tour with The Animals and Tommy Tucker. He later played in a band called Bobcats, who were the house band at the Scotch of St James club. Dee was a session musician in the 1960s, working alongside the likes of future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. In 1968, Dee wrote the single "Phoebe's Flower Shoppe" for The Cortinas. He started gaining a reputation as a songwriter, producer and musician. Dee has co-writing credits on John Bromley's "Weatherman" and novelty songs like "My Daddie is a Baddie". By the late 1960s, owing to his connections as well as his musical ability, he had gained the nickname, 'Mr Tin Pan Alley' by his contemporaries. Dee also supported John Lee Hooker on the bluesman's first British shows, produced Les Fleur de Lys (whose line-up included Bournemouth rock alumni Gordon Haskell and Tony Head), backed Elkie Brooks, The Walker Brothers and Carl Perkins, was twice hired by Van Morrison to join Them, and filled in for Syd Barrett in Pink Floyd. During the 1970s, Dee was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome. In the early 1970s, he went to America with his Japanese wife, where he visited Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Memphis. He also lived in Nashville and Los Angeles. Whilst gigging at The Alibi in 1997, Dee