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Chas Cronk

{{Short description|British musician}}

{{BLP sources|date=August 2014}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}

{{Use British English|date=September 2016}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| image = Colin Blunstone live at The Apex 20th November 2024 (54154315348) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Cronk in 2024

| name = Chas Cronk

| birth_name = Charles Cronk

| origin =

| instrument = {{hlist|Bass|guitar}}

| genre = Progressive rock, art rock, folk rock

| occupation = Musician

| years_active = 1960s–present

| label =

| current_member_of = Strawbs

| past_member_of = {{hlist|Steve Hackett Band|Cry No More}}

| website = {{url|https://chascronk.com}}

}}

Chas Cronk is an English musician, best known as the bass player and acoustic guitarist for the Strawbs{{cite book|last=Romano|first=Will|title=Mountains Come Out of the Sky: The Illustrated History of Prog Rock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2lVMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT241|accessdate=1 February 2016|year=2010|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=9781617133756|pages=240–241}} from 1973 to 1980 and again from 2004 to 2023. Chas also toured and recorded with Steve Hackett and Rick Wakeman in the 1980s and Cry No More in the 1980/90s. He released a solo album, Liberty, in March 2022 on Renaissance Records (USA). Currently playing bass with the Colin Blunstone Band having started in April 2024.

Discography

=Albums=

==Phillip Goodhand-Tait band==

  • Songfall (1972)

File:Chas Cronk 2008 (cropped).jpg

==Strawbs==

==Acoustic Strawbs==

  • Painted Sky (2005) (Acoustic Strawbs live)
  • Acoustic Gold (2011)

==Rick Wakeman==

==Cry No More==

  • Smile (1986)
  • Cry No More (1987)
  • Love and Power (1989) (produced by Andy Richards)
  • Strawbs 40th Anniversary Celebration Vol. 1: Strawberry Fayre (2010)

==Solo==

  • Mystic Mountain Music (2002)
  • Liberty [LP] (2022) (Renaissance Records)

==Lambert Cronk==

  • Touch the Earth (2007)

==Steve Hackett==

  • Time Lapse (2001)
  • Live Archive 70/80/90s (2001)
  • Defector: Deluxe Edition (2016 remaster – Disc 2 1981 Live at Reading Festival)

=Singles=

Unless otherwise stated, the details are of the singles released in the UK.

==Strawbs==

  • "Shine on Silver Sun"/"And Wherefore" (1973)
  • "Hero and Heroine"/"Why" (1974)
  • "Hold on to Me (The Winter Long)"/"Where do You Go" (1974)
  • "Round and Round"/"Heroine's Theme" (1974) (US and Italy only)
  • "Grace Darling"/"Changes Arrange Us" (1974)
  • "Angel Wine"/"Grace Darling" (1975) (Japan only)
  • "Lemon Pie"/"Don't Try to Change Me" (1975)
  • "Little Sleepy" (1975) (US and Portugal only)
  • "I Only Want My Love to Grow in You"/"Wasting My Time (Thinking of You)" (1976)
  • "So Close and Yet So Far Away"/"The Soldier's Tale" (1976) (US only)
  • "Charmer"/"Beside the Rio Grande" (1976)
  • "Back in the Old Routine"/"Burning for You" (1977)
  • "Keep on Trying"/"Simple Visions" (1977)
  • "Heartbreaker" (1977) (US and South Africa only)
  • "Joey and Me"/"Deadly Nightshade" (1978)
  • "New Beginnings"/"Words of Wisdom" (1978)
  • "I Don't Want to Talk About It"/"The Last Resort" (1978) (US only)

=DVDs=

==Strawbs==

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080129093508/http://www.crynomore.co.uk/ Cry No More website]
  • [http://www.strawbsweb.co.uk/hist/cronk.asp Chas Cronk at Strawbs website]
  • Chas Cronk Website https://chascronk.com

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Category:Living people

Category:English rock musicians

Category:English rock singers

Category:English male singer-songwriters

Category:English singer-songwriters

Category:Strawbs members

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