Mikel Japp

Welsh rock guitarist and songwriter He was born 15 November 1952 in Mountain Ash, Wales and died 31 January 2012 in Port Talbot. He started playing with the Welsh band May Fisher that renamed into Spread Eagle (2). After their first release he became a member of Marmalade and toured with them. Japp was briefly in a band called Harlot with a pre-[a245648] Jimmy Bain and also wrote some songs for [a153073] that appears on the Killers and Creatures Of The Night albums. He also wrote some songs on both Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley's solo albums.