Phillip James Small (born 2 August 1954) is an Australian musician and songwriter, who is the bass guitarist for the pub rock band

Cold Chisel Cold Chisel are an Australian Pub rock (Australia), pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums, Les Kaczmarek on bass and Don Walker (musician), Don Walker on pia ...

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entry. Retrieved 17 February 2010. He has written songs for Cold Chisel including the hit single, " My Baby" (sung by the band's guitarist Ian Moss rather than usual lead singer

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), for the 1980 album ''

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'', "Notion for You" off the '' Teenage Love'' album and "The Game" (from '' Twentieth Century''). For Cold Chisel's 1998 comeback album, '' The Last Wave of Summer'', Small contributed the unnamed fifteenth track, "Once Around the Sun", as well as co-writing with

Steve Prestwich Steven William Prestwich (5 March 195416 January 2011) was an English-born Australian drummer, guitarist, singer and songwriter. After relocating from Liverpool, Prestwich was the founding and long-term drummer for the band Cold Chisel, which for ...

and Don Walker, "A Better Time a Better Place", as a B side to one of the singles. Small has played in a number of other bands such as Planet (1971), Palladium (1972), Pound (1985), The Earls of Duke (1985–1988), Hot Ice (1986), The Outsiders (1989) and Billy Thorpe Band (2005). He also played with fellow Cold Chisel members,

in his band for the 1999 tour; and Ian Moss in late 2000 through the eastern states of Australia. In 2003 Small joined the reformed Cold Chisel to perform and record the ''Ringside'' album and DVD. In 2005 he performed with Cold Chisel at the tsunami benefit concert at the Myer Music Bowl in

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. Small has continued song writing and performing through the 2000s. Small is married to Christine and they have a child. When describing his song, "My Baby", he explained "Luckily, being in the studio, we were able to whack the idea down on tape pretty much straight away. Everyone seems to think it's written about Christine, my wife; maybe subconsciously it is."

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