Alan Parker (born 26 August 1944, in Matlock, Derbyshire) is an English composer and guitarist. He had a successful career as session guitarist starting in the late 1960s, and played with Blue Mink, The Congregation, CCS and Serge Gainsbourg , together with his own studio session bands Hungry Wolf and Ugly Custard. Much of Parker's session work has gone uncredited but recently he has been named as the electric guitarist on Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man and The Walker Brothers's No Regrets.