Eddie was born in Horncastle, a small market town in Lincolnshire in 1950. His father was Swiss (which accounts for the strange name). He started to play piano when he was about five and later while he was at Grammar school he joined up with a friend who played drums and together did regular gigs in a pub and at a lot of the RAF stations in Lincolnshire. One day another schoolmate took him to stay with a friend of his named David Lowe, who was then organist at Bradford Ice Rink and David invited him to have a go on the Hammond C3. A director of Mecca who happened to be there at the time was impressed and asked him if he would like to play for ice dancing. So Eddie moved from rural Lincolnshire to London and trained at Streatham Ice Rink under the then Musical Director John Bowery. He spent a year there and in 1967 moved to Birmingham and took up residency at the local ice rink and there he stayed on and off, until 1988.

He began playing concerts in the late 70s, taking a Hammond L103, which had been split into two for portability, and a Leslie speaker. Since then he has not stopped, these days using a Hammond X5 and an even bigger Leslie.