Former keyboard player with RAINBOW. Previously Carey had issued albums with his PLANET P project in the mid 80's. In 1983 Carey joined German band TOKYO for live work supporting MEAT LOAF, after which TOKYO's Fritz Matska quit to work with Carey. His solo album 'Some Tough City', which fared well on the European charts, saw a studio band of guitarists Reinhard Besser, Johan Daansen and Robert Musenbichler with Fritz Matska on drums. Tony Carey also guests on MAX CARL's 1985 'Circles' album. That same year he issued the Peter Hauke 'Blue Highway' album, utilising studio musicians guitarists Carl Carlton and Andreas Barker with drummer Bertram Engel. 1987's 'Bedtime Story' opus, recorded at Red Rooster Studios, Tutzing in West Germany, would be constructed as the soundtrack to the movie 'Der Joker'.

Carey worked with Austrian act CORONA in 1994. The songwriter relocated to the Spanish island of Mallorca in 2000, there working on a stream of solo outings. The keyboard player revisited his PLANET P project in 2004 with an ambitious trilogy of albums 'G.O.D.' (Go Out Dancing)', the first installment, entitled '1931', described as a "hard, satiric bash at lots of 'isms', including racism, nationalism, and hate groups in general, and takes place from 1923 Weimar Germany until the present, with hard looks at the Miltia Movement, Tim McVeigh et al". Part 2 would be 'Levittown', a look at 1950's America and what went wrong, with Part 3 being 'Out in the Rain', examining the plight of the world's underpriveliged.

Carey would also feature as producer, bassist and keyboard player on the 2004 'Colorblind' album from Blues Rock guitarist FORREST McDONALD.

In November 2008 it was learned Carey had joined erstwhile RAINBOW musicians JOE LYNN TURNER, Bobby Rondinelli and Greg Smith plus guitarist Jürgen Blackmore, son of Ritchie Blackmore, in the band OVER THE RAINBOW.