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A drum kit (also drum set, kit, or trap set) is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person (drummer). The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s...
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Stoney
Stoney (born Mark Stoney circa 1980) is a British musician, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Stoney first appeared on the UK music scene following the release of his debut inventive and homegrown-style album Amber in 2001. A quirky collection...
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- 1980 (age 29 years)
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Dave Grohl
David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, D.C.-area bands, including the hardcore punk...
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- Jan 14, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter of Irish heritage. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk rock...
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- Aug 25, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique...
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- Dec 21, 1940
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- Dec 4, 1993 (age 52 years)
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George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison...
Date of birth:
- Feb 25, 1943
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 2001 (age 58 years)
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John Rutsey
John Howard Rutsey (1953 – May 11, 2008) from Ontario, Canada was a former drummer, most recognized for being a co-founding member of Rush along with Alex Lifeson and Jeff Jones (who was replaced by Geddy Lee).
Rutsey played drums in Rush from...
Date of birth:
- 1953
Date of death:
- May 11, 2008 (age 55 years)
Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947 in Shard End, Birmingham) is a two-time Ivor Novello Award recipient and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist, and record producer who gained fame as the leader of...
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- Dec 30, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Keith Moon
Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for exuberant drumming, and notoriety for his destructive lifestyle, earning him the nickname, "Moon the Loon." Moon joined The...
Date of birth:
- Aug 23, 1946
Date of death:
- Sep 7, 1978 (age 32 years)
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Minor Threat
Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite the band's short lifespan, it had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene. Minor Threat's song "Straight Edge" became the...
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- 1980
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- 1983
Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman; September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to...
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- Sep 11, 1943 (age 66 years)
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Neil Peart
Neil Ellwood Peart (pronounced /ˈpɪərt/) OC, (born September 12, 1952) is a Canadian musician and author. He is best-known as the drummer and lyricist for the rock band Rush.
Peart grew up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario (now part of St. Catharines)...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1952 (age 57 years)
Pete Best
Pete Best (born 24 November 1941) is a British musician, best known as the original drummer in The Beatles 1960-62 before Ringo Starr joined the group.
After moving from India to Liverpool in 1945, Best's mother, Mona Best (1924–1988) started The...
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- Nov 24, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Paul Wertico
Paul Wertico (born January 5, 1953 in Chicago) is internationally known as "one of the most versatile and musical drummers in music today". Paul gained world recognition as a member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1983 until 2001, leaving the group to...
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- Jan 5, 1953 (age 57 years)
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Tommy Lee
Tommy Lee (b. October 3, 1962) is an American musician, and founding member of glam metal band Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects. He was...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1962 (age 47 years)
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the 12th President of the United States.
Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black...
Date of birth:
- Nov 24, 1784
Date of death:
- Jul 9, 1850 (age 65 years)
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Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being a member of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released five...
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- Oct 3, 1949 (age 60 years)
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Mick Fleetwood
Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British-born musician best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration...
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- Jun 24, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Todd Rundgren
Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer.
Rundgren was born in Upper Darby, PA. He began his career in Woody's Truck Stop, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based group based on the model of...
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- Jun 22, 1948 (age 61 years)
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Micky Dolenz
George Michael Dolenz, Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American actor, musician, television director and theatre director; he is best known for his role as the drummer/vocalist in the 1960s made-for-television band The Monkees.
Dolenz was born in Los...
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- Mar 8, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Brian May
Brian Harold May CBE (born 19 July 1947 in London, England) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits...
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- Jul 19, 1947 (age 62 years)
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John Deacon
John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951), also known as Deacon John, is a retired British musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. Of the four members of the band, he was the last to join and also the youngest, being only...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Ian Dury
Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English rock and roll singer, lyricist, bandleader and actor who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and New Wave era of rock music. He is best known as founder, frontman...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1942
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 2000 (age 57 years)
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Dave Mattacks
Dave Mattacks (born David James Mattacks, 13 March 1948, Edgware, Middlesex, England) is a rock and folk drummer. He began as a trainee piano tuner before taking up the drums. He played with several jazz bands before joining the electric folk band,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 13, 1948 (age 61 years)
Les Claypool
Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool (born September 29, 1963 in Richmond, California, U.S.) is a musician, best known as the bassist in the band Primus. Claypool's funky, creative playing style on the electric bass mixes finger-tapping, flamenco-like...
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- Sep 29, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English musician and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flutist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. More...
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- Feb 13, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Tony Williams
Anthony Tillmon "Tony" Williams (December 12, 1945 — February 23, 1997) was an American jazz drummer.
Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential jazz drummers to come to prominence in the 1960s, Williams first gained fame in the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1945
Date of death:
- Feb 23, 1997 (age 51 years)
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Tom Petty
For the New York based band, see The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are a heartland rock band, most of whose members are from the United States. They were formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench, all of whom had...
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- Oct 20, 1950 (age 59 years)
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- 1976
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz...
Date of birth:
- Apr 20, 1908
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 2002 (age 94 years)
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Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 - October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon,...
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- Aug 6, 1969
Date of death:
- Oct 21, 2003 (age 34 years)
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Papa Jack Laine
George Vital Laine aka Papa Jack (September 21, 1873 – June 1, 1966) was the most busy and perhaps the most important band leader in New Orleans in the years from the Spanish-American War to World War I.
Many of the New Orleans musicians who first...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1873
Date of death:
- Jun 1, 1966 (age 92 years)
Johnny Carson
John William “Johnny” Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years (1962-92). Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor...
Date of birth:
- Oct 23, 1925
Date of death:
- Jan 23, 2005 (age 79 years)
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Paul Barbarin
Adolphe Paul Barbarin (May 5, 1899 – February 17, 1969) was a New Orleans jazz drummer, usually regarded (along with Baby Dodds) as one of the very best of the pre-Big Band era jazz drummers.
Paul Barbarin's year of birth is often given as 1901, but...
Date of birth:
- May 5, 1899
Date of death:
- Feb 17, 1969 (age 69 years)
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Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto, May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, actor and musician.
Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country. Although unknown to his public, his...
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- May 14, 1936
Date of death:
- Dec 20, 1973 (age 37 years)
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Max Weinberg
Maxwell Sachel "Max" Weinberg (born April 13, 1951) is an American drummer and television personality, most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien on Late Night with Conan O...
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- Apr 13, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Baby Dodds
Warren "Baby" Dodds (December 24, 1898 – February 14, 1959) was a jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
"Baby" Dodds was the younger brother of clarinetist Johnny Dodds. He is regarded as one of the very best jazz drummers of the pre-big band...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1898
Date of death:
- Feb 14, 1959 (age 60 years)
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Ed McTaggart
Ed McTaggart (born July 10, 1951) is an America drummer and artist. McTaggart is best known as the drummer with the rock band Daniel Amos.
McTaggart joined DA in 1976, after years of playing with Bill Sprouse Jr.'s band The Road Home.
In the 1980s,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1951 (age 58 years)
Bootsy Collins
William "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.
Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and...
Date of birth:
- Oct 26, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Mike Dirnt
For the former American football wide receiver, see Mike Pritchard.
Michael Ryan Pritchard, more commonly known as Mike Dirnt, is the American bassist and backing vocalist for the American punk rock band Green Day. While at school, he would play ...
Date of birth:
- May 4, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Peter Criss
George Peter John Criscuola (born December 20, 1945), better known as Peter Criss, is an American musician best known as the original drummer for the rock band Kiss. Criss established the "Catman" character for his Kiss persona.
Of Italian-American...
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Ace Frehley
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley (pronounced /ˈfreɪli/; born April 27, 1951) is an American guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of "The Spaceman" when the band adopted costumes and...
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- Apr 27, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Jimmy Chamberlin
Jimmy Chamberlin (born June 10, 1964) is an American drummer, songwriter and producer. He may be best known as the former drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. After a drug-related incident with touring keyboardist Jonathan...
Date of birth:
- Jun 10, 1964 (age 45 years)
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Abe Cunningham
Abe Cunningham, born in Sacramento, California on July 27, 1973, is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band Deftones. He is known for his use of ghost notes and other technical drumming techniques.
Abe...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1973 (age 36 years)
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Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Founder of the industrial rock musical project known as Nine Inch Nails, he was previously associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds,...
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- May 17, 1965 (age 44 years)
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Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World is an American alternative rock band from Mesa, Arizona, formed in 1993. The band is composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Jim Adkins, guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch and drummer Zach Lind.
Jimmy Eat...
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- 1994
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950; name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records at the...
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- May 13, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Tim Alexander
Tim "Herb" Alexander (born April 10, 1965 in Cherry Point, North Carolina) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band Primus. Tim played on the Primus recordings Suck on This to Tales from the Punchbowl, before leaving the...
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- Apr 10, 1965 (age 44 years)
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Brian Migdol
Brian Migdol was the original drummer for Black Flag, from 1976 to the fall of 1978. He played on the Nervous Breakdown EP and parts of Everything Went Black, the Nervous Breakdown EP can also be heard on Black Flag's The First Four Years. His name...
ROBO
Robo (born Roberto Valverde in Cali, Colombia in 1955) is a Colombian-American drummer. He is the drummer for the Misfits, and first gained recognition as the third drummer in Black Flag.
From 1978 to 1981, he was the third drummer for Black Flag,...
Date of birth:
- 1955 (age 55 years)
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Bill Stevenson
John William "Bill" Stevenson (born September 10, 1963) is an American musician and record producer. He is the drummer and frequent songwriter for the California punk rock group Descendents. In late December 1981 he played a few concerts with Black...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Anthony Martinez
Anthony Martinez was the last drummer for Black Flag. He did not record any studio material, but can be heard on the live album Who's Got the 10½? and live EP Annihilate This Week. He played with the band for a very brief period, from late 1985...
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 2, 1939
Date of death:
- Apr 1, 1984 (age 45 years)
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Jaco Pastorius
John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged for his skills as an electric bass player.
His playing style was noteworthy for containing intricate...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1, 1951
Date of death:
- Sep 21, 1987 (age 35 years)
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Beck
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements...
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- Jul 8, 1970 (age 39 years)
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Shavo Odadjian
Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian (born April 22, 1974) is an Armenian-American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and director. He is best known as the bassist and occasional songwriter of the Grammy Award-winning rock band, System of a Down. The band has...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1974 (age 35 years)
John Dolmayan
John Ohannes Dolmayan (born July 15, 1973 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Armenian-American songwriter and drummer. He is best known as the drummer of Grammy Award-winning rock band, System of a Down. The band has been on hiatus since 2006. He is...
Date of birth:
- Jul 15, 1973 (age 36 years)
Michael Hampton
Michael Hampton (born November 15, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a funk/rock guitarist. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
Hampton started his professional career...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1956 (age 53 years)
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
Collins sang the...
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- Jan 30, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (pronounced /ˈtaʊnzənd/; born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His...
Date of birth:
- May 19, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Yuri Ruley
Yuri Zane Ruley (born June 3, 1976 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American drummer, playing in the Christian punk band MxPx.
In 1992, while still in high school, Ruley started MxPx with Mike Herrera and Andy Husted; Husted was replaced by Tom...
Date of birth:
- Jun 3, 1976 (age 33 years)
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Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.
A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important...
Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1924
Date of death:
- Aug 16, 2007 (age 83 years)
