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Tony Meehan
Background information
Birth name
Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan
Also known as
"The Baron"
Born
(1943-03-02)2 March 1943 New End, Hampstead, North London, England
Died
28 November 2005(2005-11-28) (aged 62) Paddington, London, England
Genres
Rock 'n' Roll
Occupation(s)
Drummer, music producer and arranger, lecturer in psychology
Instrument(s)
Drums
Years active
1956–1990
Labels
Decca Records
Apple Records
Columbia Records
EMI
Parlophone
CBS
Ariola
MCA Records
Polydor
Marmalade Records
Formerly of
The Shadows
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan
The Vipers Skiffle Group
Billy Fury
Musical artist
Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan (2 March 1943 – 28 November 2005[1]) was a founder member of the British group the Drifters with Jet Harris, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, which evolved into the Shadows. He played drums on early Cliff Richard and the Shadows hits and on early Shadows' instrumentals.
Meehan was professionally nicknamed "The Baron" by his many admirers and friends within the British pop-rock music industry. He is reckoned to have influenced many thousands of teenage boys and adolescents to take up music as a career, including Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac, as a result of his iconic film performance in Cliff Richard's film The Young Ones.
His drumming style (cf. "Bongo Blues", "Apache") is noticeably different from that of other drummers who the Shadows employed during 1958–2010 such as Brian Bennett, Clem Cattini and Trevor Spencer. In his contribution to the 1961 book The Shadows by Themselves, Meehan gives advice to all would-be drummers on drum-kit care and maintenance.
^Doc Rock. "The Dead Rock Stars Club 2005 July To December". Thedeadrockstarsclub.com. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
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