Birth name Robert Francis Neate Name Bobby Graham Website www.bobbygraham.co.uk | Years active 1960s–2009 Instruments Drums Role Drummer | |
Born 11 March 1940Edmonton, North London, England ( 1940-03-11 ) Albums The Cool Mikado, Crazy Drums/Crazy Drummer Similar People Vic Flick, Mick Underwood, Les Reed, Chas Hodges, Ritchie Black | ||
Jimmy page memoirs of bobby graham part 1
Bobby Graham (11 March 1940 – 14 September 2009) was an English session drummer, composer, arranger and record producer. Shel Talmy, who produced The Kinks, David Bowie and The Who, described Graham as "the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced."
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- Jimmy page memoirs of bobby graham part 1
- Bobby graham interview the roots of rock drumming
- Biography
- Recording credits
- Literature
- References
Bobby graham interview the roots of rock drumming
Biography
Born Robert Francis Neate at North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton, North London, England, Graham became a member of The Outlaws and worked with Joe Meek. He left to join work with Joe Brown in 1961. Graham was a part of the British elite session team (comparable to the American "Wrecking Crew") made up of artists such as Big Jim Sullivan, Vic Flick and Jimmy Page.
Graham played on 13 number one singles, including those by The Dave Clark Five, Englebert Humperdinck, Peter and Gordon, Jackie Trent, The Kinks, Tom Jones and Dusty Springfield, and appeared on a total of 40 UK top five hits (10 number two hits; 4 number 3 hits; 6 number 4 hits; 7 number five hits; 107 top 50 hits - 1155 days in the charts). In a discography that counts approximately 15,000 titles, he played on hits by John Barry, Shirley Bassey, Joe Cocker, Billy Fury, Herman's Hermits, Benny Hill, Rod Stewart, Dave Berry, Joe Brown and The Bruvvers, Chubby Checker, Petula Clark, Brenda Lee, Lulu, Brian Poole & The Tremeloes, The Pretty Things, PJ Proby, Van Morrison, Them, The Walker Brothers, and Marianne Faithfull.
Graham also toured the UK as drummer in his own jazz band.
He died of stomach cancer in September 2009 at the Isabel Hospice, Welwyn Garden City.
Recording credits
Graham played on over 15,000 titles, including: