Tony Thompson RIP
- Otis Westinghouse
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Tony Thompson RIP
Just saw this on the cool Bowie 'wonderworld.com' site:
"Very sad news to report the death of TONY THOMPSON, one of the premier session drummers of the past twenty-five years, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles of renal cell cancer aged forty-eight years old.
The former member of Seventies disco funk band Chic, Thompson had worked with everyone from DAVID BOWIE to Madonna to Diana Ross.
Born in New York on November 15th, 1954, Thompson came to prominence on the late-Seventies disco scene, thanks to his funky, rock influenced big-beat style. After sitting in with LaBelle, Thompson met Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, with whom he formed Chic in 1976.
Chic disbanded in 1983, and Thompson became an in-demand session musician, working with David on his Serious Moonlight World Tour throughout 1983 and the Let's Dance album.
From RollingStone news."
I shall have to go out and buy Let's Dance in homage (whaddya say, Noise?). I really regret my silly 18 year old principles preventing me from joining my mates at the Birmingham NEC on that tour, and Tony Thompson would have been one of the highlights of the evening. Lovely powerful, clean beat. I remember spending an entire afternoon aged 17 working out exactly how he did the drum part on Diana Ross's 'I'm Coming Out' (ooh Diana, I never knew you swung that way!) and playing along with it. Actually, I wasn't really up to it!
Two months younger than Elvis, and two days short of his birthday. Too young.
"Very sad news to report the death of TONY THOMPSON, one of the premier session drummers of the past twenty-five years, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles of renal cell cancer aged forty-eight years old.
The former member of Seventies disco funk band Chic, Thompson had worked with everyone from DAVID BOWIE to Madonna to Diana Ross.
Born in New York on November 15th, 1954, Thompson came to prominence on the late-Seventies disco scene, thanks to his funky, rock influenced big-beat style. After sitting in with LaBelle, Thompson met Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, with whom he formed Chic in 1976.
Chic disbanded in 1983, and Thompson became an in-demand session musician, working with David on his Serious Moonlight World Tour throughout 1983 and the Let's Dance album.
From RollingStone news."
I shall have to go out and buy Let's Dance in homage (whaddya say, Noise?). I really regret my silly 18 year old principles preventing me from joining my mates at the Birmingham NEC on that tour, and Tony Thompson would have been one of the highlights of the evening. Lovely powerful, clean beat. I remember spending an entire afternoon aged 17 working out exactly how he did the drum part on Diana Ross's 'I'm Coming Out' (ooh Diana, I never knew you swung that way!) and playing along with it. Actually, I wasn't really up to it!
Two months younger than Elvis, and two days short of his birthday. Too young.
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Indeed so, and he also drummed on Like A Virgin! And he had no insurance:
http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2003/ ... mpson.html
Nice shot of him at the kit.
http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2003/ ... mpson.html
Nice shot of him at the kit.
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That's why all musicians should live in Canada or Britaincosmos wrote:Same deal with Alejandro Escovedo, who is battling hepatitis C (I think that's the right one). No insurance and huge medical bills. It's very sad.
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