Versatile drummer backed Jackson 5, Paul McCartney, D'Angelo, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Timberlake, Beck, and many others ...

Nobody holds a rock back together quite like drummers do. Through the years, we’ve really been treated to some next-level classic rock drummers. And many of them passed on far too soon. Let’s take a ...

When it comes to the drummers in a band there are often jokes flying around poking fun at them and at times their musicianship. There are no doubt many examples to show how unfair that is, and I dare ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis, who played with the English rock band during the height of its fame in the late 1970s, has ...

Back in the 1960s and ’70s, classic rock was big, and the spotlight was usually brightest on the guys with the mics and/or the guitars. We think the ones in the back, sticks in hand, setting the ...

Gerry Conway, a veteran folk and rock drummer who played with musicians like Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention and more, died on Friday. He was 76. Conway had been diagnosed with motor ...

John Barbata, who played drums for such groups as The Turtles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and both Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, has died at the age of 79. No cause of death was given, ...

The longtime drummer of a classic rock band has died. He was 74 years old. UltimateClassicRock.com reports that Gilson Lavis — who served as the classic-era drummer for London, England-based Squeeze — ...

The saga of The Who firing, rehiring, and then re-firing Zak Starkey has taken another turn. Starkey, the 59-year-old son of Ringo Starr, had played drums with the classic rock icons for three decades ...

NEW YORK – Clem Burke, a drummer and founding member of the rock group Blondie, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 70. Singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein, who originally founded ...

Tributes poured in from Questlove, Beck and other artists.