• Bernie Marsden
  Bernard John "Bernie" Marsden (born 7 May 1951) is an English rock guitarist. Having played with Glenn Cornick's Wild Turkey in 1974, he then played with Babe Ruth, from 1975-76, before becoming an original member of Paice, Ashton & Lord in 1977 and then joining the hard rock band, Whitesnake. In more recent years, Marsden has toured with his bands Company of Snakes, M3 (both formed with fellow former Whitesnake members Micky Moody and Neil Murray) and Bernie Marsden's Whitesnake, and performed with Elkie Brooks. Over the years he has taken part in a number of sessions and has released a handful of solo albums (And About Time, Too!, Look At Me Now, Green & Blues, Stacks). He has also collaborated with Micky Moody on a number of Marsden-Moody live and studio projects.
  http://wn.com/Bernie_Marsden
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  Brian May
  Brian Harold May, CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home-built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits such as "Keep Yourself Alive", "Now I'm Here", "Tie Your Mother Down", "We Will Rock You", "Who Wants to Live Forever", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "I Want It All" and "Too Much Love Will Kill You". May earned a PhD in astrophysics in 2007 and is currently the Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. May lives in Surrey.
  http://wn.com/Brian_May
• Chick Churchill
  Chick Churchill (born Michael George Churchill, 2 January 1946, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England) is the keyboard player of the British late 1960s to 70s rock band, Ten Years After.
  http://wn.com/Chick_Churchill
• Colin Blunstone
  Colin Blunstone (born Colin Edward Michael Blunstone, 24 June 1945, Hatfield, Hertfordshire) is an English pop singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the pop group The Zombies, and for his participation on various albums with The Alan Parsons Project.
  http://wn.com/Colin_Blunstone
• Cozy Cole
  Cozy Cole (October 17, 1909 – January 31, 1981) was a jazz drummer who scored a #1 Cashbox magazine hit with the record "Topsy Part 2". "Topsy" peaked at number three on Billboard Hot 100, and at number one on the R&B; chart. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The recording contained a lengthy drum solo, and was one of the few drum solo recordings that ever made the Billboard Hot 100 (1958) chart. The single was issued on the tiny Brooklyn-based Love Records label.
  http://wn.com/Cozy_Cole
• Cozy Powell's Hammer
  http://wn.com/Cozy_Powell's_Hammer
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  Dave Pegg
  Dave Pegg (born 2 November 1947) is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell Folk Group and Jethro Tull. He has appeared on some of the most significant albums of his era, as well as undertaking solo projects. His style of playing bass has been particularly influential in electric folk music.
  http://wn.com/Dave_Pegg
• Don Airey
  Don Airey (born 21 June 1948 in Sunderland, England) has been the keyboardist in the rock band Deep Purple since 2002, succeeding Jon Lord. He has had a long and productive career, playing with such acts as Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Whitesnake, Colosseum II, Sinner, Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, Rainbow, Divlje jagode and Living Loud. He has also worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber.
  http://wn.com/Don_Airey
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  Donovan
  Donovan (Donovan Philips Leitch, born 10 May 1946, in Maryhill, Glasgow), is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music.
  http://wn.com/Donovan
• Ed Welch
  Edward William "Ed" Welch (born October 22, 1947) is an English television composer. His projects include the music for Blockbusters, Knightmare, One Foot in the Grave, ''That's My Dog, Catchphrase, The National Lottery and The Hoobs''. He could be compared to the American television composer, Edd Kalehoff.
  http://wn.com/Ed_Welch
• Gary Moore
  Gary Moore (born Robert William Gary Moore, 4 April 1952) is a guitarist and singer from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  http://wn.com/Gary_Moore
• Gene Hoglan
  Eugene "Gene" Victor Hoglan II (born August 31, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is an American drummer. He is acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including usage of odd devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms (using what he calls "kick triplets"). His highly technical playing is extremely accurate at very high and challenging tempos, earning him the nicknames "The Atomic Clock" and "Human Drum Machine".
  http://wn.com/Gene_Hoglan
• Glenn Tipton
  Glenn Raymond Tipton (born 25 October 1947 in Blackheath, West Midlands, UK) is one of the Grammy Award winning guitarists (and occasional keyboard player) for the British heavy metal band Judas Priest. Prior to joining Judas Priest, he was in The Flying Hat Band.
  http://wn.com/Glenn_Tipton
• Harvey Andrews
  Harvey John Andrews (born 7 May 1943 in Stechford, Birmingham) is an English singer, songwriter, and poet.
  http://wn.com/Harvey_Andrews
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  Jeff Beck
  Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He is one of the three noted guitarists, along with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, to have played with The Yardbirds. Beck also formed The Jeff Beck Group, and Beck, Bogert & Appice, besides his successful solo career.
  http://wn.com/Jeff_Beck
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  John Entwistle
  John Alec Entwistle (9 October 1944 – 27 June 2002) was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, who was best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band The Who. His aggressive lead sound influenced many rock bass players. He has been described as "the greatest bassist in the history of rock" by Greenwich Time and The Ledger.
  http://wn.com/John_Entwistle
• John West (musician)
  John West is an American musician.
  http://wn.com/John_West_(musician)
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  Jon Lord
  Jon Douglas Lord (born 9 June 1941) is an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player.
  http://wn.com/Jon_Lord
• Julie Felix
  Julie Ann Felix (born 14 June 1938, Santa Barbara, California) is a folk rock recording artist, who was notably produced by Mickie Most on his RAK Records label.
  http://wn.com/Julie_Felix
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  Keith Emerson
  Keith Noel Emerson (born 2 November 1944, Todmorden, West Yorkshire) is a British keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice (which evolved from P.P. Arnold's band), he started Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early supergroups, in 1970. Following the breakup of ELP, circa 1979, Emerson had modest success with Emerson, Lake & Powell in the 1980s. ELP reunited during the early 90s. Emerson also reunited The Nice in 2002 for a tour. An album titled Keith Emerson Band Featuring Marc Bonilla was released in Aug/Sept 2008.
  http://wn.com/Keith_Emerson
• Ken Serio
  Ken Serio is a session drummer from Rhode Island. A drummer since the age of 11, he moved to New York City to pursue the craft professionally, studying with Joe Morello and Kenwood Dennard, among others. He currently resides in northern New Jersey, teaching dozens of students weekly.
  http://wn.com/Ken_Serio
• Mickie Most
  Mickie Most (20 June 1938 — 30 May 2003) was an English record producer, with a string of hit singles with his own RAK Records, and with acts such as The Animals, The Arrows, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Suzi Quatro and the Jeff Beck Group.
  http://wn.com/Mickie_Most
• Murray Head
  Murray Seafield Saint-George Head (born 5 March 1946) is a British actor and singer, most recognised for his international hit song, "One Night in Bangkok" and his album ''Say It Ain't So''. He has been involved in several projects since the 1960s and continues to record music and make appearances on television either as himself or as a character actor.
  http://wn.com/Murray_Head
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  Noddy Holder
  Neville John "Noddy" Holder MBE (born 15 June 1946) is an English musician and actor, best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and occasional bass guitarist with the rock band Slade.
  http://wn.com/Noddy_Holder
• Pete York
  Pete York (born Peter York, 15 August 1942, Redcar, Yorkshire, England) is a rock drummer who has been performing since the 1960s.
  http://wn.com/Pete_York
• Peter Sarstedt
  Peter Eardley Sarstedt (born 12 December 1943, Delhi, India) is an Anglo-Indian singer-songwriter.
  http://wn.com/Peter_Sarstedt
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  Ritchie Blackmore
  Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English rock guitarist, known for his work in Deep Purple, in addition to his solo band Rainbow, where he was the sole constant band member through numerous personnel changes. His current folk rock duo is the Renaissance-influenced Blackmore's Night with his (now) wife Candice Night. While with Rainbow, he changed his musical approach multiple times following each lead singer's departure and it is said that the result was the confusion and alienation of many of his supporters. Blackmore started his music career as a session player in the early 1960s. He has lived in the U.S.A. since the mid-1970s. He is one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock history.
  http://wn.com/Ritchie_Blackmore
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  Robert Plant
  Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
  http://wn.com/Robert_Plant
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  Roger Daltrey
  Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is an English singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also producing films.
  http://wn.com/Roger_Daltrey
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  Sanne Salomonsen
  Sanne Salomonsen (born 30 December 1955) is a notable Danish singer. She has been performing since 1975, and various songs by her band Sneakers were on the charts continuously from 1979 to 1985. She was also a member of the Anne Linnet Band.
  http://wn.com/Sanne_Salomonsen
• Suzi Quatro
  Susan Kay "Suzi" Quatro (born June 3, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress.
  http://wn.com/Suzi_Quatro
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  Tony Ashton
  Tony Ashton (1 March 1946, Blackburn, Lancashire - 28 May 2001, London) was an English rock pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer, producer and artist.
  http://wn.com/Tony_Ashton
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  Tony Iommi
  Francis Anthony "Tony" Iommi (born 19 February 1948, in Aston, Birmingham, England) is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the founding member of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and the sole constant band member through multiple personnel changes.
  http://wn.com/Tony_Iommi
• Tony Joe White
  Tony Joe White (born July 23, 1943, Oak Grove, Louisiana) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie"; "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was firstly made popular by Brook Benton in 1970; and "Steamy Windows", a hit for Tina Turner in 1989. "Polk Salad Annie" was also recorded by Elvis Presley and Tom Jones.
  http://wn.com/Tony_Joe_White
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  Yngwie Malmsteen
  Yngwie Johann Malmsteen ( ; born June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Malmsteen became famous and very influential for his neo-classical approach in heavy metal music. He is often considered one of the most talented rock guitarists of all time and is considered to be a pioneer of shred guitar.
  http://wn.com/Yngwie_Malmsteen

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  Berkshire
  Berkshire ( or , abbreviated Berks) is a historic county in the South East of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1958, and letters patent issued confirming this in 1974.
  http://wn.com/Berkshire
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  Birmingham
  Birmingham ( , locally ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. It is the most populous British city outside London with a population of 1,028,700 (2009 estimate), and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the United Kingdom's second most populous Urban Area with a population of 2,284,093 (2001 census). Birmingham's metropolitan area, which includes surrounding towns to which it is closely tied through commuting, is also the United Kingdom's second most populous with a population of 3,683,000.
  http://wn.com/Birmingham
• Bristol
  Bristol () is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) with an estimated 1,006,600 residents, it is England's sixth, and the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city, one of the group of English Core Cities and the most populous city in South West England.
  http://wn.com/Bristol
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  Castle Donington
  Castle Donington is a village, with a population of around 7000 in the North West of Leicestershire, part of the Derby postcode area and on the edge of the National Forest. It is the closest town to East Midlands Airport.
  http://wn.com/Castle_Donington
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  Lambourn
  Lambourn is a village and civil parish in the northwestern part of the ceremonial county of Berkshire in England. It is most noted for its associations with British National Hunt racehorse training.
  http://wn.com/Lambourn
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  M4 motorway
  The M4 motorway links London with South Wales. It is part of the unsigned European route E30. Other major places directly accessible from M4 junctions are Reading, Swindon, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff and Swansea. Originally referred to as the London-South Wales Motorway, the English section was constructed between 1965 and 1971, the Welsh section was completed in 1993 and the Second Severn Crossing opened in 1996.
  http://wn.com/M4_motorway

• Ace Kefford
• Album-oriented rock
• And About Time Too
• Back To The Light
• Baptizm Of Fire
• BBC
• Bedlam (album)
• Bedlam (band)
• Berkshire
• Bernie Marsden
• Birmingham
• Black Sabbath
• Blue Murder (band)
• blues-rock
• Bob Sargeant
• Brian May
• Bristol
• Castle Donington
• Chick Churchill
• Chrysalis Records
• Cinderella (band)
• Cirencester
• Clotho's Web
• Clowns
• Colin Blunstone
• Cosmic Wheels
• Cozy Cole
• Cozy Powell Forever
• Cozy Powell's Hammer
• Dance With the Devil
• Dave Pegg
• Don Airey
• Donovan
• Ed Welch
• Edge of the World
• Every Word You Say
• Facing the Animal
• Finyl Vinyl
• Fleetwood Mac
• Forcefield (album)
• Gary Moore
• Gene Hoglan
• Glenn Tipton
• Graham Bonnet
• Greg Lake
• Guns N' Roses
• Hard rock
• Harvey Andrews
• Headless Cross
• Heavy metal music
• Hitachi, Ltd.
• Hot Chocolate (band)
• instrumental rock
• jazz fusion
• Jeff Beck
• John Bonham
• John Entwistle
• John West (musician)
• Jon Lord
• Judas Priest
• Julie Felix
• Keith Emerson
• Ken Serio
• Lambourn
• Line-Up (album)
• Live in Munich 1977
• Long Cold Winter
• M4 motorway
• Mario Parga
• Mickie Most
• Minute By Minute
• Monsters of Rock
• MSG (album)
• Murray Head
• Nigel Lived
• Noddy Holder
• Octopuss
• One Night at Budokan
• Pete York
• Peter & The Wolf
• Peter Sarstedt
• Phenomena (band)
• Pictures at Eleven
• Polydor Records
• Premier Percussion
• progressive rock
• Rainbow (band)
• Record Breakers
• Red Special (album)
• Ritchie Blackmore
• Robert Plant
• Roger Daltrey
• S.A.S. Band
• Saab 9000
• Sanne Salomonsen
• SAS Band
• Scream LP
• Silvertide
• Since You Been Gone
• Slade
• Slide It In
• Super Drumming
• Suzi Quatro
• Swamp pop
• The Drums Are Back
• The Jeff Beck Group
• The Man In Black
• The Sorcerers (band)
• Thin Lizzy
• Timewatch (abum)
• Tony Ashton
• Tony Iommi
• Tony Joe White
• Triumph and Agony
• TYR
• Under a Raging Moon
• Use Your Illusion
• Warlock (band)
• Whitesnake
• Who the Am Dam
• Yngwie Malmsteen

Powell, Cozy Filmography

• The Black Sabbath Story Vol. 2 (1992)
• Superdrumming (1987)
• Superdrumming (1987)
• Whitesnake: Rock in Rio '85 (1985)
• Whitesnake: Super Rock '84 (1985)
• Rainbow: The Final Cut (1985)
• Whitesnake Commandos: Donington 1983 (1983)
• Whitesnake: Fourplay (1983)

• Theme One
• Killer
• Sweet Poison
• The Loner
• Over the Top
• Cat Moves
• Sunset
• Hot Rock
• The Blister
• Up on the Downs
• Formula One
• Dartmoore
• 633 Squadron
• Octopuss
• The Big Country
• The Rattler

• Man With a Mission
• Ivory Towers
• Why Dows Love Hurt
• Haunted by the Devil
• Doing the Natural Thing
• All I Wanted Was Your Love
• Call Me Mayhem
• The Light
• High Time to Fly
• Make You a Man
• Power in the Wroung Hands
• You're All I Believe In

• The Drums Are Back
• Ride to Win
• I Wanna Hear You Shout
• Light in the Sky / Return of the 7
• Battle Hymn
• Legend of the Glass Mountain
• Cryin'
• Classical Gas
• Somewhere in Time
• The Rocket

• Sooner or Later
• 633 Squadron Octopuss / The Big Country
• Cat Moves
• The Blister
• The Right Side
• Formula One
• Hot Rock
• Princetown
• Living a Lie
• Dartmoore
• Jekyll & Hyde
• The Rattler

• Cat Moves
• Sunset
• Living a Lie
• Hot Rock
• The Blister
• The Right Side
• Jekyll and Hyde
• Sooner or Later

• Theme 1
• Killer
• Heidi Goes to Town
• El Sid
• Sweet Poison
• The Loner
• Over the Top

• Up on the Downs
• 633 Squadron
• Octopuss
• The Big Country
• Formula One
• Princetown
• Dartmoore
• The Rattler

• Sooner or Later
• Dartmoore
• The Rattler
• Cat Moves
• Sunset
• Jekyll & Hyde
• Princetown
• Up on the Downs
• Liar (Graham Bonnet)
• The Blister
• The Right Side
• Formula One
• Hot Rock
• Living a Lie
• 633 Squadron Theme
• Octopuss
• The Big Country Theme

Born: 1947-12-20

Died: 1998-04-05