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Daniel Joseph Anthony "Tony" Meehan (2 March 1943 – 28 November 2005) was a founder member of the British group The Shadows with Jet Harris, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch. 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 (qv Bongo Blues, Apache) is noticeably different from that of other drummers that the Shadows employed during 1958–2010 such as Brian Bennett, Clem Cattini and Trevor Spencer, preferring a simpler 1950s jazz style kit to a voluminous 1970/80s rock/metal drum kit. Thus his kit was significantly more spartan, in terms of quantity of drums and accessories, than Brian Bennett's modern expansive drum kits through the decades. In his contribution to the 1961 book "The Shadows by Themselves" Meehan gives very useful, timely and helpful advice to all would-be drummers on drum-kit care and maintenance.
Actors: John Warman (actor), Stanley Townsend (actor), Charles Bodycomb (miscellaneous crew), Frank Harper (actor), Garry Marriott (miscellaneous crew), Greg Bennett (actor), Chris Wilson (actor), Maureen Lipman (actress), Neil Maskell (actor), Kelly Reilly (actress), Stephen Greif (actor), Rafe Spall (actor), Tim Woodward (actor), Kate Dickie (actress), James Fiddy (actor),
Plot: Three policemen are brutally murdered during the 1966 World Cup celebrations. "He Kills Coppers" follows three men connected to the deaths; Frank (a fellow policeman), Tony (an ambitious journalist, and witness to the murders), and Billy (the murderer).
Keywords: based-on-novel, police-officer-killedHomenaje "In Memorian" al gran bateria Tony Meehan. Toca la Guitara: Diego Garcia. Tribute "In Memoriam" at large drums Tony Meehan rest in peace. Plays Guitar: Diego Garcia This song is the property of its rightful owner (s) and Diego Garcia claims no ownership of the lyrics or the song. This is a video made nonprofit with the sole purpose of study, review or critical analysis purposes only.
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - Diamonds (1963).
Tony Meehan was the frist drummer in The Shadows. Sadly he passed away from an accident at home in 2005. He is very much missed and was a very talented muscian and composer. Here is my tribute to him and Jet's song Song For 'Tony'
Cliff Richard's The Event in 1989 had special guests and Jet Harris & Tony Meehan Guested and played 'Move It'. Enjoy!
The ex-Vipers and Shadows drummer's only solo single (try saying that with your teeth out!). UK chart No.39
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan was No 1 for 6 weeks with this classic instrumental written by Jerry Lordan in '62. Classic and classic drum solo by 2 of the finest musicians. Enjoy!
This great instrumental from "Jet Harris & Tony Meehan" was released in 1963 and made number 1 in the charts, as most people would know that both these musicians were former members of "The Shadows" before venturing out together to make some great tunes just like this one...
Nivram and Jet Harris the famous tune that is in fact Marvin spelt backwards written by Jet Harris & Hank Marvin was re-recorded for an album called One Of Our Shadows Is Missing by The Local Heroes in 1998 and marked the 40th Anniversary of The Shadows. The album featured many of The Shadows and Warren Bennett & Ben Marvin inc Bruce Welch who did a forward in the cd booklett. The title of the album at the time was a tribute to the late John Rostill. Nivram features Jet Harris bass Solo, Cliff Hall Solo, Alan Jones Bass Solo, Tony Meehan drums and Glem Catinii lead guitar. Enjoy!