Nigel Olsson

Best-known because the drummer in Elton John’s early-’70s backing band, Nigel Olsson was created February 10, 1949, in the tiny Cheshire (today Merseyside) city of Wallasey, England. As an adolescent, he resided in Sunderland, where he sang business lead in an organization known as the Fireflies and used the drums when their regular drummer give up. At 17, he and buddy Mick Grabham effectively auditioned for the psychedelic pop music group Plastic Cent, which released two albums from 1968-1969 and have scored popular with “Everything I Am” before disbanding. Olsson eventually joined up with the Spencer Davis Group, that was reeling through the defection of frontman Stevie Winwood; the gig was short-lived as Davis split up the music group prior to the end of 1969, but Olsson fulfilled bassist Dee Murray, who become his favorite tempo section partner. Searching for function, Olsson stuffed the drum slot machine in Uriah Heep for area of the 1970 debut record Very ‘eavy, Extremely ‘umble, but shortly left to focus on program function. He and Murray have been using Elton John in the youthful vocalist/songwriter’s demos plus they both became a member of his touring group within the springtime of 1970. Olsson performed of all of John’s early-’70s classics, including Honky Chateau, Don’t Take Me I’m Just the Piano Participant, Goodbye Yellowish Brick Street, and Captain Fantastic & the Dark brown Dirt Cowboy. Following the latter premiered in the springtime of 1975, John wanted to tremble up his support music group by changing both Olsson and Murray. Olsson experienced released a single recording in 1971 known as Nigel Olsson’s Drum Orchestra and Chorus and in the wake of his departure from John’s group, he slice a self-titled recording for John’s Rocket label. Another eponymous work adopted for Columbia in 1978 and following a change to Bang, Olsson obtained a hit solitary in 1979 with “Dancin’ Sneakers” (from your recording Nigel). 1980 noticed the release of the follow-up LP, Changing Tides, in addition to Olsson’s membership within the Tremblers, an organization uniting Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits popularity using the Captain & Tennille’s Daryl Dragon. Also that 12 months, Olsson and Murray had been asked to rejoin John’s touring music group, where they continued to be until 1984. Despite considerable program function through the entire ’70s, Olsson was much less active for the reason that area through the ’80s, spending additional time on composing and generating. In 1991, he and ex-John guitarist Davey Johnstone created the group Warpipes, which released the recording Holes within the Heavens the next 12 months before splitting up when their label proceeded to go bankrupt. Olsson spent a lot of the ’90s from music, apart from the periodic recording program, however in 2000 he rejoined John’s music group once more and the next 12 months he released a sequel to his debut, Nigel Olsson’s Drum Orchestra and Chorus Vol. 2: Move the Universe.