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^ Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show, BBC Radio 1, 28 June 1992, transcribed in Sabbath fanzine Southern Cross #14, October 1994, p40. Black sabbath drummer series#
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^ "Inductees: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)". Since 2017, The Bev Bevan Band has played gigs with Bev's former school mate Jasper Carrott under the name Stand up and Rock. Bevan's 2014 calendar contained no fewer than 102 gigs in 11 months, some of which formed the final gigs for The Move, before Bevan and Burton went their separate ways again. In 2012, Bevan narrated the audiobook version of Tony Iommi's biography Iron Man – My Journey Through Heaven and Hell. īevan is also a patron of The Dorridge Music School (Knowle). It was announced at the Best of Broad Street Awards on 17 January 2011 that Bevan would be honoured with a star on the Birmingham Walk of Stars. He also reviews records for the Midlands' Sunday Mercury and has a blog on their website. īevan currently presents a radio show on BBC Radio West Midlands on Sunday afternoons. Weller told him that he was his second choice his first choice would have been Keith Moon. Bevan was then joined by former Move guitarist Trevor Burton.īevan appeared on Paul Weller's 2010 album Wake Up The Nation and played drums on two songs: "Moonshine" and "Wake Up The Nation". Bates left in July 2007 to re-join ELO Part II, by then renamed to The Orchestra. Īfter the death of Carl Wayne in 2004, the drummer formed Bev Bevan's Move with Phil Tree and former ELO Part II colleagues Phil Bates and Neil Lockwood, to play a set comprising mostly The Move classics on tour. That particular stage, doing the Reading Festival, was a definite wrong for us." Bevan rejoined Black Sabbath briefly in 1987, recording percussion overdubs for album The Eternal Idol, but was replaced by Terry Chimes after refusing to play shows in South Africa, at the time under apartheid rule. As we went on the tour, he did get a lot better… We went to America and he done good. "It was just all over the shop," recalled guitarist Tony Iommi. A headlining appearance at the 1983 Reading Festival – extracts of which appear on a reissue of Born Again – was only Bevan's second gig with the band. He also appeared in Sabbath's videos " Trashed" and " Zero the Hero". Bevan was known for his heavy powerhouse drumming during this tour. In 1983, he replaced Bill Ward in Black Sabbath for the Born Again Tour. In 1980 he published a historical memoir of the Electric Light Orchestra. Bevan played on all Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II albums up to 1999. He recorded a solo single in 1976, a cover of the Sandy Nelson instrumental, " Let There Be Drums". On ELO records his voice can be heard most prominently on " Fire On High" and " Strange Magic", both from 1975's " Face the Music". He is also, incorrectly, credited with writing the rock-blues "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues" on Looking On Roy Wood actually composed the song. He composed one Move song: "Don't Mess Me Up", an Elvis Presley spoof from the album Message from the Country that was also the B-side of The Move's single " Tonight". With The Move he sang lead on a remake of " Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" and the country and western spoof, "Ben Crawley Steel Co". They released their final single, " California Man" in 1972.īevan has a deep singing voice. The Electric Light Orchestra released their first album in 1971, by which time The Move existed only as a recording outfit. Black sabbath drummer professional#
His professional music career started with a stint with Denny Laine in his group Denny Laine and the Diplomats, then with Carl Wayne & the Vikings, followed by The Move in 1966. After attending Moseley Grammar School, where he gained two O level passes, he worked as a trainee buyer in a city centre department store called The Beehive with school friend Jasper Carrott (Robert Davis). Bevan was born in South Yardley, Birmingham, England.
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