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Bill Legend
Bill Legend (born William Arthur Fifield ; 8 May 1944) is an English musician and former drummer for glam rock band T. Rex during their most successful period.
Bill Legend
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Bill Legend (born William Arthur Fifield; 8 May 1944) is an English musician and former drummer for glam rock band T. Rex during their most successful period. His life and career have been discussed in multiple published books and other works about the band.[1][2][3]
Biography
One of three children, Legend worked as a commercial artist after leaving school, while playing the drums in a variety of bands. He was drumming under his real name for a group called "Legend", fronted by Mickey Jupp, when Marc Bolan, the man behind the new-found success of T. Rex, spotted him and asked producer Tony Visconti to approach him.[1][2][3]
Legend agreed to join T. Rex, immediately buying a number of the band's albums from their days as Tyrannosaurus Rex to familiarise himself with Bolan's previous work.[1] At the time, T. Rex had enjoyed their first hit single with "Ride a White Swan". Bolan and his percussionist Mickey Finn had already recruited a bassist in Steve Currie, but still needed a drummer to complete the rhythm section of their new electric line-up. At Legend's first session, he played drums on "Hot Love" and the B-side "Woodland Rock". However, T. Rex stayed as a three-piece band for a short period, forcing Finn to mime playing the drums on Top of the Pops when "Hot Love" was at No. 1.[2]
Bolan suggested Legend's stage name, which was derived from the name of the band he had been playing in with Mickey Jupp.[1] Legend played drums for T. Rex on four albums: Electric Warrior, The Slider, Tanx and Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow. The band had four UK No. 1 singles and four UK No. 2 singles in a three-year period, after which it began to disintegrate as the hits dried up. Legend reverted to session drumming afterwards.
แม้จะลงนามในคำร้องคัดค้านการก่อตั้งวงMickey Finn's T-Rex ในปี 1997 [ 4 ] Legendก็มีวงดนตรีของตัวเองชื่อ XT. Rex แม้ว่าจะเคยลงนามในคำร้องเพื่อพยายามหยุดยั้งวง Mickey Finn's T-Rex จากการแสดงโดยใช้ชื่อ T. Rex เมื่อไม่กี่ปีก่อนหน้านั้น เขาก็ได้ชักชวนนักร้องนำ Danny McCoy, มือกีตาร์นำ Ross McEwen, มือคีย์บอร์ด Lee Swindon และมือเบส Stuart McArthur มาร่วมวง[ 5 ]พวกเขาได้ออกทัวร์ยุโรปและคาดว่าจะออกอัลบั้มชื่อMover and the Grooverแม้ว่าแฟนๆ ของ T. Rex รวมถึงDavid Bowieจะไม่พอใจกับอัลบั้มใหม่ที่ใช้ชื่อต่างจากวงเดิมเล็กน้อย[ 6 ]
Legend เป็นสมาชิกเพียงคนเดียวที่ยังมีชีวิตอยู่จากกลุ่ม T. Rex หรือ Tyrannosaurus Rex ตั้งแต่เดือนสิงหาคม 1967 ถึงเดือนมิถุนายน 1973 Bolan (ในปี 1977) และ Currie (ในปี 1981) เสียชีวิตจากอุบัติเหตุทางรถยนต์ และ Finn เสียชีวิตจากอาการป่วยในปี 2003 Steve Peregrin Took ผู้มาก่อน Finn เสียชีวิตจากการสำลักในปี 1980 [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ]
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Bill Legend (born William Arthur Fifield ; 8 May 1944) is an English musician and former drummer for glam rock band T. Rex during their most successful period.
Biography
One of three children, Legend worked as a commercial artist after leaving school, while playing the drums in a variety of bands.