He is a drummer who began studying the drums when he
was five years old and became professional as a young teenager.When he had finished his high
school education he became a member of the Navy Jazz Band that led him to
studying Roy Knapp for a year in Chicago.He moved to New York and performed with the Zoot Sims/Al
Cohn Quintet before becoming a sought after studio drummer.Paul McCartney contacted him in New
York, and after auditioning him, asked him to London to join him and Linda
on work they were doing and this would lead to him becoming a co-founder of
Wings with the guitarist and singer Denny Laine.With them he would perform on the hits "My Love" and "Live
and Let Die" among many others.Leaving them around 1973, after doing three tours, he carried on his
work in London with artists such as The Who on the rock opera Tommy,
Donovan and Joe Cocker.He
returned to the United States and over the course of his career has
featured on recordings by artists that include Astrud Gilberto, Deniece
Williams, Billy Joel's "Cold Spring Harbor", James Brown and Art Garfunkel.In the movies he has appeared in
the 2006 film Bobby as well as featuring as part of Wings in various
documentaries, and working on the music for Dinosaur, Waterworld and
Atlantis among others with the composer James Newton Howard.As a teacher he holds drum clinics
and has visited several universities.
