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He is a session drummer born in Glasgow,
Scotland. He was the drummer on the album
version of "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You" while
Ringo Starr played the tambourine and maracas respectively. He also played on the slow version
of "Please Please Me" which was never
released. These recordings were
done on September 11th 1962. He toured
with Billy Fury and played on the Sound
of Fury album. He also
played with Anthony Newley, Tom Jones, Herman's Hermits and Marlene
Dietrich. He is married to Lyn
Cornell of the Vernons Girls (who appeared with The Beatles and sang the
line "You know what I mean" which gave John Lennon the line in "I
Saw Her Standing There" which replaced Paul McCartney's original
line) and The Pearls. He moved to America
in the late 1980s/early 1990s and is teaching a new generation of would-be
drummers in the art of Scottish pipe band percussion.
Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_White_%28drummer%29
- www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,661358,00.html#bio
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