Cozy Powell

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Cozy Powell (* 29. December 1947 in Cirencester , England ; † 5. April 1998 in Bristol , England, bourgeois Colin Flooks ) was a British drummer , who especially in hard rock - and heavy metal - bands played.

Life

Powell began his musical career in 1965 with the brothers Dennis and Dave Ball. The group appeared under different names, for the first time as "The Sorcerers" during a few appearances in Frankfurt am Main . Soon after, the name was changed to "Youngblood" and a contract was signed with the Pye label. The group also worked with ex- Move bassist Ace Kefford for a single ( Ace Kefford's stand ). The Ball Brothers met Kefford during their other musical activities with the Yardbirds and Danny King's Mairfrair Set.

During this time Frank Aiello joined the group that was now called “Big Bertha” (1969–1970), “Beast” and a little later “Bedlam” (1972–1973). Officially, the group broke up shortly after the Bedlam album, but Powell always fell back on his former colleagues in the following years, be it for the following three solo singles or the later project "Hammer".

In 1971 he joined the Jeff Beck Group for two albums .

This was followed by a tour in Germany with "Big Bertha". Excerpts from the tour have meanwhile been published on CD . His solo single Dance With the Devil , released afterwards, reached number 3 in the British charts and number 4 in Germany in 1973. Other chart singles were Na Na Na (Germany: number 16) and The Man in Black (number 24), the latter an instrumental piece like Dance with the Devil .

The aforementioned titles were not released on LPs . They are now considered to be rare collectibles that are occasionally available on CD samplers. All three singles (A-sides) are included in newly mastered versions on the sampler Dynamite - The Best of Glam Rock .

Due to the lack of further commercial successes of two of the band projects he had initiated, Bedlam and Cozy Powell's Hammer, he left the music business for a short time in the mid-1970s and drove car races, including Formula Ford .

In 1976 he joined Ritchie Blackmore's band Rainbow , which he left in 1980 after four albums. Cozy Powell played with a number of well-known bands - with the Michael Schenker Group from 1981 to 1982, Whitesnake from 1982 to 1984, then in 1986 with Keith Emerson and Greg Lake as Emerson, Lake & Powell , then in 1988/1989 with Gary Moore and with interruptions at Black Sabbath from 1989 to 1995. He supported Peter Green on his successful comeback and the Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton on his solo album. He also played a few demos with Blue Murder together with Ray Gillen , but left the band with this without recording an album.

Powell was a member of the Brian May Band , he played on May's second solo album Back to the Light and the tour that followed. He can therefore also be heard on the Brian May live album Live at Brixton Academy and was also part of the band on May's solo album Another World (1998). A tour was planned for the fall of 1998, but Powell was no longer to take part. His last recording was - according to Colin Blunstone - Losing You on the album The Light Inside by Colin Blunstone .

Powell was killed on April 5, 1998 in a self-inflicted car accident on the M4 , part of the European route 30 , near Bristol . He was calling his girlfriend Shari Reeve on his cell phone and lost control of his Saab 9000 in bad weather .

meaning

His style, playful and visual ( double bass and two hanging toms , each symmetrically arranged, two stand toms, snare , hi-hat , six cymbals ), with simple yet explosive solos, has influenced a number of heavy metal drummers. The author Matthias Penzel has interviewed Powell several times for magazines such as drums & percussion , Metal Hammer and F1 Racing and dedicated a short story to him. In 2016, Rolling Stone listed him as 50th of the 100 best drummers of all time .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1980 Over the top - UK34 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
1981 Tilt - UK58 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
1983 Octopuss - UK86 (1 week)
UK 		-

More albums

Compilations

  • 1997: The Best of Cozy Powell
  • 1998: Master Series
  • 2005: The Early Years (box with 5 CDs)

Singles

year title
 Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, , Placements, weeks, awards, comments) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
1973 Dance with the Devil
 DE4 (17 weeks)
DE 		UK3
silver
silver

(15 weeks)UK 		US49 (9 weeks)
US
1974 The Man in Black
 DE24 (5 weeks)
DE 		UK18 (5 weeks)
UK 		-
Well well
 DE16 (9 weeks)
DE 		UK10 (10 weeks)
UK 		-
1979 Theme One
 - UK62 (2 weeks)
UK 		-

More singles

  • 1980: The Loner
  • 1980: Heidi Goes to Town
  • 1981: Sooner or Later
  • 1981: The Right Side
  • 1992: The Drums Are Back ...
  • 1993: Resurrection ( Brian May with Cozy Powell)

Participation as a guest musician

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  1. ↑ http://www.charts-surfer.de
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: biography@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.raygillen.com
  3. ↑ 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time. Rolling Stone , March 31, 2016, accessed August 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles Albums UK
  5. ↑ a b UK gold / platinum database

Web links

Black Sabbath
Bill Ward  • Ronnie James Dio  • Vinny Appice  • Geoff Nicholls • Tony Martin  • Ian Gillan  • Glenn Hughes  • Ray Gillen  • Cozy Powell  • Neil Murray  • Bev Bevan  • Jo Burt • Terry Chimes  • Bob Daisley  • Bobby Rondinelli  • Eric Singer  • Dave Pointed • Dave Walker


Studio albums

Black Sabbath (1970) • Paranoid (1970) • Master of Reality (1971) • Volume 4 (1972) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabotage (1975) • Technical Ecstasy (1976) • Never Say Die! (1978) • Heaven and Hell (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Born Again (1983) • Seventh Star (1986) • The Eternal Idol (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Tyr (1990) • Dehumanizer (1992 ) • Cross Purposes (1994) • Forbidden (1995) • 13 (2013)

Live albums

Live at Last (1980) • Live Evil (1982) • Cross Purposes Live (1995) • Reunion (1998) • Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon (2007)

Compilation albums

We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll (1976) • The Best of Black Sabbath (2000) • Greatest Hits 1970–1978 (2007) • Black Sabbath: The Dio Years (2007) •

Singles

Black Sabbath (1970) • Evil Woman (1970) • NIB • Paranoid (1970) • The Wizard (1970) • Iron Man (1971) • War Pigs (1971) • Fairies Wear Boots (1971) • Sweat Leaf (1971) • Children of the Grave (1971) • After Forever (1972) • Snowblind (1972) • Tomorrow's Dream (1972) • Supernaut (1973) • Changes (1973) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabbra Cadabra (1974) • Am I Going Insane (1975) • Hole in the Sky (1975) • Symptom of the Universe (1975) • Rock'Roll Doctor (1976) • Never Say Die (1978) • Hard Road (1978) • Dirty Woman (1979) • Neon Knights (1980) • The Young (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Turn Up the Night (1982) • Voodoo (1982) • Trashed (1983) • No Stranger to Love (1986) • The Shining (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Devil and Daughter (1989) • Feels Good to Me (1990) • TV Crimes (1992) • The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (1994) • Psycho Man (1998) • Selling My Soul (1999) • The Devil Cried (2007) • God is Dead? (2013) • End of the Beginning (2013) • The Loner (2013)

personal data
SURNAME Powell, Cozy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flooks, Colin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rock musician, drummer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Cirencester , England
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1998
Place of death Bristol , England