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Johnny Dick drummer with Max Merritt and The Meteors, Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs, In Focus, Fanny Adams, John Paul Young The All Stars, The Wild Cherries and The Stevie Wright Band
Johnny Dick was born in June 1943, in Llanfairfechan, Wales and died in Australia on January 6th, 2017 at the age of 73. He grew up in New Zealand and working initially with Max Merritt and the Meteors, in which he replaced Jimmy Hill in 1963. Johnny eventually moved to Australia in the 1965 where he made his mark on the Australian music scene working with Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs.
Johnny Dick was a flashy drummer with eight fingers, having had an accident as a child and lost two fingers which were chopped off with a tomahawk. "It was difficult to figure out he could hold onto his drum sticks with a thumb and only two fingers fingers, but he did, and he was very good at it" ... roadie Mick Cox said.. |
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