Tony Meehan

Tony Meehan was one of the great success stories of early British rock & roll -- in 1958, all of 15 years old, he played his first rock & roll gig, and within weeks he was getting as many offers as he could handle to play drums with some of the top music talent in London. Hardly a year after that, he was one of the best-known drummers in England, and one of a handful of teenaged musicians of the time to achieve national rock & roll stardom. Born Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan in Hampstead in 1943 (some sources say 1942), he took up the drums at age ten, and was good enough to ...