Rolling Stone Menu Drummer Simon Phillips on His Years With the Who, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, and Toto
The journeyman drummer has also played with Judas Priest, Jeff Beck, and Jack Bruce, and appeared on Pete Townshend’s “Let My Love Open the Door”
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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features drummer Simon Phillips.
Steve Bunce: My year in review
There were highs and serious lows for the sport and the fighters but 2020 is a year full of memories I’ll cherish, writes Steve Bunce
SACRIFICES and glory, shocks and blood, fights behind closed doors, Covid tests, rumours, lies, threats, tricky tributes, broken hearts, dead heroes, bad losers and smiling winners and a heavyweight fight for the ages – that was my 2020, here are the bits you might have missed or you will never forget.
In Las Vegas in February there was a man at ringside, throwing punches with his shoulders and remembering the nights he ruled the world. That man was Lennox Lewis, it was the night before Tyson Fury humiliated Deontay Wilder. Lewis was just relaxing, thinking and looking in front of men wearing hard hats and building the ring. He was big, big for Fury when he stopped to talk to me.
The 1960s were an exciting time to be in the UK and this week we’ve been looking back at our archives for 1966. That was the year that England won the World Cup beating Germany 4-2 at Wembley with Geoff Hurst scoring a hat-trick and Martin Peters a fourth. Earlier in the year the trophy had been stolen and was subsequently found by Pickles, a mongrel dog. The first British safari park was opened at Longleat House by the Marquis of Bath with lions roaming in the grounds of the stately home. Nearer home the first Polaris submarine HMS Resolution