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Bill Gibson | |
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| Born | November 13, 1951 Sacramento, California, USA |
| Genres | pop |
| Instrument(s) | Drums |
| Years active | 1970s-present |
| Member of | Huey Lewis and the News, Sons of Champlin |
| Formerly of | USA for Africa |
Bill Gibson is an American drummer. Since 1979, he has been the drummer for Huey Lewis and the News. Since the band's hiatus in 2020, he is currently a member of the Sons of Champlin.
Gibson was born in Sacramento to Edward and Phyllis Gibson. Gibson started playing the drums at age twelve. [1] His father, Ed, was an architect, and played drums after finishing work for the day. [1] He was influenced by Art Blakey and Buddy Rich. In 1967, his father took him to the Monterey Jazz Festival. He eventually required his first drum kit at fourteen, and as a teenager saw The Beatles twice, and The Dave Clark Five. [1]
Bill joined Huey Lewis and the News as drummer in 1979. The News' sound draws upon early pop, rnb, doo-wop, blue-eyed soul and new wave. [2] [3] [4] They had many top ten hits in the 1980s, including "Do You Believe in Love", "Heart and Soul", "I Want a New Drug", "The Heart of Rock & Roll", "If This Is It", "Hip to Be Square", "I Know What I Like", "Doing It All for My Baby" and "Perfect World".
Gibson was in USA For Africa, and sang in the chorus for the charity single We Are the World. Gibson has toured with HLATN since 1979.
Huey Lewis and the News is an American pop rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually achieving 19 top ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, and Mainstream Rock charts. Their sound draws upon earlier pop, rhythm & blues and doo-wop artists, and their own material has been labeled as blue-eyed soul, new wave, power pop, and roots rock.
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Ahmir K. Thompson, known professionally as Questlove, is an American drummer, record producer, disc jockey, filmmaker, music journalist, and actor. He is the drummer and joint frontman for the hip hop band the Roots. The Roots have been serving as the in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since 2014, after having fulfilled the same role on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Questlove is also one of the producers of the 2018 cast album of the Broadway musical Hamilton. He has also co-founded of the websites Okayplayer and OkayAfrica. He joined Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University as an adjunct professor in 2016, and hosts the podcast Questlove Supreme.
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The chapter reads as a review evaluating the qualities in Huey Lewis' albums— some are New Wave... some bring out his quintessential bluesiness— and these shifts in musical style of this bands are as much 'events' in the novel as anything happening in the lives of the characters.
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