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Thread #99680 Message #3154135
Posted By: GUEST,John Milner
14-May-11 - 03:37 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Lonnie Donegans drummer -Pete Appleby [2012]
Subject: RE: Lonnie Donegans drummer - Pete Appleby
Pete (Mr Appleby) taught me drums and made me learn all the key signatures and chords - and their qualities - before he let me play a drum kit. I am SO grateful: I now have a PhD in music, have led various bag bands and written for BBC and independent tv/radio and worked all over the world and had so much fun; largely as a result of Pete's encouragement and love for "JAZZ O ROONEY".
Pete was an inspiration and I will never be able to thank him enough. I love the references to "transpontine" Peter in the book 'Owning Up', by George Melly. I hope he is well .
John Milner (ex pupil of Pete's in Hartlepool)