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Preston Heyman
Preston Heyman is credited on 600 releases across 99 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1976–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
600
Pressings credited
99
Albums
6
Decades active
187
In collections
Biography
Preston Heyman is a British record producer, drummer and percussionist. He is credited on the Kate Bush album Never for Ever. Not too long afterwards, he was recruited to be the drummer for Atomic Rooster's reformation, and appeared on their self-titled comeback album Atomic Rooster (1980). In May 1983, he played with the Waterboys on their first public appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test. He also played on "The Three Day Man" on the 12 inch single of "December" He played Oriental percussion instruments on the track "Blood Sucking" of Mike Oldfield's soundtrack for the film The Killing Fields, released in 1984. He played drums on the single "Wishing Well" from the 1987 album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby.
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Credited work
600 releases · 99 albums · active 1976–2025
- Performance · 1,363
- Other credits · 135
- Production · 4
Studios: The Garden · Abbey Road Studios · The Town House · Air Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
1987

Never For Ever
1980

The Dreaming
1982

Virgins And Philistines
1985

TRB Two
1979

7000 Danses
1987

Del Amitri
1985

The Bride Stripped Bare
1978

Pleasure One
1986

The Killing Fields (Original Film Soundtrack)
1984

Atomic Rooster
1980

¡Viva El Amor!
1999

Love Anyway
1997

When In Rome
1988

Chimera
1983

Rama Lama
1979

Remastered Part I
2018

What I Am
1999

Still Burning
1997

Whatever Happened To Jugula?
1985

Vistamix
1984

Falling In Love Again
1984

Compañeros
1986

Getting The Holy Ghost Across
1986
Frequent collaborators
- Bill Nelson
- Tin Tin Out
- Kate Bush
- The Wolfmen (2)
- Mike Scott
- Randy California
- Heaven Seventeen
- Monsoon
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