Terry Williams

Biography

Terrence Williams (born 11 January 1948) is a retired Welsh rock drummer. During the 1970s and early 1980s Williams was drummer with Dave Edmunds / Rockpile and Man. Rockpile split in 1981 and Williams joined Dire Straits from 1982 until 1988. Williams was born in Swansea. During the 1960s, he played in a number of Welsh bands, including Commancheros, the Smokeless Zone, Dream and Plum Crazy, before joining Dave Edmunds' band Love Sculpture. In 1970 he joined the Welsh rock group Man, which included two former Dream and Smokeless Zone members, Deke Leonard and Martin Ace. Between 1981 and 1982, Williams was part of the Neverland Express band, backing Meat Loaf. In June 1982 Williams joined Dire Straits as the replacement for drummer Pick Withers, shortly after the release of their fourth studio album Love Over Gold. Williams played with them for the first time on the 1983 EP titled ExtendedancEPlay (featuring the hit single "Twisting by the Pool") and on the 1982–1983 Love over Gold Tour. The band's double live album Alchemy: Dire Straits Live was a recording of excerpts from the final two concerts from that eight month long tour at London's Hammersmith Odeon in July 1983, featuring Williams, and was released in March 1984. During 1983 and 1984, Williams and Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler were also involved with other projects outside of Dire Straits, and they both played on Phil Everly's and Cliff Richard's song "She Means Nothing To Me", which was a UK hit single in February 1983, taken from the album "Phil Everly". Knopfler also wrote and produced the music score for the David Puttnam produced film Local Hero. The album was released in April 1983 and Williams played drums on one track, “Freeway Flyer”. This was followed in 1984 by Knopfler's music scores for the films Cal (soundtrack) and Comfort and Joy, both of which Williams contributed to. Also in 1984, Williams played drums on the Knopfler penned track "Private Dancer" for Tina Turner's comeback album o

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