Tony Meehan Net Worth

Tony Meehan Net Worth is
$950,000

Tony Meehan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Daniel Joseph Anthony "Tony" Meehan (2 March 1943 – 28 November 2005) was a founder member of the British group The Shadows with Jet Harris, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch. He played drums on early Cliff Richard and The Shadows hits and on early Shadows instrumentals.Meehan was professionally nicknamed "The Baron" by his many admirers and friends within the British pop/rock music industry. He is reckoned to have influenced many thousands of teenage boys and adolescents to take up music as a career including Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac as a result of his iconic film performance in Cliff Richard's film The Young Ones. His drumming style (qv Bongo Blues, Apache) is noticeably different from the other drummers that the Shadows employed during 1958–2010 such as Brian Bennett, Clem Cattini and Trevor Spencer, preferring a simpler 1950s jazz style kit to a voluminous 1970/80s rock/metal drum kit. Thus his kit was significantly more spartan, in terms of quantity of drums and accessories, than Brian Bennett's modern expansive drum kits through the decades. In his contribution to the 1961 book "The Shadows by Themselves" Meehan gives very useful, timely and helpful advice to all would-be drummers on drum-kit care and maintenance.

Date Of BirthMarch 2, 1943
Died2005-11-28
Place Of BirthNew End, Hampstead, North London
ProfessionSoundtrack, Actor
Star SignPisces
#Fact
1Was known as "The Baron" because of his desire for the very best in all aspects of his life.
2He and his wife Sue had five sons and two daughters
3He was a founding member of The Shadows and played drums with them. He left the group in 1961, briefly formed a duo with bassist Jet Harris, another ex-member of The Shadows, and worked as producer at Decca Records.

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Bernie2011writer: "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
Never Let Me Go2010writer: "GOING TO WORK"
Just for Fun1963performer: "The Man From Nowhere", "Hully Gully" / writer: "Hully Gully"
Expresso Bongo1959performer: "Bongo Blues" instrumental

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Expresso Bongo1959Drummer in Beat Group (uncredited)

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Thank Your Lucky Stars1963-1964TV SeriesHimself
Ready, Steady, Go!1963-1964TV SeriesHimself
A Swingin' Time1963TV SeriesHimself - Performer
Juke Box Jury1963TV SeriesHimself - Panellist
Pops and Lenny1963TV SeriesHimself
Billy Cotton Band Show1963TV SeriesHimself - Guest
Just for Fun1963Himself
Wonderful to Be Young!1961Himself (drums) (as The Shadows)
Oh Boy!1959TV SeriesHimself

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Top of the Pops1964TV SeriesHimself

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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