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Geoffrey Britton (born 1 August 1943) is an English rock drummer known for his work with Wings [1] from August 1974 to January 1975, where he was featured on the Venus and Mars album. Career. Britton was born in Lewisham, South East London.
Geoffrey Britton (born 1 August 1943, in Lewisham, South East London) is an English rock drummer known for his work with Paul McCartney & Wings from August 1974 to January 1975, where he was featured on the Venus and Mars album.
- August 1, 1943
9 apr 2020 · Geoff Britton, the drummer with Wings from 1974 to early 1975 informed me that Letting Go was intended to be in the style of Al Green – to the extent that a roadie was sent to collect an Al Green record to make a direct comparison.
Drummer Geoff Britton joined Wings in November 1974. The Wings Fun Club newsletter N°3 1974 , sent to members of the fan club circa January 1975, featured an interview to introduce himself and explain how he came to join Wings.
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After the Beatles’ break-up in 1970, McCartney recorded two albums: McCartney (1970), credited to himself, and Ram (1971), with wife Linda. He had insisted from the beginning of their marriage that Linda should be involved in his musical projects, notwithstanding her lack of previous experience as a musician, so that they did not have to be apart when he was on tour. Ramwas recorded in New York City, where McCartney auditioned a number of drummers and guitarists, selecting Seiwell and guitari...
1971–73: First line-up
After the release of Ram, McCartney decided to form a new group and asked Seiwell and McCracken to join. Seiwell accepted, but McCracken declined, so McCartney invited Denny Laine, whom he had known since the early 1960s, to join. Laine, who was working on a solo album at the time, got a phone call from McCartney enquiring if he would like to work with him, as McCartney said: “I’d known him in the past and I just rang him and asked him, ‘What are you doing?’ He said, ‘Nothing’, so I said, ‘Ri...
1974–78: Second line-up
After Band on the Run, Jimmy McCulloch, former lead guitarist in Thunderclap Newman and Stone the Crows, joined the band. The first Wings project with McCulloch was McGear, a 1974 collaboration between Paul and his younger brother Mike McGear, with session musician Gerry Conway playing drums. Warner Bros. Records chose not to play up the “Wings” angle in its marketing for McGear, and the album sold poorly. However, the sessions also generated a single credited to McGear’s group the Scaffold,...
Wings had 12 top 10 singles (including one number-one) in the UK and 14 top 10 singles (including six number-one’s) in the US. All 23 singles released by Wings reached the US top 40, and one two-sided hit, “Junior’s Farm”/”Sally G”, reached the top 40 with each side. Of the nine albums released by Wings, all went top 10 in either the UK or the US, ...
During its ten-year lifespan, Wings underwent numerous personnel changes, including twice being reduced to its core McCartney–McCartney–Laine trio. Line-ups
Geoff Britton. British drummer. Born 1 August 1943, in Lewisham, South East London, England, UK. He was a member of East Of Eden (2) from June to December 1969. He then joined the band Wild Angels. From August 1974 to January 1975 he was the drummer of Wings (2), where he was featured on the "Venus And Mars" album.
9 feb 2022 · Seiwell was replaced by Geoff Britton, another unknown, while a whizzkid guitarist, confusingly called Jimmy McCulloch, arrived via Stone The Crows. Jimmy had previously been in Thunderclap Newman. When he was around, there was always something in the air. The keep-fit fanatic Britton couldn’t stand him, or rather his hard drug use.
