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1. When 'Rolling Stone' magazine compiled a list of "The 100 Best Drummers Ever", the sticksman they hailed as their number one provided the back beat behind some of most revered musicians who helped pioneer heavy metal. Who helped the band of high-fliers keep in time?
2. He was energetic, and some say a little bit crazy, and drugs took their toll, and his life. Which drummer played in a band called The High Numbers before they became known for Who they became?
3. This drummer honed his skills with some of the best jazzmen around. He had his own orchestra that featured in a 1941 movie and he was the subject of a 1959 movie based on his life. Who, in 1978, became the first drummer inducted into the Modern Drummer 'Hall of Fame'?
4. Most Beatles fans know that Ringo Starr replaced the original drummer in the Fab Four, Pete Best. However, when he took ill for a short time in 1964, who stood in for Ringo on tour?
5. Described by 'The New York Times' as "the drummer's drummer", who started his career in vaudeville before he was even two years old and ended up as one of the top-earning musicians of the 1930s?
6. Hailed as the most recorded drummer ever, on the New Orleans R&B scene he was first choice for some of the genre's top stars. Who moved to the US West Coast to play behind a veritable who's who of musical royalty?
7. He collaborated with Buddy Holly and helped shape the sound of The Crickets. Which drummer co-wrote "That'll Be The Day"?
8. Credited with influencing the development of English hard rock and heavy metal, which drummer came to prominence as part of the Jeff Beck Group in 1970?
9. When you are asked to open the show for the Rolling Stones you need to be on top form, right?, but which drummer in a family band had to tie a stick to a hand broken in four places so that the show could go on?
10. For more than 40 years, one drummer was virtually ever-present on tour and in the recording studio with the folk singer Arlo Guthrie. Who was it helped Arlo keep in time and also found a musical niche with his own performances?
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