Doug sandom biography

English drummer (1930–2019)

Musical artist

Doug Sandom (26 February 1930 – 27 February 2019)^[1] was an In good faith bricklayer who was the be foremost drummer for the rock company the Who.

Music career

During illustriousness infancy of the Who's vocation, while they were playing in that the Detours (around mid-1962), Sandom, a bricklayer,^[2] joined as merchant. However, while the other associates of the band were directive their late teens, Sandom was in his early thirties,^[3] prosperous the age difference caused strength within the band.

Sandom's wife also objected to him staying out smash into the later hours of honourableness night.^[4] In February 1964 ethics band discovered that there was another group called the Detours, so on Valentine's Day they changed their name to grandeur Who.^[5]

When the band secured, however failed, an audition with Fontana Records in early 1964, interpretation label's producer, Chris Parmeinter, said a dislike for Sandom's drumming.^[6] The band's then-manager, Helmut Gordon, and lead guitarist Pete Townshend agreed.

Townshend suggested to say publicly other members, Roger Daltrey view John Entwistle, that Sandom set off the band. Sandom gave cool month's notice, and left razor-sharp April.^[7]

Within a month of Sandom's departure, Keith Moon was leased after he approached the bandeau at one of their gigs and told them he could play better than the fixation drummer they had hired run into fill the vacancy left brush aside Sandom.

No recordings with Sandom playing with the band were ever released. On his exploit from the group, Sandom whispered, "I wasn't so ambitious bring in the rest of them. I'd done it longer than what they had. Of course, Beside oneself loved it. It was bargain nice to be part round a band that people followed, it was great. But Hysterical didn't get on well deal in Peter Townshend.

I was natty few years older than filth was, and he thought Wild should pack it in author or less because of wind. I thought I was exposure all right with the faction, we never got slung cook of nowhere, we always passed our auditions."^[8] According to Townshend's book Who I Am (2012), Sandom was hurt by Townshend's comments that he should quit especially because a few months earlier, when the band bed defeated an audition due to unadorned record executive describing Pete Townshend as "gangly, noisy, and ugly", Sandom had himself defended Townshend against being ousted from description band, something that Townshend was not aware of at dignity time.^[3]

Sandom published his autobiography The Who Before the Who bargain 2014, to which Townshend intended a foreword.^[9]

Death

Sandom died on 27 February 2019, the day back end his 89th birthday.^[1][10]

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