Bev Bevan

Bev Bevan

Infobox musical artist

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Name = Bev Bevan
Background = khaki
Birth_name = Beverley Bevan
Born = Birth date and age|1944|11|24|df=y
Origin = Sparkhill, Birmingham, England
Died =
Genre = Rock music
Occupation = Musician
Years_active =
Instrument = drums, percussion
First_album =
Latest_album =
Notable_albums =
Notable songs =
Label = Jet Records
Harvest Records
Epic, EMI
Associated_acts = The Move Electric Light Orchestra Black Sabbath ELO Part II Bev Bevan's Move
URL = [http://www.face-the-music.de/bev_e.html Musical career] |

Bev Bevan (born Beverley Bevan on 24 November 1944 in Sparkhill, Birmingham, England) is an English rock musician who was the drummer and one of the original members of The Move and the Electric Light Orchestra. After the collapse of ELO in 1986, he founded Electric Light Orchestra Part II without the original ELO singer/songwriter, Jeff Lynne.

Bevan also served as the touring drummer for Black Sabbath from 1983-1984 and played percussion on The Eternal Idol album in 1987.

Biography

After education at Moseley School, his professional music career started with a stint with Denny Laine in his group "Denny Laine and the Diplomats", then with Carl Wayne and The Vikings, followed by The Move in 1966. The Electric Light Orchestra released their first album in 1971, by which time The Move existed only as a recording outfit. They released their final single, "California Man" in 1972, and the subsequent successes of the Electric Light Orchestra and the Roy Wood-led Wizzard led to their being laid to rest.

Bevan had a very deeply pitched singing voice. While with The Move he lent lead vocals to two tracks: a remake Of "Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart" and the Country and Western send-up "Ben Crawley Steel Co".

In 1980 Bevan published a biography of the Electric Light Orchestra. He also made a solo single in 1976, a cover version of the Sandy Nelson instrumental, "Let There Be Drums".

After the death of Carl Wayne in 2004 (with a sense of timing which did not go down well with some fans), he formed a new band, [http://www.bevbevansmove.co.uk "Bev Bevan's Move"] , with Phil Tree and former ELO Part II colleagues Phil Bates and Neil Lockwood, to play a set comprising mostly The Move classics on tour. Roy Wood, who declined to take part, also made his hostility to the plan known in a statement and several interviews with the press. Bates left in July 2007 to re-join ELO Part 2, by then renamed to The Orchestra.

Bevan currently presents a radio show on [http://www.smoothradiowest.com Smooth Radio West Midlands] on Sunday afternoons. The show, called 70's Sunday, is on every Sunday from 2-5pm, and features songs from the decade. Bevan also reviews records for the Midland's Sunday Mercury and has a blog on their website http://blogs.sundaymercury.net/bev-bevan/

Personal life

Bev lives in rural Warwickshire with his wife of 37 years, Valerie, and their son Adrian (27).


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