He and the band followed during the next decade with Relayer, Going for the One, Tormato - all of which made the Top 10 in the U.S. White’s first album with Yes was 1973’s Tales from Topographic Oceans, which topped the UK chart and made the U.S. With the death of founding member Chris Squire in 2015, White became the band’s longest continuously serving member. White joined Yes on July 27, 1972, and, his family notes, had only three days to learn the music before the group opened its U.S. 1 single “My Sweet Lord.” White subsequently worked with many artists for the Apple label, including Billy Preston, Rosetta Hightower and Doris Troy. The Lennon association led to an introduction to George Harrison, who invited White to perform on the landmark 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass, including the No. The following year, he received a call from Lennon asking to join the Plastic Ono Band, beginning an association that would include the landmark Imagine album and its title track along with the songs “Jealous Guy” and “How Do You Sleep at Night.”Īndy “Fletch” Fletcher Dies: Depeche Mode Keyboard Player, Founding Member Was 60 In 1968, he joined Ginger Baker’s Air Force, a new post-Blind Faith group that also included Steve Winwood. Throughout the 1960s, he performed with such bands as The Downbeats, The Gamblers, Billy Fury, Alan Price Big Band, Bell and Arc, Terry Reid, Happy Magazine (later called Griffin) and Balls with Trevor Burton (The Move) and Denny Laine (Wings). Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo GalleryĪlthough best known for his drumming with Yes - a band he joined in 1972 and with whom he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 - White also played with the John Lennon & Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band in 1969, performing on the smash Lennon singles “Imagine” and “Instant Karma (We All Shine On).” He performed with Lennon, Ono and Eric Clapton in the famous Live Peace in Toronto concert.īorn in Pelton, County Durham, England on June 14, 1949, White began piano lessons at age 6, according to his family, and began playing the drums at 12.
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