Richie Hayward the drummer and founding member of the group Little Feat died yesterday from liver cancer.
I shook hands and chatted with him in Oxford a year ago before their gig at the Zodiac club in the Cowley Road. He was slight and showed the obvious signs of being a rock musician on the road. But given his slightness, he was a remarkably powerful drummer, and I admired his playing at the gig in the way he orchestrated the group from his perch behind the drums.
What was also remarkable was that I heard this on the BBC radio news last night, and they devoted quite a bit of time on it. This for a group that is hardly known in the UK apart from the affectionadoes.
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