Bevan played on all Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II albums up to 1999. He recorded a solo single in 1976, a cover of the Sandy Nelson instrumental ' Let There Be Drums'. On ELO records his voice can be heard most prominently on ' Fire On High' and ' Strange Magic', both from the album Face the Music (1975). He is also, incorrectly, credited with writing the rock-blues 'Turkish Tram Conductor Blues' on Looking On Roy Wood actually composed the song. He composed one Move song: 'Don't Mess Me Up', an Elvis Presley spoof from the album Message from the Country, which was also the B-side of the Move's single ' Tonight'. With the Move he sang lead on a remake of ' Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart' and the country and western spoof, 'Ben Crawley Steel Co'. They released their final single, ' California Man', in 1972.īevan has a deep singing voice. The Electric Light Orchestra released their first album in 1971, by which time the Move existed only as a recording outfit. His professional music career started with a stint with Denny Laine in his group Denny Laine and the Diplomats, then with Carl Wayne & the Vikings, followed by the Move in 1966. After attending Moseley Grammar School, where he gained two O level passes, he worked as a trainee buyer in a city centre department store called The Beehive with school friend Jasper Carrott (Robert Davis). Biography īevan was born in South Yardley, Birmingham. Bevan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 as a member of Electric Light Orchestra. After the end of ELO in 1986, he founded ELO Part II.īevan also was drummer for Black Sabbath during the Born Again Tour, and later played percussion on The Eternal Idol album in 1987. Beverley Bevan (born 25 November 1944) is an English rock musician who was the drummer and one of the original members of the Move and Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

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