The Knack drummer Bruce Gary, 55
Posted: Thursday, August 24th, 2006 10:11 am
Bruce Gary, the rock drummer who worked with George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Stephen Stills but is best known as The Knack’s original drummer — the man who played on the group’s No. 1 hit “My Sharona” — has died. He was 55.
Gary died Tuesday at Tarzana Medical Center of lymphoma, said Helen Gary, the drummer’s mother.
Besides Harrison, Dylan and Stills, he recorded with Cream’s Jack Bruce, Rod Stewart, Sheryl Crow, Bette Midler, Yoko Ono, Harry Nilsson and The Doors’ guitarist Robby Krieger, according to the Web site www.brucegary.com. (The Web site had been suspended as of Thursday morning.) … Read full obituary
