Hughie Flint
Hughie Flint ( born March 15, 1941 in Manchester, Lancashire ) is an English drummer who has played in various English blues bands.
Life
Hughie Flint was born in Manchester and began at the age of 9 years, playing the drums. Flint first met John Mayall when he taught at a local youth club music and love Flint's awakened to the blues. In the spring of 1964, Flint drummer of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, where he played until 1969.
In 1970 he founded with former guitarist of Manfred Mann, Tom McGuinness, the band McGuinness Flint, who took second place in the UK charts with When I'm Dead and Gone. After the failure of the second LP, the group was reshuffled several times and even recorded some albums, it was finally resolved until 1975.
In 1979 he was a founding member of The Blues Band, along with Dave Kelly, Paul Jones, Gary Fletcher and Tom McGuiness. After the release of Itchy Feet he left the band and returned to the music business back on.
In the late 1980s, he appeared in the rock family trees documentation to talk about Mayall's Bluesbreakers and its various offshoots. In a BBC documentary was reported in 1995 that he now works as a doorman at the University of Oxford.
Discography
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
- John Mayall Plays John Mayall (1965 )
- Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (1966 )
- A Hard Road (1967 )
- Looking Back (1969 )
- Thru The Years ( 1971)
McGuinness Flint
- McGuinness Flint ( 1971)
- Happy Birthday, Ruthy Baby ( 1971)
- C'est La Vie (1974 ) LP
The Blues Band
- The Official Blues Band Bootleg Album ( 1980)
- Ready ( 1980)
- Itchy Feet (1981 )