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Michael "Mike" Alexander Kellie (born 24 March 1947) is an English drummer best known as a member of Spooky Tooth and The Only Ones. ==Early career== Mike Kellie was born in Birmingham, England, into a non-musical family. As a child, he showed an early interest in rhythm, practicing on a coal shuttle with hearth brushes to simulate a snare drum. In his teen years, he joined St. Michaels Youth Club band as a drummer. He later played at "The Track" at Tudor Grange Sports Centre in Solihull. On the basis of this work, he was invited by Brian "Monk" Ffinch to play with Wayne and The Beachcombers in Birmingham, which started his career as a professional musician. In 1966 Kellie played in Birmingham in a band called The Locomotive with Chris Wood of Traffic, and later with the The V.I.P.'s (later Art) in Carlisle. Manager Chris Blackwell found a singer and organist from The New York Times band named Gary Wright, added him to the line-up of Art and launched the band Spooky Tooth with Kellie, Greg Ridley, Jimmy Henshaw, Keith Emerson, Luther Grosvenor and Mike Harrison. After the initial decline of Spooky Tooth, Kellie joined Johnny Hallyday's band for a summer tour of France in 1974 before forming The Only Ones in 1976 with Peter Perrett, Alan Mair and John Perry. The Only Ones – possibly best known for the single "Another Girl, Another Planet" – recorded three albums for CBS, although over time, their catalogue has contained many compilations and other releases, which now outnumber their studio albums. In February 1978, Johnny Thunders moved to London with his family, and began playing with a loose revue dubbed The Living Dead. Kellie became part of this floating line-up (that also included Perrett along with various Sex Pistols including Steve Jones and Paul Cook) and recorded Thunders’ ''So Alone'' album together with his signature song "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory". Following the Only Ones' farewell in 1981 at London's Lyceum, Kellie moved to the countryside north of Toronto, Canada, where he spent four years away from performing.〔 He used this time to learn the piano and write songs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Kellie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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