Jimmy Copley
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Jimmy Copley, sometimes credited as Jim Copley (born 1953) is an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 rock drummer who has worked with Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
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, Graham Parker
Graham Parker
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, Paul Young
Paul Young (singer and guitarist)
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, Roger Glover
Roger Glover
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, Magnum
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, Ian Gillan
Ian Gillan
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 and Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple
Deep Purple
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, Go West
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, Killing Joke
Killing Joke
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, Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into...

, Seal
Seal (musician)
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, Tony Iommi
Tony Iommi
Anthony Frank "Tony" Iommi is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the founding member of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and its sole continual member through multiple personnel changes.Iommi is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential guitarists in...

 and Paul Rodgers
Paul Rodgers
Paul Bernard Rodgers is an English rock singer-songwriter, best known for his success in the 1970s as a member of Free and Bad Company. After stints in two less successful bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Firm and The Law, he became a solo artist. He has recently toured and recorded with...

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Born James Copley in London
London
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, he has been the drummer with Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
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since 2007.
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