Jimmy Maelen was a percussionist in the 1960s-1980s, who worked with many artists including Roxy Music

Roxy Music

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, Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...

, Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

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, James Taylor

James Taylor

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, Dire Straits

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, Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow

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, Alice Cooper

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 and John Lennon

John Lennon

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. During the golden years of the disco era he was especially successful, working with the remix team of Michael Barbiero and John Luongo and overdubbing on extended dance versions of disco classics such as, Gonzales' "I Haven't Stopped Dancin' Yet", The Jacksons' "Blame It On The Boogie" and "Shake Your Body Down (To The Ground)", Dan Hartman's "Vertigo/Relight My Fire", Jackie Moore's "This Time, This Time Baby" and many more. His working relationship with Barbiero and Luongo led to a solo album for Epic/Columbia in 1980, produced by the trio and entitled Beats Workin'.

Maelen's first album with Roxy Music was the critically acclaimed Avalon.
Jimmy Maelen was also present on the hit record "Worn Down Piano

Worn Down Piano

"Worn Down Piano" is a song by the North-American Mark & Clark Band, from their album Double Take.The song is written in 1977 by Clark and Mark Seymour, twin brothers. It was released as a single.The length of the song is 8:10....

", from the Mark & Clark band.

Jimmy Maelen worked as a studio musician on Alphaville

Alphaville (band)

Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold , Bernhard Lloyd , and Frank Mertens Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum,...

's 1986 album, Afternoons in Utopia

Afternoons In Utopia

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Jimmy Maelen died in 1988 from leukemia.
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