# Tony Chapman

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British musician

Tony Chapman Born Anthony Michael Chapman (1941-05-19) 19 May 1941 (age 85) Stoke Newington, London, England Instrument Drums Years active 1960–1966 Formerly of The Rolling Stones The Cliftons The Preachers The Herd

Musical artist

**Anthony Michael Chapman** (born 19 May 1941 in [Stoke Newington](/source/Stoke_Newington), London) is a British [drummer](/source/Drummer) and songwriter[1] who was especially active during the 1960s.

## Career

### The Rolling Stones

Chapman gained valuable drumming experience as part of the Cliftons in 1960, a band headed by [Bill Wyman](/source/Bill_Wyman). He also jammed with an early line-up of [the Rolling Stones](/source/The_Rolling_Stones) before they settled on their permanent band members. He appeared with the band in 1962, including a performance at [Sidcup Art College](/source/Sidcup_Art_College), [Bexley](/source/Bexley), which [Keith Richards](/source/Keith_Richards) had attended. Chapman is among several drummers proposed to have possibly been the one to play with the band at their first official performance of on 12 July 1962 at the [Marquee Club](/source/Marquee_Club) in [London](/source/London). Chapman himself has denied that he played the gig. He was the drummer for their first studio sessions on 27 October 1962, when the band recorded covers of the songs "[You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover](/source/You_Can't_Judge_a_Book_by_the_Cover)", "Soon Forgotten", and "[Close Together](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Close_Together&action=edit&redlink=1)". An [acetate disc](/source/Acetate_disc) of the recordings once owned by Chapman was sold to a private collector in 1988 at auction.[2] Chapman was often unavailable for rehearsals and gigs as he was a salesman, so the band brought in [Steve Harris](/source/Steve_Harris_(drummer)) as a replacement on occasion.[3]

Chapman was the person through whom Wyman was enlisted to the Stones. It was Chapman who made inquiries about vacancies with the Stones and discovered they might be found at the Wetherby Arms on the King's Road, Chelsea. He and Wyman turned up for a run-through and although they had doubts about the blues style and did not like the name, agreed to join. Another drummer, Steve Harris, also sat in for some sessions. Chapman felt that he did not fit in with the way-out approach of the group for the time and left to play drums for the Alphabeats before leaving to form a band called The Preachers. Wyman remained with the Rolling Stones, when [Charlie Watts](/source/Charlie_Watts) took over as their permanent drummer.[4]

### Later career

Chapman's group, the Preachers[1] had a less wild approach and he wrote one side of their only single "Too Old in the Head"[1] the flip side of "Hole in the Soul." The Preachers was one of the first bands that 14 year old [Peter Frampton](/source/Peter_Frampton) appeared in and was being produced and managed by Bill Wyman. Chapman was responsible for the first meeting between Wyman and Frampton in 1964.[5] The Preachers disbanded for a time following a fatal van crash on 4 June 1964, Chapman temporarily lost his memory and had no recollection of the collision, when the vehicle left the road and hit a telegraph pole. Chapman (joined Peter Frampton) and tried out for the drums in [The Herd](/source/The_Herd_(UK_band)) but he was eased out as a member in 1965,[1] when they recruited Andrew Steele, [Andy Bown](/source/Andy_Bown) (later of [Status Quo](/source/Status_Quo_(band))) and others.

Chapman reformed the Preachers in June 1965, with Peter Frampton, Pete Atwood, Ken Leaman, Alex Brown and Peter Gosling, releasing a single on Columbia soon after (1965) produced by Bill Wyman, Chapman wrote the B side, *Too Old in the Head.* They opened for the Rolling Stones on [ITV's](/source/ITV_(TV_network)) [Ready Steady Go!](/source/Ready_Steady_Go!) on 2 September 1965 and regularly performed on the circuit, until Chapman was dismissed and replaced by Malcolm Penn, leading to the band changing their name to Moon's Train.[1]

## Personal life

Chapman stepped away from the music business and moved to [Palm Springs, Florida](/source/Palm_Springs%2C_Florida) in the United States soon after. He built up a [fine art](/source/Fine_art) business, which he sold in 2011, when he retired, he moved to [Portugal](/source/Portugal) to play [golf](/source/Golf).[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:0_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-:0_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-:0_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-:0_1-5) ["The Preachers"](http://brunoceriotti.weebly.com/the-preachers.html). *Bruno Ceriotti, rock historian*. Retrieved 28 June 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Rusten, Ian M (2018). *The Rolling Stones in Concert, 1962-1982 A Show-by-Show History*. McFarland. p. 9. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781476634432](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781476634432).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Babiuk, Andy (2023). *Rolling Stones Gear All the Stones' Instruments from Stage to Studio*. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 41. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781493083176](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781493083176).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** The Rolling Stones *Our Own Story – as we told it to Pete Goodman* Corgi Books, 1964 pp. 73–76

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["(en) Peter Frampton Interview"](https://guitarsexchange.com:443/en/unplugged/520/peter-frampton-interview/). *Guitars Exchange*. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

## External links

- [Tony Chapman](https://www.discogs.com/artist/Tony+Chapman) discography at [Discogs](/source/Discogs)

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