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Robert Broderick James McIntosh (6 May 1950 – 23 September 1974) was a Scottish drummer from Dundee who was a founder-member of the Average White Band (AWB). His father was American-born actor Bonar Colleano, who had a successful career in films, especially in the UK.
Jan 26, 2022 · Robbie McIntosh was the drummer of the Average White Band. It’s a modest gravestone in Dundee’s Barnhill Cemetery; a tribute to a young man who left the world too soon, at just 24.
Commonly known as The White Album, the eponymous AWB album is released in August. In September on the last night of a triumphant week at The Troubadour, drummer Robbie McIntosh dies of a drug related incident at a celebratory Hollywood party.
Feb 22, 1975 · Robbie McIntosh, the 28‐ year‐old drummer for a rock group called Average White Band, died last Sept. 23 of an overdose of heroin that, investigators said, he sniffed at party given by Mr....
Feb 20, 2022 · Robbie McIntosh's tragedy tainted first taste of stardom for Average White Band. FIVE months before Scottish funk and soul group Average White Band hit the big time with their classic single...
The Average White Band (also known as AWB) are a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. They are best known for their million-selling instrumental track " Pick Up the Pieces ", and their albums AWB and Cut the Cake .
On Sept. 23, 1974, two members of this band from Scotland, bassist Alan Gorrie and drummer Robbie McIntosh overdosed at a Los Angeles party when what they th...
