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Nov 12, 2003 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 8089836. Source citation. Musician. Accomplished session drummer who played with Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Debbie Harry, Duran Duran and Robert Palmer. Affectionately known as “Dip”, he was a member of the 1970s group Chic until they disbanned in 1981 and with Labelle.
- November 15, 1954
Thompson was a member of the band Non-Toxic at the time of his death. He was survived by his wife, two children, and his sister, Cookie. On September 19, 2005, like his former band member Bernard Edwards, Thompson was honoured posthumously along with the rest of the Chic band members by being inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame .
Tony Thompson, a drummer whose beat for Chic helped define both disco and hip-hop, died on Nov. 12 in Los Angeles. He was 48 and lived in Los Angeles. The cause was renal cell cancer,...
Nov 25, 2003 · Tony Thompson, the driving force behind such groups as Chic and the Power Station, and a drummer whose effortless ability to move from jazz to rock to funk made him a prized session man, has died.
Nov 29, 2003 · Tony Thompson, drummer: born New York 15 November 1954; married Patrice Jennings; died Los Angeles 12 November 2003. The powerhouse drummer with Chic, Tony Thompson helped shape the...
Nov 15, 2003 · And thanks to sampling, Thompson's beat, buried in Fatman Scoop's recent UK number one hit Be Faithful - a sample of Chic's Chic Cheer - continues to be.
Nov 24, 2003 · Tony Thompson, the man whose drumming set the beat for the disco era -- and later hip-hop -- dies at 48. Thompson first hit the charts in the 1970s with the disco band Chic. The band's hits ...
