Rory Blackwell

Rory Blackwell (22 June 1933 – 19 December 2019) was an English rock and roll musician, bandleader of The Blackjacks, singer, drummer and songwriter.

[2] In 1959, Blackwell spotted the 16-year-old pianist Clive Powell (Georgie Fame) in a summer holiday camp in Wales, where he offered him a job as a piano player with The Blackjacks.

Blackwell also performed "Bony Moronie", "Red Roses", "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast", "Great Balls of Fire", and "Rory's Rock", then toured Europe and the UK with stars from the US.

[5] During the 1960s, Blackwell worked with the young bassist Nick Simper, who later joined Johnny Kidd's band and went on to become one of the founding members of Deep Purple.

[7] In the 1980s, Blackwell worked as the Entertainments Manager at the Welcome Family Holiday Park, Dawlish Warren, Devon, where he continued pleasing the crowds and breaking drumming records.