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Tony Thompson
Drummer + Musician
Male
Born
Nov 15, 1954
Died
Nov 12, 2003
Anthony T. "Tony" Thompson was a session drummer best known as a member of Chic. He was raised in the middle-class community of Springfield Gardens, in Queens, NY.
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CHILDHOOD
1954
Birth
Born in 1954.
THIRTIES
1985
31 Years Old
Thompson was also a full-fledged member of the band Power Station along with Robert Palmer and John Taylor and Andy Taylor of Duran Duran. The enormous Live Aid charity benefit concert in 1985 saw Thompson playing with the Power Station as well as joining the remaining members of Led Zeppelin on stage (along with Phil Collins) at John F. Kennedy Stadium.
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FORTIES
1996
42 Years Old
In the mid 1990s he rejoined Power Station for their 1996 reunion album Living In Fear and subsequent tour. Thompson died within a month of being diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer) on November 12, 2003, in Los Angeles, just two months after Power Station bandmate Robert Palmer's death from a heart attack.
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2003
49 Years Old
Died in 2003.
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