Cozy Powell
Especially For You


Tracks:

1. Man With A Mission
2. Ivory Towers
3. Why Does Love Hurt
4. Haunted By The Devil
5. Doing The Natural Thing
6. All I Wanted Was Your Love
7. Call Me Mayhem
8. The Light
9. High Time To Fly
10. Make You A Man
11. Power In The Wrong Hands
12. You're All I Believe In

Line up:

Cozy Powell - drums
John West - vocals
Neil Murray - bass
Mike Casswell - guitars
Sylvian - guitar (on 4)
Viracocha - keyboards (on 4)
Lonnie Parks - keyboards (on 1, 2, 8, 9)
Ken Boley - keyboards (on 5, 7, 10, 11)
Mike Burns - keyboards (on 3, 6, 12)

Record Label / Year of Release:

Polydor Japan 1998

Notes:

Colin Flooks (29 December 1947 – 5 April 1998), better known as Cozy Powell, was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, and started playing drums at age 12 in the school orchestra, thereafter playing along in his spare time to popular singles of the day. The first band he was in, called the Corals, played each week at the Youth Club in Cirencester. At age 15 he had already worked out an impressive drum solo. The nickname 'Cozy' was borrowed from the jazz drummer Cozy Cole.

Cozy Powell died on 5 April 1998 following a car crash while driving his Saab 9000 at 104 mph (167 km/h) in bad weather on the M4 motorway near Bristol. According to the BBC report, at the time of the crash, Powell's blood-alcohol reading was over the legal limit, he was not wearing a seatbelt, and he was talking to his girlfriend on his mobile phone.

He was living at Lambourn in Berkshire at the time and had returned to the studio shortly before his death to record with Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green. By that time, he had been the drummer on at least 66 albums with minor contributions on many other recordings. Many rock drummers have cited him as a major influence.

"Especially For You" is a Japanese-only release of the final album by the late greatdrummer. It contains 12 tracks written and recorded shortly before his untimely demise in a car accident in 1998.