Hal Blaine played on rock hits like "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Good Vibrations" Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and ...

According to Rolling Stone, the family of legendary studio drummer Hal Blaine, born Harold Simon Belsky, announced his passing at the age of 90 via Facebook post Monday. A consummate studio musician, ...

Drummer Hal Blaine, one of the most recorded musicians in pop music history whose powerful percussion work shaped the sound of scores of hit records, died Monday at age 90, his family announced.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He played on six consecutive Grammy award-winning Record of the Year performances from 1966 through to 1971, as a key member of ...

Hal Blaine, the venerated drummer who played on the Beach Boys‘ Pet Sounds and “Good Vibrations,” the Ronettes‘ “Be My Baby” and Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” as a member of the Wrecking Crew, ...

It seems likely that the drummer Hal Blaine—who died on Monday, at age ninety, of natural causes, at his home, in Palm Desert, California—has done more to quicken my heartbeat than any other American ...

Drummer Hal Blaine, whose smooth backbeat anchored many of the greatest hits of the ’60s and ‘70s, including the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations,” the Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man” and Simon & Garfunkel’s ...

Hal Blaine may well be the most profilic drummer in rock and roll history. He's certainly played on more hit records than any drummer in the rock era, including 40 #1 singles and 150 that made the Top ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Hal Blaine, who died Monday at age 90, was one of the most prolific drummers in the history ...

Drummer Hal Blaine, who provided the back beat for acts ranging from Frank SInatra to Elvis Presley to the Beach Boys, died on Monday. He was 90. His death was announced on his official Facebook page ...