Gerry Conway, Cat Stevens and Fairport Convention Drummer, Dead at 76
Gerry Conway, veteran folk and rock drummer who played with Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention and others, died on Friday at the age of 76. Fairport Convention singer, guitarist and co-founder Simon Nicol paid tribute to Conway in a Facebook post over the weekend. He revealed that Nicol privately battled motor neurone disease — also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease — which results in the gradual loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. Nicol called Conway “my dearest drumming pal, someone I first worked alongside in about 1968 on vari...