Preston Heyman
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Preston Heyman is an Anglo American Producer, Drummer and Percussionist, whose career spans five decades. His credits include being a member of British funk band Gonzalez on their disco hit "I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet" (1975). Heyman also worked alongside Kate Bush as a member of her band for the "Tour of Life" Live at Hammersmith Odeon video (1979), and the albums Never Forever (1980) and The Dreaming (1982) His Drums featuring on her Single [Sat_in_Your_Lap]] (1981) recorded in the stone room at The Townhouse Studio 2 London with Paddy Bush and Preston on Whip like percussion actually played on bamboo canes swooshing through the air rhythmically, both appear in the video as singing Bulls filmed in Orchestral Studio 1 Abbey Road[2]. He played with the Tom Robinson Band on the album TRB Two Produced by Todd Rundgren (1979) and Atomic Rooster on their sixth album Atomic Rooster (1980). 1984 and a recomendation from Bass player friend Phil Spalding saw him in the studio with Mike Oldfield recording the Soundtrack for Grammy Award winning film The Killing Fields using unusual percussion instruments he had brought back from an extended trip to Indonesia after Kate Bush's Tour. In 1985 Kim Wilde asked him to join her band and he spent a lot of time with her in France doing T.V.Shows and Concerts and appears in the video for her top 20 single Rage_to_Love which received a Remix by Dave Edmunds. After studio sessions (again with Phil Spaldfing on Bass) for the Album Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby Produced by Heaven 17 Martyn Ware (1987) he found himself Drumming on the U.S.A. Billboard Hot 100 No 1 Wishing Well (1988) and features in the songs Video. He joined Terence's Band and spent the next 2 years touring the globe, every country they landed in both the Album and Single seemed to be No 1 and sometimes doing 5 T.V. appearances a day, describing it as "The worlds wildest craziest party that never ever stopped " eventually on the verge of another U.S. tour leaving saying he had to "save my sanity before it was too late to do so"[3].
