D. J. Fontana

Artist Bio:

Country and rock ‘n’ roll drummer who played in Elvis Presley‘s backing band on over 450 songs from 1954 through the Elvis “comeback” TV special in 1968, left when Presley‘s new direction required larger bands and Las Vegas stints, became an in-demand, Hall of Fame session musician in Nashville for three decades, broke his hip in a fall and died from complications several months later on 6/13/2018, age 87

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/obituaries/dj-fontana-87-elvis-presley-drummer-is-dead.html