As his personal tribute to the legendary Sandy Nelson, Don has made available a version of Let There Be Drums from the Don Powell Bands work to promote awareness (and money) for WeMakeEvents during the Covid Lockdown
Let There Be Drums" (Podolor/Nelson). Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd/EMI Unart Catalog Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
The Don Powell Band had such a great time meeting everyone at 45Live in Kidderminster! All of you who were there were great performers. Thank you all for coming
Hopefully you will all be seen on the the video, you’ll definitely be heard on a version of the track, when it’s released! There a lot of work for us to do to get it ready, so release date will be announced soon, but expected release January 2025
The Don Powell Band
The legendary drummer from Slade Don Powell is now firmly back with his own Don Powell Band. This re-unites Don with musicians from the 1990's second lineup of Slade, vocalist Steve Whalley and bassist Craig Fenney
The band are now delighted to be joined by a new permanent member with keyboard player Jon Bates. Jon has previously been the producer on several DP Band Tracks He was responsible for production, editing and engineering the original track that was made during lockdown - Let There Be Drums All of the Artists who played on that were isolated in their own homes & studios due to Covid! It was a very tough ask for everyone to work on the project - especially Jon who joined up all the dots!