Nicholas Bowen Topper Headon, known as Topper due to his resemblance to Mickey the Monkey from the Topper comic, is a British rock and roll drummer, best known for his membership in the punk rock band The Clash. He is regarded as one of the most inspirational and technically inventive punk rock drummers of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Writing for Allmusic, critic Greg Prato stated that record producer Sandy Pearlman dubbed Headon as The Human Drum Machine, due to his impeccable timing and dru...
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