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John Bonham was born May 31 of 1948 in the countryside of Worchestershire. When he was ten years
old his mother bought him his first drum, but he didn't get his first whole drum set untill he was fifteen.
He joined his first band at the age of sixteen, Terry Webb and the Spiders. He played with the
band for about a year. and during the year that he played with them he met his future wife Pat Phillips. By the time
he was seventeen he married Pat Phillips and joined a new band, A Way of Life.
His wife almost made him quit being a drummer because he wasn't getting paid a lot for it. Living
in a fifteen foot trailor he knew that he had to become a professional drummer or choose a differant career but that wasn't
an option for him.
A couple years earliar Bonham met a singer, Robert Plant. And now Plant has this new band, the
Crawling King Snakes, that still needed a drummer. So Plant recruited Bonham for a drummer. But it was tough being their drummer
because he didn't live anywhere near the rest of the band.
After a few months he quit the Crawling King Snakes because of the amount of gas money he had
to spend to get together with the band. Because of this he rejoined A Way of Life.
In 1968 Bonham got back together with Robert Plant in his new band, Band of Joy. Bonham got his first
big break with this band when they opened for an American folksinger, Tim Rose, while he was on his UK tour.
After the concert with Time Rose, Bonham and Plant broke up and lost contact for several months.
But when Tim Rose came back to the UK he remembered the band, Band of Joy, and offered Bonham the position of being his
drummer.
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