Canadian musician
Musical artist
Terry Edward Draper is a Canadian musician who was the drummer and one of three songwriters for the 1970s progressive rock band Klaatu.[2]
Career
Before becoming a successful musician, Draper had a construction business with a speciality in roofing.[2]
Draper co-wrote the song "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft", which was not only successful with his band Klaatu, but also became a Top-40 hit for the Carpenters when they covered it in 1977.[3] Draper also co-wrote the Klaatu songs "Prelude" in 1977 and "December Dream" in 1981, which was a tribute to John Lennon.
He went on to record several solo albums in his home studio in Oak Ridges, Ontario after the break-up of the band in 1981. His former Klaatu bandmates Dee Long and John Woloschuk made appearances on his album Light Years Later, in 1997.[4]
Later on in the 1980s he returned to his roofing business, and then developed a career as a restaurateur alongside his continued music work.[2]
Solo releases
- Light Years Later (1997)
- Terry & The Twilight Zone: Live... Years Later (1997)
- Terrytoons Presents: Can You Pretend? (1999)
- Civil War (And Other Love Songs) (2001)
- Civil War (Not Very) (2001)
- Furzall Family (2002)
- Aria 52 - A Five Year Mission (2004)
- Stranded (2010)
- When The World Was Young (2014)
- Searching (2016)
- Window On The World (2016)
- Remarkable Women (2017)
- A Very Terry Christmas (2017)
- Once Upon A Memory (2018)
- In My Garden (2019)
- Sunset on Mars (2020)
- Lost (2020)
- The Other Side (2021)
- Bread and Cirkus (2022)
- In the Beginning (2023)
References
- ^ "The Bands – Terry Draper". terrydraper.com. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ a b c Brown, Dan (April 4, 2000). "When the music's over: Rock and roll is a vicious game, but not half as rough as what comes next – as a handful of Canada's former rock gods can attest", National Post, p. B10.
- ^ Feniak, Peter (November 21, 1995). "The band Beatlemania made, then crushed", The Globe and Mail, p. D1.
- ^ Ankeny, Jason. "Terry Draper: Biography", Allmusic. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
External links
- Terry Draper official site
- Artist Profile on Bullseye Records
- Searching: The Terry Draper Interview @ The Nice Rooms Webzine.
- Once Upon A Memory: The Terry Draper Interview @ The Nice Rooms Webzine.
