GARY WALKER
OBITUARIES
GARY WALKER
Walker Brothers drummer
(1942–2026)
Gary Leeds with The Walker Brothers on the set of
Thank Your Lucky Stars
, 1965
SCOTT Engel and John Maus had been gigging around LA with drummer Al Schneider, billed as The Walker Brothers Trio, when Gary Leeds approached them with a proposition in late 1964. Formerly the drummer with The Standells, Leeds had recently returned from touring Britain with PJ Proby. “Having checked out the London scene, I had a strong feeling that Scott, John and I could make it big in the UK,” he explained in 2009 memoir, The Walker Brothers: No Regrets – Our Story, co-written with Maus.