Thommy Price

Drummers are the unsung architects of rock, and Thommy Price is a perfect case study. Out of Brooklyn, he kept the beat for Scandal, Blue Öyster Cult, Billy Idol's band, and, most tellingly, became the longest-serving member of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts besides Jett herself. That detail says everything: a man behind the kit, not the microphone, trusted to stay at the heart of a band for decades. He died in 2025, but his real legacy is structural, the dependable pulse under songs everyone knows. I have enormous respect for that kind of steadiness. Rhythm, after all, never lies.

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Name (English)

Thommy Price

Name (Japanese)

トミー・プライス

Reading

とみー・ぷらいす

Born

December 9, 1956 – October 10, 2025

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

musician / drummer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Monkey

• Official sitehttps://www.thommyprice.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thommy%20Price
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5961481

Tags

• New York
• musician
• drummer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.