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Michael Delaouglou, better known as '''Mikkey Dee''' (born October 31 , 1963 ) is a Swedish Drummer in the Heavy Metal band Motörhead . Born in Gothenburg, Sweden , he began his musical career with local bands ''Nadir'' and ''Geisha''. Moving to Copenhagen in 1985 , he joined King Diamond , who were looking for additional members to complete their line-up. After their release of The Dark Sides , ''Mikkey'' decided to leave the band, as he felt he was becoming more of a backup musician than an equal contributing writer. For example, King was becoming quite popular, but the musicians backing him were taking a secondary role in the writing and decision making. Often King was the only person answering for the whole group in magazine interviews, etc. Mikkey continued to play as a session drummer for their recording sessions only. He joined Don Dokken for his solo album, ''Up From the Ashes'', whilst also playing for ''World War Three''. Lemmy Kilmister had been asking him to join Motörhead since 1985, and in 1992 he did, replacing "Philthy Animal" Taylor . Dee's first gig with the band was on August 30 , 1992 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center and in the same year recorded '' March Or Die '' with them. Their record label, Epic Records dropped the band after its release and the group continued recording with SPV GmbH . The band also started a label themselves, called "Motörhead", which was copyrighted and distributed through Warner-Chappell and ZYX, Mikkey's first album for this label was 1993 's '' Bastards ''. He is a hockey enthusiast and a supporter of the Frolunda team from Gothenburg. He also played drums on Helloween album Rabbit don't come easy(2003), stepping in for Mark Cross. |
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