SMILER received an email this week from David St John who you will remember helped with our ‘Rod The mod’ 60’s stories last year, With the sad news that Rod’s old mate Roger Pope was in a critical condition at Southampton General Hospital.This morning we heard that Roger has now died.
Roger played drums in The Soul Agents the band Rod sang with in the early 60’s, He was also one of Elton John‘s early bandmates, playing drums on his early demos and later going on to tour and recording six albums with him.
The Whitestable, U.K., native died on Sept 17 at the age of 66.
SMILER would like to send our condolences to all Rogers family and friends