Lee David Harris (born 20 July 1962) is an English

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and

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. Harris attended The Deanes School with

Paul Webb Paul Douglas Webb (born 16 January 1962), also known by the stage name Rustin Man, is an English musician. He was the bassist for the English band Talk Talk. Biography Webb attended The Deanes School in Thundersley, Essex, with drummer Lee ...

, and they became good friends. They played in the

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band Eskalator before being recruited to form

Talk Talk Talk Talk were an English band formed in 1981 by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), Paul Webb (bass), and Simon Brenner (keyboards). Initially a synth-pop group, Talk Talk's first two albums, '' The Party's Over'' (198 ...

in 1981.Bogdanov, Vladimir (ed.) (2001) ''The Allmusic Guide to Electronica'', Backbeat UK, , p. 372, 503 Harris played

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s for Talk Talk until 1991. In the early 1990s, he and Webb formed .O.rang. He played drums on the

Beth Gibbons Beth Gibbons (born 4 January 1965) is an English singer and songwriter. She is the singer and lyricist for the band Portishead, who have released three albums. She released an album with fellow English musician Rustin Man, '' Out of Season'', ...

and Webb album '' Out of Season'' (2002),

Midnight Choir Midnight Choir was a Norway, Norwegian alternative rock/alt-country band active from 1992 to 2004. Biography The members of Midnight Choir were Al DeLoner (Atle Bystrøm 'Olsen'), Paal Flaata, and Ron 'Bystrøm' Olsen. (Atle and Ron are brother ...

's ''Waiting for the Bricks to Fall'' (2003) and

Bark Psychosis Bark Psychosis is an English post-rock band/musical project from east London formed in 1986. They are one of the bands that Simon Reynolds cited when coining "post-rock" as a musical style in 1994, and are thus considered one of the key bands d ...

' '' Codename: Dustsucker'' (2004). He was also part of Ian Tregoning's Magnetik North project. He co-produced Beth Gibbons' 2024 solo-album '' Lives Outgrown'' and co-wrote four of the songs.

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Living people 1962 births English male drummers English rock drummers {{UK-drummer-stub