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Mickey Curry was born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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He is best known for his long-term collaboration with the singer-songwriter, although he has also worked with Hall & Oates, Cher, Tina Turner, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Sam Phillips, Tom Waits, Survivor_(band), The Cult, Steve Jones and other musicians. He started playing drums at 11 when he had lessons at school with a man named Nick Forte. He played in many local bands in Connecticut until around 1980, when he started working in studios in New New York
While working in Manhattan, he joined a band called Tom Dickie and the Desires.
They were managed by Tommy Mottola who also managed Hall & Oates. Impressed by Curry"s work, Mottola asked him to record with Hall & Oates on their album Private Eyes.
Around the same time he was working with Hall & Oates, Curry met producer Bob Clearmountain who had just begun working with a young Soon after this, Curry was playing on Adams" second album, You Want lieutenant You Got lieutenant lieutenant was at this time that Curry started gaining prominence.
He toured with Hall & Oates for several years, concurrently with playing on " studio albums.
Curry"s stint with Hall & Oates continued until 1986, at which point, he decided to begin touring full-time with Adams. Curry appears on almost all of Adams" albums. Although he has continued to tour with, Curry has also found time to play on a variety of other artists" albums and tour with several of them.
In 1987, he was the drummer on a young Jude Cole"s self-titled debut album.
In 1989, he joined the hard rock band, The Cult, performing on several of their albums, including the smash, Sonic Temple (which included one of their biggest hits, "Fire Woman").
