By Jordan Moreau Hamilton Bohannon, one of the great musicians of the disco era, died on Friday. He was 78. The Newnan Times-Herald, a local newspaper in Newnan, Ga., where Bohannon was born, reported the news on Saturday after speaking with several members of his family.
Bohannon played the drums for Stevie Wonder in 1964, and that gig led him to getting hired as a bandleader by Motown Records.
His group Bohannon & The Motown Sound toured with several stars, including Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Temptations and the Four Tops.
Eventually, he began a solo career and released his debut album “Stop & Go” in 1973. By the end of the 1980s, he made 18 more records.
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