Peter Kircher, born 21st January 1948, Folkestone, Kent, is a rock drummer who played out the last few years of his professional career in the rock band Status Quo. Highlights of this period included playing at Live Aid and meeting HRH The Prince of Wales at a benefit gig for the Prince's Trust at the Birmingham NEC, an event preserved on the 1984 album "Live At The NEC". Map sources for Folkestone at grid reference TR2236 Folkestone is a coastal resort town in the Shepway district of Kent, England. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... Status Quo is a UK rock band founded by bassist Alan Lancaster and guitarist Francis Rossi in 1962. ... Live Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on July 13, 1985. ... The Prince of Wales His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales (born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ...

Pete's style was very rhythmic, and he has a very distinctive snare_drum sound which could be considered his signature trait. Pete, however, was also a talented vocalist, though his excursions into singing on record were few. The snare drum or side drum is a tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or heads, stretched over the top and bottom openings. ...

His earliest documented recordings are with Jimi Hendrix bassist Noel Redding. More session work followed, before he was recruited in 1967 to join Honeybus, who, although often written off as one-hit wonders, produced a fine body of work, which culminated in a critically-acclaimed 1970 album, Story, released after the eventual dissolution of the band. Less commercially successful work with the Honeybus personnel survives in the form of two albums, "March Hare" (credited to Colin Hare, the bassist in Honeybus) and "Into Your Ears", a solo album by Pete Dello, which were both released in 1971. Comparisons with Honeybus were inevitably drawn - the sessions bled into each other causing a reunion in all but name, and record company executives were so impressed by this new work that they commissioned an album, Recital. Only test pressings exist, as a change in management at EMI aborted the planned release of the album. Following this episode, most of the band's members retired from the music scene. Jimi Hendrix at the Royal Albert Hall, 1969 James Marshall Jimi Hendrix (27 November 1942, Seattle, Washington – 18 September 1970, London, England) was an American musician, songwriter and guitarist, widely hailed by fans and music critics as the most influential electric guitarist of all time. ... Noel Redding (25 December 1945 - May 11, 2003) was a rock & roll guitarist but best known as the bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. ... The Honeybus were a 1960s band, who, since their heyday, have often been pigeonholed as one-hit wonders, a tag which belies the rich legacy of material left behind by the band. ...

The next excursion for Pete's drumming was as a member of Shanghai, where he joined Mick Green from Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. The band produced two albums, released in 1974 and 1976, when the band ended up supporting Status Quo on the "Blue For You" tour. This directly led to Pete's induction into the group of session musicians for John Du Cann's "Nothing Better" album in 1977, which mixes the attitude of the Sex Pistols with the boogie sound of Quo. The sessions were, unsurprisingly, produced by Francis Rossi. Mick Green (born Michael Greenberg) is a British rock and roll guitarist. ... Johnny Kidd and the Pirates were a rock and roll group from the UK who performed in the late 1950s and 1960s. ... Status Quo is a UK rock band founded by bassist Alan Lancaster and guitarist Francis Rossi in 1962. ... The Sex Pistols were, despite their short existence, one of the most influential English punk bands. ... Francis Rossi Francis Rossi (Francis Dominic Michael Nicholas Rossi) was born 29 May 1949 in Forest Hill, London and is co-founder of the British rock band Status Quo, where he sings lead vocals and plays lead guitar. ...

Following a stint in Liverpool Express (LEX), Pete was invited in 1979 to join the Original Mirrors, a band featuring the Lightning Seeds Ian Broudie on guitar. His time in this band took him up to 1981, when there was just enough time to contribute some drums to a Nolans single before the call came to join the Quo. The Lightning Seeds is/was an Alternative Rock band which essentially consisted of one person—writer, singer and guitarist Ian Broudie (born August 4, 1958, Liverpool, England). ... Ian Broudie (born August 4, 1958 in Liverpool, England) is a prolific musician and producer, best known for his 1990s band the Lightning Seeds. ... The Nolans The Nolans, sometimes billed as The Nolan Sisters are siblings born in Ireland and the United Kingdom who reached the peak of their success as a singing act in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ...

Aside from recording some tracks with Francis Rossi and Bernard Frost for their (unreleased) solo album "Flying Debris" in 1985, nothing much has been heard from Pete, although Honeybus were reunited for a Dutch TV show in 2003. Francis Rossi Francis Rossi (Francis Dominic Michael Nicholas Rossi) was born 29 May 1949 in Forest Hill, London and is co-founder of the British rock band Status Quo, where he sings lead vocals and plays lead guitar. ...