10. Cozy Powell
Stand Out Track: Stargazer, Powells thunderous intro announces the epic arrival of Hard Rocks finest track. Cozy Powells career reads like a roll-call of Seventies super-groups including stints in Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, the Michael Schenker Group, the ELP spin-off Emerson, Lake & Powell and most famously in Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow. His solo work was just as revered with 'Dance with the Devil' peaking at No. 3 in the UK charts; no mean feat for an instrumental! Renowned for his versatile, heavy-hitting style it is a shame that Cozy never truly settled into one band and consequently became somewhat of a drummer for hire but the fact that Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker and David Coverdale saw fit to request his presence on the drum stool stands as testament to his talent.