Brian Davison (25 May 1942 – 15 April 2008), was a British musician. He is best known for playing drums with The Mark Leeman Five, The Nice, Brian Davison's Every Which Way and Refugee. Biography Towards the end of the 1950s, he played in various skiffle groups in small clubs in the north-west of London. He quietly established a reputation as a drummer until the early 1960s when he joined The Mark Leeman Five in 1963, with Mark Leeman on vocals, Alan Roskams on guitar, Dave Hyde on bass and Terry Goldberg on piano. They recorded a series of singles during their career as well as an album published in 1963, Rhythm and Blues Plus!, which contains among others, a song by Willie Dixon You can't judge a book by its cover and one from Mud Morganfeld Got my mojo working, as well as other pieces from rhythm and blues. In 1965, after singer Mark Leeman died in a car accident, the band members recruited another singer Roger Peacock and the band continued until 1966 before disbanding. At this time he created with Brian Wilson - not to be confused with the bassist of the Beach Boys -, guitar and vocals and a bassist, the trio The Habits, which will release a single Elbow Baby produced by Spencer Davis. This group came to France and played in Marseille (in a small ephemeral club L'Elbow) and in Cogolin at La Jasse. Brian Davison then formed the psychedelic band Shinn with Donald Donn Shinn on keyboards, Paul Newton on bass (future member of Uriah Heep) and singer Eddie Lamb . They do a few gigs but don't produce any records. Then in 1967, Brian replaced drummer Ian Hague in a new band, The Nice, with ex-Gary Farr & The T-Bones Keith Emerson on organ and piano and Keith Lee Jackson on bass and vocals as well as guitarist and trumpeter David O'List, ex-member of The Attack. They released their first album in 1967 on the Immediate Records label, entitled The thoughts of Emerlist Davjack after an anagram of the musicians' names. The album contains a very personal interpretation of a piece by Dave Brubeck, Rondo from Blue Rondo À La Turk. After a second album, Ars Longa Vita Brevis in the vein of the first which sees the departure of guitarist David O'List to form the group Roxy Music with which he