As drum intros go, it doesn't get much better.

One of the greatest drum intros ever! Fantastic foot job

He makes it look so effortless! Nobody else can ever play this intro like he did. Love Cozy Powell.

It isn’t about how “hard,” or technical, the piece is to play. Does the intro fit with the song? Was it something original for that particular time? How is the delivery? Does it inspire? Cozy Powell checks all those boxes and delivered them with amazing power and feeling that came to inspire generations of future drummers. Sure, it’s cute to watch KZfaq videos of an 8yo kid replicating a drum track. - But those videos are nothing more than a compliment and a testament to the greatness of the artists’ work, who continue to inspire all these years later.

Literally a thundering machine woh. I love Cozy Powell Rest in pace ❤‍🩹🙏

Drumming genius.

The one and only Cozy Powell.

19/01/85 - amazing and memorable day. I lived in Rio and was at the first (and best) Rock in Rio ever, prancing around backstage, having been taken by Ronnie Biggs and left on my own, obviously, as I was a nobody in that kind of realm. I happened upon the set of 3 "revolving drumkit" festival setup, a great novelty back then (at least in Brazil) and was looking interestedly at the kit I assumed to be Cozy Powell's ("I played drums in a band back then, you see", as Ronnie Corbett would say in the chair) and in walk Mssrs R. Biggs and C. Powell, with Ron saying "go on 'en, 'ave go, mate" and I in "mock Englishmanism" said I'd better ask the owner! The owner said "yeah, go on, go on" and I took the opportunity to satisfy a curiosity about the tom-tom-bass-bass roll on Stargazer, which he showed me, which I then dutifully repeated. Still got the pair of sticks from that day. Unfortunately, no cellphone pictures, so the "paper picture" is still (possibly) flying round the Ether. RIP, Ronald Arthur Biggs and Colin Powell.

Love Cozy, my biggest influence in drumming, always

Really Miss Cozy, I have photos of him back stage in New York During Rainbow years. First time I saw him he was in Bedlam opening for Black Sabbath.

When I get to Heaven I hope that Cozy Powell (and John Bonham too) will teach me how to play drums.

Can't find a single live version of this song with Cozy where they play Stargazer with this drum intro. It's always baffled me

OH MY, SUCH A BADAASS, NO ONE CAN PLAY LIKE HIM, HE PLAYED AND LOOKED COOL,

I fkn love Cozy... so relaxed but powerful. Lol who comes to a video like this and then tries saying some other drummer is better? Get a life.

Brilliant 2 minutes. R.I.P. COZY.

Leading with the left, consistency, power... Maestro

Amazing footage of an amazing drummer

I like a lot of different genres of music, but for me this is one of the best songs ever, I so desperately want to learn this one but first I need to learn double pedal 😂😂🤣

Muitos tentaram reproduzir as batidas iniciais de Stargazer, mas até agora eu não tenho noticias de que alguém tenha conseguido. Eles chegam perto mas sempre falta batidas, que acabam ficando pobres e insuficientes. O Cozi Powell é inigualável !!! . . . Nelson do Brasil !!!

I love this man

Missing from the video is the massive amounts of bass drum involved in fattening those fills. Cozy was the most bass drum forward drummer of his era.

Best Ever for me

So clean.

I just deserved my subscription with this video

Ich, Gitarrist, achte normalerweise weniger auf die Drums, aber diese „Tutorials“ begeistern auch mich! Cozy war/ist einer der Größten! Dieses Intro und viele mehr erzeugten auch bei mir den „Wow“ Effekt! Toll, dass es Videos wie dieses hier gibt, damit bleiben zumindest die Werke der Künstler und ihre Erscheinung unsterblich! Danke

One With The World!

The best of all

Cozy Powell is the one who make the intro

Powell, keit moon e john bonham.. I piu' grandi drummer di hard rock del pianeta!

Cozy RIP 💕

🥲🥲🥲R.I.P.

Master!

Amazing drummer

Legend

4 beats every time 💚🎧

Grande

The most intelligent use of two bass drums, I ever heard.

Let's not forget he was once the driving force for Jeff Beck.

Too much power in hands! R.I.P Cozy!

not that hard folks. Instead of a triplet he does a quadruple. What Ian Paice does at the beginning of Pictures of Home is a triplet. I actually think Paice's intro is a little more difficult to pull off. Also, listen to the end of Purple's Flight of The Rat. Paice was a master at triplets. Easy on the hate fellas, Cozy is one of my favorite hard rock drummers.

Cozy Powell!

A god among men

Would love to see you give the opening to Stargazer by Rainbow a go. Cozy Powell was a monster.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

it's like he's teaching advanced class on how to beat shit out of drums...

Show me Bonzo ever playing a pattern close to this

R I P

1:44

Maybe in my next life..lol!

Sitting really low!

事故で亡くなられたんですよね😢

at first minute its that john bonham lick? like sound dazed & confused

こんにちはにしき～　コージーパウエルはにしきはにしき

what can he do on a single kick set?

Quads

звук гавно.как из бочки че за аппаратура хрень поймешь

Neil Peart is lots better

Cozy actually was a musically better drummer then John Bonham