John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham, was an English drummer and member of the groundbreaking English rock band Led Zeppelin. He was a very talented drummer and a trap drum kit player, and was renowned for his technical abilities and "feel" for the groove. During his time with Led Zeppelin, Bonham became one of the most respected and influential drummers of all time. His drum playing would set a standard by which others would be judged for years to come, and he is still often said to the be the father of hard rock drumming. He first learned how to play drums at the age of five, making a drum kit out of containers and coffee tins, and copying the moves of his idols Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. He received his first proper drum kit at the age of fourteen, a Premier Percussion.  In 1964, Bonham joined his first band, Terry Webb and the Spiders, meeting his future wife Pat Phillips at a dance in Kidderminster. In desperation for a regular income, he joined a blues group called Crawling King Snakes whose lead singer was a young Robert Plant. During this period, Bonham developed a reputation as the loudest drummer in England. His drum solos, first "Pat's Delight" and "Bonzo's Montreux" and then later "Moby Dick" and finally "Over the Top", would often last for half-an-hour and regularly featured his use of bare hands to achieve different sound effects. In Led Zeppelin tours after 1969, Bonham would expand his basic kit to include congas, orchestral timpani, and a symphonic gong. On September 24, 1980, Bonham was picked up by Led Zeppelin assistant Rex King from The Old Hyde to be at rehearsals at Bray Studios for the upcoming tour of the United States, the band's first since 1977. During the journey Bonham had asked to stop for breakfast, where he downed four quadruple vodkas (roughly sixteen shots (~8cl) of vodka), with a ham roll. After taking a bite of the ham roll he said to his assistant "breakfast." He then continued to drink when he arrived at the studio. A halt was called to the rehearsals late in the evening and the band retired to Page's house — The Old Mill House in Clewer, Windsor. After midnight, Bonham had fallen asleep and was taken to bed on his side. It was rumored that he had a total of forty shots that night. Tour Manager Benji LeFevre and John Paul Jones found him dead the next morning. Bonham was just 32. The cause of death was asphyxiation caused by choking on his own vomit. A subsequent coroner inquest found no other drugs in Bonham's body.