- John Lennon, George Harrison, and even Ringo Starr each used him as drummer on many of their solo records. He and Ringo played as a team for The Concert for Bangladesh (1972) and other events, and he chose the musicians to record one of Yoko Ono's albums.
- He had played with and for countless bands over the years, but he'd never really been a member of one, until Little Village formed (with Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and Nick Lowe) in the late 1980s.
- While Gary Lewis played drums from early on, many of his records with the Playboys actually featured Keltner.
- Profiled in the 1991 book "The Big Beat--Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers", edited by Max Weinberg.
- A longtime, well-loved session drummer.
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