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Daniel Goffey (born on February 7, 1974) is the drummer for popular Britpop group Supergrass.

Goffey started his music career at with his band the Fallopian Tubes at Primary school. At Wheatley Park School, Oxford he became drummer for the four-piece The Jennifers which featured a 16 year old Gaz Coombes on vocals. The Jennifers began building a reputation in the Oxford indie music scene and released one single in 1992 on Nude Records before they disbsanded. Allegedly, before the split, Goffey and Coombes had agreed to continue to work together in the future.

In 1993, Coombes introduced Goffey to his co-worker Mick Quinn and they started jamming together, with Danny on drums calling the band Theodore Supergrass, and later just Supergrass. The band went onto enjoy great success in the mid-90's woth their up-beat, quirky, youthful songs and have found a level of lasting success.

In 2005, Goffey became targeted by the tabloid newspapers due to a sex scandel involving actor Jude Law when it emerged that Goffey and longtime girlfriend, Pearl Lowe - Law's nanny - had engaged in wife-swapping with Law and his wife, Sadie Frost.

Goffey married Pearl later that year (having proposed and been knocked back the year before) and now lives in London with Pearl and their three children. The two had been in a relationship for ten years prior to the marriage.

He is the son of Chris Goffey, motoring journalist and ex-presenter of Top Gear.

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