Question: Who played drums on everybody wants to rule the world?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: Who played real drums on everybody wants to rule the world?
Who played the drum machine, LinnDrum, on everybody wants to rule the world?
answer: Manny Elias
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Ian Stanley
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Natural Questions answer: Manny Elias (from the Wikipedia article "Everybody Wants to Rule the World")