So only a few weeks after Takahashi passed, Ryuichi Sakamoto has left us. I left a comment in a Facebook group this morning... YMO had that perfect mix of pop style with Takahashi, the classical and abstract part from Sakamoto and Hosono's humour. Always thought it...
The last few weeks have seen more than their fair share of musical passings of particular importance to me. Mark Beaumont-Thomas will share some thoughts on David Crosby’s If I Could Only Remember My Name by way of tribute later in the week, which leaves me with 3...
I first came across Ian McDonald who has passed at the age of 75 on an EP of the first 3 Foreigner singles. They were slow to take off here so Atlantic clearly saw a way of getting them going in piling the 3 American hits onto on 7” disc. The first three Foreigner...
The first guitar magazine I ever bought, Beat Instrumental, had an interview with a hot new guitar star that suggested there was life beyond punk. Later in 1978 I saw Van Halen blow Black Sabbath off the stage of The Bristol Hippodrome. The first album mingles hard...
The Stranglers were never a punk band. Their first three albums are still regular plays for me. Hugh Cornwell said last night that Dave Greenfield, who as passed with Covid 19 should be remembered as the man who created the music of Golden Brown. Personally I would...
A while ago I suggested that Lulu was the nearest British equivalent to France Gall who has died aged 70. I was wrong, the French treat their singers far better than we ever treated Lulu, Dusty or Sandie, they let them grow up. A quick history... 1964-67: Serge...
I said when I wrote about John Wetton that I wasn't one for marking every musician's passing, but now this...In the late 70s Virgin Record stores published a magazine. In among advertorials for whatever they were selling that month was the occasional article...
I'm not often moved to write about a musician who has passed, but John Wetton was different. At the start of the eighties some of my favourite musicians started forming bands together in some sort of fantasy rock group league. First Adrian Belew from Bowie's band...
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