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Geez Louise!
seems like a legend is dying every other day at the moment!
JOHNNY NASH singer/songwriter/actor
aged: 80
cause: natural
the article: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/joh...5631h.html
his Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Nash
had numerous hits/chart entries from 57-58 through to the early 1990s.
to be honest i dont know much of his music other than a handful of singles from memory but my Dad was a huge fan.
RIP Johnny...
always loved this one, a classic IMO.
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I think you missed Holly's post CH. ^^^
R.I.P. Johnny Nash and Eddie van Halen.
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It seems so, sorry.
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
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(10-10-2020, 13:39)Ruby Wrote: I think you missed Holly's post CH. ^^^
R.I.P. Johnny Nash and Eddie van Halen.
Its okay. The elaborating is appreciated.
God bless you and the impacted families always!!!
Holly
Listen to my most favorite singer here sometime, James Otto that is!
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Sorry to learn that Gordon Haskell has passed away today. He was 74. Dogged by his brief and not terribly happy tenure with King Crimson, he eventually made his own way to much lesser acclaim, and for no good reason – he should have been much lauded - had the most gorgeous vocal tone – so easy on the ear.
I think it might have been a painful process, but he came back into the mainstream a couple of years ago after having kept a very low profile. Just seen that he released an album earlier this year (which I missed, shamefully). Ok – I wasn’t that mad about his later stuff TBH - he became a lot more croonerish and a bit less quirky (which was the part I liked). I have what appears to be his very much overlooked (mysteriously so IMHO) Hambledon Hill and I love it for some reason – such a comforting listen. It was released on three relatively obscure labels, two in the UK and one here, bizarrely. In fact, to my horror, my Norwegian prog CD was delivered wrapped in about sixty-five layers of stuff, including a pocket comprising a cut off corner of the Hambledon Hill Record – distinctive artwork! Perhaps there was an overrun and there are gazillions of copies floating about! Anyway – this is a sadness – R.I.P. Mr Haskell sir - and thank you …
https://www.gordonhaskell.com/ - worth a little read – very definite views on the biz.
I quite like this track from that new album, The Cat That’s Got the Cream, will take the time to listen to the whole thing properly – glad he’d made peace - “More Than That” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpZm_HbW-b8
But this is my best …
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A very interesting character Ruby!
Love this extract from your link;
A note to assist DJ’s and Presenters in future interviews
Why am I doing this album?
2019 has been spent in absolute heaven working alongside Paul Buck and Jon Sweet, the sheer joy of creating a thing of exquisite beauty is the whole reason for doing this, no other reason.
With the greatest respect that is who I am, a jazzy singer songwriter at his peak working with the arranging genius of Paul Buck and the production genius of Jon sweet. I am no longer wasting any of my time squabbling with useless and greedy managers and the dimwitted and badly educated who claim to be music executives in the MD’s chairs at major corporations masquerading as record companies. That is the world they choose to live in, that world of pure number crunchers. How many YouTube followers, how many Facebook followers, is it trending? etc., etc. Accountants, lawyers and social engineering gone literally mad creating a world of madness and ugliness beyond belief.
That is not the world I choose to live in and thankfully I no longer have to. In fact, I was doing nicely thank you before 2001 and the big so called success and there is a life without Facebook. A very good life as it happens.
This is my success, this album, what I hold in my hand right now is all I need or want. Dear DJ/Presenter. it’s nice to see you again and have a chat, but I’m not here to sell you anything. That job doesn’t interest me as money is not my god and I didn’t come all this way to become a double-glazing salesman. And being a celebrity is a totally vacuous existence, it’s rather pathetic in my view. My former manager and Warner Bros had me appearing in cookery programs and garbage shows like ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’. What has that to do with what I do? Nothing, nothing at all. That sort of thing can kill an artist’s ability or desire to continue as an artist. Now I’m happy. I answer to nobody. I have become a true artist and I am happy to be in my garret because I am enriched with riches beyond anything Rockefeller could ever have imagined. Amy Winehouse i am not. I am alive and well. If i had continued under the vicious control of others I would be dead like Amy and countless others who gave in to those monsters who prey on us like the pigs at the trough they are.
And I have a beautiful wife who inspired every word, and every note of it all. I have become a truly happy soul.
Amen.
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^Yes - Amen indeed!
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TONY LEWIS from 80s band The Outfield
aged: 62
cause: not available as yet
i had to Youtube them/him to remember who he/they were.
i wasnt a fan.
RIP TL.
the article: https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/...d=msedgntp
his Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Lewis_(musician)
The Outfield Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outfield
decent track off his deubt solo album from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8grxHo7uA video
The Outfield's huge US hit from the mid 1980s:
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
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SPENCER DAVIS founder Spencer Davis Group
aged: 81
cause: pneumonia
the article: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/gim...5670e.html
his Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Davis
Spencer Davis Group Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spencer_Davis_Group
my mum's favourite band of that 65-67 period of music
i like a few of their singles
favourite:
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
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BILLY JOE SHAVER country music icon
aged: 81
cause: stroke
the phrase "outlaw country" was probably made for him.
from all accounts of things ive read about him he was a hard talking/hitting/drinking/womanising man.
heck, the dude even shot someone in the face during a bar room argument many years ago but claimed self defense because the dude pulled a knife on him.
the guy didnt really have many hits but wrote a load of songs for Willie, Waylon and Kris.
was actually more famous for his big personality and outlaw ways.
always seemed like a straight talking SOB to me but what more would you want from someone.
the article: https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/...d=msedgntp
his Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Joe_Shaver
favorite of his:
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
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