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Re: Obits

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:33 am
by Fretless
Jessye Norman (74)

An enormous voice and personality.

Here with Vangelis 'Mythodea' oratorio.
Vangelis - Mythodea - Movement 3/11

Re: Obits

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:55 pm
by slinger
Fretless wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:33 am Jessye Norman (74)

An enormous voice and personality.

Here with Vangelis 'Mythodea' oratorio.
Vangelis - Mythodea - Movement 3/11
R.I.P. Her "Four Last Songs" is sublime.

Re: Obits

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 1:16 pm
by slinger
About as far from Jessye Norman as it's possible to get, but no less sad, is the loss of Barrie Masters, lead singer, and the only permanent member of Eddie And The Hot Rods, since 1975.

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Re: Obits

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:17 pm
by Fretless
Eddie and the Hot Rods was my first ever 'Rock' concert -saw them several times.

Those were the days ....

Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do

Re: Obits

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:31 pm
by savvypaul
I moved to Southend a few years after their Kursaal heyday...saw Barrie a year or so ago, guesting on a Damned encore of 'Do Anything you Wanna Do'

Re: Obits

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:49 pm
by slinger
R.I.P. Ginger Baker: The wild-man of rock has died, aged 80

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Re: Obits

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 1:21 pm
by terrybooth
slinger wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:49 pm R.I.P. Ginger Baker: The wild-man of rock has died, aged 80

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Another bit of my musical youth gone. I think The Cream Live at the Philmore (the live album bit of Wheels of Fire) was the third album I ever bought. (Couldn't afford the double album and never did get the studio album you could by either as a single or the double album at the time.) I note that the review talks about Cream as a Rock Band. I seem to remember at the time that they were part of a Progressive movement (along with Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and lots of others) which was a reaction against 'Pop'. That's what I remember for the NME and Melody Maker at the time. The category subsequently transferred to bands like Yes and Genesis and came to stand for complicated, classically influenced music. (imho anyway). Never saw Cream but I did see Ginger Baker's Airforce. Can't remember too much about the music but I do remember hoping that Diane Stewart (or was it one of the others vocalists) would have a wardrobe malfunction as she'd had in a gig a few weeks before. Such is youth :grin:

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Re: Obits

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 2:55 pm
by CN211276
With the loss of every icon it seems that my youth is becomming more and more distant.

Re: Obits

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 3:07 pm
by karatestu
Another great drummer bites the dust. I feel a bit sad today :(

Re: Obits

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 10:37 pm
by Andy-831
RIP Ginger