Brummiegem
Well-Known Member
It has been a bad year for music.
This has got me thinking of who is left from the years that I grew up in,and the artists that I listened to.
I really started listening to music seriously towards the end of the seventies.
I was into Queen,The Clash,Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Jam(amongst others).
Freddie Mercury for me was one of the greatest all round performers of his generation and is still sadly missed.
1977-1987 for me was the best period for music in my lifetime,although I will admit to liking a lot of 60s and early 70s Rock.
Another band I got into was Big Country.They were big in the early 80's but went off the boil by the end of the decade,but still come up with some decent songs.Unfortunately the lead singer had some problems and went to America in a bid to overcome them.Stuart Adamson was his name(formerly of the Skids).He had set up a football team in the US but never really got his life back on track and he died of a drug overdose in around 2000/2001.
Incidentally 2 original members of the band are still doing the tour circuit with a new singer.
We lost Joe Strummer of the Clash a few years ago as well.
Other bands I like who lost original members include Pink Floyd,The Who and Echo and the Bunnymen.
One of the few bands that is still almost as they were are Simple Minds.Ultravox are now back together and also Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark(OMD) are back.
The retro tours seem to have given a lot of bands a new lease of life,but it really does make you feel old when you hear that so and so are getting back together after an absence of 15-20 years.
I would love to hear about other peoples musical tastes and their heroes from way back.
I was never really into Prince but I liked a few of his songs,but he was a very respected song writer and he wrote songs for many different artists across the spectrum of music genres.
It may be a dreadful thing to say but you can't help but wonder who will be next.
This has got me thinking of who is left from the years that I grew up in,and the artists that I listened to.
I really started listening to music seriously towards the end of the seventies.
I was into Queen,The Clash,Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Jam(amongst others).
Freddie Mercury for me was one of the greatest all round performers of his generation and is still sadly missed.
1977-1987 for me was the best period for music in my lifetime,although I will admit to liking a lot of 60s and early 70s Rock.
Another band I got into was Big Country.They were big in the early 80's but went off the boil by the end of the decade,but still come up with some decent songs.Unfortunately the lead singer had some problems and went to America in a bid to overcome them.Stuart Adamson was his name(formerly of the Skids).He had set up a football team in the US but never really got his life back on track and he died of a drug overdose in around 2000/2001.
Incidentally 2 original members of the band are still doing the tour circuit with a new singer.
We lost Joe Strummer of the Clash a few years ago as well.
Other bands I like who lost original members include Pink Floyd,The Who and Echo and the Bunnymen.
One of the few bands that is still almost as they were are Simple Minds.Ultravox are now back together and also Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark(OMD) are back.
The retro tours seem to have given a lot of bands a new lease of life,but it really does make you feel old when you hear that so and so are getting back together after an absence of 15-20 years.
I would love to hear about other peoples musical tastes and their heroes from way back.
I was never really into Prince but I liked a few of his songs,but he was a very respected song writer and he wrote songs for many different artists across the spectrum of music genres.
It may be a dreadful thing to say but you can't help but wonder who will be next.
