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  • Roger Webb
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    • Feb 2024
    • 753

    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post

    The Tourists, in fact, rather than the Pretenders , as I’m sure you meant to say.
    before the Tourists, Annie Lennox was musical partner with the talented ex folk musician Peet Coombes, who wrote almost all of the Tourists original material, much of which was very good pop/rock , despite their lack of fashionable status.
    I suspect that AL may at some point have had a helping hand from Elton John, both being ex RAM , but I can’t remember why I suspect this !!

    Coombes must have found Lennox and Stewart’s stratospheric success with Eurythmics quite difficult to take, as his own career fizzled out, and he died too early.
    Ah, no, I have no knowledge of what happened to Stewart after National Health and Bruford....I asked my wife what was the name of the collaboration of Stewart and Annie Lennox and she said The Pretenders, but I'm sure she meant Eurythmics.

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    • teamsaint
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      • Nov 2010
      • 25177

      Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post

      Ah, no, I have no knowledge of what happened to Stewart after National Health and Bruford....I asked my wife what was the name of the collaboration of Stewart and Annie Lennox and she said The Pretenders, but I'm sure she meant Eurythmics.
      No doubt she did. I assumed, incorrectly, that you meant the Tourists as they weren’t a million miles from the Pretenders in style.
      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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      • teamsaint
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        • Nov 2010
        • 25177

        Anyway, leaving all that aside, currently “ This Last Night in Sodom” , Soft Cell’s swansong album.
        a really excellent LP, left field pop/rock that pulls no punches musically or lyrically, and sounds vibrant and interesting 40 years on.
        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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        • Serial_Apologist
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          • Dec 2010
          • 37355

          I think some people are confusing two different Dave Stewarts? The Dave Stewart in Hatfield & The North and National Health did do a single which got into the charts early 80s with one of the Northettes - the "backing group" in Hatfields - I can't remember her name right now. Ah yes, Amanda Parsons.

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          • anorak
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            • Apr 2024
            • 36

            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
            I think some people are confusing two different Dave Stewarts? The Dave Stewart in Hatfield & The North and National Health did do a single which got into the charts early 80s with one of the Northettes - the "backing group" in Hatfields - I can't remember her name right now. Ah yes, Amanda Parsons.
            Yes, Dave Stewart and David A. Stewart. A mistake that is probably being made all the time. Rather like jazz keyboard players Lonnie Smith and Lonnie Liston Smith. The former eventually changed his name to Dr. Lonnie Smith to avoid confusion.

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            • anorak
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              • Apr 2024
              • 36

              Currently listening to 'Outer Dark' by Bill Laswell...
              Artist: Bill LaswellAlbum: Outer DarkLabel: Fax +49-69/450464Year: 19941. Chakra [00:00]2. Ananta (Passing Dream) [24:14]Request album uploads here: https://...

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              • teamsaint
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                • Nov 2010
                • 25177

                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                I think some people are confusing two different Dave Stewarts? The Dave Stewart in Hatfield & The North and National Health did do a single which got into the charts early 80s with one of the Northettes - the "backing group" in Hatfields - I can't remember her name right now. Ah yes, Amanda Parsons.
                Dave Lloyd Stewart’s hits in 1981 were with Colin Blunstone and then with Barbara Gaskin, “ It’s My Party” reaching the top of the charts.
                He has worked with her ever since apparently .
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                • Serial_Apologist
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                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37355

                  Originally posted by teamsaint View Post

                  Dave Lloyd Stewart’s hits in 1981 were with Colin Blunstone and then with Barbara Gaskin, “ It’s My Party” reaching the top of the charts.
                  He has worked with her ever since apparently .
                  Barbara Gaskin - ah yes! Thanks very much for correcting me on that.

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                  • burning dog
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 1509

                    Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady

                    Genius Soul/Funk 1971. In my opinion this is about as good as it gets!




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                    • teamsaint
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 25177

                      Always like Dusty Springfield very much, but didn’t know much beyond the singles and Dusty in Memphis. I bought a set of the first five albums, and was really surprised at the quality of the music. Excellent stuff, and often a showcase for a different side to her singing.
                      Last edited by teamsaint; 13-06-24, 23:12.
                      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                      • teamsaint
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 25177

                        As with Dusty, until quite recently I didn’t know all that much of The Kinks music beyond their extraordinary run of 60s singles, Village Green and Arthur.
                        Been listening to a few of their other 60s albums recently, and they are full of ideas and gems of songs.
                        it must be said too, that the deluxe CD releases are , unusually, well worth investing in, giving real and musically very valuable context to the actual albums. Kinda Kinks is an excellent example of this.
                        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                        • Serial_Apologist
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                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37355

                          Jake Collisson - 10-yr old heavy rock wunderkind, from Cobham in Surrey!

                          @TheRPJBand saw my sign & invited me on stage at @painshillgarden to play Sweet Child O Mine


                          I think he's got it in him to go beyond reproducing others' licks - which he does very well!

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                          • Boilk
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                            • Dec 2010
                            • 976

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post

                            Dave Lloyd Stewart’s hits in 1981 were with Colin Blunstone and then with Barbara Gaskin, “ It’s My Party” reaching the top of the charts.
                            He has worked with her ever since apparently .
                            Yes indeed, and after 40 years of working as the duo "Stewart/Gaskin" (with about 3 further albums in the last 10 years) I think they married in 2022 or 2023. They're a consciously pop-rockish outfit but in the 1990s/2000s Stewart also contributed to or co-produced albums by his former "Canterbury school" jazz-rock colleagues, e.g. solo albums by Dirk 'Mont' Campbell (Arzachel, Egg), Pip Pyle and Phil Miller (both Hatfields & National Health). In the 1980s he also produced Neil's Heavy Concept Album (that's Neil from The Young Ones).and has done a fair bit of TV music as well as had a column in various keyboard and music technology magazines - so overall a multi-faceted and busy musical career, mostly out of the spotlight.

                            Stewart declined an appearance on the 2009 BBC documentary Prog Rock Britannia: An Observation in Three Movements, suggesting they instead speak to fellow-Egg member Dirk 'Mont' Campbell.

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                            • eighthobstruction
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 6401

                              ....I am a man of wide taste, and eclectic blaa blaa....Glastonbury coverage was dire, the Headline acts danced and sang, danced a sang .I believe they were mostly about - "Somebody broke up with me and I'm feeling sad"....couldn't find anything Worthy (ha ha) of my attention....even PJ Harvey was a 5 out of 10....please please can we have a guitar solo please....¬¬^/]^¬¬}>< raspberry....Yeah well let me tell YOU "Andy Murray has played almost his last game (he may be very stiff in the morning) and BBC made ME sad"....
                              bong ching

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37355

                                Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                                ....I am a man of wide taste, and eclectic blaa blaa....Glastonbury coverage was dire, the Headline acts danced and sang, danced a sang .I believe they were mostly about - "Somebody broke up with me and I'm feeling sad"....couldn't find anything Worthy (ha ha) of my attention....even PJ Harvey was a 5 out of 10....please please can we have a guitar solo please....¬¬^/]^¬¬}>< raspberry....Yeah well let me tell YOU "Andy Murray has played almost his last game (he may be very stiff in the morning) and BBC made ME sad"....
                                Andy made quite a racket... ho ho.

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