THEY ALSOSERVED

JAZZ MUSICIAN, vocalese singer, composer and producer BOB

DOROUGH (above, b.1923) worked as a pianist and arranger in New York and Paris with the likes of Sugar Ray Robinson, Blossom Dearie and Miles Davis in the ’50s and ’60s. In 1972, fresh from producing Spanky And Our Gang, he began to write and direct the beloved six-part educational US TV cartoon series Schoolhouse Rock!, which included 3 Is A Magic Number, later sampled by De La Soul. His other collaborators included Allen Ginsberg, Maya Angelou and Hal Willner, while his writing credits included jazz numbers Comin’ Home Baby and I’m Hip. Having released his solo debut Devil May Care in 1956, Dorough’s last was Eulalia in 2014.

BASSIST BRIAN

HOOPER (b.c.1963) served with Sydney alt-bluesers Beasts Of Bourbon. Additionally, he recorded solo and with Kim Salmon & The Surrealists, The Voyeurs and Rowland S. Howard, and played bass on Death Is Not The End on Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads in 1996 (Hooper was also part of Cave’s vocal ensemble The Moron Tabernacle Choir). His final performance was at his own benefit concert in Melbourne in April, organised by friends and colleagues including Mick Harvey and the reunited Beasts Of Bourbon.

PIANIST and singer ROY YOUNG (b.1937) featured on late-’50s UK rock’n’roll TV as Roy ‘Rock ‘Em’ Young, whereafter he recorded solo and toured with Cliff Richard and The Shadows. In 1961, in Hamburg, he played with Tony Sheridan and later The Beatles; he would also tour with the Fabs on their last European dates in 1966 as a member of Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers. Young’s later activities included managing Long John Baldry, touring with Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson, Star-Club reunions and playing on three songs on Bowie’s Low.

EDM DJ and producer AVICII (b. Tim Bergling, 1989) began releasing dance tracks in 2008 but broke through with 2011’s Etta James-sampling Levels. In 2013, his country-electronic Wake Me Up brought huge US success, making Bergling the third-highest paid DJ in the world in 2014, and remixer to Daft Punk, Madonna and Coldplay, among others. Alcohol problems necessitated his retirement from touring in 2016. He died in Oman. TRUMPETER and bandleader STAN REYNOLDS (b.1926) played with the big bands of Ted Heath, Ivor and Basil Kirchin and Geraldo in the ‘40s and ‘50s, before forming his own orchestra to play with Tony Bennett, among others. He also did sessions for Cleo Laine, Vic Lewis, Roy Castle and Johnny Keating, recorded numerous tributes to James Last, and, in 1968 played the trumpet solo on Martha My Dear on The Beatles’ White Album.

BASSIST, PRODUCER and DJ STUART

COLMAN (b.1944) was a member of Rugby pop band Pinkerton’s Assorted Colours, who had a Top 10 UK hit in 1965 with Mirror, Mirror. The group then morphed into The Flying Machine, who hit Top 5 US with Smile A Little Smile For Me in 1969. In 1976, after protesting about the BBC’s sidelining of rock’n’roll, Colman was given his own weekly It’s Rock‘n’Roll show on Radio 1. This led to producing hits for Shakin’ Stevens, including Green Door and This Ole House; he also produced Kim Wilde, Phil Everly, Billy Fury and Little Richard, plus Cliff Richard And The Young Ones’ 1986 charity hit Livin’ Doll. Colman was also a journalist and historian, and ran the Master Rock studio in Kilburn: he later worked in Nashville with

Crystal Gayle, The Crickets and Linda Gail Lewis.

DJ STILL, AKA Hsi-Chang Lin (b.unknown) was turntablist with industrial rap experimentalists dälek, appearing on 2002’s From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots and the 2004 Faust collaboration Derbe Respect, Alder. His former bandmate MC Dälek called him, “an extremely talented and intelligent brother who impressed us from the day we met him.”

VOCAL GROUP singer

MAGGIE STREDDER (b.1936) – known to pop-pickers as ‘the girl in the glasses’ – first came to notice as a member of Liverpool pools firm choir The Vernons Girls, who appeared regularly on Oh Boy! Stredder then formed vocal group The Ladybirds, with whom she provided backing vocals on Marc Bolan’s debut 45 The Wizard, backed Sandie Shaw on Puppet On A String and appeared on Top Of The Pops from 1966 to 1978 (in 1967, they provided the groovy vocalese on The Mood-Mosaic’s Radio Caroline/Northern soul fave A Touch Of Velvet – A Sting of Brass). She also sang with Dusty Springfield. The Ladybirds’ TV credits included The Two Ronnies, Morecambe And Wise, The Les Dawson Show and The Benny Hill Show. Clive Prior