THEY ALSO SERVED

CRITIC, poet, novelist and memoirist CLIVE JAMES

(b.1939) amused the nation, intelligently, for decades on television and with his journalism.

He also collaborated on six longplayers with singer-songwriter Pete Atkin from 1970 to 1975, the last of which, Live Libel, featured knowing musical parodies attributed to “Gladys Graveyard”, “Leonard Conman” and others. The duo, who also wrote Julie Covington’s 1971 debut The Beautiful Changes, later reunited to play live and record new music, including 2015’s The Colours Of The Night. James also co-presented Granada TV’s So It Goes when the Sex Pistols appeared in 1976, and used his TV influence to popularise Cuban comedy singer Margarita Pracatan.

BASSIST DOUG

LUBAHN (above, b.1947) was working as a ski instructor in Colorado when he met Mama Cass Elliot, who advised him to seek his fortune on Los Angeles’ music scene. After playing in the short-lived Clear Light, he became The Doors’ bassist from 1967 to 1969, appearing on the Strange

Days, Waiting For The Sun and The Soft Parade albums. Later groups included Dreams, Pierce Arrow and Riff Raff, for whom he wrote Treat Me Right, a US Top 20 hit for Pat Benatar in 1981. Lubahn also played with Billy Squier and Ted Nugent. In 2008 he published his memoir My Days With The Doors And Other Stories.

AFRODISCO star KEHINDE

LIJADU (below, b.1948) trailblazed The Lijadu Sisters alongside her identical twin sister Taiwo. “We were very tiny but very fierce,” Kehinde told MOJO’s David Hutcheon in 2012, referring to the strenuously patriarchal Nigerian music scene. The sisters, who recorded their first single, Iya Mi Jowo for Decca in 1968, sang with Ginger Baker, performed at a festival staged for the 1972 Munich Olympics and released Danger in 1976, a record with as much as polemic wit and cultural significant as Fela Kuti’s Zombie. The twins moved to New York in the ’80s, where Kehinde sustained a serious spine injury. They withdrew from public appearances, though wider recognition arrived when their four albums were reissued in 2012.

ENGINEER JAN ERIK

KONGSHAUG (b. 1944), who worked on over 4,000 records over more than 50 years, played a critical role in creating one of the most distinctive sounds in late 20th century jazz. Alongside producer Manfred Eicher, Kongshaug developed the contemplative, sophisticated aesthetic of Eicher’s ECM label, engineering and mastering hundreds of albums by the likes of Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny. An accomplished jazz musician himself, Kongshaug was chosen as best guitarist in a 1967 poll in his native Norway, and made two solo albums at the turn of the millennium.

HEAVY METAL bassist TIMI HANSEN, AKA Timi Grabber (b.1958), played in Denmark’s Mercyful Fate, appearing on the influential band’s ‘80s albums Melissa (1983) and 1984’s Don’t Break The Oath, as well as on solo albums by the band’s charismatic, falsetto-voiced frontman, King Diamond. Hansen rejoined Mercyful Fate in the early ’90s; in August this year he announced he would not be joining their 2020 reunion tour because he had cancer. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich paid a tribute to Hansen online, acknowledging his role in the sound that influenced Metallica.

SIBLING PAULINE

SUTCLIFFE (b.1944) was sister and biographer of ‘the fifth Beatle’ Stuart Sutcliffe. She caused controversy with her 2001 book The Beatles’ Shadow & His Lonely Hearts Club. Her account of the group’s formative years claimed that her brother’s early death from a brain haemorrhage stemmed from being kicked in the head by a jealous Lennon over his friend’s relationship with Astrid Kirchherr; she also claimed the two men had a homosexual affair. In 2003, she auctioned of a number of

Stuart’s sketchbooks, including one from 1961 that appeared to chart his neurological deterioration. As well as executor of Stuart’s estate, she also practised family psychotherapy.

VOCALIST MAURIZIO

GRAF (b.1941) sang on several spaghetti western soundtracks by Ennio Morricone, including Angel

Face from 1966’s hostage drama A Pistol For Ringo. He also sang the vocal versions of Occhio Per Occhio, a recurring motif from 1965’s For A Few Dollars More, and Da Uomo A Uomo from 1967’s Death Rides A Horse. Still in fine voice, in 2012 he made his London stage debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, singing Angel Face with Morricone interpreters the Spaghetti Western Orchestra.

BASSIST DUNCAN ‘SANDY’ SANDERSON (below, b.unknown) joined his flatmate Mick Farren’s band The Deviants to play on the band’s 1968 album Disposable, and The Deviants 3 in 1969. Via Pretty Things drummer Twink’s 1970 debut Think Pink, the band (without Farren) would soon morph into The Pink Fairies, who recorded three LPs including 1973’s admired Kings Of Oblivion. The group expired in 1976, though Sanderson would be there for 1987’s reunion LP Kill ‘Em And Eat ‘Em. This decade he took part in reunions of The Deviants and Pink Fairies, whose last album, Naked Radio, was released in 2016. Jenny Bulley, John Mulvey, Ian

Harrison and Clive Prior