THEY ALSO SERVED

BLACKPOOL dissident

SIMON MORRIS (below, b.1968) led deep-underground experimental-DIY opinion dividers Ceramic Hobs from 1985, purveying a unique brand of therapeutic strong meat via albums including Psychiatric Underground,

Straight Outta Rampton and Al

Al Who, and shambolic live shows. Part of the Mad Pride movement which sought liberation for mental health system survivors, their 2017 best-of Black Pool Legacy was released on former Sleaford Mods label Harbinger Sound. Despite deciding to disband in 2015, they continued to play “farewell” gigs. Morris was also a published author.

SINGER, lyricist and composer IRVING

BURGIE (b.1924) fuelled the 1950s’ calypso craze when he wrote Harry Belafonte’s signature tune, Day-O (AKA The Banana Boat Song). Born in Brooklyn to West Indian-American parents, he learned saxophone while serving with the US army in Burma. His partnership with Belafonte began in 1950, whereafter Burgie’s blend of pop music and traditional Caribbean songs – via compositions including Jamaica Farewell and Island In The Sun – entered the collective consciousness. In 1966, Burgie wrote the lyrics for the national anthem of newly independent Barbados.

VOICE, guitar and keyboardist IAIN SUTHERLAND (b.1948) was, with his younger brother Gavin, half of successful Aberdeenshire folk rock duo The Sutherland Brothers. The brothers’ music career began as A New Generation in 1968. As The Sutherland Brothers Band, they signed to Island; following a 1972 single The Pie with the Gavin-penned Sailing, which in 1975 became a huge hit for Rod Stewart. The same year the brothers’ single Ain’t Too Proud featured David Gilmour on guitar, while Iain’s folk rock ballad Arms Of Mary – co-written with the band Quiver – gave The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver their own Top 5 hit in 1976. Iain later recorded solo.

MENTAL AS ANYTHING frontman GREEDY

SMITH (b.Andrew Smith, 1956) joined the Sydney pop humorists as harmonica player in 1976. Unwittingly dubbed by a club promoter, they lived up to their name with gusto (the affable Smith’s own nickname was earned the night he ate 15 pieces of chicken on-stage). The group enjoyed big hits in Australia in the ’80s, while their biggest UK hit – 1987 Number 3 Live It Up – also featured on the soundtrack to worldwide smash movie Crocodile Dundee. Smith’s solo album, Love Harmonica, was released in 1996.

ROCKABILLY hero JACK SCOTT

(right, b.Giovanni Scafone Jr, 1936) was born in Windsor, Ontario and raised in Detroit. A lover of Hank Williams, Elvis made him a rocker: he reached US Number 3 with My True Love in 1958, and had eight more Top 40 hits including the 1960 Number 3 Burning Bridges. In possession of a commanding voice into his eighties, he continued to record, played close to home and was embraced by crowds in Europe. His composition The Way I Walk was later covered by The Cramps. Link Wray, Mark E Smith and Robert Plant were also among his admirers.

JAZZER EDDIE DURAN

(b.1925) was the Bay Area’s go-to guitarist for decades. After forming a trio with his brothers in his twenties, he would go on to play with talents including Charlie Parker, George Shearing, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Earl Hines, Cal Tjader and Benny Goodman among others, but is arguably most celebrated for his many recordings with pianoplaying childhood friend Vince Guaraldi, including Guaraldi’s beloved soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas. He later recorded with his clarinettist wife Madeleine.

PERCUSSIONIST and vibes session ace EMIL

RICHARDS (b.1932) provided many familiar sonic cues from film themes, including the bongos on Lalo Schifrin’s Mission: Impossible theme, The Addams Family’s finger clicks and the xylophone on The Simpsons. He also played with Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Harry Partch and George Harrison, and appeared on movie soundtracks for Doctor Zhivago, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Jaws. In 2013, he published his memoir, titled Wonderful World Of Percussion: My Life Behind Bars.

EXECUTIVE JOE SMITH

(b.1928) DJ’d R&B in Boston before working in Los Angeles as a PR for Warner Bros. He signed the Grateful Dead in 1966, making the then-decidedly MOR imprint cutting edge. In 1968 he signed Van Morrison to the label. After working with names including Joni Mitchell, Black Sabbath, Neil Young and Jimi Hendrix, a move to Elektra/ Asylum saw him oversee huge success for the Eagles, including their megaselling 1976 Greatest

Hits album. He enjoyed further success at Capitol-EMI with Bonnie Raitt, Tina Turner and others, but left in 1993, dismayed that bureaucrats with no interest in music had taken over.

ROXETTE voice MARIE

FREDRIKSSON (b.1958) was singing with pop-rock group Strul when she met her musical partner Per Gessle in Halmstad, Sweden in the late 1970s. The pair formed chart duo Roxette in 1986, scoring a Scandinavian Number 2 with their debut album, Pearls Of Passion : the group went on to have international crossover hits with singles including 1989’s The Look and 1990 Pretty Woman soundtrack smash It

Must Have Been Love. Fredriksson also released eight, mostly Swedish-sung solo albums that showcased a richer, more temperate side to her three-octave range.

ARKANSAS-BORN country mainstay SLEEPY

LABEEF (b.1935) was the big-voiced “human jukebox” who started singing gospel in Houston aged 18, and released his first rockabilly 45 in 1957. Never a huge commercial prospect – his first album, The Bull’s Night Out, came out when he was 39 – he was a tireless performer, playing rocking hillbilly sounds, roots and more across the US and, from the ’80s, winning a devoted European following. Six-foot six, heavy, and nicknamed for his lidded eyes and laid-back mien, he recorded into his seventies, and played his last show in September 2019.

ENTERTAINER KENNY

LYNCH (left, b.1938) had two Top 10 hits in 1963, the same year he accompanied The Beatles on their first UK tour and recorded his version of Misery, becoming the first artist to cover the Fabs. As a composer he also had success with Cilla Black and the Small Faces, and co-wrote with Jerry Ragovoy and Mort Shuman. Later he was a cover star of Wings’ Band On The Run and remained a part of the fabric of British light entertainment as TV star and frequent celebrity golf tournament competitor.

Jenny Bulley and Ian Harrison