THEY ALSO SERVED

SINGER/WRITER KATHY MANUELL (below, b.1948) joined London sunshine folk rockers Design in 1968, who recorded five albums before their 1976 split. She later wrote with Glasgow folk singer Mae McKenna. In 1990 she formed trance outfit New Age Radio with her partner/ Sex Pistols producer Dave Goodman: together they ran a “clean energy” stage at Glastonbury for 10 years before relocating to Malta, where they recorded psychedelic ambience as the Internet Cafe Orchestra and Mandala Malta.

KEYBOARDIST/ PRODUCER CLARENCE ‘MAC’ McDONALD (b.1944) played piano at Los Angeles funeral homes and nightclubs as a youth, sitting in, aged 16, with Chico Hamilton. He later worked with The Vocals, who became The 5th Dimension in 1966. After serving in Vietnam, McDonald played sessions for artists including Diana Ross, The Jackson 5, Gladys Knight and Carole King, enjoyed a live/studio collaboration with James Taylor and co-produced (with Maurice White) Number 1s for Deniece Williams and The Emotions. His other credits included work with Bill Withers, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Linda Ronstadt, Cheech & Chong and Hall & Oates.

TULSA-BORN ROCKABILLY voice SANFORD CLARK (b.1935) met Lee Hazlewood in Phoenix in 1956, and cut his song The Fool. It reached Number 7 on the Billboard chart. Despite further collaborations with Hazlewood, guitarists Al Casey and Duane Eddy, plus a re-recording of his hit with Waylon Jennings on guitar in 1965 and 1968’s Return Of The Fool on Hazlewood’s LHI label, further success was denied him. He later worked in construction and as a professional gambler, though in 1985 he was back with Hazlewood and Casey for the Desert Sun album. He also played the international oldies circuit.

BUTTERFLY CHILD, AKA Belfast singer-songwritermulti-instrumentalist JOE CASSIDY (b.1969), sculpted luminous dream-pop, first on his friends A.R. Kane’s H.ark! label and later Rough Trade for 1993’s Onomatopoeia. Moving to Chicago in 1997, Cassidy forged the more dance-influenced Assassins but settled in film/TV scores before releasing 2015’s Futures, the first Butterfly Child album in 18 years.

VIOLINIST and singer ROBBY STEINHARDT (b 1950) co-fronted US prog stars Kansas.A prodigiously talented classical violinist from the age of 8, he joined the newly formed White Clover in 1972. The following year the group became Kansas, and went on to sell 15 million records, beginning with 1976 breakthrough Carry On Wayward Son from the album Leftoverture. Steinhardt played with Kansas from 1973 to 1982, and again from 1997 to 2006. Not long before his death, he had completed his first solo album.

BASSIST RICK LAIRD (b. 1941) was an original member of jazz fusion pioneers Mahavishnu Orchestra. Born in Dublin, he moved to London in the early ’60s to study at the Guildhall. There, he played with Brian Auger and became house bassist at Ronnie Scott’s, accompanying Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins and Wes Montgomery. After winning a scholarship to Berklee, Laird moved to the US, where John McLaughlin invited him to join Mahavishnu. In 1977, Laird released one album as band leader, Soft Focus, and later worked in photography.

MOSCOW rocker PYOTR MAMONOV (below, b.1951) formed Russian experimental rockers Zvuki

Mu in 1982, as the USSR entered its terminal phase. The group recorded from 1989 to 2005, including

1989’s Brian Eno-produced self-titled LP, and toured internationally, sharing stages with Pere Ubu and The Residents. He was also an actor for director Pavel Lungin, appearing in Taxi Blues (1990) and, after a religious epiphany, The Island (2006). Having suspended the group in 2005, in 2015 Mamonov reformed Zvuki Mu with a new line-up.

DRUMMER JOEY JORDISON (b.1975) was a founding member of masked Des Moines nu-metallers Slipknot, initially called

The Pale Ones, in 1995. He appeared on all the group’s releases until his 2013 departure, which he later attributed to the neurological disorder transverse myelitis. He also played with

Murderdolls, Scar The Martyr, Rob Zombie, Ministry and Korn, and memorably deputised for Lars Ulrich at Metallica’s 2004 Download appearance.

HALIFAX-BORN rock and blues voice JOHN LAWTON (b.1946) was best-known for fronting Uriah Heep in the later ’70s. Hitherto he’d sung with Hamburg hard rockers Lucifer’s Friend and, by way of contrast, the Les Humphries Singers, performing with them at the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest. Later, Lawton rejoined Lucifer’s Friend, formed the John Lawton Band, reunited with Heep bandmates and presented travel shows on Bulgarian TV.

GUITARIST JEFF LABAR (b.1963) joined Pennsylvania hair metallers Cinderella in 1985. Their debut LP Night Songs would eventually go triple platinum. He stayed in the on-off group until their end in 2017. LaBar also played with bandmate Eric Brittingham in Naked Beggars and released a solo LP, One For The Road, in 2014.

TENNESSEE-BORN keyboardist GARY CORBETT (b.1958) played on Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson’s 1976 tour for Hunter’s You’re Never Alone With A Schizophrenic. Later, he co-wrote Cyndi Lauper’s 1984 hit She Bop and went on to play with Foreigner’s Lou Gramm and, from 1987 to 1992, Kiss (like other auxiliary members, Corbett was required to play off-stage). In the early ’90s he joined Cinderella, appearing on Hot And Bothered, the band’s contribution to the platinum-selling Wayne’s World soundtrack.

JAZZ BASSIST JUINI BOOTH (below, b.Arthur Booth, c.1948) started his music life in Buffalo and moved to New York City in the late ’60s. With the spelling of his nickname varying over the years, he went on to play with Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Eddie Harris, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Tony Williams Lifetime, Steve Grossman and others. He also worked with the Sun Ra Arkestra from the late ’80s.

Jenny Bulley, Celina Lloyd, Martin Aston and Ian Harrison