THEY ALSO SERVED

BASSIST ROGER NEWELL (b.c.1948) was a founder member of Rick Wakeman’s English Rock Ensemble and played on Wakeman albums and tours including 1974’s Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and ’75’s The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table, on which he played a triple-necked instrument. He also played with Marty Wilde’s Wildcats for 30 years, worked as a journalist, and, in 2016, reunited with his late ’60s psychedelic group Rainbow Ffolly.

SOUSAPHONE PLAYER BENNIE PETE (above, b.1976) co-founded New Orleans’ iconic Hot 8 Brass Band aged 18. An advocate for the city’s brass tradition from a young age, he learnt tuba at school, playing in bands whose members combined to form the Hot 8. Keen to uphold and update their marching band heritage, Pete’s sousaphone bass line led the group through diverse covers such as The Specials’ Ghost Town and Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart.

MAGNETIC FIELDS voice SUSAN ANWAY (b.1951) lent her lovely, glassy vocals to the group’s 1991 debut, The Wayward Bus and the

following year’s Distant Plastic Trees. Anway met Magnetic Fields’ writer Stephen Merritt in Boston when she was singing with local heroes V. Latterly she contributed ethereal vocals to the gothic electro outfit, Diskarnate, whose Germanreleased LP Greed came out in 2013.

MBAQANGA singer NOBESUTHU MBADU (b.1945) grew up singing in school and church choirs in her native Durban, South Africa. She joined The Mahotella Queens in 1964, who quickly found huge domestic success. The original group split in 1971, but Mbadu rejoined the band reformed as Mahlathini And The Mahotella Queens in 1987 to record and tour internationally, continuing after the 1999 death of singer Mahlathini. BASSIST BOB MOORE (below, on left, b.1932) was a member of Nashville’s A-Team sessioneers. Among his credits were Elvis’s sessions from 1958 to 1962, arranging Roy Orbison’s early classics for Monument, Dylan’s Self Portrait, Patsy Cline’s Crazy, Roger Miller’s King Of The Road, Tammy Wynette’s

Stand By Your Man and many more. His son is the DIY powerpopper

R. Stevie Moore. HILLBLLY LEGEND DON MADDOX (b.1922) sang and played fiddle in sibling band The Maddox

Brothers And Rose. Moving from Alabama, they formed in California in 1937. Called ‘The World’s Most Colourful Hillbilly Band’, they toured the US and recorded until 1956. The last living member, Maddox worked as a rancher and played into his nineties. DRUMMER COLIN BAILEY (b.1934) was born in Swindon. After touring with Winifred Atwell in Britain he joined the Australian Jazz Quartet; while touring the US, he met pianist Vince Guaraldi, joining his group for 1964’s Jazz Impressions Of A Boy Named Charlie Brown and 1966’s It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Bailey also worked with Benny Goodman, Sinatra, Chet Baker and others, and played in the house band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. SINGER MARIA MENDIOLA (b.1952) formed Spanish singing duo Baccara with fellow flamenco dancer Mayte Mateos in 1976. Their debut Eurodisco smash Yes Sir, I Can Boogie hit Number 1

across Europe in 1977, with Sorry I’m A Lady a UK Top 10 the following year. The group split in 1981, with both members forming rival Baccara formations: Mendiola’s New Baccara found success in Europe in the hi-NRG genre. She declared herself happy with her signature tune’s embracing by fans of the Scottish football team.

GOTHIC rocker OLLI WISDOM (b.1958) first played in ’77 punks The Unwanted. From 1981 he fronted Bristol group Specimen and co-founded the Batcave club night, which inspires ‘death rock’ acts to this day. After Specimen split in 1986, Wisdom recorded psy-trance as Space Tribe, and returned for Specimen’s Youth-produced 2013 reformation LP Wake

The Dead.

‘THE ETHIOPIAN ELVIS’, ALÈMAYÈHU ESHÈTÉ

(right, b.1941) performed with Addis Ababa’s police band before going solo. Singing in Amharic, he mixed local forms with US soul – he was also compared to James Brown – with 1961’s debut hit Seul beginning a prolific recording career that was interrupted by the communist Derg regime in 1974. Introduced to a wider audience by the Ethiopiques compilation series in the noughties, he performed internationally thereafter.

ARRANGER AND VOCALIST BARBARA MOORE (B.1932) was a familiar voice in the ’60s and ’70s: she vocalised the theme to The Saint, duetted with Peter

Cook on the Bedazzled soundtrack, and as a member of The Ladybirds and her own Barbara Moore Singers, sang with Sandie Shaw, Elton John, Hendrix and Dusty Springfield. She also recorded library music and arranged the Brass Incorporated’s version of At The Sign Of The Swingin’ Cymbal, AKA the theme to Radio 2’s Pick Of The Pops.

BELGIAN photographer STEFAN DE BATSELIER (b.1963) became a striking presence in the UK music press in the 1990s, his high-contrast, candid and revealing pictures gracing the pages of NME for many years. De Batselier worked swiftly to capture the essence of his subjects, then amplified that essence in dramatic, gorgeous prints; an infallibly mellow, patient and companionable man, with or without a camera. Jenny Bulley, Celina Lloyd, John Mulvey and Ian Harrison