SONGS OF THE DEAR DEPARTED. Their music shall live forever...Lest we forget. Post your tribute here.
One winter in Nthn China escaping the pollution of Datong...hoping the coal smoke would not chase us South...a 383 km taxi ride to the ancient walled city of Pingyao. Alleys covered in ice...minus 20 degrees celsius...thinking "What have I got us into?"
That night over dinner in the Ming Dynasty inn...children letting off crackers in the dark cobbled streets.
There was music...ethereal in this magic icy locale...just for us...vocals in English...gave us goosebumps.
Leonard Cohen's "Ten New Songs"...always takes us back to Pingyao.
LEONARD COHEN Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist
Born 21 September 1934
Died 10 November 2016 at 82 years
"IN MY SECRET LIFE"
Another from "Ten New Songs"
"BY THE RIVERS DARK"
Reply to this LEON RUSSELL American musician & songwriter
Master of the electric piano & long platinum hair
Born 2 April 1942
Died 13 November 2016 at 74 years
"WILD HORSES"
"A SONG FOR YOU"
Reply to this A sad week...another one
MOSE ALLISON...American badass blues & jazz musician and songwriter
Born 11 November 1927
Died 15 November 2016 at 89 years
"GETTING THERE"
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GREG LAKE...English guitarist and songwriter
founding member of KING CRIMSON and EMERSON LAKE & PALMER
Born 10 November 1947 – 7 December 2016 aged 69 years
This is one of my favourite all time songs...sad day...from the Brain Salad Surgery LP
"STILL YOU TURN ME ON"
Reply to this GEORGE MICHAEL...English singer & song writer
Original member of Wham then prodigious solo career
Born 25 June 1963, Died 25 December 2016 aged 53 years
"FATHER FIGURE"
"JESUS TO A CHILD"
Reply to this BB KING...the King of the Blues
Born 16 September 1925 Died 14 May 2015 at 89 years
What a privilege to have seen him live and danced at his Blues Club in Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee
Hard to think..."THE THRILL HAS GONE"
Reply to this PETER SARSTEDT...British songwriter and singer
Born 10 December 1941 in India, Died 8 January 2017 in UK aged 76 years
"WHERE DO YOU GO TO MY LOVELY?"
Reply to this Sad day...The King of Rock 'n Roll is dead
The man who rocked so hard that Rhythm & Blues became Rock 'n Roll
CHUCK BERRY 18 October 1926 - 18 March 2017 at 90 years
"JOHNNY B. GOODE" with JOHN LENNON
"NADINE" with a young KEITH RICHARDS
Reply to this The man who died twice...they announce his death around the World and then we hear he is on life support.
TOM PETTY - American guitar great (20.10.1950 - 2.10.2017)
"I WON'T BACK DOWN"
"LEARNING TO FLY"
And Tom with possibly the World's Greatest Supergroup...the Traveling Wilburys...he's the one in the hat
"HANDLE WITH CARE"
Reply to this The voice of an angel
GEOFFREY GURRUMUL YUNUPINGU - 22 January 1971 to 25 July 2017
Listen to his story...transcends emotion and wonder
"WIYATHUL"
Too good to not have more
"DJARIMIRRI"
"GURRUMUL HISTORY (I WAS BORN BLIND)"
Reply to this Canadian guitarist who was blind but learnt to play guitar in a unique style that carried him around the World
JEFF HEALEY 1966 to 2008
One of his breakthrough tracks with an unusual name for a guy who could not see with his eyes
"SEE THE LIGHT" 1988
"YOU ARE LIKE A HURRICANE" 2006
Reply to this JIMMY DAWKINS 24 October 1936 to 10 April 2013
James Henry Dawkins was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He is generally considered to have been a practitioner of the "West Side sound" of Chicago blues
"LONESOME BLUES"
Reply to this ARETHA FRANKLIN 25 March 1942 to 16 August 2018
The undisputed Queen of Soul
"I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER FOR YOU"
End of an era...a wonderful life that only asked for a little bit but received and gave so much more.
Just a little bit...all I'm asking
"RESPECT"
Reply to this LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...RORY GALLAGHER
2 March 1948 to 14 June 1995
The Irish guitarist that refused the invitation to join the Rolling Stones
I got turned into Rory Gallagher with the 1972 Live in Europe LP and thought no one else in Australia had ever heard of him, Then he came to Sydney and played at the Hordern Pavilion. When he picked up his ukelele and strummed the first chord of Going to my Home Town everyone entered into rhythmic clap in time with each stroke of the strings. An overwhelming feeling that everyone there knew his music was one of the most poignant moments in the hundreds of blues gigs I have attended. I took my fiance Denise to his next Sydney gig in 1979 or 1980 where he blew us both away. Got most of his albums. Then in 2018 Denise booked our tickets to the Rory Gallagher Tribute Festival in Ballyshannon, Ireland...and that's another story! Keeping the memory alive!
Reply to this BB KING & FRIENDS
2011, Live At The Royal Albert Hall with Slash, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Ronnie Wood and Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall.
"THE THRILL IS GONE"
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