Paul Ryder was an English bassist known for his work with Happy Mondays who are best-known for “Step On”, a 1990 cover version of “He’s Gonna Step on You Again” (1971).
RIP Lenny Von Dohlen (1958 – 2022)
Lenny Von Dohlen was an American actor.
I remember him for Electric Dreams (1984), which can be read as a prequel to Her.
RIP L. Q. Jones (1927 – 2022)
L. Q. Jones was an American actor and film director. I remember him from A Boy and His Dog (1975), a cult film about a boy and his telepathic dog who hunt for food and women. They end up in a handmaid’s tale type world. There is some nudity and lots of misogyny.
Back from Rome
I biked to Rome and on my way visited Kassel.
Here is a selection of details from Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister and Neue Galerie in Kassel:
The History of Painting
Spent two days on The History of Painting: From the Fourth to the Early Nineteenth Century (1907).
This history of art is a welcome change to the puritanism of the likes of Lübke.
RIP James Caan (1940 – 2022)
James Caan was an American actor known for such films as The Godfather (1972) and Dogville (2003).
RIP Peter Brook (1925 – 2022)
Peter Brook was an English theater and film director known for such dramatizations as Marat/Sade (1964) for the theater in 1965 and as a film in 1967.
RIP Margaret Keane (1927 – 2022)
Margaret Keane was an American artist known for her kitschy paintings of subjects with big eyes.
A resurgence of interest in Margaret Keane’s work followed the release of Tim Burton’s biopic Big Eyes (2014).
RIP Bernard Belle (1964 – 2022)
Bernard Belle was an American composer, producer, and musician known for writing and co-writing such songs as “Remember the Time” (1992).
He was, with Teddy Riley, a pioneer of the new jack swing era of music which erupted in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
RIP Patrick Adams (1950 – 2022)
Patrick Adams was an American composer and record producer.
Adams is known for his 1970s and 1980s production, songwriting and engineering work on labels such as Salsoul, Prelude Records and P&P; his associations with recording artists such as Black Ivory, Inner Life, Jocelyn Brown, Loleatta Holloway and Leroy Burgess; and studio projects such as Cloud One, The Universal Robot Band, Logg Phreek, and Musique. He owned and operated PAPMUS (Patrick Adams Productions Music) in New York City.
“Love Bug” (1976), “Atmosphere Strut” (1976), “My Baby’s Got E.S.P.” (1976), “Making Love” (1977), “Keep On Jumpin'” (1978), “In the Bush” (1978), “Make It Last Forever” (1978), “Weekend (Tonight Is Party Time)” (1978), “I’m A Big Freak (R•U•1•2)” (1978), “I’m Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)” (1979), “Till You Surrender” (1981) and “Touch Me (All Night Long)” (1984).
Patrick Adams and Gregory Carmichael wrote and produced at least fifty composition which transcend disco as genre. Adams and Carmichael, and maybe August Darnell too, were in many ways the auteurs of disco, more so than Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons or Tom Moulton, who were primarily involved in post-production. The only one to rival Adams, Carmichael and Darnell was Arthur Russell, but his story is different altogether.
Although well-known for writing and producing his own material, one of his biggest successes was his 1981 reinterpretation of Ashford & Simpson’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (1966) as Inner Life, with vocals by Jocelyn Brown and a remix by Larry Levan.
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