Bobby Eli was een Amerikaans componist, muzikant, arrangeur en platenproducer.
Hij was stichtend lid ván en gitarist bij MFSB, schreef niet zo gek veel songs maar zijn “Sideshow” (1974) voor Blue Magic verdient de aandacht van de zwartemuziekliefhebber.
Continue readingEen kind van mijn generatie leerde eerst de stem van Jane Birkin kennen, dan pas haar naam en gezicht.
‘Je t’aime’ hijgt ze fluisterend op “Je t’aime moi non plus” in 1969, ‘ik hou van je.’
‘Ik ook niet,’ antwoordt Gainsbourg.
Het vat de Birkin/Gainsbourg liefdesrelatie mooi samen.
Continue readingAzuquita was een zanger uit Panama gekend voor composities zoals “Guarijo Bacan” (1975). Die track staat op de zeer geestige elpee Pura Salsa.
“Guarijo Bacan” vond zijn weg naar compilaties van Nova Classics en Soul Jazz Records.
Rust zacht Luis.
Ken Kelly was an American fantasy artist in the style of Frank Frazetta.
Kelly is best-known for his rock and heavy metal album cover artwork, as well as his illustrations for American horror magazines.
Denroy Morgan was a Jamaican singer. He is known for such recordings as “I’ll Do Anything For You” (1981).
Ivan Reitman was a Czech-born Canadian film director and producer best known for directing Ghostbusters (1984).
Ian McDonald was an English composer and musician, best-known as a founding member of King Crimson with whom he co-composed “21st Century Schizoid Man” (1969).
Kohei Yoshiyuki was a Japanese photographer known for his book The Park (1979, 2007) which shows people cruising for sex in Tokyo parks in the 1970s.
The book was hailed by Martin Parr as “a brilliant piece of social documentation, catching perfectly the loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo.”
Of all the deads I posted about since the death of Elza Soares, this one is the most interesting one. Erotomania is still my main affliction. Long live public sex and its voyeurs.