Sunday, December 2, 2012

In Memorium: A Posthumous Wishlist



Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Cozy Powell.

There are artists on mine and Boris's* wishlists who are no longer with us. Many of their CDs and LPs are hard to find. Some cultures keep in touch with the deceased so I call on these legends for their guidance finding what they left behind:

Keith Emerson (ELP and The Nice*)
Martin Birch (Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Jon Lord*)
Nazareth (Dan McCafferty, Darrell Sweet, Manny Charlton*)
Greg Lake (King Crimson, ELP and solo)
Rupert Hine (Anthony Phillips, Stevie Nicks, Rush)
Cozy Powell (Brian May solo, Black Sabbath)
Ric Ocasek (solo)*
Andy Rourke (The Smiths)*
Gary Brooker (solo and Procol Harum)*
Ian McDonald (King Crimson)
John Lennon (solo and the Beatles proper)
Kex Gorin, Jimmy Copley, Tony Clarkin (Magnum)*
Ray Thomas (Moody Blues and solo)
UFO (Pete Way)*
UK (John Wetton and Allan Holdsworth)
George Harrison (both solo [for both me and *] and Beatles)
Parliament/Funkadelic (Junie Morrison, P-Nut Johnson and Bernie Worrell [including solo])*
Gary Moore (G-Force*, solo* and Greg Lake)
Mark Hollis (Talk Talk)
Roky Erikson*
John Wetton (King Crimson, UK, solo [for both me and *] et al, Asia)
Geoff Nicholls (Black Sabbath)
Syd Barrett and Richard Wright (solo and Pink Floyd)
Arif Mardin (Bee Gees*)
Jon Lord (Deep Purple)*
Freddie Mercury (solo and Queen)
George Michael (solo and Wham!)
Christine McVie (née Perfect), Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch (solo and Fleetwood Mac)
Daevid Allen (Gong)*
Cockney Rebel (Steve Harley, Paul Jeffreys, who was on Flight 103 with his wife and both Syracuse students and townies; George Ford and Lincoln Anderson)* and myself
Rush (John Rutsey and Neil Peart)
Michael Hutchence (INXS, Max Q, solo)
Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio [for both me and *], Elf and Heaven & Hell)
George Martin (The Beatles)
David Byron, Lee Kerslake, John Wetton and Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep, but looking for solo or related releases)*
Steve Strange (Visage)*
Def Leppard (Steve Clark)
The Sweet (Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, and Mick Tucker)*
Travelling Wilburys (George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty)
Gary Richrath and Gregg Philbin (REO Speedwagon)
Bon Scott (AC/DC and Fraternity)
Paul Young (Sad Café, Mike & the Mechanics; not the one who sings "Come Back and Stay" or "Oh, Girl")
Alphaville (Martin Lister)*
Vangelis (Jon & Vangelis)
Renaissance (Michael Dunford and John Tout)
Moody Blues (Clint Warwick, Ray Thomas, Graeme Edge, Denny Laine and producer Tony Clarke)
AC/DC (Bon Scott, Bruce Fairbairn, Malcolm and George Young)
Yes (Peter Banks, Bruce Fairbairn, Alan White and Chris Squire)(me and *)
Depeche Mode (Andrew Fletcher)
Jim Diamond (Bandit, Bacco, PhD, solo, etc.)
Wings (Linda McCartney [née Epstein/Eastman], Denny Laine, Henry McCollough, Jimmy McCulloch)

Dearly departed, please help me find the work in which you each have been immortalised. May you all rest in peace.  We the living miss you all.  In loving memory.  Bless you all!
Names I've deleted from the lists must've gotten the message!  Must be working then.

Honourable mentions: Mariska Veres from Shocking Blue, who I didn't know qualified for the list until after I found their CD.*  Then original Gentle Giant drummer Martin Smith as I found their first two albums on CD and forgot to put him here knowing that he's gone too.  Then Peter Haycock from ELO Part II as I finally found that as well.*

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