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3rd degree
Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Location: John Wren's tote
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Sad news a great for Geelong , condolences to his family. _________________ " Ohhh Banksy and out comes the Note Book".
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Pies4shaw
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piedys
Heeeeeeere's Dyso!!!
Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Location: Resident Forum Psychopath since 2003
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Quote: | Many of his songs became hits for others, among them Superstar (written with Bonnie Bramlett) for the Carpenters... |
One of my fav all-time songs; so that's who wrote it?!
Say hello to Karen for us all Leon... _________________ M I L L A N E 4 2 forever |
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Culprit
Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne
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Happens in 3's. Russel, Cohen and Robert Vaughan.
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Mountains Magpie
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Somewhere between now and then
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I hear you P4S. What a legend he is. Time for fine single malts and Mad Dogs & Englishmen.
Thanks for posting the sad news.
MM _________________ Spiral progress, unstoppable,
exhausted sources replaced by perversion |
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watt price tully
Joined: 15 May 2007
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Culprit wrote: | Happens in 3's. Russel, Cohen and Robert Vaughan.
RIP |
More than 3's: Russell, Brexit, Trump, Cohen, Aussie cricket, Collingwood's year year, The man from UNCLE amongst others. What a crap year _________________ âI even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didnât keep âem under long enoughâ Kinky Friedman |
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watt price tully
Joined: 15 May 2007
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Vale Leon Russell.
A wonderful musician. _________________ âI even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didnât keep âem under long enoughâ Kinky Friedman |
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piedys
Heeeeeeere's Dyso!!!
Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Location: Resident Forum Psychopath since 2003
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watt price tully wrote: | Culprit wrote: | Happens in 3's. Russel, Cohen and Robert Vaughan.
RIP |
More than 3's: Russell, Brexit, Trump, Cohen, Aussie cricket, Collingwood's year year, The man from UNCLE amongst others. What a crap year |
And of course the trilogy which kicked the year off: Bowie, Frey and Prince... _________________ M I L L A N E 4 2 forever |
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Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
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think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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Love the soppy Ballard.
And joe cocker. I used a little ray of sunshine in my mums funeral video. (And Colleen Hewitt wind beneath my wings). I'd never heard of him to be honest, but wow, I can understand your feeling of loss. Pretty amazing resume in his field. Cheers mate. Some great stuff to remember him by xx _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Pies4shaw
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Pies4shaw
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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How did you hear about HAL? |
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Mountains Magpie
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Somewhere between now and then
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Top stuff P4S.
Number 8 for mine.
Leon's passing did not make it on the ABC news app. I'm still waiting for their reply to my email as to why that was the case. No doubt an age thing....
MM
PS: There is/was a colour video on Youtube from the Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour of Cry Me A River. I have the colour version of the Letter somewhere too. Damn it the whole show is worth a watch/listen folks😀
Only the Last Waltz, Derek & Dominoes and Chicago at Tanglewood compare in this general style IMHO _________________ Spiral progress, unstoppable,
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Pies4shaw
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^^^ One of my most cherished possessions is a Hip-O-Select 6CD set of the 4 complete Fillmore East concerts from which the Mad Dogs and Englishman album was made. Unfortunately, the famous recording of Cry Me A River from that album doesn't seem to have been filmed (or, if it was, the film hasn't surfaced) and, remarkably, that song wasn't in the film (although, as you say, other versions are floating around YouTube).
As a kid, taken by my older brother to the local cinema to see a summer-holiday screening of Mad Dogs, Leon had a huge impact on me. He was one of those very few genuinely impeccable musicians who had style, timing and taste: he opened my eyes to the possibilities of playing something that wasn't Beethoven, Chopin or Liszt on the piano. And, even now, I am still amazed by the precision of his attack - you can play all the notes Leon played in precisely the right order but you just can't play Leon.
As for the Mad Dogs, they must really have been the greatest collection of musicians ever collected in one place. As C Michael Bailey said in his wonderful 2006 review of the 35th anniversary releases for All About Jazz, "They made history as if they did it every day."
And Leon was the absolute centre of it all. |
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