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KEVIN COYNE- songs from UNDERGROUND now on player

KEVIN COYNE- songs from UNDERGROUND now on player Radio

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God Bless The Bride
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God Bless The Bride
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Released: Mar 21, 2009
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General Info

  • Genre: Rock

    Location Derby and Nuremberg, UK

    Profile Views: 49329

    Last Login: 3/15/2012

    Member Since 5/21/2006

    Website www.kevincoynebooks.com

    Record Label Turpentine Records from www.kevincoyne.de

  • Bio

    Kevin Coyne - 1944 - 2004.. .. Biography:-.. .. British born Kevin Coyne was called, by DJ Andy Kershaw,as variously "a National treasure who keeps getting better" and as one of the great British Blues voices. However, it was another British DJ who first started his recording career when John Peel released recordings by Kevin's first band Siren in 1969 on his Dandelion label... A comparative late starter to the recording scene Kevin spent his early years working as a social worker and a psychiatric nurse. His 40 LPs always had a balance of tender love songs and songs of heart breaking dispair and hope based on his life long concern with life's casualties and songs of great humour. The music often reflected these two extremes by one song with a glorious melody followed by one with tortured vocals and primeval screaming reflecting the anguish inherrent in the lyrics... Kevin's refusal to compromise was shown early in his career when he refused to meet Jack Holzman (Siren were on Electra in America) to discuss replacing Jim Morrison in The Doors-"I didn't like the leather trousers!". The compromises never stopped even when he was one of the first artists signed to Virgin Records and it was this that endeared him to label mates John Lydon - who played Eatsbourne Ladies on a Desert Island Disc type show - and The Mekons who recorded his Having A Party - a scathing attack on Richard Branson.Another Virgin release Babble courted controversy when Kevin said that the theatre presentation about the two lovers the piece was about could be The Moors Murderers in the way the relationship was so destructive. This still didn't stop Will Oldham from claiming the LP release "Changed my Life" and recording 2 songs from it... Following a nervous breakdown and increasing difficulties with drink Coyne left the UK in 1985. Settled in Nuremberg and having given up alcohol, he never stopped recording and touring, as well as writing books and exhibiting his paintings... His German recordings often featured his own Paradise band but increasingly in later years he collaborated with Brendan Croker, Jon Langford of The Mekons, Gary Lucas of The Magic Band and his own son Robert Coyne... Diagnosed with lung fibrosis in 2002, Coyne died peacefully at his home. He is survived by his wife helmi and his sons Eugene, Robert and Nico... For many in the UK it was with mixed pleasure we were able to see Kevin on tour in October 2004 weeks before his death. Sat on stage in a wheelchair and with breathing tubes our first thoughts were of a man a mere shadow of the presence we were used to. Then he began to sing with a voice as powerful if not better than ever.A towering talent who deserves wider recognition... His wife Helmi intends to continue releasing recordings Kevin made in his last years on Kevin's own Turpentine records available from ....Kevin Coyne Official Site.... . The first is Underground (2006) and is a great place to start your own Kevin Coyne collection... .. .. Other stand out LP's are Case History (1972), Marjory Razorblade (1973), Millionaires and Teddybears (1978), Babble (19790 and Donut City (2004).. .. NEW TRIBUTE ALBUM - WHISPERS FROM THE OFFING .. .. Frank Bangay - a great friend of Kevin's - has put together an excellent tribute album highlighting Coyne's songwriting and the esteem he was held in by many. .. ....Buy Tribute CD Now Click Here.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Babble - Live extract.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Kevin Coyne and Siren 2003.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. An Evening With Kevin Coyne and Band (part 1)- ITV Star Rider 1977 - a lost gem - some interference at the start but this disappears.... .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... Part 2.... .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... Part 3.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

  • Members

    Kevin Coyne Band members/collaborators include: Steve Bull, Brendan Croker, Jon Langford, Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Jeffrey Lewis, The Ruts, Robert Wyatt, Carla Bley, Dagmar Krause, Gary Lucas, Michael Lipton, Andy Summers, Zoot Money, Archie Legget, Gordon Smith, Chili Charles, Tony Cousins, Tim Penn, Pete Nu, Pete Wolff, Bob Ward, Vic Sweeney, Brian Godding, Dave Sheen, Steve Lamb, Peter Kirtley, Hans Pukke, Keili Keilhofer, Werner Steinhauser, Steve Smith, Harry Hirschmann, Andreas Blüml, Jupiter Little, Robert Coyne, Eugene Coyne, Nick Cudworth, Dave Clague.... and many more... ..

  • Influences

  • Sounds Like

    This site is dedicated to promoting the writings of musician Kevin Coyne. It is a portal to the main site listed below. Currently we are promoting the last book - That Old Suburban Angst-which Kevin prepared before his death in 2004... .. ...... .. It is available direct from ....Kevin Coyne Books.... at the special price of £7.99 p&p free or use the Paypal button below or from local bookshops or Amazon ISBN 0-9549003-0-8 at £9.99.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FREE Fan Tribute CD - great versions of Kevin's songs from the Kevin Coyne Yahoo Group which complements Whispers and further shows what a great songwriter he was....Free Fan Tribute CD .... .. ......

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