Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:51 am Post subject: Lohn John Baldry - died
Hi All,
just noticed in my Sunday Paper that LJB has died aged about 64 ? - not too sure. Only time I saw him play live was with Robben as a guest encore, at the Jazz Cafe in Nov 2003, a nice ending to a great show
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject:
FordFan wrote:
I can't find one bit of info on his passing. Strange. Where did you read this? Sad, he was too young.
I was unaware of this. Thanx for briginging it to our (my) attention, Simon.
During the 6 week New Zealand tour Robben did with LJB a couple of years ago, we all became good friends.
John was a wonderful entertainer, an entertaining personality, and a pleasure/honor to have known personally during his lifetime.
I'm saddened to see him go.
Daved
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Long John Baldry in Vancouver hospital
Last updated Apr 26 2005 07:15 AM PDT
CBC News
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VANCOUVER British blues legend Long John Baldry is being treated at a Vancouver hospital for respiratory problems.
According to some reports in the British press, the 64-year-old musician was near death, or had died. But Baldry's agent says those stories are off the mark. "He's doing well. He's on the mend," Frank Garcia told Canadian Press.
Garcia said the British-born singer, who moved to Canada in the 1970s, is expected to make a full recovery. He also said the singer was peeved that the press in his native country had jumped the gun.
"There's been all kinds of rumours and we don't like it," Garcia said.
Baldry who earned his stage name because of his height is expected to be out of intensive care in a few days. He will start performing live again in June, playing tour dates that had already been scheduled before he took ill.
Baldry developed lung problems in Britain, but flew back to Canada for treatment at Vancouver General Hospital.
A number of influential bands have been led by Baldry. He is credited with discovering Rod Stewart, who was a member of Baldry's Hoochie Coochie Men.
His Bluesology also included a young keyboard player named Reginald Dwight.
Dwight took the "Elton" from the group's saxophone player, Elton Dean, and the "John" from Baldry, and went on to have a successful solo career as Elton John.
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Long John Baldry dies in Vancouver
Last updated Jul 22 2005 06:19 PM PDT
CBC News
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Blues legend Long John Baldry has died at age 64 at Vancouver General Hospital after a four-month battle with a severe chest infection.
Long John Baldry in May 1966. (Getty Images/
Keystone Features/John Pratt)
Baldry's agent posted an announcement on the musician's website that Baldry had passed away Thursday night in Vancouver, where he had been living.
LINK: Long John Baldry's website
"Our world is a lesser place without him, for John was a person that enhanced this world with his enormous presence and talent," said the statement posted on the website.
The musician was admitted to the intensive care unit of Vancouver General in April after returning from a trip to his native Britain.
FROM APRIL 26, 2005: Long John Baldry in Vancouver hospital
Baldry was nicknamed "Long John" because of his height six foot seven and had been living in Canada for the past 25 years.
The bluesman named Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry as his musical influences.
Baldry, born in London in 1941, is recognized as one of the chief influences in British blues and rock music in the 1960s.
His seminal 1962 album, R&B From The Marquee is considered the first British blues album. Baldry hit the top of the singles charts there in 1967 with Let the Heartaches Begin. He also performed in the Beatles' first worldwide television special in April 1964.
During the last half of the 1960s, he led a band called Bluesology that included Reginald Dwight, who went on to become Elton John.
Baldry has released more than 40 albums, performing with a string of other famous musicians including Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page and Mick Jagger. The Rolling Stones opened for Baldry in London in the early 1960s before the Stones hit it big.
Stewart considered Baldry a mentor and was at his bedside when he was admitted to hospital in March.
In 1979, he teamed up with Seattle singer Kathi MacDonald to record a very successful version of You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'.
After spending time in New York City and Los Angeles in the late '70s, Baldry chose to settle permanently in Vancouver, and became a Canadian citizen in 1980.
He continued to record for Stony Plains Records in Edmonton, owned by Holger Peterson who is also the host of CBC Radio's Saturday Night Blues.
"There are very few performers that I can think of that were as entertaining, as talented and as professional as Long John Baldry," he says.
Peterson also says two of Baldry's best-selling albums It Ain't Easy, and Everything Stops For Tea will be reissued by Stony Plain in the near future.
Baldry may be better known to many young people as the voice of Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games and TV series.
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Blues Legend Long John Baldry Dies Fri Jul 22,11:36 PM ET
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Long John Baldry, the British blues legend who helped launch the careers of such rock greats as Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones, has died, his agent and friends said. He was 64.
Baldry was admitted to a Vancouver hospital with respiratory problems in April and died of a chest infection Thursday, agent Frank Garcia said on the musician's Web site.
"The music world has lost an absolute legend," said close friend Anya Wilson, a Toronto music publicist who worked with Baldry in the 1970s.
"They've lost one of the first and most powerful white blues singers an innovator, an entrepreneur of new music and one of the most wonderful people you could hope to meet."
Baldry, nicknamed Long John because of his 6-foot-7 height, was born in East Maddon, England, but became a Canadian citizen in 1981.
Credited as one of the main forces in British blues, rock and pop music in the 1960s, he first hit the top of the U.K. singles charts in 1967 with "Let the Heartaches Begin."
One of his most memorable hits was "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll" was co-produced by Stewart and Elton John.
Although Baldry released over 40 albums that included the songs "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," "Come and Get Your Love" and "A Thrill's a Thrill" singing was not considered his forte.
He was perhaps best known for nurturing the nascent talent of a host of musicians who are now worldwide superstars.
Baldry's early 1960s stage act featured the likes of Stewart, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Jimmy Paige and Ginger Baker.
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Ten Reasons Why Long John Baldry Was Cool
Friday July 22, 2005 @ 03:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
John William Baldry, better known to the world as Long John Baldry, died Thursday night at the Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, BC. The 64-year-old had been battling a severe chest infection for the last four months.
We at ChartAttack prefer not to mourn musician's deaths as much as celebrate what they gave to us in life. So without further ado, here are 10 reasons why Long John Baldry was cool:
1. To the best of our knowledge, the "long" part of Long John Baldry came from the fact he was 6"7. If there's another reason, well, good for him.
2. Baldry seemed to have connections to pretty much every important musician of the '60s and '70s. For example, he was in a band called Bluesology in with a then-unknown Elton John. The "John" part of Elton John is in honour of Baldry.
3. A friend of Paul McCartney's, Baldry performed on the Fab Four's television special Around The Beatles in 1964.
4. Also, long before his Songbook days, Rod Stewart was hired by Baldry to sing in his band the Hoochie Coochie Men.
5. In 1968 he had chart success with the theme song to the Olympics, titled "Mexico."
6. Eric Clapton considered Baldry one of his musical inspirations.
7. Baldry was born in England and lived in New York and Los Angeles, but chose to permanently settle in Vancouver and become a Canadian citizen.
8. In 1981 he was nominated for a Juno as Most Promising Male Vocalist. That promise finally paid off when in 1997 he won the Best Blues/Gospel Album Juno for his Right To Sing The Blues record.
9. He was the voice of D. Ivo Robotnik in the cartoon Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog. He was also the narrator for Winnie The Pooh recordings which earned him a Grammy nom in 1998.
10. "Let The Heartaches Begin" hit #1 on the U.K. charts in 1967. May radio stations play that song in tribute instead of "Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock N' Roll."
Aaron Brophy
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