If you’ve been paying attention at Northampton’s outdoor festivals over the past couple of years then you have probably heard the sound of the Canyons. It’s a noise that real things make: actual strings and drums shaking the air right in front of you played by a bunch of grizzled old troubadours who look like they have lived the lemons that made this lemonade. I think of them as The Flaming…

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Artist

Bryan Ferry

Composer

Bryan Ferry

Lyricist

Bryan Ferry

Produced

Bryan Ferry Rhett Davis

Credit

Bryan Ferry – vocals, keyboards, percussion Guy Fletcher – keyboards Neil Hubbard – lead guitar Keith Scott – lead guitar Tony Levin – bass Omar Hakim – drums

Released

June 3 1985

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Guitarist, Former Notting Hillbilly Brendan Croker Dies at 70

- “He was a true artist in every way,” Mark Knopfler says

Guitarist Brendan Croker, who played with Mark Knopfler in the Notting Hillbillies, has died.

Croker was 70 and “succumbed to leukaemia,” Knopfler said in a “sad farewell” to his former bandmate. He did not say when Croker died.

“He was a true artist in every way, appeared eccentric to many but was positive, brave and generous to a fault,” Knopfler said. “We had many happy years sharing music including touring and singing … in the Notting Hillbillies.”

Croker founded the 5 O’clock Shadows in the mid-1980s and in 1990, teamed with Knopfler, Guy Fletcher and Steve Phillips to form the Hillbillies. The band made one album, Missing ... Presumed Having a Good Time.

Phillips credited his friend and collaborator with “encourag(ing) me to keep playing when I had given up all hope of trying to make a living as a musician.

“He has been a massive part of my life and he will be so dearly missed,” Phillips said.

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