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Walk In My Shadow and a swaggering take on Booker T And The MGs The Hunter bottled the aggression John Glover witnessed at the showcase. The Party Album. Youre welcome Alamo .. In the meantime, though, his ex-bandmates were moving on. I went to school with Sappho in the 60s she was light years ahead in sooo many ways she introduced her father to some of us that I have never forgotten. Sent a few e-mails 2 people Ive found on this web site but have had no reply ..Its just that I often revisit my past and one of those visits is 2 walk around Moscow rd where I grew up B4 moving 2 Kensington , Anyway when walking around Moscow rd [ & other places ] i walk down the side street of Burnham court where Sappho lived with her mum , dad & brother Nico as the other brother was not born if I remember rightly , and @ the back of her apartment block was a massive dog kennel which we would sit it when it rained eating sweets & biscuits ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Anyway would just like 2 know what happened 2 her 2 die so young,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I have cancer myself !!! Then there was a knock at the door and a dealer outside. But backstage there was a modesty about him. It kicked the stuffing out of him, says Glover. Employer est. Koss fingers finally healed and the tour ended on an unexpected high. If youre any good at explaining things to someone particlarly dim . The other Hallfield School memory, in my final year, was the cancellation of a Summer camping trip to the IOW, because the group the year before had been to rowdy. For me, England and USA from the 50s to the 70s had the greatest music inspirations ever. Aw Jan ..Im sorry that it had to happen at all but many thanks for your sweet reply .. Long may you run .. Love Sarah XXX, Hiya Jan . .. Good news sounds lame but of course isnt. My 67th Birthday, was touched by the strangest of moments, as I suddenly realised that I was the oldest member of my family. Happier, innocent days, around 1962/4, at first when I was 10/12 and Eddie, possibly, two years younger and Finally, The ABC CINEMA, BOBBIES, WHITELEYS, WOOLWORTHS and NORRMANS were our shelters and scenes of devilment, Keep it real, precious and present Heres how it works. I remember Sappho from when she played with a band called Satva around 1971, such a nice lady, I was trying to find some info about her now and got such a shock. Sandie shook Paul awake, and then he crawled on all fours like a dog pulled a cheque book out of the drawer, signed this cheque and handed it to the dealer.. For those who have a deep-rooted love for poetry, I would surely hope that they have read the fragmented remains of Sappho; a Greek poet who is more commonly known as the first documented lesbian.. Poetry in itself dates back to hundreds of thousands of years and is a huge tool in shedding light on topics that are lost in the abyss of the world's problems. Mark Blake is a music journalist and author. Docherty had heard about this new group with a brilliant guitarist but quickly realised their name was misleading when punters turned up expecting to get in for free. That Bayswater area was dripping with musicians and artists and I loved being around them during my younger days and my teenage years. Be nice to yourself with lots of love from Sarah XXX. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. If anyone should want to find me now .. ie ask questions about Sappho then I can be found on Facebook as Sarah Darling not sure I should give out my email address .. X, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellow_Yellow. who knew that evolution meant going backwards so far .. until another time . Im afraid my mother died this January . Im sure we must know some of the same people Around autumn 1974, David Kossoff called John Glover and told him Paul was drug-free. At which point, says Glover. But when Kossoff went on another bender, Glover sheepishly returned the money. Climbing on the Peter Pan statue and falling in the fountains. Instead, Rabbit Bundricks Texas pal, Stray Dog guitarist Snuffy Walden, was brought in to play where necessary. Died: 1st January 1984, London, England. Love from Sarah XX, Hope you get this comment off to skip through fields x. Once again, though, Kossoff cleaned up, and slowly assembled a new band: vocalist Terry Slesser and three Americans, keyboard player Mike Montgomery, bassist Terry Wilson and drummer Tony Braunagel. Find album credit information for Bad News by Joe Jammer on AllMusic All Credits Vocals Vocals (Background) 1999. But it wasnt All Right Now. Within a year, Kossoff had joined the north London blues group Black Cat Bones and impressed them with a confidence and stagecraft that belied his 5ft 3in stature. He just wandered off at some point during the five-hour flight. Shortly afterwards, another aspiring group, The Wildflowers, moved from their native Teeside and into a house near the Kossoffs in Golders Green. I couldnt work out why . Koss was great, really together, really on it, says Paul Rodgers, and that was the last time I saw him., John Taylor remembers eating breakfast in Los Angeles Hyatt House the morning after the Starwood show, when Kossoff walked in and asked John Glover for money. The chemistry between the four was instantaneous. Seems like a very tragic situation. Yes, agreed. More and more I realize that this is a wonderful site here. Chris Blackwell was desperate for Free to have a hit, but hed have to wait a little longer. I am still friendly with some of my friends from those days. But he was scoring again as soon as he was back in London. Genre. But the song changed them overnight, and Fire And Water became the first Free album to crack the Top 20, reaching No.2. Sadly I lost touch with her in the early 1970s when I went off to University. Are there any public photos of Saffron? I said, Look, Koss has gone off the rails. Ahmet Ertegun came into the picture. Ertegun, the Atlantic Records mogul whod signed Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones, signed Back Street Crawler and publicly declared Paul Kossoff the emperor of the blues. The following day he was called into Blackwells office. Id never seen him look like that good before. We were both four years old and she lived next door to me. Even now, though, he still had moments of great clarity. If I were Alice in Wonderland stood up side down on a hookah while smoking opium thered be no way Id be able to understand whats become of this world TRUMP JOHNSON . I wish you a very Happy Birthday. I lived in Windsor Court. Alexis Korner was a British blues musician and radio broadcaster. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Sorry to read about her passing..I was just watching a DVD of Alexis & Friends and remember her. I knew Sappho briefly mid 90s when she lived in London W9. If I am not being impolite were you and Sappho born in 1952? Looking forward to touching base with you again, soon, and I hope you are keeping well. Soon afterwards, hed joined Kirke, Kossoff and Japanese bassist Tetsu Yamauchi in the studio, and the Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu & Rabbit album was underway. And then he dumped his car and walked home, recalls Glover, who witnessed the carnage. he was run over and killed at the age of 19 . All Right Now was released in May 1970. On the drive to Heathrow the next day, Kossoff was barely coherent. Fraser formed a new group, Sharks, and Rodgers and Kirke paired up in Bad Company. God only knows how Lemmy ended up there, or what he and Koss had being doing.. Paul attended his first concert, Tommy Steele at the London Palladium, aged eight. Cheers , Anthony Ive just seen your face in my mind. Contrary to rumour, Kossoff hadnt overdosed. I lost my brothers Eddie Payne . Kossoff was delighted when old friend Rabbit Bundrick replaced Mike Montgomery. Back to Queensway this June 23rd to the now named Gold Mine Chinese Restaurant to celebrate the birthday of my lifelong friend Barbara Diamant. After a few weeks, Kossoff was deemed well enough to visit Annabels nightclub on the tower blocks groundfloor. In July, Free joined Eric Clapton and Steve Winwoods new group Blind Faith on a US tour. The story of Paul Francis Kossoff is a Shakespearean tragedy, with the guitarist as its gifted, damaged hero. Fraser lasted six weeks with Mayall before getting fired. Hope youre okay now .. Lots of love from Sarah XX, I knew Sappho when I lived in the block next to hers on the Moscow rd , She was about 7 and I was about 9 , Met her dad when he came and put on a gig in RS3 Tooting bec mental hospital for addicts in 1969..I also got a shock when I read she had died , Tell me does anybody know how she died ? Was the Donovan Mellow Yellow song include a reference to your friend Saffron? Hello Sarah Nice to see the recent comments. Then he got hold of some pills and disappeared at Watford Gap service station. We had no tools to help him, says Paul Rodgers, unlike today.. His father, the great-great-grandson of a former slave, introduced. That guitar and him were as one, says Digby-Smith, who watched, amused, as another unnamed guitarist picked up Koss Les Paul, switched on his Marshall amp and struggled to play a note. Wow just followed the link to the Stones concert in Hyde Park. Bath I remember with great fondness how her father befriended me and introduced me to his musical colleagues. Here he served the then-unknown Jimi Hendrix and watched spellbound as Hendrix flipped a guitar upside down and played it left-handed. Nice to finally be able to reply having just sussed out WordPress all over again .. It was in a room not much bigger than my lounge, says Frees ex-manager John Glover now. North Las Vegas, NV. It was March 19 1976, and one of rocks greatest guitar players was dead. Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Brian May and Joe Bonamassa are just some of those whove paid homage to Kossoff and his sound. Forty years after his death, Kossoffs music remains frozen in time. Two years ago, Rodgers met Kossoffs son, Simon, for the first time. I was and, thinking back, I thought that you were a little older than myself. Free clashed with Blackwell when he insisted they edit it down for a single release. Geoff had promoted enough Free shows to know they were on the skids: Pauls playing had gone downhill, and you could see the frustration in Paul Rodgers face at the end of every song.. Hiya Anthony .. Ill be in touch at a later date I think we mustve met x. I knew Sappho in the early 70s when she was living in Gibson Square in Islington,sharing a flat with a crowd of ex Finchden Manor people-she was a sweetie. Islands diverse roster included underground rock heroes Traffic and Spooky Tooth, and reggae acts Jimmy Cliff and Millie Small. And we also had reels and reels of Paul playing on his own. Molten Gold, with Paul Rodgers on vocals, and the John Martyn collaboration Time Away were exquisite reminders of just how good he could be. It was rumoured that she was the inspiration behind Donovans song Mellow Yellow..i.e. However, everything in the last month has been so unreasonably poor, me and the computer, that I might have tried an entry, here, but it failed, as the Computer failed to talk to the Printer, vice-versa, and my body has been refusing to liaise with my brain and vice-versa. Kossoff jammed with them at a blues club in Finsbury Park. But disaster had struck early in the tour after Kossoff attacked John Glover with a whiskey bottle. A jazz fan, he learned to play the guitar and piano. Ones own mortality makes one think back to more innocent times. Apparently, it took the crew some time to gain access to the bathroom, as his dead body was slumped against the door. So sorry to hear of your loss. Docherty was now managing Beckett, a group with a fine blues/soul singer named Terry Slesser. In June, Blackwell saw Free opening for Albert King at the Marquee and was impressed. I cant find you on Facebook. It was years before the rest of the group found out. We jammed and I liked his style both in his playing, his look and his humour., When The Wildflowers broke up, Rodgers remained in London and joined another group, Brown Sugar. Amy Gillett in Las Vegas, NV We found Amy Gillett in Las Vegas - select Amy below based on age, prior locations, and family. P.S. Other times, Hey, Koss, listen to that, you cunt!. Free toured with Osibisa guitarist Wendell Richardson instead. Rodgers had caught gonorrhoea and moved into Frasers mothers house in Roehampton to recuperate. Discover new music via the network among artists. When I think of the days of my youth, thoughts of old age were so far from my mind as to be almost non-existent. Earlier in the decade, Korners ensemble Blues Incorporated had beena valuable training ground for several future Rolling Stones. Kossoff had burns on his chest from the defibrillator, but his face was clean and pink and hed detoxed completely. Aus der Ehe stammen seine Tochter, die Musikerin Sappho Gillett Korner ( 2006), sowie die Shne Nicholas ( 1988) und Damien ( 2008). I filled my body up with toxins and ended up that way, he explained. Blues-Rock British Blues Regional Blues. I am sure you are happier being out in the country. Am thinking 2014 will be a great year. It was a one-man stand-up show. was it the 7 on the end that hinted at being 70. which is very sad . On tour, Koss could be perfectly lucid one minute, but when the Mandrax kicked in, hed struggle to find the switch on his amp. Andy Fraser was a musical prodigy, who was already playing bass guitar in John Mayall's band and dating Korner's daughter Sappho. Always drop me a line when the mood takes you. And everybody knew what he wanted it for.. The band now calling themselves Back Street Crawler played several shows that made up for in energy what they lacked in finesse. When a policeman spotted Taylor half-carrying him towards the terminal, he threatened to arrest them both unless they left the airport. She told him to put his seatbelt on and asked where the guy sitting next to me had gone. [4] He was survived by a daughter, singer Sappho Gillett Korner ( died 2006) and two sons, guitarist Nicholas 'Nico' Korner ( died 1988) and sound engineer Damian Korner ( died 2008). In 76 she took me and my baby daughter in when we had nowhere to live. But the flight was undersold. Mouthful Of Grass, Ill Be Creeping and Lying In The Sunshine were a celebration of peace, love, Mother Nature and sex lots of sex. So I started having conversations with Paul and Andy individually, because I couldnt get them in a room together. Andy Frasers first impression of Kossoff was that he looked like a little lion cub.. We wondered whether or not he might have been talking about our dearly departed friend. I used to spend my time in Kensington Gardens plus my family never seemed to have any money there are and were so many of us at Hallfield. We interviewed a few famous people for the school magazine and she was always more nervous than I was> A beautiful. Be it, now, 63 years, and very unlikely, I pledge, through here, and elsewhere, to bring together as many, as possible, of Hallfield, Bayswater, Queensway, Salem Road, Moscow Road, + contemporaries. My playing was still very primitive at this time, but it had something in common with the way he sang, said Kossoff. Odd I seem to be able to use WordPress on my phone .. so there is light at the end of a tunnel take care from Sarah . Fire And Water: The Making Of Free's Masterpiece. The absence of Free left a hole in Kossoffs life, which he was now filling with drugs. so much sad news of ex hallfield students RIP all of you , Chris Pierre, Chris Pierre .. Find album credit information for The New Church by Alexis Korner on AllMusic . Funny thing was that her Dad came and did a gig up in ward RS3 in the BEC [ Tooting bec mental hospital ] back in 69 , It was a locked ward for drunks/druggies like me. still trying to work out this site .. I hope that you and everyone who comes here is well and that the spirit still moves you. after as Im in panic about Crispmess Im on my phone so seriously hope you can make sense out of this as I canT see mode -what Im writing. Talking to Richard Lee today and he was telling me he was friends with Sappho when they were in Stage One Productions. The AZ Of Queen, Peter Grant, The Story Of Rock's Greatest Manager and Pretend You're in a War: The Who & The Sixties. Kossoff eventually called John Glover and moved straight back to London. But he was too stoned, too unreliable, and the group continued without him. Ivce Only just seen all your comments and Tis late here .. but Ill be back to talk about the Saturday flicks . How about we help him and put the band back together, just for a tour?. :$47K - $57K . Sometimes it was, Hey, Koss, listen to this.