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Culture Box presents:
30th CENTURY MEN
Marc Almond + David Bowie + Nick Cave + Jarvis Cocker + Cathal Coughlan + Brian Eno + Gavin Friday + Paul Haig + Neil Hannon + Richard Hawley + Billy Mackenzie + Scott Walker + Thom Yorke.
Cat: SCOTT 3

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does anyone know of Billy Mackenzie (apart from the info to be posted below and the male bjork tag!!!) esp the 2004 One little indian album auchtermatic?? wanted to listen to it today but the listening post wouldnt play it. is it worth getting

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auchtermatic track listing
1. Sour Jewel
2. Hornophobic
3. The Soul That Sighs
4. Here Comes The Rain Again
5. Achieved In The Valley Of Dolls
6. Falling Out With The Future
7. Anacostia Bay (At The Edge Of The World)
8. Velvet
9. Norma Jean
10. Pain In Any Language

like the Achieved In The Valley Of Dolls title like a long lost Russ Meyer film :lol:

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wiki says:

 

William MacArthur MacKenzie, known as Billy MacKenzie (27 March 1957 – January 22, 1997) was a Scottish singer, notable for his powerful voice and vast vocal range.

 

Born in Dundee, he led a peripatetic lifestyle, which included decamping to New Zealand at the age of 16, and travelling across America aged 17. Here, to avoid deportation, he married Chloe Dummar. Her brother, Melvin Dummar, claimed to be the "one sixteenth" beneficiary of the estate of Howard Hughes, until the case was thrown out in 1978.

 

He returned to Scotland where he met Alan Rankine and in 1976 formed the Ascorbic Ones. They changed the name to The Associates in 1979. The Associates continued until 1990, after which MacKenzie embarked on a solo career. MacKenzie collaborated with more than a few artists during his career, including contributions to seminal Swiss outfit Yello's "One Second" album in 1987. MacKenzie provided vocals and wrote lyrics for two tracks on that release, and one "The Rhythm Divine" became a hit European single when legendary diva Shirley Bassey was recruited for vocals. On January 22, 1997, depression and the death of his mother are believed to have contributed to MacKenzie's suicide. He overdosed on prescription drugs in his father's garden shed. He was 39 years old.

 

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Now a significant cult figure, much of his musical legacy has been released in the past few years. He was the subject of a biography by Tom Doyle, The Glamour Chase in 1998.

 

The Smiths' song "William, It Was Really Nothing" is said to have been written about Billy. Morrissey, lyricist and lead vocalist of the band, allegedly had a bit of a crush on him, and they were friends for a while. The Cure song "Cut Here" written by Robert Smith, a friend of Mackenzie, is about his suicide. Siouxsie Sioux wrote the song "Say" about his suicide, revealing in the lyrics that they were going to meet just before his suicide. The song was released as a single in 1999 and charted in the UK Top 75. In 2006, Norwegian singer/songwriter Rockettothesky had a massive radio hit with the song "Barrie For Billy Mackenzie"

 

MacKenzie's range was most often described as "startling", and his high-register singing is easily mistaken for a female's voice, though his lower register tones leave little doubt as to his gender.

 

 

from Scott Walker:

 

In tangent developments in 1993 Walker co-wrote and co-performed (with Goran Bregović) a single Man From Reno c/w Indecent Sacrifice for the soundtrack of the film Toxic Affair. In 1996 he recorded the song I Threw It All Away under the direction of Nick Cave for inclusion in the soundtrack for the film To Have And To Hold. Three years later he recorded the David Arnold song Only Myself To Blame, for the soundtrack of the Bond film The World Is Not Enough. That same year he wrote and produced the soundtrack for the Léos Carax film Pola X, which was released as an album. Scott Walker wrote and produced two songs for Ute Lemper the following year, and went on to produce the Britpop band Pulp's 2001 album We Love Life.

 

Walker is a strong continuing influence on other artists, in particular Marc Almond, Billy MacKenzie of the Associates, the Divine Comedy/Neil Hannon, and cult performer Glyn Styler. In 2000 he curated the London South Bank Centre's annual summer live music festival, Meltdown, which has a tradition of celebrity curators. He did not perform at Meltdown himself, but wrote the music for The Richard Alston Dance Project item Thimblerigging

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The Story of Billy Mackenzie:

 

 

 

 

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VIDEOS

 

on the late show

 

 

Baby

 

 

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White Car In Germany

 

 

Skipping

 

 

Breakfast :

 

 

No

 

 

Fever

 

 

the rhythm divine

 

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btw the Culture Box will be organizine another 'Cultural trip' to Zurich very soon :lol:

Anacostia Bay (At The Edge Of The World) was a song Billy made with Loom in the mid-90s - it's incredible... ambient electronica. Here Comes The rain Again is the old Eurythmics song... apparently, Billy made several recording with Annie Lennox.... but they'll never see the light of day - music from the Gods, by all accounts - I can only imagine how beautiful those songs were.

 

Where do you start with the genius of this man? He's probably my favourite ever male singer.... and the fact he wasn't ever really ecognised during his lfetime still seems cruel.

 

'Outernational' was panned and flopped... but listen to it now - it's SO far ahead of its time. Fopp have there-issued version for £5 at the moment... everyone should own this masterpiece.

 

His work with Bassey was phenomenal, too... Rhythm Divine is one of the finest singles of the 80s.

 

Much missed... there's a great book called The Glamour Chase about Billy's life - definitely worth owning, too. Here's a snippet I cheekily took from Amazon - but it's well worth reading - kind of sums up what a scamp he was...

 

"The one story most people know about Mackenzie is how he was eventually 'let go' by Warners. They'd invested a fortune in him. He'd given them a few hits, given the A&R man assigned to look after him a nervous breakdown, pulled heaps of scams, stunts and gags on them. And though he never owned up, he had probably pinched the master tapes to one of his own albums - which are still missing.

 

And even when Warners finally had had enough, they still liked him. So they took him to lunch to tell him the bad news: he was being 'dropped'. As they were leaving Billy said to Max Hole, their A&R man: 'Don't look so sad Max." And Max asked "Will you be alright?" And Mackenzie replied "Yeah. But, do you think I could get a cab home on the company account?" And Max agreed. So, Billy took the company cab home... to Scotland - 600 miles away." :lol:

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Glamour-Chase-Mave...7695&sr=8-1

Edited March 29, 200718 yr by russt68