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Mark Hollis - RIP

church-lane
church-lane Posts: 935
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Just heard that the Talk Talk (band) main man has died aged 64. Another of my heroes gone if true.

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  • CharltonMadrid
    CharltonMadrid Posts: 5,091
    Really sad news - had just started listening to their stuff this year and he was an amazing songwriter. RIP.
  • MikeyValiant
    MikeyValiant Posts: 58
    Devastating, Laughing Stock and Spirit of Eden are favourite albums of mine. 
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    Very sad. Fantastic songwriter. RIP
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    RIP
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    RIP
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    RIP
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,051
    Some stunning songs across all their career.  Only 64 as well. Rest in Peace Mark
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    RIP
  • ashley
    ashley Posts: 531
    Very sad news . Saw them live a number of times . Very distinctive voice . Life’s what you make it is a  great song .
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  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    edited February 2019
    I am sorry to learn of this. Talk Talk created some excellent music. Spirit of Eden is a splendid LP.
    I shall listen to Happiness Is Easy, from Talk Talk's The Colour Of Spring, before going to bed.




  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    Very very sad, they were in the late 80s my absolute favourite band. and live at Hammersmith Odeon is possibly my favourite live concert ever. I was gobsmacked when that very concert appeared on a CD around 2002. If you are a fan, it's a must have, you hear a band -and an audience - that knows it is playing out of its skin. Mark Feltham guests on harmonica on a stonking "Living in another world".

    Going to play it right now. RIP, sir.
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,080
    Life’s what he made it. RIP - I’m gutted.
  • IR94
    IR94 Posts: 743
    genius, last 2 talk talk albums personally favourite 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    RIP, he produced some amazing music. Far too young too
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    All you do to me is Talk Talk but sadly no more, loved that song.

    RIP Mark
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    RIP...Good band Talk Talk.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    RIP - very underrated band. 
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    RIP. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    edited February 2019
    RIP to Benfleet's best.
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  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    Posted elsewhere, but sums up the impact this man's creativity had on this one man:

    Genius, pure and simple.

    So myself and a few friends had a way of introducing each other to quality music.  On random Sundays we would each bring ten tunes that we would play one at a time before the next's turn.  There were three of us that day.

    Anyway.  I had just had my turn.  Next up, Dunk reaches for Spirit of Eden.  Talk Talk? Says I, adding something derogatory to the effect 'weren't they some kind of also-rans from the new romantic era?'.  I expected to be distinctly underwhelmed.

    So, the first track starts and I am immediately intrigued, then totally absorbed, then utterly blown away.  After that track finished, it was Leyton's turn.  Shall we just leave it on? He suggests.

    We did, none of the others wanted their 'turn'.  The album got better and better and I realised that I had missed out on something very, very special.  These days I consider it a contender for the best album ever made (next to Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime, most probably).  There is nothing else like it and it is, quite simply, beautiful, stunning, pure emotion, bliss, sadness......well, actually, words don't do it justice, so I'll stop trying.

    Anyway, thanks Dunk!

    RIP Mark
  • olster
    olster Posts: 1,397
    There are very few albums that I can listen to, at any time, and they put me in a certain mood.

    Spirit of Eden is one of them. RIP
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    So I did a bit of a search on the net, and was mildly alarmed to discover that Talk Talk played two nights at the Odeon on 7th and 8th May 1986, and suddenly thought, was I really at the one that's on the CD? Well, from the set lists I am honestly not sure now. Both end with Renee, and here it is; which of the two nights, it doesn't say, but it sounds like I remember it, with him quietly saying "thank you very much" at the end and walking off, leaving us all in frantic disbelief that he is ending the concert this way;  and as we now know, the 8th was their last live concert ever. 
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,001
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISjg71jSnLg
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,014
    His solo album is very good too if you can track it down.
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    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302







  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,790
    Very sad. RIP

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