Rod Temperton R.i.p.

[Togo]

Rod Temperton has passed away and although I was not a huge fan of the genre he did write some of the most recognisable tunes and songs ever recorded. A boy from Cleethorpes who worked in a Grimsby fish factory aged 66 when he died. He could have walked down any high street in the Country unrecognised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Ppx9FdCjE

[andy-hughes]

Very sad.

I was a big heatwave fan - The Groove Line was a staple of my Thursday night set when I DJ'd at Sammi Belles in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Very talented man, sad loss to music.

[Baldric]

I didn't know he did that, Respect and R I P.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37565125

[andy-hughes]

That's the way to do it - write the songs and have all the money - and none of the grief that fame brings you!

Who would know Diane Warren if you passed her in the street, but I bet her bank manager sends her a birthday card ! -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Diane_Warren

[Togo]

DJ at sammi belles? Didn't that place change to Hudson and then Maxims? On the old Sammy Bells pottery site Lower St.

[Lie-in King]

I was unaware of quite how many songs he was responsible for - "The Invisible Man" indeed.

RIP Rod.

[andy-hughes]

Togo - //DJ at sammi belles? Didn't that place change to Hudson and then Maxims? On the old Sammy Bells pottery site Lower St. //

It went straight to Maxims, and Maxims in Hanley became Chicos.

I DJ'd at all of them, and The Place - wonderful times.

As I am sure you know, Chicos was fire damaged and demolished when the bus station went, Maxims is to be converted into flats - it's a listed building and can't be demolished, and The Place has been pulled down for the construction of a cinema and restaurants.

I often think I could hire a room and put on a 'Sammis' Thursday' Reunion Night!

[Togo]

Good link Baldric.
Will there have to be a punch up andy? You know like the good old days haha.

[andy-hughes]

Togo - //Will there have to be a punch up andy? You know like the good old days haha. //

Hopefully not, and confimed to the car park if there is!

At all the clubs, the DJ areas and all the bars had a panic button, and if you pressed it, bouncers appeared instantly.

I remember a new barman working upstairs at Sammis thought it was just a call button (it was built into a phone) and he wondered why four bouncers came tearing up the stairs when he only wanted to tell someone his bar was out of lemonaide!

[andy-hughes]

Confined to the car park would be even better!!

[fiction-factory]

Were you there around 1980 andy? i went a few times.

[andy-hughes]

f-f - //Were you there around 1980 andy? i went a few times. //

I certainly was!

I worked Thursday nights, and some weekends, and Sundays for a while too. Were you there then? Thursday was T. Rex and The Beatles at 11:00 p.m. on the dot!

[Mamyalynne]

RIP Rod, the music lives on.

[Arksided]

R.I.P.. I knew who he were..