I was quite shocked to find out how much influence he had on the biggest hits of the last 40 years.
I'm Portuguese and only knew him as a judge on a singing contest show.
Wikipedia told me he was involved in the UK selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, and my jaw dropped with what I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Fc6HeZs9U
It's one of these things that make you feel you've just had your eyes opened… without ever having realized they were closed. Percussion on "This World"? Don't remember any… surely I would know about that, I've listened to that album and that track in particular around 8 trillion times. Ok, there's a YT link, let's see.
I was quite shocked to find out how much influence he had on the biggest hits of the last 40 years.
I'm Portuguese and only knew him as a judge on a singing contest show.
Wikipedia told me he was involved in the UK selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, and my jaw dropped with what I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Fc6HeZs9U
It's one of these things that make you feel you've just had your eyes opened… without ever having realized they were closed. Percussion on "This World"? Don't remember any… surely I would know about that, I've listened to that album and that track in particular around 8 trillion times. Ok, there's a YT link, let's see.
oh. right.
(thanks Dirk! ♥️)