Kevin Ayers

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Kevin Ayers (1974)

Kevin Ayers (born August 16, 1944 in Herne Bay , Kent , † February 18, 2013 in Montolieu , Languedoc-Roussillon , France) was a British musician ( songwriter , singer , guitarist , bassist ).

Live and act

Ayers was the son of radio producer Rowan Ayers , who in the BBC the show The Old Gray Whistle Test initiated (before 1974 to ABC moved). After his parents separated, Kevin Ayers spent most of his childhood with his mother in Malaysia .

At the age of twenty he returned to England, where he attended boarding school and during his college days became a member of the Canterbury Scene and sang with the Wilde Flowers . From 1966 he was the bass player for the art rock band Soft Machine . In 1968 he got out and wrote songs to start a solo career. In 1970 he was the founder and head of the band The Whole World , in which Mike Oldfield played among others . He later worked with musicians such as composer David Bedford , saxophonist Lol Coxhill , Brian Eno , John Cale , Robert Wyatt and Nico . Ayers' most important and longest musical companion was the British guitarist Ollie Halsall (previously with Timebox and Patto ), who appears on some albums as a musician or arranger. Halsall also lived in Spain for some time, where he died of a heart attack from a drug overdose in 1992 at the age of 43. Most recently he recorded the album Still Life With Guitar with Ayers . Shooting at the Moon was added to The Wire's 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening) list.

After living in Spain for a long time, Kevin Ayers returned to England in the mid-1990s and most recently lived in the south of France, where he died in February 2013 at the age of 68.

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1969 Joy of a Toy (re-release, with 5 bonus tracks, 2003)
  • 1970 Shooting at the Moon (re-release, with 4 bonus tracks, 2003)
  • 1972 Whatevershebringswesing (re-release, with 4 bonus tracks, 2003)
  • 1973 Bananamour (re-release, with 4 bonus tracks, 2003)
  • 1974 The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories (re-release, with 7 bonus tracks, 2009)
  • 1975 Sweet Deceiver
  • 1976 Yes We Have No Mananas (re-release, with 9 bonus tracks, 2009)
  • 1978 Rainbow Takeaway
  • 1980 That's What You Get Babe
  • 1983 Diamond Jack and the Queen of Pain
  • 1984 Deià ... Vu
  • 1986 As Close As You Think
  • 1988 Falling Up
  • 1992 Still Life with Guitar (re-release, with 3 bonus tracks, 2002)
  • 2007 The Unfairground

Live and session albums and compilations

  • 1974 June 1, 1974 (live album)
  • 1976 Odd Ditties (singles and rarities)
  • 1990 The Kevin Ayers Collection
  • 1992 Document Series Presents Kevin Ayers
  • 1992 BBC Radio 1 - Live In Concert 1972
  • 1996 Singing The Bruise - BBC Sessions 1970-72
  • 1996 First Show In The Appearance Business - BBC Sessions 1973-76
  • 1998 Ayers and Archibald in Banana Follies 1972–1976
  • 1998 Too Old To Die Young (Live 1972/75/76)
  • 1999 Turn The Lights Down (Live in London 1995)
  • 2004 Alive in California
  • 2005 The BBC Sessions 1970-1976
  • 2007 Hyde Park Free Concert 1970 (Kevin Ayers and The Whole World)
  • 2008 Songs For Insane Times (An Anthology 1969–1980)
  • 2008 What More Can I Say ... ( Reel Recordings )

Collaborations

  • 2017 The Happening Combo (with Lady June and Ollie Halsall)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Fricke, Obituary for Kevin Ayers , Rolling Stone , February 22, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Ayers, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Herne Bay
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2013
Place of death Montolieu , Languedoc-Roussillon