Kevin Coyne
Kevin Coyne (born January 27, 1944 in Derby , England , † December 2, 2004 in Nuremberg ) was a British rock musician , painter and author .
Life
Kevin Coyne attended the Joseph Wright School of Art from 1957 to 1961 and then studied graphics and painting at the Derby College of Art from 1961 to 1965 .
He then worked as a social worker for a few years. The preoccupation with drug addicts and the mentally ill had a lasting influence on him musically. Songs like Asylum and Mad Boy or Mona, Where's My Trousers bear testimony to this. In 1969 he recorded his first records with his band Siren for John Peel's Dandelion Records. After Dandelion ended, he moved to Virgin Records. This record company made some of his best and most famous records over the next few years, including Beautiful Extremes and Millionaires and Teddy Bears .
In the 1970s, Zoot Money and Andy Summers played in his band , a fact that he made fun of in later years. In 1971, after the death of Jim Morrison , he himself had turned down the offer to become the Doors' new singer , allegedly because he did not like the lederhosen.
In 1982 the director Diethard Küster shot the music film "Kevin Coyne - At the last wall" in the old Tempodrom , a circus tent on the Berlin Wall on Potsdamer Platz . In 1997 this film was expanded to include the documentary attachment "The Unknown Famous" (both on DVD).
In Germany, where an appearance at the Rockpalast made him known to a wider audience, he had a small but loyal fan base. It therefore came as no surprise when, after a nervous breakdown in 1981 caused by alcoholism and overwork, he chose Germany as the new center of his life.
Coyne had lived in Franconia since 1985 . In 1992 he received the “ Prize of the City of Nuremberg for Art and Science ”. Numerous art exhibitions and musical appearances with his Kevin Coyne band made him known not only in England, but also in Germany, Austria and France.
In 1986 he took the stage free of charge at the Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival against the planned Wackersdorf reprocessing plant .
Coyne had suffered from pulmonary fibrosis for a long time , but his death on December 2, 2004 came as a complete surprise. On December 10th 2004 Kevin Coyne wanted to present his new CD. His grave is in the Nuremberg Johannisfriedhof .
Discography
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Web links
- Literature by and about Kevin Coyne in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kevin Coyne in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Kevin Coynes website
- Kevin Coyne Books
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography. In: kevincoyne.de (English).
- ↑ disabilityarts.online: Some Lesser Known Kevin Coyne Classics
- ^ Musician, painter and writer Kevin Coyne has died. In: NZZ , December 3, 2004
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| SURNAME | Coyne, Kevin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British rock musician, painter and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Derby , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 2004 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg , Germany |