You still have a few days to watch Steve Winwood: English Soul on BBC iPlayer.It is a thorough and engaging survey of his career, though I was a disappointed that there was little archive footage that I am not familiar with from Youtube. Still, you can never watch Georgia on my Mind too often.
There were bound to be omissions when cramming such a long musical life into an hour. There was no mention of his work playing as a session man on an extraordinary range of other people's records - Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland, Lou Reed's Berlin.
And there was no mention of his friendship with Viv Stanshall, who wrote the lyrics of the title track of the album that relaunched Winwood's career in the 1980s - Arc of a Diver.
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We're just listening to Steve on BBC2 radio on the net - what a pity we couldn't get that TV show.
But I heard you can download it "somewhere" - I'll try that ...
British rock's most soulful voice. Criminally wasted on all the MOR trash he did after about 1990 though.
Wonder what the real story about him and Dave Mason was...
@Mark:
No more "Middle of the road" now - you should have heard him on his tour with Clapton ...
They'll be doing 90 minutes today at the Crossroads Festival - what a pity we can't hear it live, have to wait for the DVD or Blueray ...
anyone want to see Winwood with Santana, July 17 at Bethel Woods, NY
have 3 tickets I'm trying to sell, face value 270, will sell 210 obo
email if interested
stolifp@gmail.com
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