Ranking Roger has left us, aged 56 ...
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8504298/the-english-beats-ranking-roger-dies-at-56
Yes - my favourite contemporary composer is on radio 3 tomorrow night! Will be waiting anxiously to press the record button ...
Just heard. Man, very difficult to believe he's gone. A long-time fan of the English Beat.
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The Beat and General Public were part of the soundtrack of my teenaged years and I appreciated Ranking Roger's energy very much. Some months back I actually had looked up and watched all I could having to do with Ranking Roger on YouTube, checked out his site, marveling at it all. There was a photo' there of Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger visiting Saxa in recent times, 2015 to be exact, that really threw me. I should read his memoir.
“I call it The Pod and the way the light floods in it’s a really relaxing, spacious place to work,” says Roger.
“It was handmade by a craftsman from Yorkshire.”
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/beat-that-ranking-roger-set-11831817
http://www.archipod.com/blog/2013/07/studio-pod-for-ranking-roger/