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Any John Martyn fans around? The singer-songwriter died today, from what I'm not sure. Got a favorite song?

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No cause of death has been said, just that he died this morning at his home in Ireland.

In honor of him, what's your favorite song? And if you've never heard of him before, what do you think of this one?

http://www.last.fm/music/John+Martyn/_/Over+the+Hill

I love John Martyn's songs, though I really only got into him a few months ago. I know he had been severely ill over the past years, but it's still ashock to hear he's gone.

Some of my favourites are :~
May You Never
Stormbringer
Seven Black Roses
Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_nYrp7MrLo&fmt=18

Golf-Caddie says lucky locker helped Clarke to win Open

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(removes reference to Jimenez winning a major)
John Martyn - John Wayne

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Heaven 17 Tickets Available for Heaven 17 Fans

Heaven 17 are a British synthpop band originating from Sheffield  in the early 1980s. The trio comprises Martyn Ware (keyboards), Ian Craig Marsh (keyboards) (both previously with The Human League) and Glenn Gregory (vocals).Taking their name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork Orange, (where 'The Heaven Seventeen' are at number 4 in the charts with "Inside"), Heaven 17 formed when Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware split from their earlier group, The Human League, and formed the production company British Electric Foundation (BEF). BEF's first recording was a cassette-only album called Music for Stowaways and an LP called Music for Listening To.

Like The Human League, Heaven 17 heavily used synthesizers  and drum machines (the Linn LM-1 programmed by Ware). Session musicians were used for bass  and guitar  (John Wilson) and grand piano (Nick Plytas). Whereas the Heaven 17's former colleagues The Human League had gone on to major chart success in 1981, Heaven 17 struggled to make an impact. Heaven 17 debut single "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" attracted some attention and, due to its overtly left-wing political lyrics, was banned by BBC Radio 1 DJ  Mike Read (who was a staunch Conservative), and neither this nor any other of the four singles taken from the Heaven 17's debut album Penthouse and Pavement managed to reach the UK Top 40. The album itself proved to be a minor success and peaked at Number 14 on the UK album chart, and was later certified Gold by the BPI in 1982.

Around this time, Ware and Marsh produced two further LPs as BEF, the first being Music of Quality & Distinction (Vol 1) featuring Glenn Gregory, Tina Turner, Paula Yates, Billy Mackenzie, Hank Marvin, Paul Jones, Bernadette Nolan and Gary Glitter. The tracks were cover versions of songs that Ware, Marsh and Gregory had grown up listening to. The album peaked at Number 25. The second album was Geisha Boys and Temple Girls for the dance troupe Hot Gossip, which used songs formerly recorded by The Human League and Heaven 17, and a track each from Sting and Talking Heads.The second album was Geisha Boys and Temple Girls for the dance troupe Hot Gossip, which used songs formerly recorded by The Human League and Heaven 17, and a track each from Sting and Talking Heads. In October 1982, Heaven 17 released their new single "Let Me Go", but this too charted just outside the UK Top 40.

In 1983, the Heaven 17's fortunes changed. Their next single, "Temptation" (on which they were augmented by vocalist Carol Kenyon), reached Number 2 on the UK Singles Chart in Spring 1983 and became their biggest hit. The song was taken from their second album, The Luxury Gap, which featured further chart hits "Come Live With Me" (UK Number 5) and "Crushed By The Wheels of Industry" (UK Number 17). The album itself charted at Number 4 in the UK Albums Chart, their highest ever position, and was certified Platinum by the BPI in 1984.

Heaven 17 also worked on the Band Aid single at the end of 1984, with Gregory supplying vocals alongside Midge Ure and Sting, after a personal request from Ure that he attend. However, Heaven 17 did not perform at Live Aid  the following year. Heaven 17's first "live" performance was in 1986 on the UK television programme The Tube.

After the remix album Endless peaked at Number 70 in July 1986, Heaven 17's fourth studio album Pleasure One was released in November 1986 and featured the single "Trouble" (UK Number 51, GER Number 17). This was also the first Heaven 17 album to not mention production credits for BEF and the abbreviation would not appear again until Bigger Than America in 1996.

2005 saw the release of a new album, Before After, which had a much more contemporary dance  sound compared to previous albums. In November 2005, Heaven 17 were filmed for a live DVD playing to a packed house at The Scala in London.

In 2006, Marsh stopped making live appearances with Heaven 17. In an early 2009 interview, Ware stated that Marsh had left Heaven 17 and was now studying at university. Since the mid 1990s, Billie Godfrey has worked with the Heaven 17 as a backing vocalist and appears with them at concerts. She appeared with them as part of the Heaven 17 on 21 November 2008 for their highest profile TV appearance of recent years on Now That's What I Call 1983 on ITV1.

In December 2008, Heaven 17 toured the UK as part of the Sheffield band based Steel City Tour alongside The Human League and ABC. Coinciding with this was the release of Heaven 17 new album, Naked as Advertised - Versions 08, issued through the Just Music record label.

On 16 February 2010, Heaven 17 joined La Roux to record a joint live session for the BBC which was shown on the BBC Red Button interactive channel in January 2010. In the run up to their 30th anniversary, Heaven 17 announced several live dates in which they would perform their 1981 debut album Penthouse and Pavement live in its entirety for the first time.

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