Guitarist and producer Robin George, who made his title within the Nineteen Eighties along with his album Harmful Music and collaborated with the likes of Robert Plant, Magnum, Glenn Hughes and Phil Lynott, has died on the age of 68. The information was confirmed on his private Fb web page.
The assertion learn: “On Friday twenty sixth April at 11.45 our stunning Robin left this world and flew away to the following life the place we hope he’s partying with the household, pals and musicians he liked and misplaced over time. Robin had been combating an extended sickness however by Christmas, it turned apparent that he was not lengthy for this world.
“He was devastated when he was not in a position to play his beloved guitars however he continued to put in writing songs, do interviews, make movies and inform his story right here on Fb and thru his biography. He desperately needed his music to reside on as a result of music was in his coronary heart and soul. Robin leaves behind his adored spouse, 4 beloved youngsters, two stunning sisters, 9 pretty grandchildren, many expensive pals and the animal household that he rescued over time.
“We’re devastated as a result of there’ll by no means be one other Robin George. LovePower with you at all times. You are together with your angels now.”
George was born in Wolverhampton, and launched his first EP, the six-track Historical past, in 1983. An iconic Kerrang! cowl function picturing him with a BC Wealthy guitar as soon as owned by Slade was revealed the identical yr – describing him as “The Axe of Tomorrow” – and debut album Harmful Music adopted in 1984. It featured contributions from the likes of Magnum keyboardist Mark Stanway, future Who bassist Pino Palladino, then-Judas Priest drummer Dave Holland and Thin Lizzy‘s Phil Lynott. George – who’d auditioned for Lizzy a number of years earlier – returned the favour, taking part in on Lynott’s solo single Nineteen in 1985.
“He requested me to fly as much as Newcastle with him to advertise the only on a TV present known as Razzmatazz,” George instructed Basic Rock in 2015. “On the airport in Newcastle they searched me and my guitar however left Phil alone. After we bought to the TV studio he winked and threw me this large chunk of dope. I couldn’t consider he’d simply waltzed by way of, however he was at all times Mr Cool.
“On the airplane residence, Phil requested Brian Downey and I to re-form Skinny Lizzy and we each agreed. So we made some recordings within the studio in his again backyard in the home at Kew throughout December [1985]. It went completely nice and we took a break for Christmas. His driver took me to the station and Phil got here alongside for the journey. As we bought to Euston, Phil requested for the tape of the fabric we’d been engaged on, saying he needed to take heed to it over the vacation break. I gave it to him, in fact.
“A couple of days afterwards I used to be working in my studio once I bought a name from a radio station in Stoke, asking me to touch upon Phil’s loss of life. It shocked the fuck out me. I knew he was sick, however not the total extent. I instructed the DJ to fuck off – how unprofessional of them. Sadly, the cassette of our materials did not resurface after his loss of life. It was the one copy.”
George additionally joined former Uriah Heep frontman David Byron within the Byron Band, and in addition performed with Roy Wooden, The Climax Blues Band, Magnum, Infamous – with former Diamond Head singer Sean Harris – Asia and Harm Management (that includes former UFO bassist Pete Manner, AC/DC/The Agency drummer Chris Slade, and Quireboys frontman Spike). He additionally recorded an album with Glenn Hughes, Candy Reduction, in 1989, which remained unreleased till 2008.
Amongst Geoerge’s manufacturing credit have been Diamond Head’s early single Candy & Harmless, plus albums by Quartz and Witchfinder Common, in addition to Wrathchild’s glam-metal basic Stakk Assault. He additionally wrote Crimson for Hazard with Robert Plant, a tune that seems on the previous Led Zeppelin man’s Sixty-six To Timbuktu compilation.
George continued to launch his personal albums, together with a sequel to Harmful Music, Harmful Music II, in 2015. His final album was Wilderness, launched in 2021. A retrospective assortment, Ace In My Hand, was put out final yr, that includes liner notes from late Basic Rock author Malcolm Dome.