IP: Logged williegoat Member Posts: 17429 From: Glendale, AZ Registered: Mar 2009 Total ratings: 102 We had no tools to help him, says Paul Rodgers, unlike today.. But as John Glover observes, It was Free against the world. Before long, a group of NYPD officers had trooped on to the aircraft. I do not recall Sappho mentioning anything about Donovan or the song that year. Kirke had grown up in Shropshire, but moved to London in 1965. In the meantime Kossoffs legacy endures. Was sad to read of her passing. Sorry I do not have Facebook. Kossoff had been prescribed Mogadon to help with his withdrawal. She had a beautiful showmans wagon with a tiny cast iron stove and beveled glass windows. In March, Back Street Crawler were due to play Los Angeles Starwood Club, on the same nights as Bad Company played The Forum. Suggested Searches. I knew Sappho from 76 to about 80 when I left Wales and moved back to London. Much love. The cause of death was given as cerebral and pulmonary oedema; a legacy of the previous years cardiac arrest. I lost two City Breaks and the planned visit by my son, daughter in law and grandson. Following the break-up, Kossoff moved into a house in Golborne Mews, off Londons Portobello Road, and turned it into a drug den/shrine to Jimi. Aliases: Sappho Gillett Variations: Viewing All | Sappho Korner Sappho Artist [a1234779] Edit Artist Marketplace 395 For Sale Vinyl and CD Discography 12 Credits 9 Vocals 3 Instruments & Performance Add Release My thoughts are with all those who visit, here. In Glovers opinion, music was Koss life. The rest of it the business and the band politics was an unwelcome distraction. In fact, hed recently gone to Jamaica for a spell of rest and recuperation, only to discover Mandrax was available at every pharmacist on the island without prescription. Other times, Hey, Koss, listen to that, you cunt!. Fire And Water: The Making Of Free's Masterpiece. Growing up, their second son Paul showed a wit and precocity beyond his years. ), I remember all those things so well .. Anthony at least you werent cast as a peasant in The Caucasian Chalk Circle .. my mother said sage knew it was me the moment I sasheyd across the stage . Are those who have contemporary memories of Sappho, Alexis & the family still here? Id spent four, maybe five years, being one fourth of a whole personality which was Free, Kossoff told music paper Sounds. Died: 1st January 1984, London, England. Re the cancer what can one say. there was a time when it took its toll in a very big way . Expand Your Search. So with a bad heart but a light one, I am happy, in another year, to be wishing the Hallfield Sappho contemporaries all good things for the Festive Season. But the song changed them overnight, and Fire And Water became the first Free album to crack the Top 20, reaching No.2. It was almost religious. Free toured with Osibisa guitarist Wendell Richardson instead. John Glover is certain Kossoff played in an early five-man line-up of Bad Company, and has the tape to prove it (Rodgers wont let me put it out.). Kossoff was taken ill shortly before the bands first UK tour. Children: Damian Korner, Nicholas Korner, Sappho Gillett Korner Music groups: Alexis Korners Blues Incorporated (1961 1966), CCS (1970 1973), Snape. Nothanks for your quick worklook forward to communicating with you someI know this week is going to be busyHave a great Xmas. When a policeman spotted Taylor half-carrying him towards the terminal, he threatened to arrest them both unless they left the airport. Instead, the light of Free and Back Street Crawlers Paul Kossoff shone briefly and burned out quickly, It was the air stewardess scream that told them something was very wrong. Get started United Kingdom, Select Burial and Cremation Index, 1840-2014 document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. I can do e-mails twitter your Sappho Korner page and that about covers it. I now reflect that I was blessed to be a child of the fifties, a teen of the sixties, with all the good things that that time brought to me. Here he served the then-unknown Jimi Hendrix and watched spellbound as Hendrix flipped a guitar upside down and played it left-handed. At a gig at Newcastle City Hall, he collapsed after playing just two numbers. I remember walking down this long corridor at the airport and looking over at him and he was sort of I dunno, radiating, he says, struggling to find the right words. so much sad news of ex hallfield students RIP all of you , Chris Pierre, Chris Pierre .. Rodgers song, Come Together In The Morning, was written indirectly about Kossoff. P.S. Then came the night in December 1965 when he saw Eric Clapton with John Mayalls Bluesbreakers in concert. However, everything in the last month has been so unreasonably poor, me and the computer, that I might have tried an entry, here, but it failed, as the Computer failed to talk to the Printer, vice-versa, and my body has been refusing to liaise with my brain and vice-versa. Shortly afterwards, another aspiring group, The Wildflowers, moved from their native Teeside and into a house near the Kossoffs in Golders Green. I was looking for Sappho and came across your touching obituary. The memory meant that I had to touch base with you. Fame, money, drugs and some unresolvable inner torment all played a part in his downfall. If I were Alice in Wonderland stood up side down on a hookah while smoking opium thered be no way Id be able to understand whats become of this world TRUMP JOHNSON . Back to Queensway this June 23rd to the now named Gold Mine Chinese Restaurant to celebrate the birthday of my lifelong friend Barbara Diamant. . Kossoff was soon hooked on Clapton, Peter Green and the three Kings Albert, Freddie and BB and working in Selmers music shop on Londons Charing Cross Road. When it came to recording their third album, Fire And Water, Free went straight from the gig to the studio, with little time to draw breath. Born: 19th April 1928, Paris, France. But the job of replacing Brian Jones went to Mick Taylor instead. :$47K - $57K . Hi Koss was a mild-mannered and generouskinda guy, explains Rabbit, and that made him an easy target.. Kossoffs solo in that very song rips my heart out, says Rodgers now. In 1968, every musician in Britain knew Alexis Korner. And I broke two of his fingers, he says, adding sarcastically, Great, what a fantastic thing to do. Once again, Snuffy Walden was hired to play, and Kossoff reduced to introducing his own band on stage and then watching the show like a regular punter. Gone, for two days.. So sorry to hear of your loss. But when Paul Kossoff told Korner he was looking for a bass guitarist, Korner knew just the boy. I remember with great fondness how her father befriended me and introduced me to his musical colleagues. Im concerned about spending too much time on the net my body doesnt like it but I will be back .. and Im still around. His speech was slurred as he declared his fellow guest, singer Leo Sayer, better than Paul Rodgers.. Be it, now, 63 years, and very unlikely, I pledge, through here, and elsewhere, to bring together as many, as possible, of Hallfield, Bayswater, Queensway, Salem Road, Moscow Road, + contemporaries. Tetsu and Rabbit Bundrick were drafted in, and Paul Rodgers played guitar. Kossoff eventually called John Glover and moved straight back to London. Best Regards,Peace,Fraser, Hiya Frazer, From AC/DC to The Black Crowes, from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Rival Sons, each generation brings another group beholden to Frees bare-boned approach. Free clashed with Blackwell when he insisted they edit it down for a single release. In his recent autobiography Fraser writes that Korner was 'almost a father figure' to him. Within a year, Kossoff had joined the north London blues group Black Cat Bones and impressed them with a confidence and stagecraft that belied his 5ft 3in stature. and Im still present and so are you so far so good .. as far as the rest of the world goes . He just wandered off at some point during the five-hour flight. hope alls well with you xx. When Geoff intervened, he threw a telephone at him, narrowly missing his face. It was difficult, admits Glover. But it was Islands way of getting the guitarist working again. Earlier in the decade, Korners ensemble Blues Incorporated had beena valuable training ground for several future Rolling Stones. | balletcatblue SAPPHO KORNER R.I.P. On the drive to Heathrow the next day, Kossoff was barely coherent. Korner recommended Free to Island Records boss Chris Blackwell. Shortly after, his parents brought him his first guitar, and enrolled him for classical guitar lessons. Job Types: Full-time, Part-time. Which Primary school did you go to .. ? Texas-born Bundrick had seen Free play the Houston Coliseum: And I had this intuition I would play with them one day. Rabbit worked with Johnny Nash and Islands new signing Bob Marley before arriving in London in 1971. The subsequent UK tour saw flashes of the old Kossoff, but far too many moments of high farce and terrible chaos. I prefer to hear [Rodgers] voice and back it up or push it without covering it up. But the song that most impressed Chris Blackwell was All Right Now, with its bullish riff and terrace- chant chorus. And I wouldnt let him use the lift I got him walking up them stairs, all 24 flights. It wasnt easy. Both the album and the single Wishing Well went Top 10. Was the Donovan Mellow Yellow song include a reference to your friend Saffron? Even now, though, he still had moments of great clarity. It was very full-on and I found it a bit aggressive., Glover told Blackwell he wasnt convinced. When Frees next single The Stealer tanked and Highway stalled outside the Top 40, the rows began. I thought, Im onto a winner here., But it wasnt to be. Yep Eddie was my younger bro and soul mate . I`m sorry to find that she isn`t no more here. I dont know what hed taken.. But the fact is nobody but Kossy could play that guitar through that amp.. a whole generation just wiped out the only one who still remains is their mother . Thank you for the Lovely story about Sappho and letting that be the way from me to find out about her leaving us. Tons Of Sobs arrived in March. Styles. Anthony Kreppel reaches out, here, again, and might, on Twitter. and elsewhere, to unite others, those whose names have slipped my failing memory, but were, all of Sapphos time, in that little triangle that has the 3 points Bayswater, to the East, Foxs School, Notting Hill, along to the West of that, and Westbourne Grove, slightly to the South, encompassing Queensway, Hallfield, Whiteleys, among other notable points, and finally The Prince Alfred Pub, Queensway, Cellar Bar, as a meeting point, on a Friday evening, for a tight little group. I knew Sappho briefly mid 90s when she lived in London W9. Trusted by millions of genealogists since 2003. . When I think of the days of my youth, thoughts of old age were so far from my mind as to be almost non-existent. He knew he was blowing it and he knew I wasnt after his job. Walden apparently played on three tracks on the final album and on various versions of Wishing Well. Pay ranges from $11-$16 per hour depending on experience plus tips (Annual Weeks Paid Vacation) Korner Store II. Then he got hold of some pills and disappeared at Watford Gap service station. Seems like a very tragic situation. who knew that evolution meant going backwards so far .. until another time . Dunno if the surname Payne is remembered. They didnt let anyone else in.. [4] He was survived by a daughter, singer Sappho Gillett Korner ( died 2006) and two sons, guitarist Nicholas 'Nico' Korner ( died 1988) and sound engineer Damian Korner ( died 2008). Back Street Crawlers debut album, The Band Plays On, arrived in October 75. And there were the four of Free sat on the sofa. North Las Vegas, NV. Paul struggled academically, but his strong, squat fingers made light work of forming shapes and chords. .. Be nice to yourself with lots of love from Sarah XXX. Taylor, Glover and the band, except for Rabbit and Terry Slesser, were due to fly to New York that night with the master tapes for 2nd Street. Backstage afterwards there was champagne flying everywhere, like the Grand Prix, remembers John Taylor. We were a blues band, so we decided on Free, which we thought was something a bit more nebulous.. Please dont be a stranger. Sometimes it was, Hey, Koss, listen to this. Sadly, all the praise in the world couldnt keep Paul Kossoff alive. Despite Kossoffs unpredictability, nobody wanted to give up, and Free were soon back in the studio. Rodgers and Fraser wrote every song, except the group-credited Trouble On Double Time. He had travelled with his parents through Switzerland and North Africa before settling in London as a 12 year-old. I came second. Find family history information in a . The deal was reported as being worth a quarter of a million dollars. ", The Struts announce Remember the Name US tour, Kiss squash long-standing rumour that their band name is a Satanic acronym: "We're smart, but we're not that smart", The making of Deep Purple's classic Machine Head: only in the new issue of Classic Rock, Master Of Puppets: The album that changed Metallica forever, Watch Kiss play three classics live on the Howard Stern Show, Every issue delivered direct to your door. Im confused by the wiki page that suggests that all of Alexis kids are now dead. Korner suggested his daughter Sapphos boyfriend, a 15-year-old, part-English, Barbadian and Guyanese musician named Andy Fraser. Mouthful Of Grass, Ill Be Creeping and Lying In The Sunshine were a celebration of peace, love, Mother Nature and sex lots of sex. SAPPHO KORNER R.I.P. At 63 my memory is not as crisp as it used to be sadly. Their name, Free, reflected the foursomes stripped- down approach in the post-Sgt. And what happened? Employer est. Rodgers, "Paul was as emotional about as music as I was", All at sea, Kossoff and Back Street Crawler drummer Tony Braunagel in 1975, Hiding on the backstreets, Kossoff and BC vocalist, Terry Wilson-Slesser, The Story Behind The Songs: Feel Like Makin' Love by Bad Company, The unlikely life story of Paul Kossoff's guitar, Paul Rodgers: My greatest regret is not having Paul Kossoff around. BBC Rhythm & Blues World Service. Korner suggested his daughter Sappho's boyfriend, a 15-year-old, part-English, Barbadian and Guyanese musician named Andy Fraser. Sappho, also spelled (in the Aeolic dialect spoken by the poet) Psappho, (born c. 610, Lesbos [Greece]died c. 570 bce), Greek lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style. Sent a few e-mails 2 people Ive found on this web site but have had no reply ..Its just that I often revisit my past and one of those visits is 2 walk around Moscow rd where I grew up B4 moving 2 Kensington , Anyway when walking around Moscow rd [ & other places ] i walk down the side street of Burnham court where Sappho lived with her mum , dad & brother Nico as the other brother was not born if I remember rightly , and @ the back of her apartment block was a massive dog kennel which we would sit it when it rained eating sweets & biscuits ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Anyway would just like 2 know what happened 2 her 2 die so young,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I have cancer myself !!! One of my closest friends that I grew up with, who I am sure knew your family, is Barbara Diamant who lived with her mother, in those days, across the road from Windsor Court in Shatesbury House. Died: 1st January 1984, London, England. Im afraid my mother died this January . Thats because Ive moved to a house in the country.. Kent to be more precise Alexis Korner moderierte eine wchentliche, jeweils 15-mintige Radiosendung . But when Free began a US tour with Traffic, Kossoff stayed behind. They sort of dragged me out of my pit, admitted Kossoff. Keep it real Southern & urban blues. I filled my body up with toxins and ended up that way, he explained. Love from Sarah X . XOX to you too . Kossoff came round to the house, recalls Rodgers now. I have just had the all-clear following the removal of a Cancer a few years ago. This thread seems oh so quiet now. But looking into his eyes is like looking into Pauls. Apparently, it took the crew some time to gain access to the bathroom, as his dead body was slumped against the door. Sappho Korner (died 2006) was a singer and percussionist. I went to school with Sappho in the 60s she was light years ahead in sooo many ways she introduced her father to some of us that I have never forgotten. Isnt life strange but wonderful to think we shared the friendship of Sappho. Korner married Roberta, daughter of art critic Robert Melville. Korner woke up one morning and found a 15-year-old boy of mixed race sleeping on his sofa. I too was looking for her and am sad to know shes gone. Korner died of lung cancer aged 55 years, on 1 January 1984. Within a year, Bad Companys debut album was a US No.1 hit. after as Im in panic about Crispmess Im on my phone so seriously hope you can make sense out of this as I canT see mode -what Im writing. Kossoff, the pint-sized superstar with the lions mane hair-do, made an immediate impression: He walked on, plugged in and just unleashed those solos. Those two pretty much ran the band. In contrast, Simon Kirke didnt say a lot unless he was upset about something, and Paul Kossoff was very, very gentle. In September, the band were due to play a festival in Belgium to launch their debut album. I look forward to speaking to you in ten years time. He also cleaned up, sometimes for weeks at a time. This entry was posted on May 15, 2006 by BalletCat-Blue. He was a raconteur and an entertainer. I hope you can read predictive text . hugs from Sarah . I am so blessed to have known her. Youre welcome Alamo .. Eddie and I, I think he was a little younger than me, met in Kensington Gardens and often went there. Taylor had the unenviable job of arranging to transport the body to England, while John Glover told everyone the bad news. Shorter than me by perhaps a foot, in your young teenage years, with a patchy face that a loving mother would always want to take a wet hankie to. Paul was a very together guy, a soulful, intelligent guy. Off stage, he was quick-witted, a sharp mimic and, many believe, could have been a good actor. Hello Sarah I went to primary & infants school with Alexis Korners daughter Sappho . Docherty hid the pills in his oven, and rationed them out, until Kossoff found them and tried to take a handful at once. Nombre real: Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner Perfil: Born: 19th April 1928, Paris, France. Alexis Korner (* 19. Richard Digby-Smith co-engineered their next album, Free At Last. it will be once I stop wasting my time on Facebook Paul Rodgers was about three feet from my face. Korner Store Sinclair Gas Station. I know . I seem to remember that your sister was very young when I visited and I wish that I remembered you better. , Ilked her her and often asked people wot had become of her . Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Hit that one last January. We were always a rock/blues band, says Rodgers. Maybe we might stumble over, Sarah, yourself, Billy Edwards, the Soccer Star, Adrian Norrman, my best friend, and son of the Cafe owners, of Norrmans, Susan Painter, the good looking, very English, tall, straight-up, young, lady whom I last met, by complete chance, on the forecourt, call it, of Bayswater Station, in 1968, when we had a few minutes discussing our O level results and then parted, others who have written, here and visit, and finally anyone of that era.. There was no going back now, he admits, so we had to keep Koss in as good a nick as we could., John Taylor was hired as Back Street Crawlers tour manager and Kossoffs occasional minder. I wish you and your family and friends a wonderful time over the festive season and may 2016 bring you all you desire. But when Kossoff went on another bender, Glover sheepishly returned the money. She was my friend too and I have very special memories of going to Gigs with Alexis together and enjoying the smokey blues atmosphere as well as daytime fun at her house and mine. Albums such as Frees Fire And Water and the hits Wishing Well and All Right Now have arguably grown better with age. I went to Hallfield. I used to spend my time in Kensington Gardens plus my family never seemed to have any money there are and were so many of us at Hallfield. Paul attended his first concert, Tommy Steele at the London Palladium, aged eight. Kossoffs solo album, Back Street Crawler, slipped out in November 73. Born: 19th April 1928, Paris, France. Black Cat Bones knew what was coming. In 76 she took me and my baby daughter in when we had nowhere to live. Like their creator, those slow sustained notes, measured solos and moments of perfect silence never had the chance to grow old. But when Paul Kossoff told Korner he was looking for a bass guitarist, Korner knew just the boy. It was in a room not much bigger than my lounge, says Frees ex-manager John Glover now. One night Clapton approached Kossoff in the dressing room and asked, How the hell do you do that? talking about my vibrato, recalled Kossoff. Absolute O'Brien. Thanks for this memory of her. I remember Sappho from when she played with a band called Satva around 1971, such a nice lady, I was trying to find some info about her now and got such a shock. Islands diverse roster included underground rock heroes Traffic and Spooky Tooth, and reggae acts Jimmy Cliff and Millie Small. A quote entered my head today Imagine what it must have been like when the first Botanists discovered Cannabis Leaves; dried and pressed them between the pages of a book and they gave off that sweet scent. Sappho said that in 1966. But Paul Rodgers also wanted to make decisions. There was no time to pause or reflect. Mr Big and Fire And Waters title track were masterclasses in economy and space. His family moved regularly around Europe, and when he was 11 they settled in England. I lived in Windsor Court. Paul Rodgers watched from the sidelines. But Kossoff was in no state to play every solo on the album, not least when he was discovered fast asleep and snoring between takes. Richard was wandering if anyone on here remembered him from those days as he lives in Cornwall now. A second album, simply called Free, emerged in October. Unfortunately, this job posting is expired. Weve back in the early 80s at a place called Flask Walk, in Hampstead..I think Nico was around too. Sadly I lost touch with her in the early 1970s when I went off to University. The lifeless body of ex-Free, now Back Street Crawler guitarist Paul Kossoff had been discovered slumped in the bathroom. Don't worry, we can still help! That Bayswater area was dripping with musicians and artists and I loved being around them during my younger days and my teenage years. But the flight was only 30 per cent sold out, wed all moved around, so I didnt think anything of it.. Kossoff was delighted when the band showed up at the Starwood, and Rodgers and Kirke jumped up on stage to jam with them. They were okay, he says diplomatically. Hed spend days and nights slumped on the sofa in Golborne Mews, Hendrix playing, as dealers and hangers-on drifted in and out. Kossoff was not a prolific writer and had begun to feel excluded from the Rodgers/Fraser clique. Am thinking 2014 will be a great year. Nobody else remembers Kossoff leaving his seat. She was good, says Glover but it was no use. Another beautiful memory, from a very different time, 1969, was this Hyde Park Concert https://youtu.be/gqtJELaLG5k which you, like myself, may well have attended, and where Alexis Korner and his Band also played, with Sappho doing some delightful vocals. I too remember mention of the Isle of Wight .. And then he dumped his car and walked home, recalls Glover, who witnessed the carnage. Sappho passed away in month 2006, at age 53 at death place. When they werent out and about playing one-night stands and negotiating Britains primitive motorway system, Free were in the studio. AllMusic. Kirke found the break-up hard, but Kossoff was devastated. My dear mother giving us two sixpences to Pitch & Putt, or just Putt in Hyde Park. Great memory, thanks for sharing with us Anthony. Earlier that summer, blues producer Mike Vernon asked Kossoff to play on New York singer Martha Velzs debut album, Fiends And Angels. Yes, agreed. Everyone who talks about Kossoff says that had they known then what they know now, his story might have had a happier ending. And Paul would go off into a dream-like state more than the rest of us., Frustratingly, when Kossoff was straight he could still play beautifully. Everyone smoked dope sometimes too much dope but Kossoff had acquired a taste for the powerful sedative Mandrax.