![]() ![]() The pop star with the rich soul voice started taking music seriously when he moved to Cornwall as a teenager. ![]() James Morrison, Porth's only pop star JAMES MORRISON He has also remixed Haim, Chvrches and Christine and the Queens. WILLIAM PHILLIPS (TOURIST)įrom Truro, Phillips co-wrote Sam Smith’s mega hit Stay With Me and as Tourist has recorded dance singles with Years and Years and Lianne La Havas. ![]() The band - one of the great live acts of the late 80s and early 90s - released three acclaimed albums Tell Em We're Surfing, Furthest From The Sun and Magic Happens plus a string of fantastic singles before going their own ways, with Jelbert writing about music for The Times for a while. So far, the five members - three of whom are Cornish (Kevin Downing, Tim McVay and Stephen Jelbert) - aren't listening. Since splitting in 1995, there have been annual calls for rollicking indie guitar band to reform. Rog still has a house on the Helford river (where The Darkness were recently based). He wrote or co-wrote three UK number 1s (These Are the Days of Our Lives, Innuendo and Under Pressure) and contributed a further six major hits (Radio Ga Ga, A Kind of Magic, One Vision, Heaven for Everyone, Breakthru and The Invisible Man). Instead, he formed one of the biggest bands in rock history. Watch legendary Sex Pistols gig in Penzance from 40 years ago this weekĮducated at Truro School and a mainstay of many popular Cornish bands of the Sixties including The Reaction, it all changed for Roger Meddows Taylor when he moved to London to study dentistry.Raised in Lanner, educated at Redruth School and changing the face of dance music across the world, Richard James is arguably the world’s biggest cult artist and certainly the most mysterious thanks to a lack of interviews and a well-crafted surreal image.įrom full-on bangers like Digeridoo which heralded the rave and underground dance revolution to albums such as Selected Ambient Works and Drukqs, which took electronic music in a whole new, influential direction, Aphex Twin is one of the planet’s most original musicians. Richard D James alias Aphex Twin APHEX TWIN ![]()
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