Stephen Luscombe, the English multi-instrumentalist greatest referred to as the founding keyboardist for Nineteen Eighties synth-pop band Blancmange, has died. He was 70 years previous. His bandmate Neil Arthur confirmed the information on social media in the present day, merely writing: “Heartbroken. RIP Stephen. Love you eternally.” A reason behind loss of life has not been revealed, however Luscombe opted to go away Blancmange in 2011 after he suffered an stomach aortic aneurysm.
Luscombe was born in Middlesex, England on October twenty ninth, 1954. He studied on the College Of Westminster’s Harrow College Of Artwork in London. Whereas residing in London, Luscombe and Arthur shaped Blancmange together with Laurence Stevens in 1979. Stevens left the band shortly thereafter, however Luscombe and Arthur continued as a duo, naming their band after the eponymous dessert. Their preliminary breakthrough got here in 1981 when the label Some Bizzare included their track “Unhappy Day” on Some Weird Album, a compilation album that additionally included songs from fellow synth-pop legends-to-be like Depeche Mode, The The, and Gentle Cell.
Blancmange’s debut album Completely happy Households arrived in 1982. It reached high 40 on the UK album charts, and contained profitable singles like “God’s Kitchen,” “I’ve Seen The Phrase,” “Really feel Me,” and their greatest hit “Residing On The Ceiling.” Their sophomore album Mange Tout was launched in 1984 and cracked the highest 10, however its 1985 follow-up Imagine You Me didn’t carry out almost as properly commercially, prompting Blancmange to amicably break up the next 12 months. After Blancmange’s breakup, Luscombe teamed up with the musicians Pandit Dinesh, Peter Culshaw, Priya Khajuria, and Asha Bhosle for an album of Indian-influenced music referred to as New Demons, launched in 1989.
Blancmange reunited 1 / 4 of a century later with Blanc Burn, their fourth studio album, in 2011. However their comeback was thwarted when Luscombe suffered an aneurysm, forcing him to go away the band. Arthur selected to proceed Blancmange as a solo challenge, occurring to launch over a dozen studio albums. Again in Might, Blancmange performed their first exhibits on North American soil in over 40 years, kicking off with an look at Merciless World Pageant in Pasadena.
Revisit a few of Luscombe’s work with Blancmange under.
