Terry Reid, the British rock singer and songwriter, who turned down affords to entrance Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple to embark on a solo profession that earned him the nickname Superlungs, has died. Cleopatra Data shared the information in an e-mail, and Reid’s consultant gave affirmation to The Guardian. No reason for demise was given, however Reid had been elevating funds as he obtained remedy for well being points together with most cancers. He was 75 years outdated.
Terrance James “Terry” Reid grew up within the British county of Cambridgeshire, the place he shaped his first band, the Redbeats, as a youngster. After they supported Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers, Reid was invited to hitch the extra established group. He was 16 once they joined the the Rolling Stones on tour, as a part of a assist invoice alongside Ike & Tina Turner and the Yardbirds.
When the Jaywalkers cut up in 1967, Reid went solo, recorded early albums Bang, Bang You’re Terry Reid and 1969’s self-titled, and accepted an invite to hitch the Rolling Stones on two forthcoming excursions. The Yardbirds have been additionally within the midst of a cut up, and Jimmy Web page, impressed by Reid’s performances with the Jaywalkers, invited him to entrance a brand new band he was forming—quickly to turn out to be Led Zeppelin. As Reid thought of the supply, he watched Robert Plant and John Bonham carry out as Band of Pleasure and steered Web page rent them as a substitute. “It was an ideal mixture,” Reid advised The Unbiased in 2007. “Who’s to say what would have occurred if Jim and I had obtained a band? It might need been a bloody failure.”
Deep Purple repeatedly requested Reid to switch their outgoing lead singer the next yr, however, by then, Reid was centered on his solo profession. After a celebrated efficiency on the first Glastonbury pageant, in 1970, he believed his time would include the discharge of his new album, River. However when he delivered the completed LP—now a cult basic—to Atlantic, the label noticed little attraction in its borderless mixture of rock, blues, soul, funk, and Latin rhythms. Their reluctance to advertise the album helped confine Reid to an underground standing that caught with subsequent albums Seed of Reminiscence and Rogue Waves.
The following a long time entailed scattered work as a session musician, figuring out of his adopted house of Santa Monica. He briefly re-emerged in 1991 with The Driver, a Trevor Horn–produced album that Reid got here to hate and whose title monitor, a collaboration with Hans Zimmer, was rejected because the theme tune of Days of Thunder. He returned to front-of-stage within the 2000s, when he started a residency at Los Angeles the Joint with drop-in appearances from pals resembling Robert Plant—who mentioned on stage that Reid “might have had [his] life”—Keith Richards, and Bobby Womack.
