We had come, most of us, to pay homage to and enjoy the results of a 26-year career, spanning 21 albums.
John is filmed and interviewed during the recording of Sapphire, at Compass Point studios, Nassau, Bahamas
"The first one's for you," John Martyn told the capacity audience at Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday as he ripped into a song which has become almost his signature tune, May You Never.
01 Aug 1979
Welcome… at last, to Northern Ireland's first major folk festival!
01 Dec 1977
I once saw a girl absolutely cream some poor bastard with a John Martyn record. He'd whispered some lewd suggestion in her ear and she just whipped around and gave him a tremendous shot in the temple with a copy of So Far So Good.
Foster Paterson's finest hour and Island's last massive attempt to push Martyn into the mainstream of popular music.
Matthew Bannister tells the life stories of people who have died recently: Bill Frindall, John Updike, John Martyn, Reg Gutteridge and Angela Morley.
John Martyn's One World (Island L36457) adds another to his tally of impressive albums.
JOHN MARTYN:
"Inside Out" (Island)
Paris - "Orange '75", a three-day rock festival billed as Europe's largest live music event this year, has been planned
Hellraiser John Martyn has played with the best and influenced them all, but a lifetime achievement award still came as a shock. He talks to Pierre Perrone.
Of all the people we've seen this year, one of them, means more to us than any of the others. John Martyn; and his inclusion in Liquorice is both timely and essential. John's music is highly cathartic, and deeply emotive. His personal 'philosophy' of love as the only answer is manifested in a quite remarkable fashion within his superb songs. And coupled with this is his seemingly inborn dislike and mistrust of the music business and its nefarious activities.
bard bon-viveur bullshitter doper entertainer explorer guitarist hero hobo legend lover minstrel musician pathfinder performer picker pioneer pissartist player poet raconteur rambler rhymer romancer singer songwriter talker thinker tripper troubadour trouper trucker tumbler virtuoso wayfarer - and lots of other things too
Yes, that's right. 'Koss' turned up for the final couple of numbers. But there had been ten John Martyn song workouts prior to that, you know, with his voice tumbling along like some kind of crazed tumbleweed and harmonizing with Danny Thompson's rolling stand-up bass and his own staccato guitar patterns.
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Een Europese primeur: John Martyn, één van Engelands meest getalenteerde gitaristen, gaat zich voorgoed in Amerika vestigen. Hij vindt zijn vaderland te klein en bekrompen geworden en vindt er bovendien de laatste tijd niet voldoende werk. Ook gaat het regenachtige klimaat hem op z'n zenuwen werken.
