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Last week, we heard the sad news of Liverpool-born singer-songwriter Colin Vearncombe’s death in a car accident at the age of just 53. Back in 2013, Vearncombe, aka Black, whose prolific career spanned four decades and is best known for his timeless classic song Wonderful Life, talked to SuperDeluxeEdition editor Paul Sinclair. Crack Code Composer Studio V3 3 Free Download more. We publish that interview here for the first time in tribute to a distinctively talented musician First, a little bit of backstory. It wasn’t so long ago that the SuperDeluxeEdition blog was a labour of love that I squeezed in around my day job.
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It was about as much as I could manage then just to keep up with writing new stories around forthcoming box-set releases. As I was still establishing it, even the record companies that had heard of SDE rarely offered me interviews with artists, and even if they did, I didn’t always have the time to take them up on the opportunity or had to squeeze them around other commitments (I conducted with Stephen Street in my lunch break, in a busy open-plan office environment while freelancing as a graphic designer). So it was when I got a call from a PR company in March 2013 about interviewing Colin Vearncombe, the voice of Black. He was promoting a two-CD deluxe edition of his 1987 Wonderful Life album. I knew the title track (which Vearncombe wrote as an ironic comment on his situation, after being dropped from his first major record deal with WEA), really liked the first single off the album, Everything’s Coming Up Roses, and had already written a short of the reissue for this site.
While Vearncombe had never replicated the commercial success of Wonderful Life, he’d remained extremely productive in the years since, releasing a dozen more albums either as Black or under his own name. It seemed like he might have an interesting story to tell, and, fortunately, we were able to set up a phone interview at a mutually convenient time when he was available and I wasn’t at work. The story, as told by Vearncombe, proved to be more than interesting. But somehow, despite finding the time to have a great conversation with the man, I never got around to transcribing, editing and publishing the interview. It ended up in a ‘to do’ pile and was, unfortunately, forgotten about.
It was only when the terrible news came through a couple of weeks ago that Vearncombe was in a critical condition in hospital following a car accident near Cork Airport, that I was reminded of this ‘lost’ interview and searched for and, thankfully, found the audio among my files. Listening to the recording again, I was struck by what a friendly, thoughtful and highly articulate interviewee Vearncombe was, flitting between self-deprecation in discussing his brush with pop stardom in the Eighties to hilariously irreverent swipes at everyone from to to, er, Sam Fox. Game Dev Story Pc English there.
He talked then about “enjoying life more now than I have ever enjoyed it” which makes his premature passing seem even more cruel. But in the words from Vearncombe’s most famous song (which were borrowed to conclude the statement on his website that announced his passing): No need to laugh or cry, It’s a wonderful, wonderful life. And, clearly, Vearncombe’s was a life well lived This previously unpublished interview was conducted on 11 April 2013 SuperDeluxeEdition: You were on a few independent labels early in your career. Were you quite happy working with independents like Ugly Man [with whom Vearncombe first released Wonderful Life in 1985; it was re-released by A&M in 1987], or desperate to get another major deal after WEA? Colin Vearncombe: I wish I could say I had a shape or a plan in my head, but I was just focused on succeeding, and that, for me, meant making a living at music.
Then of course if you reach that point, you’re looking for the next point, which is a probably a bit higher, bigger, wider, longer etc. In 1981 I was 19, I’d just left home.
God knows how, but we managed to get a single [ Human Features] together – that’s going to reappear in a month or two, actually – Cherry Red are putting together a four-CD compilation of roots of indie music. Bizarrely, they’ve asked about that track which made almost no impact at the time.