MayerofLondonThis wonderful photo by Edward Colver shows Gang of Four’s Andy Gill working with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their first album. With the Chilis on tour, music press keep regurgitating old versions of the history relating to Andy and the band. Sorting through Andy’s archive after his death, I found a notebook giving new insights into the production of that album and a famous disagreement https://www.catherinemayer.co.uk/post/history-isn-t-shit-but-some-music-history-might-be-a-startling-find
History Isn't Shit. Some Music History Might Be. A Startling Find about the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Every death drags behinds it a long tail of grief, disruption and sadmin, the painful process of sorting out the messes left by your dear departed. Some of these will be bureaucratic; always there are the physical accretions of life that must be dealt with, the clothes, the belongings, the paperwork. My husband, musician and Gang of Four founder Andy Gill, bequeathed to me an unusual volume of...stuff. It is one year and ten months since my love died, and still I am only in the foothills of wran