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Author Topic: Solomon Burke Dies at Amsterdam Airport at 70  (Read 4321 times)
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« on: October 10, 2010, 01:58:26 AM »
We've lost the Bishop of Soul, the greatest living soul singer, the great Solomon Burke, at 70:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11843594
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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2010, 03:41:42 AM »
That's a bummer...

He had just recorded an album with Dutch pop group 'De Dijk', "Hold On Tight" (which contains songs from this Dutch group translated in English). Just entered the local charts on #2 this week.

Check out their recently released single "What A Woman": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVwKawBbcno
(and here's another track: Het Moet En Het Zal (Enough Is Enough): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvCL3wYBvac&feature=channel)

They were supposed to give a (sold out) concert together in Amsterdam this Tuesday...
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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2010, 03:58:16 AM »
Very sad. Lost another great one !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEu8DrO9PbY
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« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2010, 11:16:34 AM »
The first one to record and release "Soul searchin'"

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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2010, 04:45:48 AM »
Sad story. Apparently he passed away whilst on the plane, that had just landed. Everything about him was just huge, including his, erm, fertility. Loved the man. Such a warm voice...
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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2010, 05:34:22 AM »
There was The Genius of Soul (Ray Charles), The Godfather of Soul (James Brown), The Nucleus of Soul (O.V. Wright), and then there was The Bishop of Soul (Solomon Burke). Now they are all dead.  Sad
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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2010, 09:41:09 PM »
I just now read this. In the last decade or so, there were only two people who were truly the best of the best. Wilson Pickett and Solomon Burke. Three, if you count Levi Stubbs, although he was incapacitated by a stroke for many years before he died. They are all gone now.
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« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2010, 02:04:31 PM »
Quote from: GoogaMooga on October 12, 2010, 05:34:22 AM
There was The Genius of Soul (Ray Charles), The Godfather of Soul (James Brown), The Nucleus of Soul (O.V. Wright), and then there was The Bishop of Soul (Solomon Burke). Now they are all dead.  Sad

Sad indeed, but their soul (music) will never die Afro

They will be listened to and remembered for many many years to come.
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