Anita Baker
Anita Baker
1994 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
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Tony Kaye on His Years With Yes, David Bowie, and Badfinger
Tony Kaye on His Years With Yes, David Bowie, and Badfinger
The keyboardist is a founding member of Yes and backed Bowie on the legendary Station to Station tour
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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features keyboardist Tony Kaye.
Those from Pietermaritzburg and Mpumalanga townships will understand.
The message about the Filtane family reminds me of Sbongiseni (Sbobo), with whom we shared a dormitory in 1992.
One morning Mr Sangweni, the principal of Ohlange High School, summoned Sbobo to his office to tell him that his entire family had been killed by amabutho because his relative was a suspected “iphekula zikhuni (communist terrorist)” – sometimes, just wearing a red top made you a suspected terrorist, even if it did say “Be my Valentine”.
The killing squad had put nails into the doors and windows, and burnt the house. Hundreds of shots were fired into the doors and windows as Sbobo’s family screamed for help inside the burning house.