Arthur Lee (musician)

Arthur Lee ( born March 7, 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee; † August 3, 2006 ibid ), actually Arthur Lee Porter or Arthur Taylor Porter, American rock musician, was known as the frontman, songwriter and multi -instrumentalist of the psychedelic rock band Love.

Biography

At a young age Lee moved with his family to Los Angeles. He drew inspiration from music of different styles. He was often compared to Syd Barrett, who confessed his part that Love was a major influence on his band Pink Floyd.

1963 Lee made ​​with the band The LAG 's his first recording. The song My Diary, taken by Rosa Lee Brooks, with Jimi Hendrix as a guitar player, the first written by Lee hit. Other artists had with pieces from Lee's spring hits.

1965 Lee changed the name of his former group The Grass Roots in Love, because there was already another band with the same name. Their third album, Forever Changes (1967 ) is considered a classic of psychedelic rock. On their second album, the title Revelation, who went through a whole plate side was.

In 1970 Arthur Lee a jam session with Jimi Hendrix, which, however, was not published. In 1972, his solo album Vindicator.

Love, meanwhile, was broken to drug problems. Lee revived the band back several times, and then get back to work solo. In 1996 he went to an eight- year sentence for illegal weapons possession. In December 2001 he was released early and began performing again.

He died on August 3, 2006 at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis leukemia.

This and That

In 1997, the band released the title of Make-Up Free Arthur Lee, published in 1998 Hopkirk & Lee to a song of the same name. The title was also used as a slogan on t -shirts. In 2003, the band released The Dachshund 5, the album included the title of Arthur Lee, Belmondo, You & Me.

Bibliography

  • Ken Brooks: Arthur Lee: Love Story
  • Barney Hoskins: Arthur Lee: Alone Again Or

Discography

With Love

Studio albums

  • Love, 1966
  • Da Capo, 1967
  • Forever Changes, 1967 - re-releases in 2001 and finally in 2008 as a Deluxe Double CD
  • Four Sail, 1969
  • Out Here, 1969
  • False Start
  • Reel to Real, 1975

Live albums

  • Love Live, 1980 ( concert 1978)
  • Studio / Live - Second page of a live concert from 1970, 1982
  • The Forever Changes Concert, 2003

Compilations

  • Best of Love, Rhino Records, 1980
  • Love Story 1966-1972, 1995
  • Love - She Comes in Colors, 2005 ( Warner Music)

Singles

  • My Little Red Book / A Message To Pretty, 1966
  • 7 and 7 Is b / w No. Fourteen, 1966
  • She Comes In Colors / Orange Skies, 1966
  • Que Vida / Hey Joe 1967
  • Alone Again Or / A House Is Not A Motel, 1967
  • Your Mind and We Belong Together b / w Laughing Stock, 1968
  • Girl on Fire b / w Midnight Sun, 1994

Other

  • Arthur Lee and Love, 1992

Solo

  • Vindicator (1972 )
  • Arthur Lee ( 1981)
  • Black Beauty (1997)
  • Electrically Speaking (2001)
  • Rock musician
  • American musician
  • Born in 1945
  • Died in 2006
  • Man
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