RIP - Denny Laine

bertie

always remember him as "the moody" one in Wings 

(and I wrote that with no pun intended)

hollywoodrox

Oh no  can’t believe it . I seem to recall Paul bought his writing credits for mull of kintyre off him for not much ,compared to how much it made . RIP Denny 

blobb

Mates with my mum when he was in The Diplomats with Bev Bevan. She knew him as Brian Hines.

Hootsmon

We've already said....

Philly_Q

Slightly shocked by this, although I suppose I shouldn't be, they're all getting old now.  RIP.

Kittyfrisk

Gone Now.
 RIP.

scrumhalf

A man with the balls to play in a band called Balls.

RIP. 

WYNIR0

RIP Band on the Run is one of my all time favourite albums.

DrCornelius

WYNIR0 said:

RIP Band on the Run is one of my all time favourite albums.

I’ll say it quietly but Wings are a real guilty pleasure of mine 

RIP

bertie

WYNIR0 said:

RIP Band on the Run is one of my all time favourite albums.

whenever I hear tracks from that album - particularly the title track,  immediately transports me to a certain time and place.  It was always being played at our local youth club.............

WYNIR0

bertie said:

WYNIR0 said:

RIP Band on the Run is one of my all time favourite albums.

whenever I hear tracks from that album - particularly the title track,  immediately transports me to a certain time and place.  It was always being played at our local youth club.............

I get that completely. Sat on the back seat of my dads car with him playing the tape. Rothmans smoke drifting over me. 

DavidR

Always felt he was a counterpoint to Paul McCartney's tendency to be a bit wishy-washy on occasions and provided a bit of rock 'n' roll heft into some Wings tracks. Might be wrong. He and Linda and Paul were the 3 long-term members of Wings. Band on The Run a great album but otherwise was not all plain sailing; Red Rose Speedway was pretty bad and Back to the Egg not a huge lot better. The only other album of theirs I have on vinyl is London Town and that's not bad.

Anyway, good musician, and always seemed like a nice man. RIP.

JAYJO

DavidR said:

Always felt he was a counterpoint to Paul McCartney's tendency to be a bit wishy-washy on occasions and provided a bit of rock 'n' roll heft into some Wings tracks. Might be wrong. He and Linda and Paul were the 3 long-term members of Wings. Band on The Run a great album but otherwise was not all plain sailing; Red Rose Speedway was pretty bad and Back to the Egg not a huge lot better. The only other album of theirs I have on vinyl is London Town and that's not bad.

Anyway, good musician, and always seemed like a nice man. RIP.

London Town...thats a tune ive not heard for years...never knew what a Rozzer was...

57Deluxe

I already thought he had Gone Now....

BillDL

I recall buying a guitar tuition book by Denny Laine in 1979.  It depicted the fretting hand with different brightly coloured fingernails and accompanying chord charts with corresponding coloured dots, stars, and moon shaped icons to show different inversions of the chord.  I can't recall how much I learned from the book, but from what I do remember the fingernail and finger placement colours were quite a good idea for beginners.  It was only in later years that I learned how well regarded he was by fellow musicians and people that had been exposed to his playing a lot more than I had been.