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Steve Young, of M/A/R/R/S&#; &#;Pump Up the Volume&#; Fame, Dead
Steve Young, a founding member of influential acid-house trendsetters M/A/R/R/S and electro-pop group Colourbox, has died. Record label 4AD, which put out recordings by both groups, confirmed the news. &#;One of the label&#;s true pioneers, Steven leaves behind an incredible legacy and will forever be in our hearts,&#; the announcement reads. &#;Our thoughts go to his brother Martyn, their family and his friends.&#; The label did not specify a cause of death or his age.
Young co-founded Colourbox in London with his brother and vocalist Lorita Grahame in , and they issued their debut singles, &#;Say You&#; and &#;Punch,&#; in The former song blended soul, reggae and electro-dub sensibilities, while the latter was a more mainstream pop song. They put out an eponymous EP in , which found them blending hip-hop, scratch and reggae and dub, but it was met with a tepid critical reception. A follow-up LP, also named Co • UK musical group Colourbox were an English electronic musical group on the 4AD label, releasing a number of records between and [1] The band was formed by brothers Martyn and Steve Young, Ian Robbins, and vocalist Debbion Currie. Currie and Robbins left the band in , and Lorita Grahame joined as singer. Colourbox stood apart from their then-4AD labelmates&#;– bands such as Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, and This Mortal Coil (although the Young brothers contributed to tracks on the latter project's first two albums It'll End in Tears and Filigree & Shadow).[2][3] Their sound was eclectic, drawing from reggae and soul influences (with covers of tracks by U-Roy and Augustus Pablo released as singles), beat-box driven hip-hop rhythms, blue-eyed soul, as well as a fusion of far-ranging influences spanning from classic R&B, to dub and industrial.[4] Following their debut single "Breakdown" / "Tarantula" • ByDonald Chasein the September-October Issue Not long before she died in at age 57, Gloria Grahame, who had acted in films signed bygd Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, Vincente Minnelli, Elia Kazan, Fritz Lang, and Fred Zinnemann, demolished them all in one sweeping statement. “Those men never directed me,” she told an English stage director with whom she was currently working. “I’d go home and work on it with my mother, then komma in and shoot it, and that would be that.” If she gave credit to anyone other than her mother, a Shakespearean actress-become-Los Angeles-drama coach, it was to Bill Watts, her dialogue director on the Crossfire. A dialogue director's job fryst vatten to learn lines with actors, presumably in accordance with a director’s interpretive notions, but this one apparently did much more with Grahame. Watts, she told the Brit entertainment mag Time Out in , “first made me realize how to play movies. It’s thinking All he did was talk to m
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