He was the leader of the band’s most politicized of the new wave scene English. The guitarist Andy Gill , founder of Gang of Four , has died in a London hospital at the age of 64 years after a brief respiratory illness contracted in the last autumn, during the tour in Asia. He was born in Manchester on the 1st of January 1956, but he formed his own band in Leeds, along with three other university students Jon King vocals, Dave Allen on bass and Hugo Burnham on drums).

in The aftermath of the revolution punk, Gang of Four, whose political involvement was clear from the name, they wrote an important page in the construction of the new musical aesthetic of the late 70s, proposing a punk funk and a dry, angular, connecting the power of sound to content that is strongly related to the theories of marxist. Their debut album Entertainment! 1979 he quickly became one of the main references for all of the exciting new wave: while not obtaining a particular commercial success, the record has exerted a great influence on so many musicians, from Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain until Red Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine and Franz Ferdinand.

Together with the Gang of Four, Gill has recorded 10 albums reaching the apex of creativity of the first two works: the previously mentioned Entertainment! and the next Solid Gold 1981, more granitic, and angular as the previous one. The last work of the group, Happy now, is 2019. Gill was also the producer of other artists and bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Stranglers, Futureheads, Michael Hutchence, Killing Joke and The Young Knives. He was the one to take care of the debut album of the 1984 of the same Red Hot.

the announcement of The death, which occurred yesterday, has been given to you on social networks by his band mates, Thomas McNeice, John Sterry and Tobias Humble: “it is Not easy to give this news but our friend and Supreme Leader, is dead”. On Twitter they then wrote: “The last tour of Andy in November it was his way to say goodbye: with a Stratocaster neck, screaming with feedback, and deafening the first file”. Until the last Andy Gill has planned, from his hospital bed, the stages of the next tour, listening to the mixes of the new album.

“This pain is the price of great joy, almost three decades with the best man in the world,” he wrote his wife, Catherine Mayer on Twitter.

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