RICHIE EDWARDS
May 12, 2011 BIOGRAPHY
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RICHIE EDWARDS – bass
Birthday: 25 September
Favourite The Darkness Song: ‘Bareback’
Favourite The Darkness Gig: Oxegen Festival, Dublin, Ireland (11 July 2004)
3 Desert Island Discs: Queen – Sheer Heart Attack, Queen – A Night At The Opera, Queen – Jazz
Additional Information: While Birmingham – or perhaps more accurately the Black Country as a whole – has fair claim to the monicker “home of rock” due to its status as a melting pot for rock’n'roll popular culture, Richie’s home town of Lichfield has itself a little-known role as the cradle of heavy metal. For it was in a small rock club in Lichfield called The Pokey Hole – don’t look for it, it’s not there anymore – that a jazz-blues band called Earth debuted a new song, one that foreshadowed an auspicious new musical direction. The song? “Black Sabbath”. Their names? Tony, Bill, Ozzy and Geezer. The year was 1969.
Quote: “Let’s have a look at what you could’ve won.” (Jim Bowen, Bullseye)
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