portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Monday, July 22, 2013

 OSIBISA! Yeah!

A fine fine band we saw a lot way back at the time of Reading Festival when we met Sparticus R stalking through the crowd like some hallucination in his own right and an introduction to African Feel Good Music par excellence - pals went too to see them at TOTP when we knew JS was just some weird creepy guy. . . .  Lets strike a doobie and get into the music! Woyaya!


We are going
Heaven knows where we are going
We will know we're there
We will get there
Heaven knows how we will get there
We know we will
It will be hard we know
And the road will be muddy and rough
But we'll get there
Heaven knows how we will get there
We know we will
We are going
Heaven knows where we are going
We will know we're there

The musician and author Spartacus R., one of the founding members of the acclaimed 70s band Osibisa,  passed away on 30 July 2010 after battling cancer. He was 61.
Born Roy Bedeau in Aruba, West Indies, Spartacus moved to London with his family at the age of 12.   His musical career began in earnest in 1969 as a founder member of Osibisa, where he played bass guitar, percussion and vocals.

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