Stuart Adamson found dead!

[Monty]

Lead singer of Big Country (big 80s group for all youngsters) has been found dead in the US. He was only 43. Been battling the booze for years apparently. Sad. :(

Good live band - remember seeing them a few times at the Hammersmith Odeon (yes it was called that before the Labatt's Apollo or whatever stupid name it has these days)

[Smurph]

Stuart Adamson of Big Country and the Skids has been found dead in the Hawaii. Very sad.

Full story from BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1715000/1715792.stm)

[Smurph]

Monty got there a minute before me, please merge!

[Monty]

Yeah - but you were clever enough to post a link Smurph which gives people a fuller story.

Its so sad, his poor son :(

[colinT]

very sad - Big Country were a brilliant live band - saw them a few times along with the Skids

[biggus mickus]

Another piece of my puzzle has gone!!
The Skids, and Big Country were very good live bands.
Having seen both on a few occasions, he will be missed.
For the younger lads and lasses on here.
He played very good guitar, and had strong vocals.
In a time that music ment more, than now.

Last got to see Big Country at the High Rocks in Tunny Wells.

Stuart Adamson.
R.I.P


:( :( :(

[A.D.]

Very tragic. A talented guy.

Big Country were a superb live band - it was at one of their gigs when I first crowd surfed.

[firesign]

OMG!

Very, very sad. I was a big Skids fan and Big Country too. Great musician, singer and songwriter. Late 70's early 80s was a great time for me and much of his stuff was brilliant and shamefully is always overlooked in all those nostalgic tv programmes. Remember the check shirts!!!

Really, really sad. :(

RIP

[biggus mickus]

Maybe the record company will release a Best of CD.
My "skids" vinyl is a bit scrubbed out.
I am very sad at his death.
I keep losing bits of my puzzle.
The more pieces I loose, the harder to it is to see the picture.:(

[biggus mickus]

Stuart Adamson.

[Maidstoned Eagle]

Superb bands, great player, a sad loss.

[Matty]

Very sad. The only reason I could listen to a track called "into the valley" was that is was so good.

[biggus mickus]

I just found out, he had been on the missing list sinse the 9th of December.
Had not been well for six months or so.
Leaves two teenage kids behind.
Messed up next years tour a bit.
With the Alarm as well.:( :(

[Neil the Eagle]

Jesus wept - Ian, Sweet Kirsty, now Dunfermline's finest - the last couple of years have really taken their toll on my teenage heroes.

To think I was only listening to Fields of Fire yesterday.

RIP Stuart and thank you for the music...

[lightweight]

heard this on the news earlier, very sad, and his poor kids. :(

Stuart Adamson, lead singer and guitarist of '80s pop band Big Country, was found dead in a Hawaii hotel room Sunday, according to the band's manager, Ian Grant.
A Honolulu hotel employee discovered Adamson's body at approximately 1:15 p.m. local time, according to the police report. On Monday (December 17), the medical examiner determined the cause of death to be asphyxiation due to hanging.
Adamson, 43, inexplicably left his Nashville home November 7, and missing persons reports were filed there and in Atlanta, where he watched a soccer match on November 15, according to reports posted on the Web site of Big Country's label, Track Records, which is owned and operated by Grant. Adamson struggled with alcoholism, a battle that grew more severe in the last six months, Grant said on the band's official Web site.
The singer informed his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor on November 19 that he was going to Clarksville, Tennessee. He never arrived, and that was the last anyone heard from him.
On the cusp of the early '80s video revolution along with Duran Duran, Men at Work and Wang Chung, Scotland's Big Country were distinctive for the bagpipe-like guitar lines and melodic jig woven through "Fields of Fire (400 Miles)" and "In a Big Country," their breakthrough top 20 single off their 1983 debut, The Crossing. In 1985 they performed at the legendary Live Aid benefit concert in London's Wembley Stadium, as part of a lineup that also featured Sting, Elvis Costello and U2.
Though they would never again achieve the critical and commercial success of their debut, the quartet issued more than two dozen records, including live albums, since the group formed in 1981, upon Adamson's leaving new wave quartet the Skids. Big Country's latest effort, Undercover, an LP of cover tunes, was released in May, after the group broke up in 2000 and Adamson formed the Raphaels.
Big Country's last studio album of original material was 1999's Driving to Damascus. In all, they sold more than 10 million albums worldwide.

[AJ1969]

:o :o :o :o :o


Originally posted by Matty
Very sad. The only reason I could listen to a track called "into the valley" was that is was so good.

[firesign]

Would have been 50 today.

In a big country, dreams stay with you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw2o_Go4QWI

[Dave]

I didn't know he was dead and I was actually thinking about big country the other day

[Baffled Bob 2]

Hmmm. Guitars as bagpipes.

Surely that's overdue a revival.

[Sluggo]

If this is going to turn into a Stuart Adamson memorial/memory thread then I'll start with the most tenuous.

My mate Jim was (and probably still is) a hugh Big Country fan. He can't drive so he travelled all around the UK (including Northern Ireland) on public transport to get to as many gigs on their final tour as he could. He even got to their last gig in Barrowlands in Glasgow, which is a long way from Gosport on a bus! If I remember rightly that was only a few months before Adamson died.

[Big Gav]

Strange this thread has resurfaced as I was watching a few Skids & Big Country videos on Youtube a couple of days back. Saw Big Country at the Hammersmith Odeon back in the 80's, very good band live

[DANGERMOUSE]

Armchair Fan and another mate of mine were in an excellent country/rock band with Stuart's son.

Sadly, they are now a disband. :(

[Maidstoned Eagle]

He was a sad loss. As was tmjwat who contributed to this thread. :(

[917L]

Originally posted by Maidstoned Eagle
He was a sad loss. As was tmjwat who contributed to this thread. :(

:(

[Psychokiller]

I like it when the odd post of Tim's pops up every now and then. Keeps him in the memory.

[Maidstoned Eagle]

Originally posted by Psychokiller
I like it when the odd post of Tim's pops up every now and then. Keeps him in the memory.

Very true PK. Still miss him on here.

[Men At Work]

I have a mate by the same name. Gave me a start when I saw the thread re-appear.

It is nice to see Tim's posts again.

[Duffle Coat]

Co-incidence or what ? I always walk to the shop nearest our home to buy some bread rolls. I listen to my mp3 player, a podcast usually but today, the first song I heard was In a Big Country. I love his voice. The big sound of the band is also terrific. I was just surprised when I saw this thread coming up in the light of my listening experience and being unaware of the day that was in it.

[Duffle Coat]

Well, sorry, nearly the day that was in it.:clown:

[<_tece_>]

Awesome band, awesome tunes.

[Stellavista]

Originally posted by <_tece_>
Awesome band, awesome tunes.


Make electric guitars sound like bagpipes?
What a f*cking horrible idea.........:o

[kabbott]

I saw the Skids' first ever concert in London at the Marquee and a fair few times after that too. A load of nutty Scots from Dunfermline used to follow them around the country. Great times.
From the Big Country times up to this very day my wardrobe has always been full of those check shirts!