Kate Bush has paid a touching tribute to her late bassist and buddy, John Giblin.
The pair labored collectively for a number of years, starting with the pair of 1980 hits ‘Babooshka’ and ‘Respiratory’.
John – who additionally carried out and recorded with the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, and Annie Lennox – sadly handed away aged 71 on Could 14, “after battling sickness”, his collaborators within the band Osibisa confirmed in a social media assertion.
And 64-year-old singer recalled having “enormous quantities of enjoyable working with the gifted musician.
In a put up on her web site, Kate shared: “Everybody beloved John. He was a extremely stunning man in each sense of the phrase. Everyone wished to work with him as a result of he was such an excellent expertise and everybody wished to be his buddy as a result of he was such an exquisite individual.
“I beloved John so very a lot. He was certainly one of my very dearest and closest pals for over forty years. We have been all the time there for one another. He was very particular. I beloved working with him, not simply because he was such a rare musician however as a result of he was all the time enormous quantities of enjoyable.”
She went on: “We’d typically chortle a lot that we needed to simply give in to it and sit and roar with laughter for some time. He beloved to be pushed in a musical context, and it was actually thrilling to really feel him cross that line and discover extremely beautiful musical phrases that have been solely there for him. He would actually sing. It was such a pleasure and an inspiration to see the place he may take it.
“We’ve all misplaced an excellent man, an unmatchable musician and I’ve misplaced my very particular buddy. My world won’t ever be the identical once more with out him. Kate.”
John took over from Derek Forbes as bass participant in Easy Minds in 1985, and appeared on three of the ‘Don’t You (Neglect About Me)’ group’s albums.
In the meantime, Kate is about to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in Brooklyn, New York on November 3.
