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Frank Lampard equalises for Manchester City against Her Cold War song cycle ‘ Oh Moscow’ , written with Sally Potter, was performed Chelsea: how Twitter reacted round the world Stamford Hill council removes 'unacceptable' posters telling PIERRE PERRONE Friday 04 October 2013 women which side of the road to walk down # TWEET m SHARE Shares: 51 Kim Kardashian 'nude photos' leaked on 4chan weeks after Jennifer Lawrence scandal In the belated rush to celebrate the 40 th anniversary of Virgin Records there has been a tendency to forget the groundbreaking Hitler’s former food taster acts who were signed to Richard Branson’s label in the mid- reveals the horrors of the W olf s Lair 1970s. The bassoonist and oboist Lindsay Cooper was a member of the British avant-rock group Henry Cow, whose unusual, experimental approach took them to the outer edges of PROMOTED STORIES progressive music and tree-form improvisation and earned them Recommended by a strong following on the Continent. They toured with Virgin label mates Captain Beefheart, Gong Jacqueline Bisset: INDEPENDENT IMAGES and Robert Wyatt and recorded four studio albums with Cooper, Why are young including Unrest in 1974, and Desperate Straights and In Praise women obsessed with being 'hot'? Of Learning, both in partnership with Slap Happy, the following year. Cooper also made memorable contributions to Hergest Ridge, Mike Oldfield’s 1974 follow-up to his Tubular Bells debut whose success established the Virgin brand, as well as two key 1975 Virgin releases, Fish Rising, the first solo album by the Gong guitarist Steve Hillage, and The Rotters’ Club, the second album by the Canterbury scene band Hatfield and the North All Blacks player which inspired the Jonathan Coe novel of the same name. has late night drinking session, Henry Cow broke up after issuing the Henry Cow Concerts misses flight, has double set in 1976 and Western Culture, the 1978 instrumental best excuse ever @ NOW AVAILABLE ON: album on which Cooper blossomed as a composer, coming up ANDROID, with half the material, notably “V2 The Sky”, a nod to Chairman iPAD, iPHONE, AND KINDLE FIRE Mao’s dictum “Women hold up half the sky.”

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View the latest from iJobs Born in Hornsey, north London, in 1951, Cooper began playing the piano in her teens but became fascinated by the bassoon. She DAY IN A PAGE studied at the Dartington College of Arts in Devon and at the Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Royal College and Royal Academy of Music in London and went [ 22 j } I September t | } 2014 t ] fccT) on to play with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for Nigel Farage three years. reacts to Scottish vote - London Live She seemed set for a classical career, but changed her approach to music-making while spending a year in New York. After her return to the UK she joined Comus, a progressive folk band loosely allied to the Canterbury scene, and added flute and oboe to help broaden their sound. She left in 1972, though she contributed to their second album, To Keep From Crying, in 'Nude' cycling 1974. By then, while working on a theatre project, she had met kit controversy Fred Frith (guitar, violin) and Tim Hodgkinson (organ, piano), who had started Henry Cow while at Cambridge and had been joined by Chris Cutler (drums), John Greaves (bass) and Geoff Leigh (woodwinds), whom she replaced after the group’s t973 debut, Legend. Arsene Using the facilities at The Manor, Virgin’s residential studio in Wenger defends Oxfordshire, Henry Cow relied on tape manipulation and Mesut Ozil improvisation to complete Unrest, on which Cooper shone Recommended by despite having just had her wisdom teeth extracted. They teamed up with the more song-based Slapp Happy, comprising vocalist Dagmar Krause, guitarist and singer Peter Blegvad and pianist Anthony Moore, for the formidable Desperate Straights and the G NOW AVAILABLE ON: intense In Praise Of Learning, whose cover nailed their left-wing ANDROID, iPAD, iPHONE, colours to the mast with a blood red variation on the paint sock AND KINDLE FIRE design created by artist Ray Smith

The Hamburg-born Krause was the only one who elected to continue with Henry Cow, bringing 1930s cabaret into what was already a heady equation. Though they recorded several John Peel sessions and influenced bands like The Fall and Sonic Youth, Henry Cow were never big in Britain. Following their dissolution, Cooper collaborated with Cutler, Frith and Krause in Art Bears, and worked with National Health, the Mike Syria: Descent into Westbrook Orchestra and David Thomas of Pere Ubu fame. the abyss

An unforgettable Her 1980 solo album Rags evolved out of another film project, anthology of The Song of the Shirt, about the sweatshops of Victorian London, contemporary reportage directed by Sue Clayton and Jonathan Curling. It combined traditional songs and new material and chimed with Cooper’s political beliefs. In the mid-’8os she also played on The Last Nightingale, a mini-album recorded by Henry Cow alumni to benefit the striking miners. Around the same time the News From Babel project reunited her with Cutler and Krause for two critically acclaimed albums. Gone Girl review: 'Slippery, deceptive and immensely Given her reputation outside the British Isles and her pleasurable' international outlook, it was fitting that she did some of her best Ben Affleck and work abroad. Her Cold War song-cycle Oh Moscow, written with Rosamund Pike excel in Potter, premiered at the 1987 Zurich Jazz Festival and was David Fincher's film, says Geoffrey Macnab performed around the world. While residing in Australia in the early 1990s she collaborated with the Australian singer, writer and director Robyn Archer on the Gulf War critique Sahara Dust. In 1992 she wrote and performed Songs For Bassoon and Orchestra with the Bologna Opera House Orchestra. The same year she composed Face In The Crowd and Can Of Worms for San Francisco’s Rova Saxophone Quartet. NFL fans return shirts and call for Though Cooper was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the late sponsor boycott over domestic 1970s, she didn’t reveal her condition as she thought it would violence affect the way her music was perceived. She was forced to retire in the late ’90s but her compositions are still performed today and used for dance, exhibitions and art installations. She will be remembered as an inspirational figure.

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