Celebrating Roy Ayers aka Roy Edward Ayers Jr., 10th September 1940 to 4th March 2025.
News broke on Thursday that Roy had been added to the already significant toll of musicians this year. Barely into the third month of 2025 and already we've lost Angie Stone, Albert 'Junior' Lowe, Bill Fay, Chris Jasper, David Johansen, Gerry Arling, Gwen Macrae, Jamie Muir, Jane McGarrigle, Jerry Butler, Ken Parker, Marianne Faithfull, Mike Ratledge, Peter Yarrow, Roberta Flack, Sam Moore...too many, yet so many I've not even listed here.
I was at a gig on Thursday night and, unexpectedly, Roy's passing was acknowledged with a cover of this song.
Liquid Love was written and recorded with Sylvia Cox on vocals sometime between 1976 and 1981. Incredibly, it remained unreleased until the 20th Century, when it appeared on the Virgin Ubiquity II compilation in 2005.
As it will (hopefully still) be Bandcamp Friday when you read this, I'm happy to report that you can obtain a copy of the 2023 single release, backed with What’s the T?, on digital and 7" vinyl.
If that's not enough Ayers for you, then BBE has also reissued Virgin Ubiquity II (Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981). Shiny discs are long gone, but you can still get the digital and rather lovely triple vinyl formats, featuring Liquid Love and a dozen other gems.
Note (1): Gig review to follow, and hopefully there won't be a month-long wait this time, as for poor John Grant.
Note (2): As I doing final edits on this post, I also discovered another grim addition to the 2025 toll: Brian James of The Damned passed on 6th March. I will come back to this in another post.
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