Tony Oxley (drummer for John McLaughlin, Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, Gavin Bryars etc.)
William Friedkin
Les McCann
Trugoy the Dove (De La Soul rapper/co-founder)
Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker (Killing Joke guitarist)
Trevor Francis
John Pilger
Jean Boht
Fred White (drummer with Earth, Wind & Fire)
Dick Fontaine (pioneering documentary director)
Paul Watson (documentary pioneer and director of ‘The Family’, ‘The Fishing Party’, ‘Rain In My Heart’ etc.)
Shane MacGowan
Mark Stewart
Burt Bacharach
Wayne Shorter
Jerry Moss (co-founder of A&M Records)
Alan Rankine
Barrett Strong (co-composer of ‘Money’, ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’, ‘Papa Was A Rolling Stone’, ‘Wherever I Lay My Hat That’s My Home’)
Bruce Gowers (video and documentary director)
Carlos Garnett (saxophonist with Miles Davis, Art Blakey etc.)
Jim Gordon (drummer with Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, Derek And The Dominoes etc.)
Sinéad O’Connor
Tom Verlaine
Jeff Beck
Hugh Hudson
Sylvia Syms
Shirley Anne Field
Tony Coe (saxophonist)
Fuzzy Haskins (Parliament/Funkadelic vocalist/drummer)
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Fay Weldon
Ahmad Jamal
Carl Davis
Dickie Davies
Piper Laurie
Barry Humphries
Francis Monkman (keyboardist for Sky/Kate Bush, ‘The Long Good Friday’ soundtrack composer)
Tina Turner
John Giblin
Terry Venables
Pete Brown (poet, musician and lyricist of Cream’s ‘Sunshine Of Your Love’/’I Feel Free’/’White Room’)
John Motson
Astrud Gilberto
Baroness Betty Boothroyd
Benjamin Zephaniah
Ray Shulman (Gentle Giant bassist, producer of The Sundays, Sugarcubes and Ian McCulloch)
Ryan O’Neal
Seymour Stein
Mo Foster (bassist with Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Ringo, Gerry Rafferty etc.)
Glenda Jackson
Martin Amis
Bishan Singh Bedi (cricketer)
George Winston (Windham Hill pianist)
Robbie Robertson
Michael Lerner
Raquel Welch
Frances Sternhagen
Joseph ‘Amp’ Fiddler (keyboardist with George Clinton, Prince, Seal, Maxwell, Charles & Eddie)
Peter Brötzmann
Richard Roundtree
Richard Davis (jazz bassist)
David McCallum
Sir Michael Gambon
Jamie Reid (punk pioneer and designer of The Sex Pistols’ iconic covers)
John Marshall (drummer for Soft Machine, Nucleus, Eberhard Weber etc.)
Carla Bley
Alan Arkin
Wishing all of my readers a healthy 2024, with loads of cash.