Sigh. I'm getting a bit tired of saying it, but "another piece of my formative years has gone".
Alan Rankine, the quiet-yet-sexy-one (inevitably in the background, behind the gorgeous and charismatic Billy MacKenzie [read my tribute to him from 2017]) in one of my obsessively-overplayed-bands-in-the-80s The Associates has also departed these shores, aged just 64. 'Tis a worrying trend.
By way of a tribute, let's just wallow, shall we, in the operatic majesty of Mr Rankine and Mr MacKenzie's magnum opus - one of my favourite songs ever!
RIP, Alan Rankine (17 May 1958 – January 2023)
