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Guitarist John Sykes... Rest In Peace

July 29, 1959 - January 20, 2025

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Blue Murder - Cry for Love

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Jemma Redgrave as Gale Francombe

Blue Murder (2000)

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John Sykes 29/07/1959 - 20/01/2025

It is with great sorrow we share that John Sykes has passed away after a hard fought battle with cancer. He will be remembered by many as a man with exceptional musical talent but for those who didn’t know him personally, he was a thoughtful, kind, and charismatic man whose presence lit up the room.

He certainly marched to the beat of his own drum and always pulled for the underdog. In his final days, he spoke of his sincere love and gratitude for his fans who stuck by him through all these years.

While the impact of his loss is profound and the mood somber, we hope the light of his memory will extinguish the shadow of his absence.

[batnbreakfast]

Somebody just started playing Careless Whisper at work and I’m like Pavlov’s dog, immediately thinking of Gale Francombe.

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Monday, May 11: Blue Murder, "Cry for Love"

R.I.P. John Sykes (1959-2024)

John Sykes was relatively unsung among guitar heroes primarily because nobody could tell what he was really going for: he took forever between records on account of his perfectionism, but those albums were often pretty simple save for a few moments of true firepower.  Such was certainly the case with Blue Murder’s second album, which took way too long to come out and shed its core trio for no apparent reason other than Sykes being unable to make up his mind: Nothin’ but Trouble was a fairly streamlined and straightforward affair, but then “Cry for Love” went for epic at 7 minutes and was possibly Sykes’ last great track at least in terms of dynamics and crunch.  The vocals and lyrics were just OK, but man could John Sykes rip on guitar and even if the vaguely tribal interlude and subsequent shredding were mostly pointless both sounded awesome.  The entire tune was held together by the guitar playing, which was amazing and if Sykes learned anything from his time with Whitesnake and Bob Rock it was how to get a kickass guitar sound.  It was just too bad that everything Sykes did after 1987 suggested greater potential.