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It's true what James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers once said: "You realise you were listening to a new version of rock and roll." Read more: Punk pioneer relaunches groundbreaking band in CornwallĬelebrated for his use of arpeggios, string harmonics and flanger, his guitar added elegant atmospherics and understated grandeur to classic songs, including Magazine's Shot By Both Sides, Visage's Fade To Grey and the Banshees' Spellbound, as well as myriad timeless albums. It's been a long time coming - while most of the key players of the punk and post-punk movements have been celebrated ad infinitum in books and on film, there has been precious little said about John, despite his crystalline and inventive guitar sound basically foreseeing 1980s indie, 1990s grunge and bands like The Smiths, Manic Street Preachers and Radiohead, whose guitarist Jonny Greenwood was obsessed by Magazine's brilliant 1980 album The Correct Use of Soap as a 10-year-old. John's life story is now told in a new biography The Light Pours Out of Me by Rory Sullivan-Burke. Sadly, he died aged just 48 at his home in Launceston. Most musicians are lucky to play in one great band band - John played in five: Magazine, Visage, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Armoury Show and Public Image Ltd.Īfter battling alcoholism and receiving rehab at The Priory, John left the music industry, concentrated on family life and moved to Cornwall where he retrained as a nurse. For many music fans John McGeoch's much-aped but never bettered guitar playing invented the sound of the 1980s.
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