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Alan Rankine obituary

Inventive musician with the Associates, whose first hit, Party Fears Two, brought them commercial and critical success

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Alan Rankine, guitarist and co-founder of The Associates, dies at 64

As a co-founder of Electric Honey Records, Rankine also played a significant role in launching the careers of a number of prominent Scottish rock bands

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Alan Rankine of the Associates dies aged 64

Scottish musician and record producer had a wide-reaching influence on indie artists from Björk to Belle and Sebastian

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Associates - Sulk (17 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Billy Mackenzie: New release has previously unheard vocals by late singer

It's a year of anniversaries around Dundee's Billy Mackenzie, the charismatic singer who was the anthem for our youth.

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Billy Mackenzie: The Associates singer's forgotten duet with Annie Lennox

It was the musical meeting of minds between two of pop's greatest vocalists that ultimately ended up on the cutting room floor.

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Billy Mackenzie: The Associates singer's forgotten duet with Annie Lennox

It was the musical meeting of minds between two of pop's greatest vocalists that ultimately ended up on the cutting room floor.

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The Associates


The Associates
The Associates were a Scottish rock act, formed in Dundee in 1979 by singer Billy Mackenzie and guitarist Alan Rankine. The group first gained recognition after releasing an unauthorized cover of David Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging" in 1979, which landed them a contract with Fiction Records. They followed with their debut album
The Affectionate Punch in 1980 and the singles collection
Fourth Drawer Down in 1981, both to critical praise.
They achieved commercial success in 1982 with the UK Top 10 album
Sulk and UK Top 20 singles "Party Fears Two" and "Club Country", during which time they were associated with the New Pop movement. Rankine left the group that year, leaving Mackenzie to record under the Associates name until 1990. They briefly reunited in 1993. Mackenzie died in 1997.

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