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From The Clash to Led Zeppelin , there have been some great band names chosen by equally iconic acts throughout the history of popular music, but where did they originate from?
Drummer and percussionist who developed his own musical language as a composer
A generation-spanning pen-pal friendship between two Fifers, Ian Ferguson and Tom Smith, led to the creation of the Michty Me exhibition.
‘No man was cooler than Geordie,’ said his bandmate Youth. He was ‘like Lee Van Cleef meets Terry-Thomas via Noël Coward’
Geordie Walker, who has died following a stroke aged 64, was a guitarist and songwriter, and co-founder of the band Killing Joke, who blazed a sonic trail through the post-punk era of the 1970s and 1980s; his playing inspired the likes of Kurt Cobain and Metallica, while Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin was a big fan of his work.