OHMYGOSSIP — Leigh-Anne Pinnock has vowed to give fans “as much music as I can” when it’s ready.
The Little Mix star has admitted her first solo tunes are coming along “slowly but surely” and she can’t wait to share what she’s been working on with fans.
In her newsletter, she wrote: “I’ve been working really hard on music that’s coming together slowly but surely.
“I’m so happy with what we’ve made so far but I know there’s much more to do.
“I’ve been so lucky to work with some incredible songwriters, producers and creatives so far and I can’t wait for you to hear what we’ve made.”
She added: “I’ve got some exciting projects I can’t wait to share with you all, and of course, I’ll be giving you as much music as I can as soon as it’s ready.”
The singer has been working with Beyoncé and Rihanna’s producer.
Hit-Boy – whose real name is Chauncey Hollis – spent time in the studio in Los Angeles with Leigh-Anne earlier this year, with the pair working on a number of tracks.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column in November: “Leigh-Anne has been working out what sort of music feels best for her, and she’s been making great progress.
“A lot of the songs have a heavy R’n’B vibe and others have strong hip-hop influences.
“It’s the music she listens to the most so it makes sense to follow that path.
“Leigh has great names working with her so she is on to a winner.”
Back in June, Leigh-Anne’s record label launched an investigation after an early demo of her solo track, ‘I Need You’, leaked online.
Warner Music swiftly had links to the recording taken down.
Leigh-Anne has also been working with Tayla Parx, who co-wrote the girl group’s hit single ‘Sweet Melody’.
It was also claimed that Leigh-Anne is set to drop her last name for her solo releases.
The 31-year-old star bought the domain Leigh-Anne.com, which is currently “under construction”.

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OHMYGOSSIP — FLO don’t want to be in Little Mix’s “shadow”.
The all-female trio – comprising Jorja Douglas, Renée Downer, and Stella Quaresma – just made history as the first group to win the BRITs Rising Star prize.
And the girls have insisted they want to forge their own path, though they are grateful to the girl group – who went on hiatus this year – for having “paved the way for us”.
In an interview with Metro’s Guilty Pleasures column, Jorja, 20, said: “We’re creating our own thing. We don’t want to be in their (Little Mix’s) shadow.
“Obviously, they paved the way for us. We wouldn’t have been able to win our BRIT if they hadn’t won their BRIT [for best British group in 2021].”
The ‘Losing You’ singers have set their sights on a headline slot at America’s Coachella festival, and back home, they’d like to see themselves on the cover of British Vogue magazine.
Renée, also 20, said of their aspirations: “Headline Coachella. Ooh, cover of British Vogue. Edward Enninful, if you’re listening, get in touch.”
FLO were “so shocked and grateful” to win the accolade.
They said in a statement: “From growing up watching the BRITs, to finding each other and forming FLO, releasing our first body of work in 2022, and winning a BRIT award in the same year! We are so shocked and grateful. We are the first group to win the BRITs Rising Star!
“We’ve just made history and couldn’t have done it without our wonderful fans and supportive families. It’s truly a dream come true. We feel so empowered creating the music we love and we hope others feel that too.”
The group made their name after releasing their 1990s-influenced debut ‘Cardboard Box’ this year, which they have performed on shows such as ‘Later… with Jools Holland’.
Previous winners include Adele, Florence and the Machine, Sam Fender and Celeste.
Cat Burns and Nia Archives were also shortlisted for the award, originally known as the Critics’ Choice prize.
The BRIT Awards with Mastercard 2023 will take place on Saturday, February 11 at London’s The O2 arena.

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OHMYGOSSIP — SZA “never in a million years” expected her album ‘SOS’ to blow up as it has.
The ‘I Hate U’ singer released her long-awaited second album ‘SOS’ to major acclaim this month, five years after her debut studio album ‘Ctrl’, but SZA feared it would be hated and told her record label to consider moving the release date to January.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, she continued: “[Another] part of me was just like, I just wanna get it over with. I wanna meet my own fate. If [people] hate it, then great. I can never do music again. And I told my engineer, we’ll move to India and we’ll live on an ashram and we’ll take a vow of silence and that’s it.
“And it is also really scary that it didn’t go that way because I’m like, now what do I do.”
Now she’s delivered the record, SZA – whose real name is Solána Imani Rowe – plans to “disappear” for “as long as I can”.
In a recent interview with Consequence, she said: “I’m gonna disappear, definitely, for as long as I can.
We kinda knocked it out. I need to shoot as many videos as I can, so I can disappear for longer.”
The 33-year-old star has, however, promised a deluxe edition of ‘SOS’, with the likes of Doja Cat, Lizzo and The Weeknd teased to appear.
The ‘Kiss Me More’ star recently explained that the reason for the long gap between her first and second record was nothing to do with “album pressure”, but finding it hard to fit in time for the LP while dealing with life.
SZA’s grandmother’s battle with Alzheimer’s and the COVID-19 pandemic made it even harder.
She said: “It’s not like the album pressure, it’s just, life is f****** hard.
“To be expected to do anything at a high level while life is life-ing is f****** crazy. This isn’t meant for a person, it’s meant for a machine.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Fleur East is making a return to music.
The 35-year-old star was runner-up on ‘The X Factor’ in 2014 and last released music in 2020 but is returning to the charts in January with new single ‘Count The Ways’ following her recent success as a finalist on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ alongside professional Vito Coppola.
She said: “I’ve already booked Vito for the music video. I’ve played him the song and we would love to work together again!”
The ‘Sax’ hitmaker went on to explain that she is now “finding her stride” with music once again as she recalled that her second album ‘Fearless’ was released shortly after the death of her father and just before the onset of COVID-19, which meant her first headlining tour couldn’t go ahead as planned.
She told Metro newspaper’s Guilty Pleasures column: “It was shortly after my dad passed away and just at the time the pandemic came into our lives. I had to cancel my tour, I had to cancel all my promo. I had to cancel everything. It was such a shame. Since then, and since losing my dad, I’m finding my stride again.”
Since her time on the reality singing competition, Fleur – who was beaten to the title of champion by Ben Haenow – has also launched a career as a presenter and regularly fronts the Hits Radio breakfast show but admitted that music is her first love.
She said: “Although I do presenting, fitness, and lots of other things, music is my number one love and I always feel quite vulnerable sharing my music with everybody. It’s really a deep part of m…but I just feel like I am in a place now where I am ready for everyone to hear it. ”
‘Count The Ways’ is out on January 27.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Neville Staple will “hang onto” the memory of Terry Hall forever.
The 67-year-old musician knew that his bandmate from The Specials had been ill when he passed away on Monday (19.11.22) at the age of 63 but admitted that the news still “hit hard” and revealed that they had plans to work on music in the new year.
He tweeted: “This has hit me hard. We knew Terry had been unwell but didn’t realise how serious until recently. We had only just confirmed some 2023 joint music agreements together. In the music World, people have many ups and downs, but I will hang onto the great memories of Terry and I, making history fronting The Specials and Fun Boy three together. Rest easy Terry Hall.”(sic)
The ‘Ghost Town’ hitmaker was also remembered by The Go-Go’s’ singer Jane Wieldin – with whom he co-wrote ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’ in 1981 after a brief romance – as she reacted to the “terrible news” of his death.
She said: “Gutted to hear of the passing of #terryhall. He was a lovely, sensitive, talented and unique person. Our extremely brief romance resulted in the song Our Lips Are Sealed, which will forever tie us together in music history. Terrible news to hear this.”(sic)
The Specials tweeted: “It is with great sadness that we announce the
passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend,
brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced.
“Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls.
“His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the
love. He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity.
“Terry often left the stage at the end of The Specials’ life-affirming
shows with three words… ‘Love Love Love’.
“We would ask that everyone respect the family’s privacy at this very
sad time.”
Terry helped The Specials become pioneers of Britain’s ska scene after they formed with Jerry Dammers, Lynval Golding and Horace Panter in Terry’s native city of Coventry in 1977.
Terry joined a year later, while Neville, Roddy Byers and John Bradbury came into the group in 1978.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Martin Duffy has died aged 55.
The Primal Scream keyboardist – who also played in the likes of Felt and the Charlatans – has passed away, as confirmed by his former bandmate Tim Burgess.
On Tuesday (20.12.22), The Charlatans frontman tweeted: “Another tragic loss of a beautiful soul.
“Martin Duffy stepped in to save The Charlatans when we lost Rob – he played with us at Knebworth and was a true friend.
“He toured with me in my solo band too – he was a pleasure to spend time with. Safe travels Duffy.”
The Birmingham born musician joined indie band Felt in 1985 when he was 16 years old after frontman Lawrence posted an advert in a Virgin records store in the city.
The notice – which called for a guitarist – read “Do You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star?”, and someone recommended Duffy.
He later joined Primal Scream, initially playing on the band’s first two albums – 1987’s ‘Sonic Flower Groove’ and 1989’s self titled record – before becoming a full time member at the end of the year.
After Charlatans’ founding member Rob Collins died, Duffy joined the group at the last minute when they supported Oasis at Knebworth, and he played on their 1997 LP ‘Tellin’ Stories’.
The musician’s family and Primal Scream are yet to comment on his death.
Tributes have poured in from fans after Tim’s emotional post.
One fan replied: “RIP Duffy, seen the Scream many a time and he was a legend. Lots of love to all his family, band mates and to you Tim.”
Another admirer added: “What a musician he was; and by all accounts a lovely soul too. So sorry for your loss x”
Others were saddened by such a tragic loss so soon after the death of The Specials frontman Terry Hall.
A fan tweeted: “Oh no – more terrible news. A tremendous talent.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — BTS will release new concert film ‘BTS Yet to Come in Cinemas’ on the big screen in 2023.
The K-pop superstars performed a huge sold out show in Busan, South Korea in October – which was part of the city’s World Expo 2030 bid – as they played a hit filled set which is now coming to theatre screens across the world from February 1.
According to a press release, the upcoming film has been remixed and re-edited and boasts “new close-up angles and a whole new view of the entire concert”.
As well as the regular big screen, the concert will also be screen in other special formats, including ScreenX, 4DX and 4DX Screen.
Marc Allenby said Trafalgar Releasing – who are presenting the film alongside HYBE and CJ 4DPlex – are excited about “collaborating once again” with the two companies.
He added: “The group’s engagement with audiences has always been perfectly suited to the cinema, and we are excited to welcome fans from all corners of the globe to this must-see celebration.”
Jong Ryeol Kim, CEO of CJ 4DPLEX, commented: “We are thrilled to announce our second ScreenX collaboration and first 4DX, 4DXScreeen collaboration with BTS.
“This film is made for both special formats, which fans can experience our movie completely through enlarged screens with 3 different angles and moving motion seats aligning to BTS’s music.”
‘BTS Yet to Come’ marks the fifth film the group has released over the past few years, while band members have focused on their respective solo careers for much of 2022.
The one-off show also marked the group’s final performance together for a while, with the members’ having to embark on mandatory military service.
Jin, the oldest member, reported for duty earlier this month, and the band are expected to get back together by 2025 once all members have completed their service.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Bob Dylan is a big fan of Wu-Tang Clan and Eminem.
The legendary singer-songwriter revealed he discovers music new music “mostly be accident” through other recommendations and live gigs, as well as simply waking up to find a new artist.
Revealing some of his favourite acts, he told the Wall Street Journal: “The Oasis Brothers, I like them both, Julian Casablanca, the Klaxons, Grace Potter. I’ve seen Metallica twice.
“I’ve made special efforts to see Jack White and Alex Turner. Zac Deputy, I’ve discovered him lately. He’s a one man show like Ed Sheeran, but he sits down when he plays.
“I’m a fan of Royal Blood, Celeste, Rag and Bone Man, Wu-Tang, Eminem, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, anybody with a feeling for words and language, anybody whose vision parallels mine.”
However, the ‘Blowin’ In the End’ star questioned which contemporary artists were in a position to write a real “standard”.
He said: “Who is going to write standards today? A rap artist? A hip hop or rock star? A raver, a sampling expert, a pop singer?
“That’s music for the establishment. It’s easy listening. It just parodies real life, goes through the motions puts on an act. It’s a computer model.
“A standard is something else. It’s on another level. It’s a song to look up to, a role model for other songs, maybe one in a thousand.”
Meanwhile, Dylan is also keen to still listen to music on CD and radio, and he has a soft spot for the “powerful and miraculous” tone quality of old tube record players.
He explained: “I listen to CDs, satellite radio and streaming. I do love the sound of old vinyl though, especially on a tube record player from back in the day.
“I bought three of those in an antique store in Oregon about 30 years ago.
“They’re just little, but the tone quality is so powerful and miraculous, has so much depth, it always takes me back to the days when life was different and unpredictable.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gwen Stefani won’t rule out a No Doubt reunion.
The 53-year-old singer hasn’t released a new album with the ‘Don’t Speak’ hitmakers since 2012’s ‘Push and Shove’, which in turns came 11 years after 2001’s ‘Rock Steady’, but ‘The Voice’ coach admitted there’s always a chance for more in the future.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, she said: “What are the odds of anything?. I was just on ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’.
“She was one of my favorite celebrities when I was a little girl, and now I was just on the show with her. Anything can happen.
“I have no idea what’s going to happen with No Doubt. We haven’t really talked about doing anything, but it feels like everyone is, right?
“All the ’90s people — Blink-182 did an eight-month tour that sold out in like five minutes.”
In the years since Gwen last recorded with No Doubt, she has launched a Las Vegas residency and released two solo albums – 2016’s ‘This Is What the Truth Feels Like’ and 2017’s ‘You Make It Feel Like Christmas’.
With the band, the ‘Just a Girl’ singer released their 1992 self titled debut, 1995’s ‘The Beacon Street Collection’ and ‘Tragic Kingdom’, and 2000’s ‘Return of Saturn’.
After ‘Rock Steady’ dropped the following year, she went onto launch her solo career, which included hit albums ‘Love. Angel. Music. Baby.’ in 2004, and then ‘The Sweet Escape’ two years later.
Meanwhile, her ‘The Voice’ co-star Camila Cabello recently revealed she’d love to collaborate with Gwen in the future.
She said: “I mean, we’re so much closer than we’ve ever been by being on ‘The Voice’ together, so that’s a start! I love her. She’s the best.”
She added: “She’s just a punk rocker at heart.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Taylor Hawkins “had so much energy and positivity to share”.
Publicist Steve Martin – who founded Nasty Little Men in 1992 and has worked with the likes of Metallica, Gorillaz, Nirvana and David Bowie over the years – knew the late drummer through his role as Foo Fighters’ longstanding publicist, and he grew close to the ‘Best of You’ musician before his death aged 50 in March.
Reflecting on their bond, he told Variety: “I’m very pragmatic about who amongst the clients becomes an actual friend, but Taylor was one.
“If the band didn’t work for four or five weeks and we didn’t have any contact, he’d call me just to say ‘What’s up?’
“He did that with a lot of people he considered friends, which I didn’t really learn until after he died. He had so much energy and positivity to share.”
Steve pointed out that despite Taylor’s commitments in both his work and home life, he still found time for his friends.
He added: “He didn’t have to do that: he played drums full-time in one of the biggest bands in the world, had all his side projects and session work, and was helping to raise three kids.
“He somehow found the time to brighten so many people’s days with these morning calls about a U2 b-side or something.”
Steve had to announce Taylor’s death earlier this year, having also announced the deaths of Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock (Adam Yaunch) and David Bowie in 2012 and 2016 respectively.
He explained: “I don’t know how I do it, because it has always been done in a state of shock. It’s a blessing and a curse that I’ve seemed to get it right in all three of those situations.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Sophie Ellis-Bextor brought a one-off Kitchen Disco Christmas Party to London on Thursday (15.12.22) night.
The 43-year-old singer became renowned for her singalong specials on Instagram during lockdown, and she marked the launch of the Ultra Connected Christmas House, powered by Vodafone Pro II broadband, by adding a special festive twist to her short set.
As well as singing her own songs including ‘Take Me Home’, ‘Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)’, ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ and ‘Get Over You’, Sophie threw in festive covers of Shakin’ Stevens’ ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ and Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’.
And that’s not all because Sophie – who dressed in festive red sparkles for the occasion – also treated the audience, which included Kimberly Wyatt, Ellie Simmons and Neil Jones, to covers of Moloko’s ‘Sing It Back’ and Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’.
Earlier in the evening, Candice Brown took part in a festive-themed cookalong, whipping up sweet and savoury pancakes to highlight the use of fast broadband with connected kitchen appliances.
The Ultra Connected Christmas House will be open exclusively in London on Friday (16.12.22), where visitors can book a place to put Pro II broadband to the test and sign up to sessions led by influencers including Scott Can Eats (Quickmas Cocktails), Tomi Adebayo (Gaming) and Adam Ali (Fast Festive Make Up).
Vodafone’s Pro II broadband brings the UK’s fastest WiFi technology throughout the home supported by unbreakable 4G back up, and allows for more than 150 devices to be connected to the Vodafone Ultra Hub and Super WiFi 6E Booster.
Max Taylor, Chief Commercial Officer from Vodafone UK said: “As the UK’s largest full fibre provider, families that choose Vodafone Pro II will have superfast and reliable internet to see them through the festive season. Our Ultra Hub router is the fastest in the UK, making sure all corners of the home are connected, all for a great price”.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Iggy Pop says Elton John once terrorised him in a gorilla suit.
The 75-year-old rokc star – whose real name is James Newell Osterberg Jr – recalled the “funny” time in 1973 when ‘Your Song’ hitmaker Elton, 75, donned a “huge” costume while he was “really out of it” and gave him a shock.
He told Mojo magazine: “I was really out of it. I’d done too much on the downside the night before, so I had to be injected madly to get to the point where I could just barely stand up straight and hold the mike. And then I saw this gorilla. I realised it wasn’t a real gorilla, but anyone who puts on a gorilla suit looks huge.”
The ‘Passenger’ singer went on to admit that he felt as if the ‘gorilla’ could “kill” him as he had no clue that it was Elton.
He said: “You don’t know who’s in there. It could be Billy Bob and he’s going to kill me.”
However, the former Stooges frontman soon realised it was the ‘Crocodile Rock’ legend himself -whose real name is Reginald Dwight -playing a trick on him.
Iggy said: “He just picked me up for a little bit and gave me a little carry around. It was very funny.”
Meanwhile, the BBC 6 Music presenter feels his career – which has spanned more than five decades – has become “physically harder” but as time has gone on but has also become “easier” in all other aspects.
Iggy said: “It’s physically harder but, mentally and emotionally, which is the bigger part of life, it’s gotten much, much easier. Because the big problem before was the size of career, size of audience. How many units are you generating? How many people are listening? When your size isn’t big enough, you get all sorts of pushback from the world in general, and from the inner layers of the industry.
“But everything kind of added up and I have a lot of records out there. They all sell.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kylie Minogue “hopes people love” her new album.
The 54-year-old pop superstar released the chart-topping ‘Disco’ in 2020 but was unable to promote the album with her usual arena tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic and wants to showcase the style as part of her forthcoming 16th studio album.
She told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre Column: “Because I didn’t get to tour ‘Disco’, I will be putting a number of disco tracks in there. I hope people love it. So far, I’m really touched by the engagement or re-engagement of ‘Disco.'”
Kylie is said to be releasing the lead single from the album in early 2023, with the record to follow soon afterwards.
Meanwhile, the ‘Spinning Around’ legend has not hit the road since 2018 as part of her ‘Golden Tour’ but according to the outlet, plans are already underway for what would be her 16th concert tour and she previously teased that fans just had to be “patient” for the chance to see her on stage again.
She said: “I’m dreaming of doing dates. We are inching closer to doing something like that. Patience. I can’t wait. Keep your disco outfit not too far away.”
The news comes just weeks after it was reported that the ‘Magic’ hitmaker – who has enjoyed massive success in the UK since emerging as a star of Australian soap opera ‘Neighbours’ in the 1980s but has only had sporadic hits in the US – is in talks to undertake a £100 million Las Vegas
residency, following in the footsteps of Celine Dion, Britney Spears, and Adele.
A source said: “While Kylie may not have a huge profile Stateside, she is an absolutely massive draw for the Brits. She has a cult gay following especially, and it’s felt she will easily draw in the pink pound. Kylie visited a few venues in the summer, and
numerous meetings have since been held. It’s a no brainer for Kylie – easy money, and no touring. Everyone involved is hugely excited about the prospect.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lewis Capaldi’s latest single is a “cash grab”.
The 26-year-old singer is usually known for his ballads but he’s proud to have worked on ‘Pointless’ – a track about being in love – and joked he’s only bringing out the song so that people play it at weddings, earning him more royalties.
He quipped: “It’s not about the TV programme unfortunately, though that would make quite entertaining listening. I’m all about Richard Osman, even though he’s left.
“No, it’s a song about being in love, which for me is almost an alien concept. My songs are usually about falling out of love or being heartbroken or something like that. They don’t often lean towards just a happy love.
“Listen, we’ve got a song like ‘Someone You Loved’, which gets played at funerals. And it’d be nice to have a song like Pointless that gets played at weddings. Basically, it’s a cash grab.”
Lewis co-wrote the song with Steve Mac and Johnny McDaid, with the pair sharing a verse from an unfinished track they’d been working on with Ed Sheeran.
He told Big Issue magazine: “Johnny and Steve said, ‘We’ve got this verse that Ed did if you want to try and have a crack at writing the chorus.’ They were kind of struggling.
“I heard it and I was like, it’s f****** great, tweaked it a little bit, put my stamp on it then wrote the chorus and middle-eight, and Bob’s your uncle, you’ve got a tune.
“But me and Ed were never in the same room to write the song. He did that verse with them, left, then got sent the finished song a couple of months after.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Luke Evans was inspired by Adele to write a track for his new album.
The 43-year-old star released his second album ‘A Song for You’ last month and revealed that he is a huge fan of the ‘Someone Like You’ superstar and was inspired by her traditional style of heartbreak ballads to pen his own track after going through lockdown in the States.
He said:”It’s mad! It was made with a dream and to do it a second time and to have the opportunity to think of the songs I wanted to sing and do them with an incredible orchestra. I’ve been writing with an amazing songwriter called Amy Wadge, she’s written with Diana Ross, Ed Sheeran, literally, like Andrea Bocelli. She’s a fellow Welsh person like me and we just clicked. We met just before COVID and I went to the States, spent my lockdown there.
“Track three is called ‘Horizons Blue’ and it was the second song we wrote together, I didn’t know what I was writing, just poetry. It was magical, even though we were all going through this worry. There was no vaccination at that point so we were all living in a bit of fear but I had an optimistic moment and I saw the horizons blue and it reminded it of positive things.
“Adele is one of my favourite artists, she writes about love, loss, losing love and finding it and whatever and I thought ‘I’m going to try to write one of my own.’
Meanwhile, the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ actor – who started his career on the West End stage before landing a career in Hollywood – went on to add that he made a “pact” with himself that if he hadn’t made it by the age of 30, he would quit showbusiness altogether.
Speaking on ‘James Martin’s Saturday Kitchen’, he added: “I made a pact with myself around the age of 26 or 27 that if I wasn’t moving the needle at all in the business I was gonna leave it at 30. It didn’t bother me, I’d had a good run. But there’s not enough money in it! I couldn’t save any money, I’m an only child. So I made the decision and then the movie thing just happened. It came out of the blue because I managed to get myself into a play at the Donmar Warehouse and from that I got an agent in America. In eight months, I was in my first movie, which was ‘Clash of the Titans.'”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jean-Michel Jarre has paid tribute to his late mentor on his new album.
The 74-year-old electronic music pioneer was mentored by composer Pierre Henry – who died in 2017 at the age of 89 -while he was studying in Paris, France in the late 1960s and has credited him with creating an “organic approach to music” that influenced all his later work and he wanted to collaborate with him on a track for new record ‘Oxymore’ but Henry died before work could begin.
He told Prog magazine: “With ‘Oxymore’, I had the idea to collaborate with Pierre Henry for a previous project called ‘Electronica’ but he got ill and passed away.”
However, the dream collaboration didn’t evaporate as Henry’s widow gave Jarre some material he’d wanted to use.
He added: “I was surprised when his widow gave me some sounds that he’d said he wanted me to use one day. In the end I didn’t use too many of Pierre’s sounds, but I used them as spice, as seasoning, here and there. You can hear his voice on the track ‘Zeitgeist’. But he was more important to me as a source of inspiration.”
Jarre credits Henry as well as his musicologist collaborator Pierre Schaeffer with having the biggest impact on his own work, and he told the magazine about their innovative use of sound that inspired him.
He said of the pair: “Until the two Pierres began their experiments, music was done only with notes. Suddenly, you had these guys saying that music is also about sounds. They were recording noises and mixing them, by taking the sound of an engine and missing it with a clarinet, or taking the sound of a bird and mixing it with an electric guitar. They created this organic approach to music that, in my opinion, has not really been recognised properly.
“It’s really the origin of the way we make music today.”

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