Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis Remembered: Slowdive, Fleet Foxes, More

26.02.2019

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Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis Remembered: Slowdive, Fleet Foxes, More — Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, 1990 (Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images)

Mark Hollis has died on the age of 64. Quite a few collaborators, admirers, and leisure figures started to share tributes yesterday as experiences of the Talk Talk frontman’s dying emerged. Below, discover remembrances from his Talk Talk bandmate Paul Webb (aka Rustin Man), the The, Xiu Xiu, the Cure’s Lol Tolhurst, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Savages’ Jehnny Beth, Broken Social Scene, Jim James, Ted Leo, Ryley Walker, director Tim Pope, and extra.

Read Pitchfork‘s Sunday Review of Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden and browse “The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s,” that includes Spirit of Eden at No. 24.

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In a sequence of Instagram tales, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold wrote:

“RIP to a true legend and guiding light creatively and ontologically Mark Hollis. This man has more dignity and self-respect than anybody in the music business. He just stopped. No farewell tour, no cash grab reunion, no series of bad late career mortgage-finance albums, no real interviews, no anything. It wasn’t for him, so he just stopped, because he couldn’t be a good father and tour at the same time. Simple as that. He’s my hero and 64 is far too young.”

Jim James wrote on Instagram:

“R.I.P. Mark Hollis one of many all time nice voices. made a lot a lovely sound- when you’ve got not heard it, Spirit of Eden is likely one of the greatest begin to end albums of all time, maybe certainly the best night time driving album ever made.”