RIP Associates co-founder Alan Rankine dies aged 64

[editor]

Another sad loss

The musician and producer Alan Rankine, co-founder of acclaimed Scottish band The Associates, has died aged 64.
Rankine's sons Callum and Hamish confirmed the news on the guitarist and keyboard player's Facebook page.
They said their father died peacefully at home shortly after spending Christmas with his family.
Rankine formed the Associates, whose biggest hit was Party Fears Two, with singer Billy Mackenzie in Dundee in 1979.
They released three albums before Rankine left the band in 1982.

Associates co-founder Alan Rankine dies aged 64

The musician formed the acclaimed Scottish band with singer Billy Mackenzie in 1979.

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[The39thStep]

Outside of the Associates he made a couple of good solo albums . However that first Associates album set an enormously high bar to follow . This is absolutely stunning , almost other world :

 

[albionism]

Outside of the Associates he made a couple of good solo albums . However that first Associates album set an enormously high bar to follow . This is absolutely stunning , almost other world :

Indeed, some of the Associates' music was so far out there, so unhinged, it sounded like nothing else on Earth.

 

[Aladdin]

RIP.