Del Palmer DEAD

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Kate Bush's long time bassist, engineer and collaborator. There from the very start and fiercely loyal. 71, no great age these days.

Del Palmer, Kate Bush’s longtime bass player and engineer, has died – SuperDeluxeEdition

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Del - Kate Bush

It's hard to know what to say... He was a big part of my life and my work for many years.

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It’s hard to know what to say… He was a big part of my life and my work for many years.

It’s going to take a long time to come to terms with him not being here with us.

He was incredibly creative – talented in lots of different ways. He was a brilliant musician, bass player, a great artist – he was always drawing. Once he covered a whole recording consul in cartoons. It took him days and it looked absolutely stunning.

He taught himself to be a recording engineer, engineering several of my albums and later releasing his own.

The image above is a mosaic that Del made. He called it Tree of Life.

I’m going to miss him terribly.

 

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You have to wonder if she’ll ever record again without him.

 

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You have to wonder if she’ll ever record again without him.

He only played on a couple of songs on her last album, but that was over a decade ago so who knows if she'll ever record again anyway.