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The best live soul band in the whole wide world, Maze (featuring Frankie Beverly), is coming to town for two nights at the Appollo Hammersmith (London) after several years away from the British music scene.
Anyone who knows their funky soul music will tell you that the detail here is between the parenthesis (i.e, “featuring Franklie Beverly”). While Maze without Beverly is still a good bass-driven funk band, us die-hard soul fans will be queuing around the block for the distinctively smooth soulful vocals provided by Mister Beverly himself, without whom there’d be no international success for this early 1970s band from Philadelphia.
Singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, keyboardist and guitarist, Philly-born Frankie Beverly has a voice reminiscent of the great Marvin Gaye and is practically responsible for the band’s greatest successes; including Maze featuring Frankie Beverly (1977, debut), Golden Time of Day (1978), Inspiration (1979) and Joy and Pain (1980).
As a young London “Soul Boy” I was listening to Maze straight out of school in the 1980s. I saw them in Amsterdam in 1999 and they were brilliant. This time around, I’ll try to stop singing loader than the band, but it will be a week short of my birthday, so you might not be able to stop me. Promises to be a great night.
Tour dates include Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st September 2008.
Apollo Hammersmith
Queen Caroline St
London W6 9QH
United Kingdom
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2 comments ↓
Saw Maze last night at the Apollo Hammersmith. Last saw them in the early eighties at the same spot. Went with me mates of 35 years who went last time too. What a blast! Can’t stop thinking about the ball of a time I had! Took me back to my early twenties, first heard Maze one Saturday morning on the Robbie Vincent show when I worked as a stoker in Chatham Dockyard. Frankie Beverly has still got the magic for me!!!
Maze were excellent, weren’t they? Quite a different line-up to the band I remember seeing in Amsterdam in 1999, but the young-guns were a refreshing addition to a classic soul outfit, and just goes to show that good music is timeless. It being exactly a week short of my forty-something birthday, I was well in my element, and practically singing as loud as Frankie.
Great to see such a fine mixture of black and white folks in my own age group who clearly hadn’t forgotten the soulful music of the eighties. A few were pissed on beer and acting the fool, mind, but I guess they can be forgiven, like you said, it was like being in your early twenties all over again.
Hopefully, we won’t have to wait too long for Maze to come back to ole Blighty. Frankie was looking like he’d just recovered from illness but his voice was spot on, still! Mind you, I hope I’m looking that good when I’m sixty-one! I hope I’m still standing!! Pure magic!
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