Jim Capaldi

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Nicola James Capaldi (2 August 1944 – January 28, 2005) was an English singer-songwriter and drummer.

His musical career spanned more than four decades.

He co-founded Traffic, a psychedelic rock band formed in 1967 with Steve Winwood, who co-wrote the majority of the band's material.

Capaldi has appeared with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Alvin Lee, Cat Stevens, and Mylon LeFevre, as part of Traffic's original line-up, as well as writing lyrics for other artists, including "Love Will Keep Us Alive" and "This Is Reggae Music."

He had more than a half dozen chart hits in various countries, the most well-known being "That's Love" as well as "Love Hurts."

Personal life

Capaldi married Aninha E S Campos, a Brazilian-born boy, in 1975, Marlow, and subsequently performed with his band Space Cadets before heading to Brazil in 1977.

Tabitha was born in 1976 and Tallulah was born in 1979. The Capaldis lived in Bahia, Brazil, until the 1980s, and though there, he became heavily involved with environmental issues. They owned homes in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, and Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. His 1981 album Let the Thunder Cry arose from his passion for Brazil, and he collaborated with several Brazilian composers.

Capaldi was a mentor and supporter of the London School of Samba and served with the bateria on at least one occasion. He did a lot of charitable work for Brazil charities, including Associaço Beneficiente So Martinho street children's charity in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, which the LSS also supported between 1994 and 2001. In both the 1994 and 1995 Notting Hill Carnival parades, his wife was also the Porta Bandeira (flag bearer) of the LSS.

Capaldi also supported his wife in her Jubilee Action to support Brazilian street children outside of his music and environmental activism. Capaldi and his wife were guests of Tony Blair at the Prime Minister's country house, Chequers, as a result of his charitable work. He was still working on promotions for a 2005 reunion tour of Traffic until his final illness prevented him from participating in them. He died of stomach cancer in Westminster, London, on January 28, 2005, at the age of 60.

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Career

Capaldi was born in Evesham, Worcestershire, to English parents Marie (Née Couchier) and Nicholas Capaldi. Nicola Cappelldi, a boy born in Evesham in 1913, married to Italian parents. Capaldi, a music teacher, played piano and voice with his father, a music educator, and by his teens, he was playing drums with his classmates. He formed the Sapphires at the age of 14 and performed as the band's lead vocalist. He undertook an apprenticeship at a Worcester factory, where he met Keith Miller and Dave Mason. Capaldi himself switched to drums in 1963, with Mason on guitar and Gordon Jackson on rhythm guitar. Tanya Day brought the Hellions to the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany, as her backing group in August 1964. The Spencer Davis Group was staying at the same hotel as the Hellions, and Steve Winwood befriended Capaldi and Mason.

The Hellions welcomed visitors such as Adam Faith and Dave Berry back in Worcester. They had a Go Go Go Club residency in London by the end of 1964. The band released three singles from 1964-65, but no charted. Capaldi became the lead vocalist later that year.

The Hellions returned to Worcester, where they changed their name to the Revolution, releasing their fourth single that also failed to chart. Dave Mason, disillusioned, has left the band. Capaldi replaced Mason with Luther Grosvenor, renaming the group Deep Feeling. Capaldi, Jackson, and Palmer wrote original songs for the band that were heavier than the Hellions' repertoire. They played in Birmingham and the immediate Black Country region; former Yardbirds manager Giorgio Gomelsky gave them a recording contract. They recorded many studio tracks from 1966 to 1968, many of whom were unveiled until 2009, when Sunbeam Records released the album Pretty Colours.

Capaldi and the band appeared in London often, and Jimi Hendrix performed as an unknown artist with them at the Knuckles Club. Mason, Winwood, and Chris Wood, who were back in Birmingham, would often join his colleagues Mason, Winwood, and Wood for after-hours impromptu performances at The Elbow Room in Aston High Street. Deep Feeling disbanded in 1967, the first time they formalized this arrangement by forming Traffic, and it was disbanded. Capaldi, Winwood, and Mason contributed to Gordon Jackson's solo album in 1968.

The new band was signed by Island Records and rented a quiet cottage in Aston Tirrold, Berkshire, to write and rehearse new material. The cottage did not sit still, and many visitors, including Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, and Pete Townshend, as well as Trevor Burton (of The Move), among others, were among the many others.

Capaldi wrote the lyrics for Traffic's first album "Paper Sun," which debuted at number 5 in the UK singles chart in 1967. Capaldi would write the lyrics first, then pass it to Winwood, who would write the lyrics.

Despite his primary role in writing the band's songs, Capaldi rarely performed lead vocals with Traffic, and his lyrics were almost always aimed at Winwood's soulful voice rather than his more hard-edged vocal style.

In 1967, two more Traffic singles were issued, and the band released Mr. Fantasy in December. The group disbanded after one more album, Traffic.

Capaldi formed another band with Mason, Wood, and Mick Weaver, but the original quartet didn't exist and the resulting quartet existed only until March 1969. Capaldi and Wood recorded Winwood's solo album in January 1970. These sessions were so popular that Traffic reformed to announce the album John Barleycorn Must Die. They then toured the United Kingdom and the United States with a new lineup that would continue to produce the hit songs Welcome to the Canteen and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. The latter's title track, which is a critical research into the music industry, would be one of Capaldi's most popular lyrics. In addition, "Rock and Roll Stew (part 1)," a rare example of a Traffic song with Capaldi on lead vocal, was a minor success in the United States.

Capaldi released an album entitled How We Danced in 1972, with traffic on the decline as a result of Steve Winwood's struggles with peritonitis. This set featured a wide variety of musical styles and featured contributions from Free guitarist Paul Kossoff, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, and several other Traffic members. Critics lauded it as a modest success in the United States, prompting Capaldi to pursue a solo career alongside his work with Traffic.

Capaldi took a short break after two more albums with Traffic, allowing Capaldi to record Whale Meat Again, which was marginally less successful than his debut in terms of both reviews and sales. The title track was a tumultuous and apologetic environmentalist tirade; Capaldi's career was plagued by a string of hard rocking and unapologetic environmentalist tirade; experimental sociopolitical-themed songs became a recurring theme; Short Cut Draw Blood, his third solo album, and the film When the Eagle Flies with Traffic began in 2007. The band debuted on the UK Top 40, with "It's All Up to You," a young song from Shortcut, "It's All Up to You." Despite Capaldi's first major solo hit, it was only a precursor to the album's greatest success. After the tour, traffic disbanded, leaving Capaldi to concentrate solely on his solo pursuits. The following year, Short Cut Draw Blood appeared. A single taken from the album, a cover version of The Everly Brothers' "Love Hurts," reached number four in the UK chart and charted globally in October 1975. Many believe the album to be his masterpiece, addressing topics such as the climate, government overreaching, and opioids. He began acting in the rarely seen 30-minute short film Short Ends (1976), directed by Esther Anderson and co-starred Judy Geeson and Hilary Baker, which was also starring Margaret Geeson and Hilary Baker.

However, circumstances conspired to discourage Capaldi from establishing his solo career. In addition to being a key collaborator on Steve Winwood's first solo album, he began working on Play it by Ear. Play it by Ear took an unusually long time to record, and in the meantime, his long-term association with Island Records fell apart. And, even though an advance single, "Goodbye My Love" (no link to Capaldi's previous album) had been cancelled as a result, the album was scrapped as a result. Capaldi later described his departure from Island Records as a "step into the wilderness." It was over two years after Short Cut Draw Blood that another Jim Capaldi album appeared, but it wasn't due to these delays.

Capaldi wrote the soundtrack to his award-winning film "The Contender," his last film with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section as his backing band, and assembled the Contenders, a new backing band for himself. Pete Bonas (guitar), Chris Parren (miscellaneous keyboards), Ray Allen (saxophone, backing vocals, percussion), and Phil Capaldi (backing vocals, percussion) formed the group. Bonas was a superb collaborator and would co-write many of Capaldi's songs. The band mainly supported him on tour; Electric Nights, the Contenders' only album, on full throttle, featured the Contenders on every track. Capaldi burst into disco with the support of his new label, RSO Records. The Contender, his first album with the name Daughter of the Night and a partially different set of songs were released in the United States. However, the album's internationally released single, "Daughter of the Night," did not have a major success.

Electric Nights, 1979, was more popular. "Shoe Shine," a disco rhythms and melodies with an angry lead vocal and deposition lyrics, debuted on France and has also appeared in Billboard's Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart, ranked 11th in France. However, despite including hard rockers such as "Elixir of Life" and "Hotel Blues" and "Wild Geese" among the disco's most popular songs, Capaldi's second album with RSO and "Short Ends" and "Wild Geese" among the disco's sales, Capaldi maintained no fondness for his two albums with RSO, later saying "frankly, they were buried under buried under buried under buried under a piles "Hotel Blues "Elixir of Life" and "Hotel Blues" and "Wil Gee" and "W" and "W" and "Short Ends, "W" and "W" and "Wil" and "Wild Gee" and "Wild Gee,"

Capaldi's album, The Sweet Smell of... was a combination of record labels, changing to different styles. (1980) a hit (1980) and 1978 (let the Thunder Cry) (1981). The albums were roughly divided between mellow pop and bruised hard rock, with "Success" sporting a morbid before/after cover, and several tracks featuring Capaldi's new home, Brazil. Nevertheless, although "Child in the Storm" reached number 75 in the Netherlands, there was nothing resembling a major hit, not even the Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys' folk pattern.

Young/RGE released "Let the Thunder Cry" in Brazil in early 1981, spawning two major hits: "Old Photographs," a cover version of "Casinha branca" that was originally released by Gilson in 1979; and "Favella Music." Since being included in the international soundtrack of the Rede Globo soap opera Brilhante in late 1981, "Old Photographs" became a hit. In late 1981, "Favella Music" became a hit.

Capaldi and Winwood had enjoyed a professional association since Traffic's demise, contributing to almost every other's solo albums. Capaldi enlisted his old friend as a key collaborator on his eighth solo album. Capaldi played the majority of the drums himself for the first time, and he'll continue to do so on future solo albums. However, most of the tracks on Fierce Heart were mixed to emphasize the synthesizers, with Capaldi's vocals often mudging Capaldi's. This synth-heavy pop sound was exactly what 1980s audiences were looking for, and "That's Love" became his biggest hit in the United States, climbing to number 28 in the summer of 1983. "Life on the Edge," the album's second single, debuted at number 75, while the album debuted at number 91 in the Billboard 200.

Capaldi's latest triumph and appearances by Steve Marriott, Snowy White, and Carlos Santana, 1984's One Man Mission failed to produce a hit. The album was more focused on hard rock than Fierce Heart, than Fierce Heart, but drum machines and synthesizers remained key components. Capaldi released Some Come Running in 1988. Despite the album's failure to live up to commercial hopes, it ranked number 183 in the United States and number 46 in Sweden, despite releasing two hit singles in the Netherlands. Although Eric Clapton and George Harrison appeared on "Oh Lord, Why Lord" it was "Something So Strong" -- the Netherlands' biggest hit, topping the top 40 and propelling the album itself into the top charts, despite Eric Clapton and George Harrison's appearance on "Oh Lord, Why Lord" becoming his biggest hit, "Something So Strong" which became his biggest hit, breaking the top 40 and driving the country's top 40.

Some of the Come Running events brought Capaldi's career as a solo artist to an end. Prince of Darkness, the country's best hits compilation, did not have a decade, but he would not record another solo album for over a decade.

Capaldi's renunciation as a lyricist continued throughout his life. Capaldi wrote the lyrics to his 1990 "One and Only Man," a Steve Winwood song for which Capaldi wrote the lyrics, debuted in the Top 20 in the United States. He was a five-time winner of BMI/Ascap Awards for the "most played compositions in America," with songs written or co-written by him selling over 25 million units. He numbered Bob Marley among his followers, and they travelled together when Marley was writing the Catch A Fire book. Capaldi wrote the lyrics to "This Is Reggae Music."

Capaldi's fame was praised for the breadth of his collaborations with other musicians. He appeared on drums at Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert in 1973 and on some Clapton studio sessions. Capaldi worked with Robert Calvert of Hawkwind on his critically acclaimed 1974 solo album Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters, including as a vocal actor in the concept album's theatrical sections between songs. Capaldi collaborated with Carlos Santana in 1980s, contributing music and ideas to Santana's projects, and the song "Love Will Keep Us Alive" was eventually released on the Eagles' popular Hell Freezes Over album in 1990s. Traffic in 1993 was revived and toured the United States and Britain. Capaldi and Winwood's Far from Home was released as an album without the band's other members. He partnered with Mason on a long American tour in 1998.

Capaldi's eleventh solo album Living on the Outside featured George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Paul Weller, Gary Moore, and Ian Paice. George Harrison performed guitar on the track "Anna Julia," an English translation of a song by the Brazilian band Los Hermanos and Capaldi performed at the Concert for George in 2002.

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