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    Posted: January 28 2005 at 17:39

Traffic founder Capaldi dies aged 60

Imogen Tilden
Friday January 28, 2005

Jim Capaldi, founder member of psychedelic rock group Traffic, has died, it was announced earlier today. The award-winning songwriter and performer had been suffering from cancer of the stomach. He was 60.
Born Nicola James Capaldi on August 2 1944 in Evesham, Worcestershire, his career in the music business spanned over four decades. During that time he wrote the lyrics to some of rock's most memorable songs and was part of one of the biggest rock bands of the 20th century.

With fellow Birmingham musician and Traffic co-founder Steve Winwood, singer/drummer Capaldi was responsible for writing many of the group's major hits, fuelling a multi-platinum 10-album career for the band. In March 2004, the group's legendary status was acknowledged with their induction into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Capaldi played at the recent tribute concert for George Harrison and was to have been reunited with Steve Winwood late last year for a reunion tour by Traffic and a DVD release of their 1994 reunion tour.



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Johnny Carson died too earlier this week. Was Johnny Carson Prog?
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Jim Capaldi (1945-2005)
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   Traffic's Capaldi Dies

Drummer and Hall of Famer loses battle with cancer


Drummer Jim Capaldi, who co-founded the late-Sixties psychedelic blues band Traffic with then eighteen-year-old Steve Winwood, died early today of stomach cancer at a London hospital. He was sixty years old.

Born in England to Italian immigrants, Capaldi lived and made music with friends Winwood, Dave Mason and Chris Wood in a cottage in the Berkshire countryside. The crew of multi-instrumentalists and songwriters scored U.K. hits with songs such as "Dear Mr. Fantasy," "Paper Sun" and "40,000 Headmen," releasing eleven albums before breaking up in 1974.

Capaldi went on to record eleven solo records with his own band, the Contenders, while Winwood achieved chart-topping success with his own solo career in the Eighties. In 1994, the two reunited to tour extensively as Traffic, appearing at the revived Woodstock festival. (Of the other original band members, Wood had died of pneumonia in 1983, and guitarist Dave Mason has had a tempestuous relationship with Winwood over the years.)

Traffic were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last March, five months before Capaldi was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Winwood and Capaldi had been set to launch another Traffic tour last October but were forced to cancel in August when Capaldi began treatment for a severe gastric ulcer.

Capaldi is survived by his wife Aninha and his daughters Tabitha, 28, and Tallulah, 26



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HEEEEERE"S

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Capaldi was a smoker, eh? I seem to remember seeing pics of him with a fag hanging off his lips.

 

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Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

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http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/index.html?exc amp=GGGNjohnnycarson
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Sad new indeed,

Here's the Billboard write up.

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_co ntent_id=1000779534
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