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so MONDAY 25 'JULY 2005 THE INDEPENDENT Obituaries TELEPHONE: O20 7005 2012 FAX: 020 7005 201Q E-MAIL: obituariesindependent.fcd.uk LONG JOHN BALDRY Singer and guitarist who influenced the 1960s rhythm and blues scene Long John Baldry's influence on the 1960s rhythm and blues scene was considerable. As a performer, he had commercial success In 1967 with his singalong pop hit "Let the Heartaches Begin and he also gave Rod Stewart and Elton John their first breaks. Stewart remarked, "In those days the only music we fell in love with was the blues and John with his wonderful voice was the first white guy singing it" John Baldry was born in Haddon, Derbyshire in 1941. Even as a baby, he was nicknamed "Long John: he measured two feet at birth and eventually grew to be 6ft 7in talL When eight years old hesawaBBC television prcgramm and became intrigued by the blues music used to accompany an experiment with ultra-violet lighting, Sonny Terry's "Stone Fox By the age of 12; he was listening to Muddy Waters and Big Bill Broonzy and learning 12-string guitar.He made his first public appearance in 1956 and began accompanying Champion JackDupree and Memphis Slim. The publicity for a concert with Dupree in Bradford caUedBaloSye Worlds Greatest White 12-String The London rhythm and blues scene at the time centred around Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies and their group, Blues Incorporated.

The fluid fine-up included Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Char-UeWatt alongside suqhguest vocalists as Baldry, Mick Jagger, Paul Jones and, now sadly confined to oblivion, Hogsnort Rupert. Baldry had three vocals on the albumRSBFrom theMarquee (1962). In 1962 Baldry toured Germany working with the vibraphonist Gunther Hampel and his Quartet He returned to find Korner and Davies at loggerheads; Davies had decided to leave Blues Incorporated and form a new band, the All-Stars. Baldry said, "Both Alex and Cyril were anxious for me to join their bands, and I joined Cyril on the toss of a half-crown." When in 1964 Davies died, Baldry assumed leadership, renaming the unit Long John Baldry and the Hoochie Coochie Men. The musicians ranged from 19 to 48, the youngest of whom was Rod Stewart "Yes you can say I discovered Rod Stewart' Baldry reflected, It was Twickenham Railway Station, 7 January and he was playing the harmonica riff from "Smokestack Iightninm.

I thought it sounded pretty authentic and IsaidDoyouwant to have a jam on Tuesday?" and he said, "Sure. Baldry needed a harmonica player and someone to Sing occasionally, In order to give him a break during an evening's performance, His mum rang me and said, you paying him?" "Yes." "And will you make sure he behaves himself?" The Hoochie Coochie Men was short-lived, but soon Baldry, Stewart, Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll formed Steampacket The band did well at the Richmond Jazz and Blues Festival and on tour with theRollingStoneSjbut there were management problems over recording contracts. Baldry was looking for another new band, but did not want the rigmarole of forming another lineup. He recalled, I was at a gambling casino on the Cromwell Road opposite fee Cromwellian Club. There was music in the basement and this night it was Bhiesology with Reg Dwight playing keyboards, and I gave them the job en Woe Baldry's rich voice was appreciated by twosong-wridngproducers atPye Records, Tony Macaulay and John MacLeod, They gave him a polished popsoul ballad, ''Let the Heartaches Macaulay remembered, "Long John Baldry sings it extraordinarily well, thanks to three-quarters of a bottle of CourvoisierThe record climbed to the top and Baldry performed it on the Royal Variety Performance in 1968.

Baldry had further hits with "When the Sun Comes Shinin' "It's Too Late Now" and "Mexico" was done for the Olympic Games in 1968 and it was constantiy on the radio," sffldBaldrywantedtoscream every tdmelheanl the damnthing Talk about The albums Let the Heartaches Begin (1968) and Wait For Me Baldry: gave Rod Stewart and Elton John their first breaks knightred ferns (1969) include some excellent cover versions, such as "Stay with Me and "Man Without a When Reg Dwight told Baldry that he was leav ingBkiesdogytopursueacareerasaangerand songwriter, the band decided to give him a new name, They took "Elton" from their saxophone player, Elton Dean, and Dwight added "John" as a tribute to Baldry. Baldry had once prevented Dwight from committing suicide, and this later became the subject of the Elton John song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" hi 1971 Baldry released the aSbumJtAin'tEasy, produced by Elton John and Rod Stewart He promoted it in North America and liked Canada so much that he moved to Vancouver: A witty and friendfy man, he quicktybecame acclimatised to their musical scena He had a Canadian hit with "Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and and he recorded several albums there, including Baldry's Out (1979, following a Spell in a psychiatric hospital), It Still Ain't Easy (1991), Right to Sing the Blues (1996) and Remembering Leadbelly (2001). His main income came from lending his deep voice to commercials and to cartoon characters, including Dr Robotnik in SonictheHedgehog. The inevitaUequestbntoaskIx)ngJolm Baldry was how tall he was. When I met him on a UK tour with the Manfreds in 2002, 1 did so and he replied, Sadly, Fm shrinking, as I have osteoporosis of the spine and ItagettingabufiUo hunqxlhavetobe tingoutofthebathasiflbrokentyhipit repair Slirinking John Baldry now, but I was 6ft Tin.

Spencer Leigh JohnBaldry (Long JohnBaldry), singer, guitarist and songwriter; bornHaddon, Derbyshire 12 January 1941; died Vancouver, British Columbia 21 July 2005. FRANCOIS DUCHENE Political thinker and analyst centred and participatory approach which characterised politics within Western democracies. European integration had shown that this was indeed possible, that inter-state relations could be "domesticated" and thus liberated from the nightmare of industrial warfare, Duchene argued; and he then proceeded to think this approach through for the wider scope of "planetary interdependence" This transformation, in his viewy had been achieved in Europe in the 1950s neither by incrementalism nor by social revolution, but by "that rarest of all phenomena in history, a change in political It could be done at the global level as well Duchene held, not least because the destructive power of nuclear weapons had made war all but obsolete as a meaningful policy option for great powers. And he saw the European Union, a "civilian power, as an importarit potential promoterto such a "domestication" of international relations, as it could provide powerful impulses towards international co-operation and integration, as well as a corrective to the sometimes excessive efforts by American foreign policy at ordering the realm. He had no Illusions about the difficulties in-volvedihsuchatransfbrmatic to the determination with which Monnet had realised his European ambitions, which at the time had seemed equally implausible, hi a famous intellectual exchange, one of the leading "realist" international relations thinkers of the 1960s and 1970s, Hedley Bull, had dumped Duchehe's notion of Europe as a "civilian first formulated in the late 1960searly 1970s, into the dustbin of history, and he had seemed to be vindicated by the onset of the "Second Cold War" after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.

Yet, 10 years later, the Cold War was over for good, and the Eastern European members of the Soviet bloc were pushing for entry into what then was still called the European Community. The central assumption on which Duchene had built his argument, namely the declining relevance of military power and military security issues and the rise of" economic and cultural factors, had held. fohisinteniationalrektionsanal was as much, if not more, a poet as a strategic thinker. (He once had used a Scholarship which was supposed to support a study on arms control to produce a book on WH. Auden, The Case of the HelmetedAinnMyWtylJisreaBaw in a profound knowledge of French, British and European history, and although he also worked extensively on European economic and industrial policies, "culture" was also the most important variable in his framework of analysis In the present crisis of European integration, Duchene would have pointed out that there was no meariingfulaltemalivetotheE ropeanswantedtoremain in charge of HannsW.Maull Francois Duchene made a great contribution to Sussex University, where he was still an Emeritus Professor at the time ofhis death, writes Peter Holmes.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, he ran the Institute for Strategic Studies as successor to its renowned founder Alastair Buchan. In Duchehe's view, the experience of European integration, which Monnet had done so much to realise, had shown up a creative new approach to international relations beyond the balance of power politics and appeasement, and from his various observation platforms at TheEconomist, at the ESS and then, from 1974 until 1982, at Sussex University, in Brighton Duchene proceeded to analyse, clarify and expand from the European to the planetary level the nature and relevance of "the statecraft of This new approach reflected the new civilisa-tional realities of ever-deepening "interdependence" (today, we call it which created a disjuncture between the need to regulate ointly common problems and the capacity oftiticmternatbnalpoHticstodeliverisuch co-operative solutions, In effect, this statecraft wanted to transform international politics from their traditional, inter-state focus towards a law- If Jean Monnet was the "First Statesman of Interdependence" as FrancoisDucheiie aptly entitled his magisterial 1994 biography of the principal architect of European integration, Duchene would probably have defined himself as the great man's amanuensis In fact, he was one of the foremost political thinkers and analysts of the "mehode A journalist by training and profession, yet a poet by the subtlety of his political intuition and imagination, Duchene had caught the attention of Jean Monnet in 1950, when Duchene was only 23, through a series of articles in the Manchester Guardian in support Of the European Coal and Steel Community. Out of this developed a close working relationship for more than a decade; and Duchene became one of the foremost analysts of the statecraft of interdependence. He later worked on IheEconomistas its first correspondent in Paris and then as editorial writer on European affairs before, in 1969, assuming the directorship of the still young but already prestigious International.