Jim Capaldi

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Love Hurts 00:00 Tools
Something So Strong 00:00 Tools
Eve 00:00 Tools
Anna Julia 00:00 Tools
Old Photographs 00:00 Tools
That's Love 00:00 Tools
The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys 00:00 Tools
Whale Meat Again 00:00 Tools
How Much Can a Man Really Take 00:00 Tools
Don't Be A Hero 00:00 Tools
Love used to be a friend of mine 00:00 Tools
It's All Up To You 00:00 Tools
Short Cut Draw Blood 00:00 Tools
Living On The Outside 00:00 Tools
Living On The Edge 00:00 Tools
Open Your Heart 00:00 Tools
Low Rider 00:00 Tools
Some Come Running 00:00 Tools
Shoe Shine 04:53 Tools
Let The Thunder Cry 00:00 Tools
Tales Of Power 00:00 Tools
Man With No Country 00:00 Tools
Poor Boy Blue 00:00 Tools
Oh How We Danced (Anniversary Song) 00:00 Tools
Boy With A Problem 00:00 Tools
Love Is All You Can Try 00:00 Tools
Oh How We Danced 00:00 Tools
Standing in my light 00:00 Tools
Big Thirst 00:00 Tools
It's All Right 00:00 Tools
Seagull 00:00 Tools
Tricky Dicky Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Last Day of Dawn 00:00 Tools
Dancing On The Highway 00:00 Tools
Oh Lord Why Lord 00:00 Tools
Edge of Love 00:00 Tools
Getting Stronger 00:00 Tools
Don't Let Them Control You 00:00 Tools
Take Me Home 00:00 Tools
Into the Void 00:00 Tools
Child in the Storm 00:00 Tools
Warm 00:00 Tools
Tonight You're Mine 00:00 Tools
Yellow Sun 00:00 Tools
Riding the storm 00:00 Tools
Time Passes 00:00 Tools
Jim Capaldi Speaks 00:00 Tools
Goodbye Love 00:00 Tools
Secrets in the Dark 00:00 Tools
Bright Fighter 00:00 Tools
Voices In The Night 00:00 Tools
I've Got So Much Lovin' 00:00 Tools
Heart of stone 00:00 Tools
We're not alone 00:00 Tools
Breathless 00:00 Tools
Dear Mr. Fantasy 00:00 Tools
My Brother 00:00 Tools
California Sunset 00:00 Tools
You Are The One 00:00 Tools
Going Home 00:00 Tools
Long Legs 00:00 Tools
We Don't Need 00:00 Tools
Summer Is Fading 00:00 Tools
Anxiety 00:00 Tools
One man mission 00:00 Tools
Good Lovin' 00:00 Tools
Living on a Marble 00:00 Tools
Game Of Love 00:00 Tools
Gifts Of Unknown Things 00:00 Tools
Johnny Too Bad 00:00 Tools
40,000 Headmen 00:00 Tools
Louie Louie 00:00 Tools
Favella Music 00:00 Tools
Scream It To The Dark 00:00 Tools
Electric Nights 00:00 Tools
I've Been Changing 00:00 Tools
Only Love 00:00 Tools
Elixir Of Life 00:00 Tools
Lost Inside Your Love 00:00 Tools
Now is the Time 00:00 Tools
Keep on Trying 00:00 Tools
Warriors Of Love 00:00 Tools
Tonight 00:00 Tools
Hotel Blues 00:00 Tools
Pearly Queen - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Dreams Do Come True 00:00 Tools
Tabitha 00:00 Tools
I'll Always Be Your Fool 00:00 Tools
Wild Geese 00:00 Tools
Bad Breaks 00:00 Tools
Runaway 00:00 Tools
Back at My Place 00:00 Tools
Every Man Must March To The Beat Of His Own Drum 00:00 Tools
Sweet Smell Of Success 00:00 Tools
Every Man Must March To The Sound Of His Own Drum 00:00 Tools
I'll Keep Holding On 00:00 Tools
Wild Dogs 00:00 Tools
Hold On To Your Love 00:00 Tools
Daughter of the Night 00:00 Tools
Nobody Loves You 00:00 Tools
Prince of Darkness 00:00 Tools
Take Me How You Find Me Girl 00:00 Tools
Bathroom Jane 00:00 Tools
Fortune And Fame 00:00 Tools
Light Up or Leave Me Alone 00:00 Tools
You And Me 00:00 Tools
One Man Mission Of Love 00:00 Tools
the contender 00:00 Tools
Sealed with a kiss 00:00 Tools
Young Savages 00:00 Tools
Hunger And Greed 00:00 Tools
dirty business 00:00 Tools
Ancient Highway 00:00 Tools
I'll Keep on Holding On 00:00 Tools
You Burn Me 00:00 Tools
We'll Meet Again 00:00 Tools
Going Down Slow All The Way 00:00 Tools
Short Ends 00:00 Tools
White Jungle Lady 00:00 Tools
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys 00:00 Tools
1890 00:00 Tools
Time 00:00 Tools
Hachiko A Dog's Story - Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Shoe Shine - Disco Mix 00:00 Tools
Love You 'Till The Day I Die 00:00 Tools
Love Will Keep Us Alive 00:00 Tools
Shoe Shine (Disco Mix) 00:00 Tools
Oh How We Danced (Anniversary Song) - Single Version 00:00 Tools
You and Me (With Paul Kossoff) 00:00 Tools
Daydreaming of You / The Hellions 00:00 Tools
Dear Mr. Fantasy / Traffic 00:00 Tools
40,000 Headmen / Jim Capaldi 00:00 Tools
Dealer / Traffic 00:00 Tools
Tricky Dicky Rides Again - Single Version 00:00 Tools
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (2 Meter Session) 00:00 Tools
A Good Love 00:00 Tools
Light Up or Leave Me Alone / Traffic 00:00 Tools
Rock 'N' Roll Stew / Traffic 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah / The Revolution 00:00 Tools
Tonoght 00:00 Tools
Oh How We Danced (Anniversary Song) / Jim Capaldi 00:00 Tools
Shoe Shine (12" version) 00:00 Tools
Pretty Colours / Deep Feeling 00:00 Tools
Old Photograph 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
The low spark of high heeled b 00:00 Tools
Tallulah - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
Don't Be a Hero / Jim Capaldi 00:00 Tools
How Do I Get To Heaven 00:00 Tools
Humanity (Just Another Checkpoint) 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Do It 00:00 Tools
Tricky Dicky Rides Again / Jim Capaldi 00:00 Tools
Untitled Track 00:00 Tools
Eve / Jim Capaldi 00:00 Tools
Pearly Queen (Live) / Eric Clapton and Freinds 00:00 Tools
It´s All Up To You 00:00 Tools
State of Grace 00:00 Tools
How Do I Get To Heaven - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
Strange Bird 00:00 Tools
Open Your Heart / Jim Capaldi 04:08 Tools
Child In Storm 00:00 Tools
Anna Julia (Los Hermanos cover) 00:00 Tools
Open Up Your Heart 00:00 Tools
Tallulah 00:00 Tools
Song for George 00:00 Tools
The Time Of Cholera - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
How Much Can a Man Really Take? / Jim Capaldi 00:00 Tools
State of Grace - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
Love's Got A Hold On Me - New Mix 00:00 Tools
Love 00:00 Tools
Love's Got a Hold of Me 00:00 Tools
You Burned Me 00:00 Tools
The Time Of Cholera 00:00 Tools
Summertime (Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Bright Fighter - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
Whale Meat Again / Jim Capaldi 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie 00:00 Tools
I Was Meant For You (1979 Polydor Dutch 45 B-side) 00:00 Tools
Love Will Keep Us Alive (live) 00:00 Tools
Dear Mr. Fantasy (Live) 00:00 Tools
Invaders of the Heart 00:00 Tools
Daydreaming Of You 00:00 Tools
It's Alright 00:00 Tools
It's in Your Eyes (Brazil Home Demo) 00:00 Tools
Humanity (Just Another Checkpoint) - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
Strange Bird - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
Song For George - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
Low Rider / Jim Capaldi 00:00 Tools
Pearly Queen 00:00 Tools
Are You The One 00:00 Tools
Stay With Me 00:00 Tools
Rowena (Brazil home demo) 00:00 Tools
Love You Tíl the Day I Die 00:00 Tools
Thats Love 00:00 Tools
Bathroom Jane (45 B-Side) 00:00 Tools
We Just Disagree - Live 00:00 Tools
Tonight Your Mine 00:00 Tools
01 Eve 00:00 Tools
Low Spark High Healed 00:00 Tools
Jim Capaldi - Anna Julia 00:00 Tools
Oh How We Danced (Anniversary Song) (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Kiss (Brazil home demo) 00:00 Tools
Summer Is Fading [Including We'll Meet Again] 00:00 Tools
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys - Live 00:00 Tools
Invaders Of The Heart - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
Voices, in the Night 00:00 Tools
Oh Lord Why Lord? 00:00 Tools
Oh How We Danced (The Anniversary Song) 00:00 Tools
Anna Julia (feat. George Harrison) 00:00 Tools
I Was Meant for You 00:00 Tools
Tonight You´re Mine 00:00 Tools
Tricky Dicky Rides Again (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Feelin' Alright - Live 00:00 Tools
Love's Got A Hold On Me (New Mix) 00:00 Tools
Pearly Queen - Live 00:00 Tools
Love Will Keep Us Alive - Live 00:00 Tools
Something So Strong (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Oh, How We Danced 00:00 Tools
02 Whale Meat Again 00:00 Tools
Favela Music - Alternate Version 05:31 Tools
World In Changes - Live 00:00 Tools
That´s Love 00:00 Tools
40,000 Headmen - Live 00:00 Tools
The Palace Of Fun (Brazil home demo) 00:00 Tools
All Along The Watchtower - Live 00:00 Tools
Pearly Queen (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
That s Love 00:00 Tools
Love You Til The Day I Die 00:00 Tools
Love Hurts (Boudleaux Bryant) 00:00 Tools
The low spark of high heeled boys (2 meter sessie) 00:00 Tools
Its All Up To You 00:00 Tools
Only You Know And I Know - Live 00:00 Tools
ANA JULIA 00:00 Tools
Pearly Queen (Live) 00:00 Tools
hallelujah - revolution 00:00 Tools
11 - Anna Julia 00:00 Tools
Dealer 00:00 Tools
Love Hurts - 1975 00:00 Tools
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Jim Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English musician and songwriter and a founding member of Traffic. He drummed with several famous singers and musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and George Harrison. Overview Born Nicola James Capaldi on 2 August 1944 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England to musical Italian parents, Jim Capaldi's musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States. Capaldi and Winwood wrote many of Traffic's major hits and most of the tracks on the band's ten albums. Early days As a child Capaldi studied the piano and singing with his father, a music teacher, and by his teens he was playing drums with his friends. In 1961 Capaldi played drums for the Worcester band The Sapphires and in 1963 he formed The Hellions with Dave Mason on guitar and Gordon Jackson on rhythm guitar. In August 1964 Tanya Day took The Hellions to the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany as her backing group. The Spencer Davis Group were staying at the same hotel as The Hellions and it was there that Steve Winwood befriended Capaldi and Mason. Back in Worcester, The Hellions established themselves as busy professionals of sufficient repute to provide backing to visiting performers including Adam Faith and Dave Berry. By the end of 1964, they had a London residency at the Whisky-A-Go-Go Club. In 1965 the band released three singles but none charted and later that year John "Poli" Palmer joined the band on drums and Capaldi became the lead vocalist. The Hellions moved back to Worcester in 1966 in an attempt to reduce their costs but local tastes had changed and the band relaunched themselves as The Revolution with a fourth single that also failed to chart. Disillusioned, Dave Mason left the band. Capaldi replaced Mason with Luther Grosvenor and renamed the band Deep Feeling. They played gigs in Birmingham and the surrounding Black Country area where they developed a significant fanbase. Capaldi, Jackson and Palmer wrote original songs for the band that were heavier than the Hellions repertoire. Although they recorded several studio tracks only "Pretty Colours" (Capaldi/Jackson/Palmer) has been released. First success Capaldi and the band played frequently in London and Jimi Hendrix played guitar with them at the Knuckles Club as an unknown musician in his first UK performance. Back in Birmingham Capaldi would occasionally join his friends Mason, Winwood and Chris Wood for impromptu performances at The Elbow Room club on Aston High Street. Early in 1967 they formalised this arrangement by forming Traffic and the other members of Deep Feeling disbanded. In 1968, Capaldi, Winwood and Mason contributed backing music to a solo album by Gordon Jackson. The new band was signed by Island Records and rented a quiet cottage in Aston Tirrold, Berkshire in order to write and rehearse new material. The cottage did not remain quiet and had frequent visitors including Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend as well as Trevor Burton (of The Move) amongst many others. Capaldi wrote the lyrics for Traffic's first single "Paper Sun", which appeared in the UK singles chart at number 5 in the summer of 1967. Two more singles were released successfully in 1967 and in December the band released the album Mr. Fantasy, which demonstrated the individual talents of each member. Mason left the band soon after the album's release, but returned the following May before finally leaving again in October. Winwood also left Traffic (to form Blind Faith) and the rest reluctantly concluded that the band was over. Reformation and beyond Capaldi now tried to form another band with Mason and Wood but the creative tensions that had caused Mason to leave Traffic remained, and Wynder K. Frogg only lasted until March 1969. In January 1970 Capaldi and Wood joined Winwood in the studio to record Winwood's solo album. These sessions were so successful that the three of them reformed Traffic (without Mason) to release the album John Barleycorn Must Die. They then toured the UK and the U.S. with a band extended by several session musicians. Although the next Traffic albums were successful, Capaldi began to develop his solo career and released his first solo album Oh How We Danced in 1972. This set featured contributions from Free guitarist Paul Kossoff, Barry Beckett and Rebop Kwaku Baah as well as several members of Traffic. He followed this up with Whale Meat Again in 1974 before releasing what many consider to be his masterpiece, Short Cut Draw Blood, the following year. Full of tracks with lyrical bite, the album tackled issues such as the environment, government corruption and drugs. In October 1975 a single taken from the album, a cover version of The Everly Brothers' "Love Hurts", reached number five in the UK chart, and charted worldwide. Capaldi's first and only solo Top 40 hit in the United States was from his 1983 album Fierce Heart, yielding the hit single "That's Love", which climbed to Number 28 in Billboard's Top 40 in the summer of that year. The track was a simple arrangement with synthesized drums, electric guitar, and keyboards. Capaldi was noted for the extent of his collaborations with other musicians. In 1973, he played drums at Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert and on some Clapton studio sessions. Collaborations Jim Capaldi's success as a lyricist continued throughout his life. He was a five times winner of coveted BMI/Ascap Awards for the "most played compositions in America", and sales of songs written or co-written by him exceeded 25 million units. He numbered Bob Marley among his friends and they travelled together whilst Marley was writing the Catch A Fire album. Capaldi wrote the lyrics to "This Is Reggae Music". Jim Capaldi married Brazilian born Aninha in 1975 and in 1976 he toured with his band Space Cadets before moving to Brazil in 1977. His daughters Tabitha and Tallulah were born in 1977 and 1979, respectively. The Capaldis lived in the Bahia region of Brazil until the beginning of 1980 and while there he became heavily involved with environmental issues. The track "Favella Music" on his 1981 album Let The Thunder Cry arose from his love of Brazil, and he worked with several Brazilian composers. In the 1980s, Capaldi collaborated with Carlos Santana contributing songs and ideas to Santana's projects and in the 1990s he wrote the song "Love Will Keep Us Alive" for the Eagles' successful Hell Freezes Over album. His own 1988 album Some Come Running included Eric Clapton and George Harrison on the track "Oh Lord, Why Lord". In 1993, Traffic reformed (without the late Chris Wood) and recorded a new album Far From Home and in 1994 Capaldi toured the U.S. and UK with the band. In 1998 he paired up again with Mason on an extensive American tour. The final years In 2001, Capaldi's twelfth solo album Living On The Outside featured George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Paul Weller, Gary Moore and Ian Paice. George Harrison played guitar on the track "Anna Julia", which is an English translation of a song by the Brazilian band Los Hermanos, and Capaldi played at the Concert for George in 2002. Outside his music and his environmental activism, Capaldi also assisted his wife in her work with Jubilee Action to help Brazilian street children. He remained professionally active until his final illness prevented him from working on plans for a 2005 reunion tour of Traffic. He died of stomach cancer at 02:30 on 28 January 2005. He was 60 years of age. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. Dear Mr Fantasy Dear Mr Fantasy was a celebration of Jim Capaldi's life and music that took place at the Roundhouse in Camden Town, London on Sunday 21st January 2007. Guests included Steve Winwood, Cat Stevens, Paul Weller, Pete Townshend, and many more. Dear Mr Fantasy featured the music of Jim Capaldi and Traffic, and all profits went to The Jubilee Action Street Children Appeal. Solo discography •Oh How We Danced (1972) •Whale Meat Again (1974) •Short Cut Draw Blood (1975) •Play It By Ear (1977) •Daughter of the Night (1978) •Contender (1978) •Electric Nights (1979) •Sweet Smell of ... Success (1980) •Let The Thunder Cry (1981) •Fierce Heart (1983) •One Man Mission (1984) •Some Come Running (1988) •Prince of Darkness (1995) •Let The Thunder Cry (1999) •Living On The Outside (2001) •Poor Boy Blue (2004) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.