I kind of love his album "Back in the High Life," despite it being before my time. I can see why it was a massive hit. Tell me more about him!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 9, 2023 10:49 PM |
I loved “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” as a kid. It’s a great album.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 19, 2022 11:50 PM |
Higher Love still sends me into a frenzy.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 19, 2022 11:53 PM |
Didn't care for his solo career much.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 19, 2022 11:54 PM |
Higher Love is a great pop song set on fire by Chaka Khan's backing vocals.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 19, 2022 11:59 PM |
Higher Love was only good coming from my mouth
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 20, 2022 12:11 AM |
Loved him in Traffic and Blind Faith.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 20, 2022 12:13 AM |
His music really holds up.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 20, 2022 12:41 AM |
His late 80s comeback was huge. Those songs were everywhere. You still hear them to this day.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 20, 2022 1:06 AM |
His Arc of a Diver album, released in late 1980, is great.
While You see A Chance, Arc of a Diver and Night Train all great songs.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 20, 2022 1:22 AM |
The video to Night Train is ho-hum, but the song is great.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 20, 2022 1:23 AM |
Child prodigy multi instrumentalist a la Mike Oldfield, Stevie Wonder etc.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 20, 2022 1:28 AM |
Toured with the Dead. Great musician.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 20, 2022 1:30 AM |
Ray Charles had a huge influence on him (as he had on many male British singers from Winwood's era). I love "Roll With It's" homage to Junior Walker and the All-Stars.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 20, 2022 1:39 AM |
I loved this when it came out; I still love it now.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 20, 2022 2:10 AM |
I loved "I'm a Man" when I was a kid. As an adult, I find the lyrics silly, but I don't think we could understand anything but the chorus when we heard this on AM radio.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 20, 2022 2:58 AM |
Didn't he become a fundie in the 90's?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 20, 2022 3:13 AM |
[quote] Eldergays, tell me
Bitch, do a Google search!
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 20, 2022 3:14 AM |
He and his sister Estelle started out as a Carpenters-like act.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 20, 2022 3:48 AM |
My mother was sliding off her chair about him in the 80s.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 20, 2022 3:50 AM |
Not sure how true the rumor is, but supposedly during his heyday in the 1980s, Playgirl magazine asked him to do a layout and offered what was the highest amount of money at the time for any celebrity.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 20, 2022 4:07 AM |
He was born a small black child.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 20, 2022 4:18 AM |
op is older than they admit.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 20, 2022 4:26 AM |
[quote]op is older than they admit.
There's more than one OP?
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 20, 2022 4:55 AM |
His career in the 80s was bit of an anomaly surrounded by all those New Wave acts, but he opened the door for people like Jack Wagner to have a brief recording careers.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 20, 2022 5:11 AM |
Blind Faith, for me, was the finest band to come out of that era. This is one of their best.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 20, 2022 5:37 AM |
I prefer Nell Carter's version of Back In the High Life
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 20, 2022 5:39 AM |
I hate that fucking High Life song. It’s Clowns Never Laughed Before level bad.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 20, 2022 5:45 AM |
R33 Thanks for your comment Greg Brady!
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 20, 2022 5:49 AM |
The high point of his career was when he was a teenager and sang Gimme Some Lovin with the Spencer Davis Group. I like some of the Traffic songs (like Paper Sun) but otherwise it's all been downhill from there. His 80s hits are just blah.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 20, 2022 6:25 AM |
I still get wet for him 🥰
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 20, 2022 6:26 AM |
Chicago did a fantastic cover of I'm a Man.
It's far better than the Spencer Davis Band version.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 20, 2022 6:31 AM |
One of my favorites from Traffic:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 20, 2022 6:34 AM |
Where is he now, no one ever speaks of him anymore?
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 20, 2022 6:35 AM |
Steve Winwood = ideal music for Patrick Bateman
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 9, 2023 3:49 PM |
His popularity mystified me, then and now.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 9, 2023 3:59 PM |
He was 17, with a bad complexion, he was Stevie, and he was brilliant.
Loved him then, love him now.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 9, 2023 4:02 PM |
I came into this thread for the size meat verificatia. Well?
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 9, 2023 4:28 PM |
Gotta have blind faith to play in traffic.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 9, 2023 4:28 PM |
He lived. He took up space. He was present.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 9, 2023 4:30 PM |
His earlier stuff with Traffic is a million times better.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 9, 2023 4:31 PM |
I don't know about his religious beliefs, but he married a woman from Tennessee and lives there part of the year. His daughter married conservative party toady, Ben Elliott.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 9, 2023 4:34 PM |
Certain songs from the '80s were so ubiquitous, when I hear them now, I don't really hear them. They're like white noise. Higher Love, Back in the Highlife, Ghostbusters, ANY Huey Lewis song, Su-su-sudieo, Material Girl... I see the talent behind these songs, but they were SO overplayed.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 9, 2023 4:36 PM |
R53 same.
I know Phil Collins has some talent but so much of his solo stuff (and that duet with Philip Bailey) died a painful radio death. I'm OK with never hearing those songs again.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 9, 2023 4:38 PM |
Were kids into Winwood's 80s career? His music seems so adult contemporary to me.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 9, 2023 5:04 PM |
I was in my early 20s and followed his 80s career then, but I was already listening to Traffic.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 9, 2023 5:10 PM |
I was an 80's kid, but I listened to all the radio stations. They played him on the top 40 as well as the AOR station. Same deal as Phil Collins...even though they crossed over into pop, they still had fans who stuck around from their rock era.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 9, 2023 7:39 PM |
I was a teenager during his resurgence and had very little knowledge of his music prior to the comeback and I went apeshit over Higher Love. I still love it to this day. I subsequently went back to explore his prior music and this one is probably my favorite of his with any group.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 9, 2023 7:50 PM |
While You See A Chance was pretty poptastic when it was 1st released. I had the 45.
He was HUGE in the '80s.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 9, 2023 10:46 PM |
My hot 16 in 1986 coworker at Roy Rogers Chris loved that Winwood album- it was a very much a white thing.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 9, 2023 10:49 PM |
