{"id":1498,"date":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:39:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:39:32","slug":"dave-greenfield-keyboardist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Dave Greenfield, Keyboardist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Paul Greenfield an English keyboardist, singer, and songwriter who was a member of rock band The Stranglers Greenfield died on 3 May 2020, aged 71, from COVID-19. \r<\/p>

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He had been diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection on 26 April 2020, a week before his death, during an extended hospital stay for heart-related problems. He is survived by his wife, Pam.\r<\/p>

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Upon news of his death, several current and former members of the Stranglers eulogized him on social media. These included Hugh Cornwell, lead vocalist on their biggest hit, “Golden Brown”, who tweeted, “He was the difference between the Stranglers and every other punk band. His musical skill and gentle nature gave an interesting twist to the band. He should be remembered as the man who gave the world the music of ‘Golden Brown.'” Other artists also expressed their appreciation.\r<\/p>

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He joined the band in 1975, within a year of its formation, and played with them for 45 years until his death.\r<\/p>

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Greenfield was born in the south coast seaside resort of Brighton. He learned guitar from an older schoolmate, and after leaving school played for a year in bands at American bases in Germany.\r<\/p>

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Greenfield tried to develop a music career in Germany, and played in bands in Britain as well as Germany while also working in his father’s printing business and as a piano tuner. In Britain, his bands included The Initials, The Blue Maxi (on the single “Here Comes Summer”, released by Major Minor Records in 1970), and progressive rock bands Rusty Butler and Credo.\r<\/p>

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He joined The Stranglers after auditioning in 1975, replacing Hans Warmling. and played with them until his death in 2020.\r<\/p>

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In 1981, Greenfield produced the single “Back to France” by the band Boys in Darkness. Greenfield and Jean-Jacques Burnel released an album together in 1983, Fire & Water (Ecoutez Vos Murs), which was used as the soundtrack for the film Ecoutez vos murs, directed by Vincent Coudanne.\r<\/p>

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Greenfield’s sound and style of playing, particularly on The Stranglers’ debut album Rattus Norvegicus, has been compared to that of Ray Manzarek of the Doors. The comparison was even made at the Stranglers’ inception by Jean-Jacques Burnel, who said Greenfield had not heard of the Doors at the time. Greenfield himself said he was more influenced by the work of Rick Wakeman and Yes. He was also noted for his trademark style of playing rapid arpeggios. His distinctive sound on the early Stranglers recordings involved the use of Hohner Cembalet (model N), Hammond L-100 electric organ, a Minimoog synthesizer, and later an Oberheim FVS-4 polyphonic synthesizer.\r<\/p>

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Greenfield wrote a piece of waltz-time harpsichord music during recording for The Meninblack, which was discarded by other members of The Stranglers, which was later adapted into their biggest hit “Golden Brown”, with lyrics from Hugh Cornwell and music from Greenfield and Jet Black, although the band themselves did not initially see this as a potential single. In addition to its chart success, the song also won an Ivor Novello award.\r<\/p>

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On the albums The Raven, The Gospel According to the Meninblack and Aural Sculpture, Greenfield used a Korg VC-10 vocoder. Notable instances of this include in “Genetix” when it accompanies his own vocal and during the “Gene Regulation” section underneath Hugh Cornwell’s monologue, and on “Baroque Bordello” towards the end of the song.\r<\/p>

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He also frequently contributed harmony backing vocals to the band’s songs, and sang the lead vocals on a few of their early tracks, as mentioned in Hugh Cornwell’s book The Stranglers, Song By Song. \r<\/p>

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David Paul Greenfield an English keyboardist, singer, and songwriter who was a member of rock band The Stranglers Greenfield died on 3 May 2020, aged 71, from COVID-19. He had been diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection on 26 April 2020, a week before his death, during an extended hospital stay for heart-related problems. 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