Reelin’ in the Years 184: Nantucket Sleighride – RIP Leslie West
Posted in 1970s, Events dear boy. Events, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 12:00 on 6 January 2021
One more of 2020’s depredations.
Two days before Christmas the band Mountain‘s guitarist singer and songwriter Leslie West, died.
His guitar playing is credited with influencing heavy metal but to those of my generation in the UK his work is more familiar from this song:-
Mountain: Nantucket Sleighride
This is for the simple reason that part of Nantucket Sleighride was used as the theme for the ITV politics programme Weekend World. It always seemed a bizarre choice of tune for the programme’s usual subject matter:-
Weekend World Theme
Leslie Weinstein (Leslie West;) 22/10/1945 – 23/12/2020. So it goes.
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