Geoff Leigh
Geoff Leigh (born 5 October 1945) is an English jazz and progressive rock musician, playing primarily soprano sax and flute. He was a member of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow and founded several bands himself, including Red Balune, Random Bob, Black Sheep, Mirage, and Ex-Wise Heads.
History
Early career
Geoff Leigh's first gigs were with soul music bands in Manchester in 1965, (the beginnings of the now infamous Northern Soul Scene), in clubs like the Twisted Wheel. His professional career began in 1968, touring the United Kingdom and Europe with various jazz-rock-progressive rock groups, mainly Crazy Mabel. In 1969 he joined Gerry Fitzgerald's band Mouseproof, which introduced Leigh to the budding Canterbury scene and musicians like Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt.
Henry Cow
In the early 1970s Leigh performed with Henry Cow on several occasions, having known the band's drummer, Chris Cutler, from school. Leigh accepted Henry Cow's invitation to join the band in 1972, and he played on their first album Legend (1973). After a tour of the Netherlands at the end of 1973, and his preference for playing composed as opposed to improvised music, Leigh left Henry Cow. (Leigh himself insists it was the other way round – he found the composed music becoming more complex for the sake of it, and the improvisations too contemporary classical for his essentially free jazz approach).
Geoff Leigh (politician)
Geoffrey Graeme "Geoff" Leigh (born 24 August 1952) is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing Malvern from 1982 to 1992 and Mordialloc from 1992 to 2002.
Leigh was born in Mordialloc in Melbourne to marine engineer Ronald Pearson Leigh and his wife, schoolteacher Anne Thora Whiteside. He was educated in Papua New Guinea at Samarai Island State School before attending Mentone Boys Grammar, Parkdale Secretary College and Moorabbin Technical College. He began an apprenticeship in carpentry and joinery in 1969 and completed it in 1972. Active in the Liberal Party, he was President and Membership Officer of the Mentone Young Liberals in 1975 and was on the Young Liberal Movement State Executive 1978–79.
In 1979, he was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for the state seat of Brunswick, and in 1982 he contested Heatherton, again unsuccessfully. However, later in 1982, he was selected as the Liberal candidate for a by-election for the safe seat of Malvern, being vacated by former Premier Lindsay Thompson. Leigh was elected, and in 1985 he became Opposition Whip in the Assembly. He was promoted to a shadow ministerial role in 1988, holding the Consumer Affairs and Prices portfolio. He left the front bench in 1989 and did not return during the Kennett Government; he transferred to the seat of Mordialloc in 1992. He returned to the front bench after Kennett's defeat, serving as Shadow Transport Minister from 1999 until his defeat in 2002.
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ALBUMS
- Sound Cosmodel released: 2011
Sound Cosmodel
Released 2011- The Only Thing I Remember Is Your Taste and Your Smell
- Girl Athletes
- Autobus 55: Visages
- Nothing More "Pseudo Product 22"
- Winter, From the Vincent Units Four Seasons
- Go-Go Girl
- Bels
- One From Ten
- Nippon Projectile 1982
- Fever
- Oomoonoon
- Dieplay of Nerve
- Dance on Air
- Sylvia
- La Tigre Sa de Berna
- N'Importe Quoi
- Setting Out, but Not Arriving
- Noces Chimiques
- Fake Jazz VI
- Anata No Sobani
- Cortex/Y
- George Boy
- Music for Organ and Tape
- Time Warp
- Africasio
- Kenosuna
- Live at Savoy Tivoli, S.F.
- M
- I Gan Noo Wha Ma Organ's Gan
- Live in Holland
- Fluctuation
- Time / A Wedding Every 20 Minutes
- Tar
- Etat D'Urgence
- 1 Min. From Piece Making Sense Making Peace
- Exemption
- Watch Out
- Loops 1979-1981
- Extract From "Collage"
- Hommage a Kyoto
- The Western
- One Minute Woodshed
- She Slides
- 245
- Typical American Family
- Gahi's Disco
- What You Mean, No Elvis?
- Bloody Chamber
- Live in Berlin
- From Belgium With Laugh
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Falling Down Like Rain
by: Jeff DeyoI can see a change in me
Since you came into my heart
I can find a peace inside
Since you came into my heart
I can feel this heart of mine
Falling for my King
I can feel this love of Yours
All around
CHORUS
Falling down like rain
Your love is falling on my face
Falling down like rain
Your love is here
Your love is near
Love is here in place of fear
Since You came into my heart