Farewell to Andrew Gold and Martin Rushent

Andrew Gold, the singer, songwriter and long term Linda Ronstadt collaborator, has died aged 59. He had massive hits with Oh What A Lonely Boy and Never Let Her Slip Away. Another track, Thank You for Being a Friend, was known to millions after being used as the theme for long-running sitcom The Golden Girls. And also missed will be record producer Martin Rushent who has died, aged 63. Martin entered the music business as a sound engineer in the early 1970s, working with artists as diverse as T Rex, Fleetwood Mac, Yes, David Essex and Shirley Bassey. Martin came to wider attention at the end of that decade as the producer of may of the key records of British punk scene, including the first three Stranglers albums and records by Buzzcocks, Generation X and XTC.