Winwood

One of the reasons I have got so into Steve Winwood is seeing the video of him and Clapton playing Blind Faith's songs at the Crossroads guitar festival a couple of years ago.

Blind Faith: Under my Thumb 2009

Steve Winwood is one of the greatest musical talents this country has ever produced.

George Gently, Martin Shaw and Steve Winwood 2009

Winwood is something of a revelation, and watching him sitting behind his electric piano in the mid-afternoon sun, in his purple ranch-style shirt and his red hipster trousers, with his impossibly boyish face, his mouth wrapping itself around the expertly crafted blue-eyed soul, he looks like nothing but a genuine pop icon.

Blind Faith: Under my Thumb 2009

Winwood is interviewed with Jeremy Spencer, Tom McGuinness and Paul Jones (left to right in the photo) by an endearlingly enthusiastic and slightly inept Norwegian journalist.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

The other day I wrote that I am coming round to the idea that Steve Winwood is the greatest genius British pop has produced.

Archive 2008-02-01 2008

One reason for the slight mystique that surrounds Winwood is that, with the exception of an extraordinary period in the 1980s when he invented himself as an AOR MTV star in America, he has been quite reticent.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

Winwood showed him, and the full details of the showing I did not learn until a year afterward, so slowly do the secrets of prison intrigue leak out.

Chapter 2 2010

And as Cecil Winwood led Captain Jamie he must have done some rapid thinking.

Chapter 2 2010

In the meantime, even while he took his beating, Winwood swore by the truth of what he had told.

Chapter 2 2010

"And enough of it to blow half the prison sky high," Winwood corroborated.

Chapter 2 2010