TUNE-UPSNEWS + NOTES
OVER A CAREER spanning nearly 60 years, British session ace Chris Spedding has worked with pretty much everyone in the business. For U.S. audiences, he might be best known for his long association with latter-day rockabilly legend Robert Gordon, who passed away in October 2022. Gordon’s final album, which was released weeks after his untimely passing, Hellafied, sees Gordon and Spedding team up for one final go-around.
It was very sad news about Robert, who was just 75 when he died.
I guess his health hadn’t been all that great for some time. I had a call from him when he told me he’d been diagnosed with leukemia, which was a bit of a shock. I think initially he thought he’d have a lot more time left, but then he was gone a few weeks
