Always keen to startle his audience, the US musician Alan Vega, who has died aged 78, was believed to be 10 years younger than his true age until he released recordings to mark his 70th birthday in 2008. That same year, in an interview with the Jewish Chronicle, he also confessed to his Jewish roots, having previously claimed to have been half-Catholic and partly Puerto Rican.
What is beyond dispute is that Vega has left an imperishable body of work, both as a solo artist and as half of the confrontational electronic band Suicide, which he formed with Martin Rev (real name Reverby) in the early 1970s. Initially they dabbled with free jazz, inspired by the likes of John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, then worked with guitarist Paul Liebgott and later with Mari Reverby, Martin’s wife, on percussion, but by 1972 Suicide had solidified into a Vega/Rev duo.
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