Alan Rankine was born on 17 May1958, in Edinburgh, Scotland. May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ...
He played keyboards, and guitars, for the rock band known as The Associates. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The classical guitar typically has nylon strings. ... Rock group (or later rock band) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specializing in a particular form of electronically amplified music. ... The Associates were a Scottish pop band of the early 1980s. ...
Aside from an aborted Associates reunion with AlanRankine in the mid-90s, MacKenzie remained a solo artist, collaborating in the 90s with Peach, Barry Adamson, Paul Haig and Apollo Four Forty amongst others.
On the cover of Sulk, singer Billy Mackenzie and musical half AlanRankine are seen reclining in some hothouse, bathed in artificial blue and green light.
Rankine's music was now equally unnatural--layer upon layer of synthetic uniqueness, its relationships to punk, funk and glam-rock no longer visible, while Mackenzie's vocals are grandiloquent without lapsing into Marc Almond-style camp cabaret.
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