Day 5 #7DayMusicChallenge ~ Teddy Pendergrass ~ Turn Off The Lights

Teddy Pendergrass ~ Turn Off The Lights

If you haven’t read one of my posts on this topic before then I should explain that my theme for the #7DayMusicChallenge has been Soul/Dance acts I’ve seen live.  Today we come to one of the greatest soul singers of all time.

Theodore DeReese “Teddy” Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) He first found fame in the seventies as the lead singer of Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes and then went on to have a solo career.

I saw him at the Southampton Gaumont in 1981 and without doubt the sexiest man I’ve ever seen.  You know that expression “about as much use as a spare p***k at a wedding”, well that’s how it felt at a Teddy concert. I took Ce, looking back that was quite a risk!

He was beautiful and I think every woman in the theatre wanted to be with him – even if it was only for a glass of champagne.  The following year he was involved in a car accident which paralysed him from the chest down.  In 2009 he had surgery for colon cancer but died six months later.

My nomination today goes to another DJ buddy Andy Mercmonk Phillips.