RENE BERG

I have got a Rene Berg album (The leather,the lonelines and your dark eyes) and it's bffff,WONDERFUUUUUUUUUUUUUL!But I don't know if it's the only one he has recorded.Could you help me?Thanxx in advance.

technicaly he had two cds released but actually only one. in 1999 there was a cd released called gang bang which was just the leather,the lonelines and your dark eyes re-released under a different name.
he was also in the soho vultures with nasty suicide. they never released anything offical but there is a cdr of demos floating around out there. and before his stint in hanoi he was in a band called idle flowers.

THANKS!!!

IMO, the best thing to come out of Hanoi was Rene, no matter how short of a time he was in there.

In case you didn't know Junkie, Rene passed away a few months ago. Rumour was that he had been battling demons for years and from what it sounds like, he finally fell. The rumours of his death were confirmed on the Hanoi site by Andy and his wife.

That's awful news, Carl. I hadn't heard.

Yeah, I know. I loved the guys stuff, everything he had done I thought was brilliant. He was one of the other people I had been trying to find for some interviews.

I actually haven't heard that much of his stuff but knew him back in the mid/late eighties when we often chatted over a pint - or six. He was likeable, always entertaining company and, I must say, gave no signs of being the same unstable character described by Monroe/McCoy in their current Classic Rock interview. I do remember though that the only time I ever tried to perform drunk was after spending an afternoon at his flat! Very sad news.

I haven't read the whole of that Classic Rock interview yet, but from how it sounds, it is a bit of a downer! Talk of Razzle and Rene? Sheesh.

Rene was a hell of a songwriter. I have everything he did, including some live stuff. All of it is great. If you want to hear it Paul, drop me a line.

You're right on that one. As you know, I only heard of Rene's passing on this board yesterday. It was shocking to then read Monroe's scathing comments.

I didn't know Rene well - we just attended the same watering holes and chatted about music, fishing (his other great love) etc. He was intelligent and very likeable and, incidentally, only had good things to say about Monroe.

Razz (the wife) and I went to the funeral; Razz knew Rene quite well but lost touch with him when she moved up north. It was a really nice service, very moving. I thought it was a shame that there weren't more of the musicians he worked with there though, the only one that came was Bernie Torme. I suspect, however, that not many people knew about it; as I understand it he'd pretty much cut himself off from the London scene. He was living in Dover and had been ill for some time, apparently.
Razz wrote an obituary for Rene, which can be found on Bernie's site here... http://www.bernietorme.ision.co.uk/reneberg.html