HUNDREDS of music fans from across the country will attend a concert next month marking the tenth anniversary of the death of an acclaimed North-East songwriter.
Alan Hull, who found fame with Lindisfarne in the early 1970s and wrote songs such as Lady Eleanor, Fog on the Tyne and Run for Home, died of a heart attack, aged 50, in November 1995.
His death prompted tributes from admirers of his work, including Elvis Costello and Middlesbrough-born Chris Rea.
On Saturday, November 19, friends and former colleagues will perform his music in a concert called The Hull Story, at Newcastle City Hall, where Lindisfarne performed many successful Christmas shows.
Among the musicians taking part are former Lindisfarne frontman and harmonica player Ray Jackson, who left the band in the early 1990s and is now an artist in Oxfordshire, and fellow original member Simon Cowe, who left to set up a brewery in Canada.
North-East actors Tim Healy and Jimmy Nail, Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell and former Dire Straits keyboard player Alan Clark also feature in the line-up.
The event has been organised by Ray Laidlaw, the drummer with Lindisfarne until their split two years ago.
The event, which has attracted interest from fans at home and abroad, has been sold out for several weeks, and the proceeds will go to the North-East Young Musicians Fund.
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