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| Magenta Devine & John Otway (Centre, back Row) at Aylesbury Friars. |
I saw on the news yesterday that Magenta Devine has died aged 61. That’s very sad. In case you haven’t
heard of her she was a popular television presenter in the 1980’s who presented
youth programmes such as Network 7 and
The Rough Guide To series. She was
famous for always wearing her trademark sunglasses. I wasn’t a fan of hers, but
I was a fan of John Otway and that’s
how I first heard of Magenta Devine. I think it was 1977 that I bought the
first album by Otway & Barrett which
I love to this day. Magenta is name checked on the song Racing Cars (Jet Spotter Of The Track). Jet Spotter was a nick name
of Otway’s friend and chauffeur Jeff Potter. ‘I'm over the line with Magenta Devine’. Also, in the song if you
listen carefully you can hear a female voice but I don’t know if that is
Magenta. I think the reason for the song was so that Wild Willy Barrett could run amok with his homemade guitar and make
it sound like a racing car.
Magenta was born in Hemel Hempstead and Otway In
Aylesbury. In both the Hemel Gazette & Bucks Herald John Otway paid tribute to her by saying this- "This is really sad. She was a few years younger than me and we all used
to hang out at the Bell Hotel at the bottom of Market Square. "At that
time in the 70's there were a few people that made Aylesbury a bit special - and
she was one of them." He added: "She was a wonderfully enigmatic
person who helped me an awful lot. We both moved to London around the same time
after I'd had a hit record and she was doing her journalism work and we always
used to bump into each other.".
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| Magenta Devine. |
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