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The world of popular music has rightly been shaken by the death of Tina Turner, at the age of 83. 

Even though she had not performed in public for many years, Tina remained one of the most iconic artists of the 20^th Century and will be remembered long after the majority of her peers (and indeed, today’s female singers) have passed into history.  Everybody likes some of Tina’s records, even if they don’t like all of them. Ace has been responsible for keeping some of the very best in print for decades, either through licensing or via its long term ownership of the Kent-Modern catalogue, on which some of Tina and ex-husband Ike’s very best singles of the mid-60s appeared. It’s only right and proper that we pay our respects via this small tribute.

TO FURTHER CELEBRATE ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR, ACE RECORDS ANNOUNCES A WEEK OF GIGS AT LONDON’S KOKO TAKING PLACE 4^TH – 10^TH AUGUST

THE CELEBRATION WILL INCLUDE SHOWS FROM LEGENDS SPANNING THE LABEL’S EXTRAODINARY CATALOGUE, INCLUDING BOOKER T. JONES, FATBACK BAND, THE SEEDS AND THE STING-RAYS, POLISHED OFF WITH A NORTHERN SOUL AND FUNK ALL-DAYER

THE SAME WEEK ACE WILL BE RETURNING TO ITS CAMDEN ROOTS, RUNNING ACE AT ROCK ON, A SEVEN-DAY POP-UP SHOP STOCKED WITH THOUSANDS OF LP’S & MERCH, STAFFED BY SOME OF THE ORIGINAL ROCK ON SHOP TEAM INCLUDING ACE CO-FOUNDER TED CARROLL, WITH RESIDENT DJ’S SPINNING GEMS FROM THE LABEL’S CATALOGUE

Both myself and Ace Records were deeply saddened to hear of the recent passing of Ron Kavana, one of the label's former recording artists and compiler of a series of heritage Irish CDs for the company's Globestyle imprint.

 I very much regret not having had any thoughts of interviewing the man during the twenty or so years I followed his music and got to know him to some extent, so the following piece as the heading suggests is written largely from memory with more than a little help from album notes and credits and retained scraps of conversations with the man himself. The likes of Wikipedia have been purposely avoided. It also helps that I was privileged to work at both Rock On and Ace Records.