• Kevin Coyne - Uggy’s song

                             (from Case History)

Kevin Coyne was born on this day, 27th January, in 1944, and died in his adopted home of Nuremberg sixty years later.

A singer-songwriter, author, poet, artist he is in my view greatly under-rated and one of the best English songwriters of the 20th Century. John Lydon rated his Marjory Razorblade (1973) album one of his all-time favourites, and Will Oldham (Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) has said he was heavily influenced by Coyne’s Babble (1979) to the extent of joining a Kevin Coyne tribute band, called the Babblers.

This track is from his first solo album Case History, which drew on his experience as a psychiatric nurse. It was released on John Peel’s Dandelion record label in 1972. 

Take any city, take any town
You'll always find my sort around
On any door step, any tree
Snoozin' bleary, a man like me

Why should you care?
Why should you share?
Why should you want?
Why should you want a man
A man around who's lookin' like me? ...