associated_acts death_date article_title background birth_date origin name
the tourists the catch longdancer 1997 peet coombes
 solo_singer 1952 sunderland peet coombes
peet coombes

peet coombes -lrb- 1952 -- 1997 -rrb- was a british musician , guitarist and vocalist with annie lennox and dave stewart in the two pre-eurythmics bands , the catch , who only released one single , `` borderline/black blood '' -lrb- 1977 , logo -rrb- before morphing into the other , the tourists , who had quite a few uk hits in the late '70s .
many of the tourists ' songs were written by peet .
born in bradford , but spent most of his early life in sunderland , coombes befriended stewart prior to the latter 's romance with lennox .
although the tourists were moderately successful in 1978-79 , by the release of their third album , artistic differences were emerging between stewart and coombes , particularly as the former wanted to go more in the direction of the synth-pop sound that the early eurythmics would prefer .
coombes and singapore-born bassist eddie chin decided to form a group called ` acid drops ' but it was not successful .
coombes lived in london during most of the 1980s and was effectively retired from the music scene .
however , he spent 1992-1995 working in cornwall with amateur producer and bassist andy brown and his wife cathy with dave farghally as drummer .
the band was known as diminished responsibility , and though tapes exist of their work , it was never commercially exploited due to his illness .
he died in 1997 following years of alcohol and drug problems : lennox and stewart were not present at his funeral .
coombes left two sons joey and robin coombes who formed the hip hop group task force .
