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Lora Logic (also spelt Laura Logic; born Susan Whitby c. 1960) is a British saxophonist and singer. She was briefly a member of the band X-Ray Spex, although she left that group by the time they recorded their first album, Germfree Adolescents, which nevertheless used her (uncredited) saxophone arrangements.[1] A year later, she formed Essential Logic. This group recorded one self-titled EP, four singles, and an album, Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?). Logic was briefly also a member of Red Krayola, appearing on two singles and the album Kangaroo?. Her saxophone lent a unique quality to the bands she was in.[2] She also played on recordings by The Raincoats, The Stranglers, Kollaa Kestää, Swell Maps, and later, Boy George. During the recording of the second Essential Logic album, the group broke up, and she finished the recording as a solo Lora Logic album, Pedigree Charm.[1]

Along with X-Ray Spex bandmate Poly Styrene, she left the music industry in the early 1980s to join the Hare Krishna religion. Both were taking a lot of drugs and the move turned their lives around. She spent some time in Bhaktivedanta Manor, a mansion donated to the Hare Krishnas by George Harrison.[3] In 1984, she had an arranged marriage at the Krishna temple, and has been married to the same man ever since; they have two children.[4][3] In 1995, she rejoined X-Ray Spex when Styrene reformed the group, but it was brief as their egos clashed again.[4] In 2003, the Kill Rock Stars label reissued most of the early Essential Logic material, alongside new recordings by Logic, under the Essential Logic name as Fanfare in the Garden.[4][3]

References

External links

• 2003 interview
• Lora Logic at AllMusic

На других языках

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[de] Lora Logic

Lora Logic (* 1960 als Susan Whitby) ist eine britische Saxophonistin und Sängerin. Sie war von 1976 bis 1978 Mitglied der Punk-Band X-Ray Spex[1] und gründete danach Essential Logic. Als Gastmusikerin war sie auf Alben von z. B. Red Krayola oder den Stranglers vertreten. In den 1980er Jahren wurde sie Mitglied der Hare-Krishna-Bewegung. 1982 trat sie als Schauspielerin in Peter Wollens Film Crystal Gazing auf. 1995 war sie an einer kurzlebigen X-Ray-Spex-Reunion beteiligt, 2001 an einer Reunion von Essential Logic.

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- [en] Lora Logic

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[ru] Лора Лоджик

Ло́ра Ло́джик (англ. Lora Logic, имя при рождении — Сью́зан Уи́тби, англ. Susan Whitby, род. 1960) — британская саксофонистка и певица, участница панк-рок-группы X-Ray Spex.

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