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It's Thursday October 6, 2016 from Slated's Digestive Mike Pesca. Rod Temperton has died.

Who? I know. Temperton was known as the Invisible Man. He wrote dozens of songs you've

probably heard of, including...

That one? Temperton was a white working class lad from England with sexy musical dreams.

It seems as if he took the circumstances he was born into and consciously put his life

on the exact opposite path those circumstances would suggest. For instance, after graduating

high school, he worked in a frozen fish factory in Grimsby, England. As if that collection of

nouns weren't dreary enough, he answered a newspaper advert to become a session musician in the

German city of Vermes, WORMS, perhaps you know it from Martin Luther's Diet of Vermes.

From that ad, he formed a group that belied the itchy sweater that must have been his life,

that group was called Sundown Carousel and it toured Germany playing soul songs. He parlayed

the what must have been robust German soul scene into another group that he found via an advert

and he formed a new band in America, Heat Wave. Let me take you back to Heat Wave's best known hit.

Luckily the travel back in the past sound effect is actually how this song starts. It's Boogie Nights.

Went to number two on the pop charts from Heat Wave's debut LP Too Hot to Handle,

which at the frozen fish place was more than a theoretical concern. Sensing that the Heat Wave

was about to break, he went solo as a songwriter and wrote for Shaka Khan, Donna Summer, George Benson,

...