John Miles is dead: With "Music" he conquered the German singles charts in 1976

THE MIRROR John Miles is dead: With "Music" he conquered the German singles charts in 1976 Isabel Metzger - 3 hrs ago. With his song "Music" he conquered the German singles charts in 1976. Now the British musician John Miles has died at the age of 72. A single hit was enough to make the name of John Miles permanently known: "Music," a bombast rock earworm from 1976. Now the musician has died in Newcastle, England. This was confirmed by his management on Monday at the request of the Deutsche Presse-Agentur in London. Miles fell asleep peacefully at the age of 72 after a short illness, manager Cliff Cooper of the Orange Electronic Music Company announced. Miles' wife Eileen also confirmed the singer's death on Facebook. Echoing the first line of his most famous song, it reads, "You were our first love and will be our last." ("You were our first love and will be our last.") Miles, born in 1949 in Great Britain, had his first successes in the seventies. His album "Rebel" landed him in the German and British charts for several weeks. Later he toured with Tina Turner and Joe Cocker, among others, and was a guest on the "Night of the Proms" concert series several times. "From the beginning [...] John was an integral part of our concerts, except for the years when he accompanied Tina Turner as musical director and lead guitarist," reads the organizers' website. "John Miles has never shied away from a musical challenge, giving us unforgettable musical moments with Andrea Bocelli (1995), Anastacia (2012), Zucchero (1999), Mike Oldfield (2006), Emily Bear (2017), Milow (2018), Melanie C (2017) and Ronan Keating (2016), among many others."