How The Prodigy’s Keith Flint inspired a classic Stereophonics track
3 June 2022, 14:00
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Kelly Jones has explained how the late Firestarter rocker inspired one the tracks on their seminal album Performance And Cocktails.
Stereophonics' classic song Roll Up And Shine was inspired by The Prodigy's frontman Keith Flint.
The Welsh band's second album Performance And Cocktails album was released in March 1999, and frontman Kelly Jones has since revealed how the opening song on the record was inspired by the late Firestarter singer, who tragically passed away in 2019, aged 49.
Speaking to Radio X at the Global Awards in 2019, Kelly explained revealed: "Roll Up And Shine, the first track on Performance And Cocktails was very much inspired by The Prodigy, 'Cause The Fat Of The Land was in the charts the same week as Word Gets Around. "
"Roll out the shock parade
Free falling from a stage
Performance and cocktails
Roll up and shine"
Roll Up And Shine
The Prodigy were formed by Liam Howlett in Braintree, Essex in 1990, who met Keith Flint at a party.
The band - also featuring Leeroy Thronhill and MC Maxim - rode the wave of burgeoning rave culture with their debut single Charly, a track that samples the cat from 1970s public information films. It made Number 3 in the UK charts and the accompanying album The Prodigy Experience also made the Top 20 the following year.
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The Prodigy and Flint were most known for Firestarter, the first single from their third album The Fat of the Land.
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Flint was found dead at his home on 4 March 2019. The coroner could not find sufficient evidence to prove that his death was suicide or an accident and returned an open verdict.
In March of this year, the band announced that they would be performing live for the first time since Flint's death, with a string of UK dates in July 2022 - three nights at London's O2 Academy Brixton - and they suggested that they'll be playing some new material.
Writing on Instagram, Liam Howlett and Maxim said: "We can't wait to get back onstage and play our tunes for the people again.
They added: "We'll be droppin' tunes from all our albums and maybe some sh*t you haven't heard before.
"This one's for Flinty. Now let's f**kin go!"
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