Don Lang

A 1992 Independent obituary of English combination maestro and spinabout dervish Don (né Gordon Langhorn) was appropriately praiseful: "A natural performer, he could stir an audience to cheers with one of his 300-words-a-minute vocalese workouts, and the next instant pick up his beloved trombone and play a sublime Jazz ballad in the style of his favourite, Bill Harris." Allies the Frantic Five stirred carbonation. To the present day, no one has figured out precisely why the amazingly buoyant "Red Planet Rock" didn't provoke all known spheroids into madcap jumble.

Video: "Red Planet Rock"