“Being the Author of ‘Wonderful Life’ Was a Stone in the Shoe”: Black, the Tragic Artist Whom Spain Loved More than Anyone Else

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On January 26, 2016, the name Colin Veerncombe, artistically known as Black, returned to the media after decades of oblivion. His death at the age of 53 in a traffic accident near the Irish city of Cork did for him what none of his recent musical works could do: to give him notoriety in the press. All the necrologicals emphasized that he was the author of Wonderful Life, one of the most remembered successes of the eighties. Also that it was one …