In 1962, Ricky Gardiner formed his first band, the Vostok, while still in high school. The Kingbees and the System followed, and in 1969 he created Beggars Opera with them.
He performed in his own band, Beggars Opera, as well as with pals David Bowie and Iggy Pop. On David Bowie’s 1977 album Low, he performed lead guitar. The same year, he collaborated on Pop’s album Lust for Life, which includes The Passenger, widely recognized as one of Pop’s finest songs for which Gardiner created the music.
He was 73.
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Ricky Gardiner married Virginia Gardiner.
Gardiner began playing and composing in a range of musical forms, including ambient, classical, and rock, in the 1970s.
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Images by Gardiner were featured in a hardback book that accompanied the vinyl and CD box set of A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982), among photographs by Anton Corbijn, Helmut Newton, Andrew Kent, Steve Shapiro, Duffy, and others, in 2017.
Gardiner said he had electromagnetic hypersensitivity, which he felt he acquired from being exposed to high amounts of computer radiation and magnetic fields.
