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Obituaries
Jigsaw’s Clive Scott dies
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 13 May 2009
Clive Scott, songwriter, producer, and former member of the band Jigsaw (pictured performing in Japan), has died in hospital at the age of 64. Scott suffered from a stroke following brain surgery to correct injuries sustained when he fell from a ladder at the end of last month.
Jigsaw formed in 1966, and keyboardist Scott was the co-composer with singer Des Dyer of most of the band’s recordings. Their heyday came in the mid seventies, when their 1975 single ‘Sky High’ became one of the biggest selling English language records in Japan of all time. The group split up in 1981, and Scott went to writing songs and producing for other artists, working predominantly with Ian Levine on tracks for the likes of Blue, Nicki French and Boyzone.
Levine has paid tribute via his MySpace page, saying: “It is with a painfully heavy heart, and with the deepest of sadness burdening my soul, that I have to tell you all that my wonderful and brilliant and irreplaceable songwriting partner of the last sixteen years, Clive Scott, passed away last night… The world will never be the same”.
Scott is survived by a wife and one son.
