Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1937
- Works
- 40
Top works
- Allies of any kind
- Vladimir Putin and the new world order
- The Soviet Union and Afghanistan (December 1984)
- Poland in crisis
- Essays on Karamzin
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1968-09
- Active to
- 2025-07-05
Discography
- Black Sabbath1970
- Paranoid1970
- Master of Reality1971
- Vol 41972
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath1973
- Sabotage1975
- Technical Ecstasy1976
- Never Say Die!1978
- Heaven and Hell1980
- Mob Rules1981
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 433,317
- Total plays
- 3,512,100
Tags
There are at least four artists referred to as "Black": 1. An English singer-songwriter. 2. A Bangladeshi rock band. 3. A Malaysian singer-actor. 4. A hip-hop artist from New York. 1. Black is the name by which Liverpool born singer/songwriter Colin Vearncombe (26/5/1962 - 26/1/2016) identified himself through his music career. Dave Dix was also a member of the band from 1981 to 1988. His fist gig was New Year’s Day, 1982 and his debut single 'Human Features' was released the same year. <a hr
via Last.fm · Black
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities
· 1973 · cited 19,714x
- AN EXAMINATION OF THE DEGTJAREFF METHOD FOR DETERMINING SOIL ORGANIC MATTER, AND A PROPOSED MODIFICATION OF THE CHROMIC ACID TITRATION METHOD
· 1934 · cited 16,703x
- Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,041x
- Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,787x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Black, the color of the West, of truth, revelation, and destruction.”
- “Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
- “The smith and his penny both are black.”
- “Black as holes within a memory”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Colin Vearncombe , ( 1962-05-26 ) 26 May 1962, West Derby , Liverpool, England
- Died
- 26 January 2016 (2016-01-26) (aged 53), Wilton, Cork , Ireland
- Genres
- Pop new wave
- Years active
- 1981–2016
- Labels
- WEA A&M Ugly Man Nero Schwarz
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.colinvearncombe.com
- Image
- Black by Stuart Mentiply.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
Show 8 more facts
- pseudonym
- Black
- date of birth
- 1962-05-26
- date of death
- 2016-01-26
- Commons category
- Black (vocalist)
- birth name
- Colin Vearncombe
- start of work period
- 1981-00-00
- social media followers
- 153000
- name in native language
- Colin Vearncombe
via Wikidata · CC0
~6 min read
Article
Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 – 26 January 2016), known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter. He emerged from the punk rock music scene and achieved mainstream pop success in the late 1980s, most notably with the 1986 single "Wonderful Life", which was an international hit the next year.
William Ruhlmann of AllMusic described Vearncombe as a "smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey". Michael Hann of The Guardian described his voice as a "slightly frayed baritone".