Alastair Donaldson, 1955-2013

“Using the pseudonym William Mysterious, Alastair Donaldson played saxophone and bass guitar with the Scottish punk band the Rezillos. Combining a sci-fi, day-glo aesthetic, references to Thunderbirds and The Flintstones, and a fast, fun take on 1960s beat music, the group burst on to the Edinburgh scene in January 1977… Now acknowledged as one of the best punk albums of all time, the band’s debut contained a re-recording of their first single ‘I Can’t Stand My Baby’ along with ‘2000 AD’, a Donaldson-Callis collaboration, as well as ‘It Gets Me’, solely written by Donaldson.” Donaldson was 58.