The Tubes’ Re Styles Dead at 72

Former Tubes singer Re Types died on the age of 72 on Apr. 17, a number of shops confirmed.

Born Shirley Macleod within the Netherlands in 1950, she was a mannequin who’d appeared in Playboy and Penthouse by the point she met Tubes drummer Prairie Prince within the mid ‘70s. The pair developed a relationship and Types turned the band’s costume designer earlier than turning into a part of the stage act then taking up vocal duties.

She’s most likely greatest identified for performing the feminine lead within the hit “Prime Time” from 1979 album Distant Management, produced by Todd Rundgren. “’Prime Time’ was not initially a duet,” frontman Payment Waybill informed Goldmine in 2013. “Initially it was a music Re sang all by herself. The document firm mentioned, ‘We would like that to be the only, however we will’t put out a single with a woman singer who’s not acquainted to anyone who is aware of the Tubes. You’ve gotta put Payment on it.’ So we had to return in after the document was executed and re-record that music as a duet.”

Watch Re Types Carry out ‘Prime Time’ with The Tubes

Types was seen in 1980 film Xanadu alongside the Tubes, however by the point they launched their fifth album The Completion Backward Precept the identical yr, she was now not a member. Noise11 reported that she continued along with her artistic profession, working as a panorama gardener, inside designer, occasion planner and florist.

In 2019 Waybill confirmed the band remained involved along with her. “The final tour Re did was in 1979 and at that time, she was in unhealthy form,” he informed Classic Rock. “She was ingesting an excessive amount of and he or she didn’t actually need to tour anymore. So she form of left the band at that time… She was actually a proficient lady. Actually proficient.”