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MY APPRECIATION “He’s My Brother” – By Alix Vaz My brother Ronald, loved music like our mum & all the family and we had a very happy childhood in Sri Lanka. In his youth, when The Shadows & Cliff Richards were in their heyday, he wore drain pipe trousers & Hank Marvin’s dark wrap-around sunglasses, which to me resembled a racehorse with blinkers – focussing only on what was in front! He liked the sound of the monotonous bass guitar & practised endlessly driving us crazy. He & his, friend Randy Peries had music in their veins. I was absolutely thrilled when on my 21st birthday, he organised a group named the Commodores to play – complete with disco lighting. It was the craze at the time. The 1st disco lights were invented in 1968 when someone decided to control lighting using electronics (Transistors – no silicon chips). The idea ...