He is been known as a “true songwriting affect”.
Tributes have poured in for Pete Dello (Picture: Honeybus)
Pete Dello, a singer-songwriter who carried out in band Honeybus within the mid-60s, has sadly died aged 83. Tributes have poured in for the singer, who was from Oxford, as he was known as “pop’s quiet genius”. Information of his demise circulated on social media and was later confirmed by an obituary, which confirmed he had died in London on February 21. Dello began his profession within the Fifties, however fashioned Honeybus within the mid Nineteen Sixties the place he wrote the hit single ‘I Cannot Let Maggie Go’, which was a Prime 10 hit within the UK and Prime 20 internationally.
Regardless of the success of writing the hit single on the album, he quickly left the band earlier than touring and launched a solo album, titled Into Your Ears in 1971; he stop the music business for pastures new within the Nineteen Seventies and wound up turning into a music instructor. His solo album has since been deemed a collectable.
His hit music I Cannot Let Maggie Go then had a second surge after it was utilized in a Nineteen Seventies Nimble breadTV advert which introduced him royalties. He has a magnitutde of songs on his discography and was praised for being a improbable songwriter throughout his profession.
Because the information emerged on-line, tributes poured in, with one person writing: “One in every of my true songwriting influences and musical heroes has handed after a sudden sickness.” The person continued to have fun his variety of standard songs earlier than ending it with “Thanks for every little thing”.
File label Guerssen wrote: “Farewell Pete Dello. What a improbable songwriter and musician. It was a privilege working with you all these years.”
One other person wrote: “Farewell Pete Dello – pop’s quiet genius.”
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The information got here shortly after Hanky Panky Data shared a submit on X to thank MOJO journal for a “shock full web page function” for the Honeybus releases of “Story” and “Recital & Extra: The Pete Dello Years”. Proving that regardless of not being within the music business for many years, Pete remained a liked and well-celebrated artist even years later.
Recital & Extra: The Pete Dello Years was launched in October 2025 as a part of The Honeybus Reappraisal Sequence, with 26 songs on the album to have fun the works of each the band and Pete Dello.
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