The Glasgow DJ and vocalist, best known for the 1992 classic dance track ‘Push The Feeling On‘, passed away “suddenly” according to a 15th June Facebook post by his former fiancée, the singer Mary Kiani, Metro reports. No cause of death has been disclosed at the time of writing. He was 61.
“We met in Glasgow but fell in love in London. He was recording his album with Roy Hay (Culture Club) for his new band ‘This Way Up’; myself and Danusia ‘Danoosha’ Zaremba were on tour and every night we met at the Columbian hotel’, Kiani wrote in her tribute, posted along with a video of Reid and Kiani rehearsing together. “We were both doing great with our music. The birth of the Nightcrawlers happened (‘Push The Feeling On). We toured, we recorded, we did our vocal sessions together. We parted 9 years later.”
Before forming Nightcrawlers in the early ’90s, John Reid performed under the name Robinson Reid with Roy Ernest Hay for his first post-Culture Club project, This Way Up, in the mid-to-late ’80s. Nightcrawlers’ ‘Push The Feeling On’, released by 4th & Broadway, wasn’t immediately the success it is considered today, but later edits by Marc Kinchen, aka MK — particularly the 1995 ‘MK Dub Revisited Edit‘ — climbed UK and international charts. That version and the other popular ‘(The Dub Of Doom Mix)’ featured on Nightcrawlers’ debut and only LP, 1995’s ‘Let’s Push It‘. The track received revived attention when Pitbull sampled it in his 2009 hit ‘Hotel Room Service’.
Outside of his work with Nightcrawlers’, Reid achieved chart success as a songwriter for Tina Turner (‘When The Heartache Is Over’), Westlife (‘Unbreakable’), Ian Levine, Mónica Naranjo and Rod Stewart, as well as ‘A Moment Like This’, performed by Kelly Clarkson and Leona Lewis.
