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"With music, you give out a tremendous amount of energy. Psychically, what happens is that you leave yourself vulnerable to negative feelings because you've put out all your positive feelings. Your defences are down because you've put out so much."
📸 Billy MacKenzie of The Associates by George Chin
📸 Billy MacKenzie of The Associates by George Chin
December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"With music, you give out a tremendous amount of energy. Psychically, what happens is that you leave yourself vulnerable to negative feelings because you've put out all your positive feelings. Your defences are down because you've put out so much."
📸 Billy MacKenzie of The Associates by George Chin
📸 Billy MacKenzie of The Associates by George Chin
Alan Rankine and Billy MacKenzie of The Associates photographed by David Corio, 1980
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Alan Rankine and Billy MacKenzie of The Associates photographed by David Corio, 1980
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Billy MacKenzie of The Associates photographed by Chris Noble in 1984
October 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Billy MacKenzie of The Associates photographed by Chris Noble in 1984
"'Party Fears Two' is about the disorientation you feel from the overindulgence in alcohol. It's a subject everyone can understand because people do strong things when they're drunk. I usually get over affectionate. I start kissing everyone."
📸 Billy MacKenzie by Paul Slattery
📸 Billy MacKenzie by Paul Slattery
October 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"'Party Fears Two' is about the disorientation you feel from the overindulgence in alcohol. It's a subject everyone can understand because people do strong things when they're drunk. I usually get over affectionate. I start kissing everyone."
📸 Billy MacKenzie by Paul Slattery
📸 Billy MacKenzie by Paul Slattery
"I've got a really close affinity with animals. I work with them. I'm attached to them. You've got to have a communication with animals. The first time I saw a whippet it was like an electric shock because it was the closest thing to a cheetah."
📸 Billy MacKenzie by George Chin
📸 Billy MacKenzie by George Chin
September 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"I've got a really close affinity with animals. I work with them. I'm attached to them. You've got to have a communication with animals. The first time I saw a whippet it was like an electric shock because it was the closest thing to a cheetah."
📸 Billy MacKenzie by George Chin
📸 Billy MacKenzie by George Chin
The Associates photographed in their publicist Chris Carr's office, 1981.
📸Mike Laye
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📸Mike Laye
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August 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Associates photographed in their publicist Chris Carr's office, 1981.
📸Mike Laye
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📸Mike Laye
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"If rock music is a slow tortoise then The Associates are an elusive butterfly. They make an electric music that might be on a point between John Barry & Erik Satie. They cannot be pinned down. They cannot be caught."
Billy MacKenzie & Alan Rankine photographed by Anton Corbijn
Billy MacKenzie & Alan Rankine photographed by Anton Corbijn
August 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"If rock music is a slow tortoise then The Associates are an elusive butterfly. They make an electric music that might be on a point between John Barry & Erik Satie. They cannot be pinned down. They cannot be caught."
Billy MacKenzie & Alan Rankine photographed by Anton Corbijn
Billy MacKenzie & Alan Rankine photographed by Anton Corbijn
"I think the best thing anybody could do is fall in love with somebody and if it works forever then great — and if it doesn't, well, just try again."
📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Eugene Adebari
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📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Eugene Adebari
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July 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"I think the best thing anybody could do is fall in love with somebody and if it works forever then great — and if it doesn't, well, just try again."
📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Eugene Adebari
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📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Eugene Adebari
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"I'm naturally very curious about things in me and around me. I'm fascinated by those moments in everyday life that so easily pass by without people attaching any significance to them. Those are the situations I write about."
📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Eugene Adebari
📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Eugene Adebari
July 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"I'm naturally very curious about things in me and around me. I'm fascinated by those moments in everyday life that so easily pass by without people attaching any significance to them. Those are the situations I write about."
📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Eugene Adebari
📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Eugene Adebari
July 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"When people see me I want them to realise that there are no boundaries, that you don't have to be operatic or soul or country. I'm just a singer."
Billy MacKenzie of The Associates photographed by Richard Haughton
Billy MacKenzie of The Associates photographed by Richard Haughton
July 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"When people see me I want them to realise that there are no boundaries, that you don't have to be operatic or soul or country. I'm just a singer."
Billy MacKenzie of The Associates photographed by Richard Haughton
Billy MacKenzie of The Associates photographed by Richard Haughton
"There's loads of that romantic melancholy in me. I'm insufferable to live with. I'm totally idealistic and constantly disillusioned by unrequited love."
📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Richard Haughton, 1984
📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Richard Haughton, 1984
June 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"There's loads of that romantic melancholy in me. I'm insufferable to live with. I'm totally idealistic and constantly disillusioned by unrequited love."
📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Richard Haughton, 1984
📸 Billy MacKenzie photographed by Richard Haughton, 1984
The Associates photographed by Sheila Rock, 1981
May 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Associates photographed by Sheila Rock, 1981
May 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The Associates "Breakfast" single signed by Billy MacKenzie and Martin Rushent.
"Talk to me,
I'll stay these vagabond nights..."
"Talk to me,
I'll stay these vagabond nights..."
May 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Associates "Breakfast" single signed by Billy MacKenzie and Martin Rushent.
"Talk to me,
I'll stay these vagabond nights..."
"Talk to me,
I'll stay these vagabond nights..."
"Bill and I had this thing that was bigger than us. Like an invisible thread. It’s like a thing called the God particle. All this stuff that’s around us is here but you can’t see it, but that’s what it is. It's tangible."
The Associates photographed by Sheila Rock
The Associates photographed by Sheila Rock
April 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"Bill and I had this thing that was bigger than us. Like an invisible thread. It’s like a thing called the God particle. All this stuff that’s around us is here but you can’t see it, but that’s what it is. It's tangible."
The Associates photographed by Sheila Rock
The Associates photographed by Sheila Rock
An unpublished outtake of Billy MacKenzie from the photo session for The Associates single Those First Impressions. 🌸
📸 Special thanks to Richard Haughton
📸 Special thanks to Richard Haughton
April 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
An unpublished outtake of Billy MacKenzie from the photo session for The Associates single Those First Impressions. 🌸
📸 Special thanks to Richard Haughton
📸 Special thanks to Richard Haughton
Alan Rankine & Billy MacKenzie backstage at the Gigant in Apeldoorn on 10 January 1981.
📸 Roy Tee
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📸 Roy Tee
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April 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Alan Rankine & Billy MacKenzie backstage at the Gigant in Apeldoorn on 10 January 1981.
📸 Roy Tee
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📸 Roy Tee
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Remembering the one and only Billy MacKenzie on what would have been his 68th birthday.
Happy Birthday, Billy 🎂💙
Happy Birthday, Billy 🎂💙
March 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Remembering the one and only Billy MacKenzie on what would have been his 68th birthday.
Happy Birthday, Billy 🎂💙
Happy Birthday, Billy 🎂💙
"Musically as well as lyrically, there's a feeling of clowning, fooling and madness. The group do everything they can to torture meaning. The Associates rejoice, justly, in seeing what cannot be seen everyday."
THE ASSOCIATES photographed by Tom Sheehan, 1981.
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THE ASSOCIATES photographed by Tom Sheehan, 1981.
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March 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Musically as well as lyrically, there's a feeling of clowning, fooling and madness. The group do everything they can to torture meaning. The Associates rejoice, justly, in seeing what cannot be seen everyday."
THE ASSOCIATES photographed by Tom Sheehan, 1981.
#billymackenzie #alanrankine
THE ASSOCIATES photographed by Tom Sheehan, 1981.
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The Associates photographed by Kishi Yamamoto, 1980
#BillyMacKenzie #AlanRankine #MichaelDempsey #JohnMurphy
#BillyMacKenzie #AlanRankine #MichaelDempsey #JohnMurphy
February 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The Associates photographed by Kishi Yamamoto, 1980
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#BillyMacKenzie #AlanRankine #MichaelDempsey #JohnMurphy
"Shapes affect me. I visualise the music that I produce; it's just that no one else can see it. I like to put the shapes of inanimate objects into an audio sense."
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📸 Lex Van Rossen
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📸 Lex Van Rossen
February 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Shapes affect me. I visualise the music that I produce; it's just that no one else can see it. I like to put the shapes of inanimate objects into an audio sense."
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#TheAssociates
📸 Lex Van Rossen
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📸 Lex Van Rossen
"It's said that when you're three years old, you lose half of yourself. Well, to me, people spend the rest of their lives chasing after the lost part. They're always scrambling for perfection."
Billy MacKenzie
27/3/1957 — 22/1/1997
Billy MacKenzie
27/3/1957 — 22/1/1997
January 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
"It's said that when you're three years old, you lose half of yourself. Well, to me, people spend the rest of their lives chasing after the lost part. They're always scrambling for perfection."
Billy MacKenzie
27/3/1957 — 22/1/1997
Billy MacKenzie
27/3/1957 — 22/1/1997
📸 Alan Rankine and Billy MacKenzie photographed by Jill Furmanovsky during a cover session for Smash Hits, 1982
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#TheAssociates
January 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
📸 Alan Rankine and Billy MacKenzie photographed by Jill Furmanovsky during a cover session for Smash Hits, 1982
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#TheAssociates