Mr. Patrick Joseph Cowley passed on from complications due to AIDS. HIV is only the beginning. If you get that under control, then you may not get a rare pneumonia called Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia or other "opportunistic infections" e.g. Cancers one normally would never get, rare diseases, etc. If you have a Dx of one of these, then you get AIDS. Once you have AIDS, it's harder to get under control & AIDS IS NOT immune to straight people nor kids either! In my small city in Atlantic Canada there are at least over 2000 people under age 20 who are walking around HIV+
It is a horrific disease that can be treated very well now!
Anyhow, to get to the point, I have a beatiful pic of Patrick Cowley that DJ Harold Ranger gave me & I can make copies. Can I upload images to this site?

DJ Harold Ranger wrote in the corner of his pic:

Cowley, Patrick-In memory of Patrick Cowley who passed away November 12th, 1982.

I want to LIFT OFF and become a MEGATRON MAN.
I am full of MENERGY and heading for a TECH-NO-LOGICAL WORLD.
You being the MUTANT MAN, I put a LINE ON YOU and made you an X-FACTOR.
It was such a MIND WARP, that it became an INVASION.
THEY CAME AT NIGHT to TAKE YOU HOME. I'm now alone and GOIN'HOME to a TEEN PLANET.
It's such a PRIMITIVE WORLD, that they still go on a SEA HUNT.
THANK GOD FOR MUSIC and we all need to GET A LITTLE.

Backstage DJ Harold Ranger (some words I canged myself.)

P.S. (I'll upload my photo & I might sell some on photo paper for a fair price, as I have a photo printer.)

Patrick Cowley was one of the artists who bridged the gap between disco and the hi-NRG sound of the mid-80s; he wasn't quite a pioneer of modern electronic dance music, instead occupying a similar off-to-one-side spot as Giorgio Moroder, Jan Hammer, Harold Faltermeyer and the like. His style is essentially derivative of Moroder, although he has left behind a number of classic disco singles, including 'Do You Wanna Funk', 'Menergy' and his voluminous remix of Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love'. He was also a talented synth keyboardist, and is part of a generation of early electronic musicians - again, just like Hammer, Moroder, and so forth - who grew up at a time when synthesisers were generally seen in the forbidding, academic context of experimental music, and who took the tools of Stockhausen etc and used them to make people dance.

Listened to in 2005, his music had dated, but in a generally good way; the production uses a lot of analogue synthesisers and real drums, and consequently it doesn't sound as thin and weedy as pop-dance singles from later in the decade ('Menergy' has an unimpressive 'robot voice' effect but otherwise swoops and swooshes in the classic style, and has a wonderful soaring disco diva vocal). Indeed, he was an early exponent of the kind of 'big production' that became mainstream in rock music during the 80s, but instead applied to synthesisers.

He was big in gay disco circles, didn't really cross over into the mainstream, and is a cult figure nowadays.