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Judy Dyble, a treasure from the archive
Magic memory times with the Airports
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Aliki sang with loads of fellow musicians back in the day
And lots of happy memories she has too of touring with the likes of Long John Baldry and Ginger Baker’s Airforce back in the day. It is all so long ago but working at the Speakeasy Club, ‘THE’ private club for the great and the good, which was certainly a great way to meet fellow…
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Tony Bell’s dad did not appreciate his son’s love of the 2Is
The joys of all this new music to a youngster in the 1950s was far too powerful for the older generation and resulted in Tony being kicked out of his dad’s house
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Rob Burns and bass playing memories
From starting touring aged just eighteen with the The Stylistics as they topped the charts in Britain as well as more soul legends such as Sam & Dave, Rob has made career of playing bass guitar with numerous parties such as David Gilmour, Albert Lee and Vivian Stanshall. His marvellous tales will be following on this…
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Ray Connolly was a Fleet Street legend
Hailing originally from Liverpool, he eventually met The Beatles and interviewed them many times for the Fleet Street papers as their pop specialist
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Top Topham gave The Yardbirds the Blues
Well they were all kids in those days messing about with instruments and trying to learn to play them. Top wanted to play in the group but his parents had other ideas
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Zoot Money – The Book Of Life… I’ve Read It
Saw Zoot in fine form last night with the overview of his life so far with a band and the musical soundtrack to match. He went back to days of the Flamingo Club and a young Andy Summers on guitar playing R&B and Chuck Berry & Ray Charles numbers though those late, late nights till…
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John Preston starts in the business at Bruces Records
JP as he was known to many has just gone to the great gig in the sky for too early – here he related his start in the business at Bruce’s Record shop
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The Teenage Delinquent – Alexis Korner
We are getting closer folks
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Simon Carver the dance record shop man
It was all go as you can see from the above photograph when I sat down to discuss Eighties record retailing in Sheffield and then so much more beyond that city and that era. Simon is now a man with large shop and distribution experience, and he had great tales of the heady days of…
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Gary Compton, a Kingston man in a Panama jug band
Gary had the harmonica bug and so was a regular watching the The Rolling Stones and the emerging Yardbirds as well as the American Blues legends such as Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed all around the Kingston, Richmond, Twickenham area. Watching musicians at the Osterley Jazz & Folk Club eventually led to him…
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James Moyes knew Alexis, Davy and Cyril
A lovely evening was spent recently with James (and his daughter) with him recounting tales of Davy Graham for the ongoing film ‘The Man With The Guitar’ – hey can you believe we are nearly finished now? Well the director think we are and then another head pops up. James moved in that small circle…