Just completed another interview with Peter Jenner covering the early Harvest Records years. Starting in 1969, nine of the first dozen album released by the label were Blackhill artists which says it all. For many years the label grew with musical integrity and vision until becoming sucked down in the morass that North America offered…

The latest joy has been an excellent interview with Muff Winwood covering his life and times in music. From playing bass in the Spencer Davis group to the very start of Island Records with Chris Blackwell. Eventually he moved on to head up the A&R department at CBS / Sony Records where the first two…

Next I had the pleasure of filming John Worth aka Les Vandyke who has been responsible for some great songs over the years with his biggest hits being for Adam Faith and Eden Kaye. He also wrote the gem “Gonna Make You an Offer You Can’t Refuse” for Jimmy Helms. What a glittering career for…

Today I have found and filmed Roland Rennie, a man whose name has turned up time and time again over the years in books and interviews about the players. So many thanks to Brian Southall and his book of numbers, and we now have on ‘film’ the man who placed the Beatles first releases in…

There’s that great story of Phil Seamen. He was doing sessions of course, and he was playing in a club at night, late night, and he was working the pit in the orchestra. So he’d take naps, obviously. I think the show was the King and I, and he fell asleep but he heard a…

making it through the John Barry Seven