If you’re planning a trip to New York in the near future, make time to visit the Not Fade Away Gallery, which is currently housing an exhibition called ‘The British Are Coming!’
The collection features previously unseen photographs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, taken between 1964 and 1966 by Bob Bonis. Bonis was the [...]
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All the bands knew one another and we would hang out together. It was like a big pool of musicians. We would all assemble in these different places and there would be jams going on. We would go to clubs like the Cromwellian club in the Cromwell Road and Scotch of St James, which was [...]
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By Valerie Potter |
Can also be found in Celebrities, Clubs, Music |
Tagged Ad Lib club, Brian Auger, Brian Auger Trinity, Cambridge Circus, Chas Chandler, Cottage Club, Cream, Cromwell Road, Cromwellian, Eric Clapton, Flamingo Club, Georgie Fame, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Julie Driscoll, Mickey Waller, Procol Harum, Regent Street, Ringo, Rod Stewart, Scotch of St James, St James, Steve Winwood, Ten Years After, The Animals, The Beatles, The Blue Flames, The Faces, The Speakeasy, Whiter Shade Of Pale, Yeh Yeh
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You would meet your friends up at the clubs in Soho and Carnaby Street fitted in the middle of that scene. There were two different kinds of people: there were the rockers who looked like bikers and probably liked rock and roll, and the mods who were more modern and progressive in terms of their [...]
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By Valerie Potter |
Can also be found in Fashion, Music |
Tagged Brian Auger, Carnaby Street, Cecil Gee, Long John Baldry, mods, rockers, Rod Stewart, Rod The Mod, Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, Steampacket, The Beatles
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One of the UK’s foremost keyboard players, Brian Auger has played with a number of British blues and jazz greats, including the Yardbirds and Long John Baldry, both as a session musician and a band leader. He enjoyed a massive hit single in 1966 with ‘This Wheel’s On Fire’ featuring Julie Driscoll on vocals and [...]
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By Valerie Potter |
Can also be found in Bands at the Marquee, Clubs, Music |
Tagged Brian Auger, Chinatown, Gerrard Street, Howlin' Wolf, Julie Driscoll, Long John Baldry, Marquee, Oblivion Express, Rolling Stones, Ronnie Scott, Shaftesbury Avenue, The Yardbirds, Wardour Street
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