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 [...]
Journal entries about Bands at the Marquee
Brian Auger’s Memories, Part 1
By Valerie Potter | Can also be found in Carnaby Street, 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 | Comments (0)
Chris Barber’s Memories, Part 6
[In 1963] the owner of the Academy Cinema said to Harold Pendleton, “I have to get you out, I’m afraid, because I need to convert this from being one cinema into being three screens on three floors, so I want the basement back.” We said, “But we wouldn’t know where to find anywhere else!” and [...]
By Valerie Potter | Can also be found in Music | Tagged Academy Cinema, Chris Barber, Giorgio Gomelsky, Great Universal Stores, Harold Pendleton, Jeff Beck Group, Jimi Hendrix, Marquee, Mickey Waller, Richmond Jazz & Blues Festival, Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood, Wardour Street, Yardbirds | Comments (0)
Chris Barber’s Memories, Part 4
Watch a (rather overwrought!) American trailer for ‘Look Back In Anger’, featuring the music of Chris Barber’s band, here:
The Marquee became enormously popular. We took part in a film called ‘Look Back In Anger’ where Richard Burton as the ‘Angry Young Man’ hero plays the trumpet and sits in with my band in the club. [...]
By Valerie Potter | Can also be found in Celebrities, Films, Music | Tagged Angry Young Man, Chris Barber, Look Back In Anger, Marquee, Momma Don't Allow, Pinewood Studios, Richard Burton, Soho, Tony Richardson, Wood Green Jazz Club | Comments (0)
Chris Barber’s Memories, Part 3
The Marquee gradually got bigger, as live music of that nature became more popular, and then we wanted to do more blues and so on, not just traditional jazz, so we brought some American blues artists over to Britain, because we thought that the way to get hold of this music better was to have [...]
By Valerie Potter | Can also be found in Music | Tagged Alexis Korner, Blues Incorporated, Chicago blues, Chris Barber, Cyril Davies, Guild Of Variety Artists, Harold Pendleton, Marquee, Muddy Waters, Musicians Union, Traditional jazz | Comments (0)