You could go into almost any club and there was a great band and you probably knew the people in it. You had a few drinks with them, heard some really great music, sat down with them and had a really good laugh - and you had a great evening. It was pretty amazing; it [...]
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Brian Auger’s Memories, Part 6
6 April, 2009 – 9:00 am
When I became a professional musician in 1963, there was no real recording industry at the time, but all of a sudden, the recording industry started to buck up and this wave of English music cut across the world. It was absolutely amazing to eventually go to places in Japan and have kids come up [...]
Brian Auger’s Memories, Part 5
5 April, 2009 – 9:04 am
At that time, anything could happen. The ambiance was almost euphoric. Suddenly, it was like all the talented youth in England had gained power - not only the musicians, with clubs opening everywhere up and down England, but the fashion designers like Mary Quant and Biba. Biba had a big store in Kensington High Street [...]
Brian Auger’s Memories, Part 4
30 March, 2009 – 9:37 am
One of the clubs we used to go to was called the Pink Elephant, in St James; Paul McCartney used to go there sometimes too. It was a little downstairs basement that probably held about 80 people maximum, but the stuff that came through there was ridiculous.
I remember one night, I had the organ trio [...]