Watch Suger Pie DeSanto perform ‘Rock Me Baby’ in the UK in 1964:
Born Umpeylia Balinton in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935, Sugar Pie DeSanto was nicknamed ‘Little Miss Sugar Pie’ by bandleader Johnny Otis when she made her first recording with him in 1955. An amazing R’n’B singer, her single ‘I Want To Know’ was [...]
Watch the Rolling Stones perform at a New Musical Express Poll Winners show in 1964 here:
On 12th July 1962, the Marquee was the venue for the Rolling Stones’ first ever live show. Formed by former schoolmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards with fellow R&B enthusiast Brian Jones and named after a Muddy Waters song, the [...]
1964/5 was an amazing time and Soho was a great place to be. There was a little Italian café just off Wardour Street where they did a mushroom omelette for 3 shillings and 9 pence [approximately 19p] and we were all broke, so you could go in there on a lunchtime and you’d see Rod [...]
Watch 1963 footage of the Yardbirds performing ‘Louise’ with Eric Clapton on guitar here:
One of the most important bands to emerge from the early Sixties’ British R&B scene, the Yardbirds’ original line-up consisted of Keith Relf (vocals), Anthony Topham (lead guitar), Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass) and Jim McCarty (drums). However, Topham soon [...]