When I first arrived at Bron in January 1968, I was thrown in the deep end really. Sometimes Gene Pitney would come over and tour cinemas, theatres and concert halls, but he had decided he would do some cabaret, so the promoter Arthur Howes had booked him into a series of Northern clubs. I remember [...]
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The Graham Bond Organization
5 January, 2009 – 3:02 pm
Listen to the Graham Bond Organization play their 1964 single ‘Long Tall Shorty’:
Along with Alexis Korner and John Mayall, vocalist and keyboard player Graham Bond is considered to be one of the godfathers of early British R&B. An innovative performer, he mixed jazz influences with R&B and is credited as one of the first musicians [...]