I’d been at Gunnells’ around 18 months, when a girl I knew who was working for Gerry Bron at Bron Artist Management asked me if I would meet with him. She was thinking of leaving and as Gerry concentrated on recording and publishing, they were looking for someone to act more or less as an [...]
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Colin Richardson’s Memories, Part 2
21 July, 2009 – 9:53 am
The Blackheath club was pretty successful. Their policy was to have the house band which was the Ian Bird Quintet or Sextet that played the first set and then they brought in a name jazz musician, like Tubby Hayes or Ronnie Scott, to play the second half and if they were amenable, the night would [...]
Chris Farlowe
13 February, 2009 – 11:43 am
Watch Chris Farlowe performing his 1966 hit ‘Out Of Time’ here:
Cutting his musical teeth with his own skiffle group, Chris Farlowe moved on to R&B and by the early Sixties, he and his band the Thunderbirds had a strong following on both London and Hamburg club circuit. He was under contract to Columbia, but didn’t [...]
Jeremy Fletcher’s Memories
19 November, 2008 – 5:53 pm
Jeremy Fletcher photographed many of the rising stars of the Sixties, often as commissions for the hip girls’ magazine Fabulous, while working under the name ‘Julian Hann’. You can see some of his iconic photographs of the era in our picture gallery. To buy prints of any of the images or check out more of [...]