19 April, 2009 – 11:39 am
This was October 1964, and ‘Melody Maker’ was pretty much a jazz paper, so they wanted a younger writer to write about pop and R’N’B. On my first day, I went out for a drink with one of the older guys on the paper and he was a bit sourfaced and negative and said, “Oh, [...]
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 [...]
By Valerie Potter
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Posted in Celebrities, Clubs, Fashion, Films, Music, Television
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Also tagged Blazers, Brian Auger, Chuck Berry, Civil Rights Act, Cromwell Road, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Queensgate, Sonny Boy Williamson
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19 March, 2009 – 12:27 pm
All the bands knew one another and we would hang out together. It was like a big pool of musicians. We would all assemble in these different places and there would be jams going on. We would go to clubs like the Cromwellian club in the Cromwell Road and Scotch of St James, which was [...]
By Valerie Potter
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Posted in Carnaby Street, Celebrities, Clubs, Music
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Also tagged Ad Lib club, Brian Auger, Brian Auger Trinity, Cambridge Circus, Chas Chandler, Cottage Club, Cream, Cromwell Road, Cromwellian, Eric Clapton, Flamingo Club, Georgie Fame, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Julie Driscoll, Mickey Waller, Procol Harum, Regent Street, Ringo, Rod Stewart, Scotch of St James, St James, Steve Winwood, Ten Years After, The Animals, The Blue Flames, The Faces, The Speakeasy, Whiter Shade Of Pale, Yeh Yeh
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You would meet your friends up at the clubs in Soho and Carnaby Street fitted in the middle of that scene. There were two different kinds of people: there were the rockers who looked like bikers and probably liked rock and roll, and the mods who were more modern and progressive in terms of their [...]
By Valerie Potter
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Posted in Carnaby Street, Fashion, Music
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Also tagged Brian Auger, Carnaby Street, Cecil Gee, Long John Baldry, mods, rockers, Rod Stewart, Rod The Mod, Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, Steampacket
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