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Brian Auger’s Memories, Part 4

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 [...]

Berne Williams’ (The Authentics) Memories, Part 6

The Authentics were always fighting a losing battle, because of Giorgio Gomelsky’s negative attitude toward us. We even got to the point where Jackie DeShannon, whose song ‘Needles And Pins’ had just been a No. 1 hit single for the Searchers, wrote a single for us and co-produced it with Jimmy Page, but Giorgio never [...]