When I first got into the film game, I’d get a day’s work and then I’d miss a week and then I’d get another day’s work. If I didn’t have any film work one week, I would be a compere and guitarist in pubs all around London.
Then all of a sudden, they said to me, [...]
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Alex Harvey
4 December, 2008 – 1:18 pm
Listen to Alex Harvey’s 1965 single, ‘Agent OO Soul’ here:
Glasgow-born Alex Harvey started his musical career in the mid-Fifties, playing Dixieland, skiffle and jazz and winning a competition as Scotland’s answer to Tommy Steele! In 1959, he started his own Alex Harvey Soul Band, which built up a fanbase through their own local gigs, as [...]
Song and Dance
11 August, 2008 – 10:25 am
Being Welsh, I grew up with lots of music. Everyone had a piano in their house and my father played in that kind of sliding, vamp style which made all the songs sound the same. And everybody could dance, so at 10 or 11 years old, you were taught to waltz and foxtrot. My parents [...]