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R.I.P
12 December 2010
KEVAN MICHAEL STANHOPE FOGERTY
Guitarist with The Teenbeats
*LENNIE &
THE TEENBEATS
Lennies Arcadian Combo:Mark Day & The Knights: The Dappers: Blue Star Combo:
The Accy Rockers:
Accrington
Lennies Arcadian Combo
Dave Tomlinson: Guitar. Vinny: Guitar. Mark Day: Lead Vocal. Jack Woods: Guitar - vocal. Frank Fielding: Ballad Singer. Jim Graham: Bass Guitar. Lennie Herbert: Drums.
'Bass'?: Name unknown.
Peter Hibbert 2nd left with sixties superstar Billy Fury posing center as a band member shakes his hand in the Majestic Ballroom in Barnoldswick. Sadly Peter recently passed away.
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"When I started out in the mid 1950's with the skiffle craze the singer was Pete Hibbert. I was the then drummer with Lennie & The Teenbeats and we were very popular around Lancashire and Yorkshire. Later - for obvious reasons - we changed the name to Mark Day & The Knights - Petes stage name.
Peter Hibbert: Lead Vocal.
Lennie Herbert: March 2011 |
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*GLASS MENAGERIE
Rawtenstall - Nelson
"One band that had a very profound influence on BIM in the late sixties and early seventies was a four-piece band - later a trio- from the Rawtenstall - Nelson area called Glass Menagerie.
GM was much more than just a local band, as they could occasionally be heard on John Peel's Sunday afternnon show 'Top Gear' played at leading clubs of the time such as Mother's Club in Birmingham and The Magic Village in Manchester and had a recording contract, releasing a couple of singles.
BIM first saw Glass Menagerie play at Rivington Barn, a large converted tithe barn on the outskirts of Bolton. We had gone along to see Fairport Convention, who had just released their second album 'What We Did On Our Holidays'. For some reason, Fairports couldn't make the gig, but we consoled ourselves by contemplating the performances of the two support bands, one of which was GM. First up was a band called 'Magazine' if memory serves. They were OK, but a wee bit 'commercial' for our eclectic tastes.
Next up was Glass Menagerie and the band absolutely blew us away! The line up was Lou Stonebridge - organ, Bill Atkinson - drums, John Medley - bass and Alan Kendal - guitar. For starters, the band certainly looked the part! Lou wore a black tail coat and knee length boots. He had a huge frizzy barnet, parted down the middle, similar to the one that our drummer, Paul, later cultivated! The other guys were colourfully decked out in crushed velvet kecks and buckskin jackets. Alan played a Gibson SG Solid Guitar - axe, just like the one that Beak later purchased. John had a Fender Jazz basss, stripped of its pickup covers and scratchplate. I later went on to by a Jazz bass. I can't remember what sort of drum kit Bill used; it was probably Ludwig, because our own drummer eventually used that brand and, as you may have gathered, we were later trying to be just like our heros in sound and appearance. The band had 100 watt Marshall stacked amps and a Selmer 100 watt PA, with no sight of pimply roadie twiddling mixer knobs at the back of the hall!
Looks..
If the looks of Glass Menagerie had impressed, we were totally swept away by their sound and choice of material once they started playing. The Rivington Barn set, as I remember it, included:
I Can't Quit Her - Blood, Sweat & Tears with Al Cooper
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
Love Me Two Times - The Doors
People Are Strange - The Doors
Mr Fantasy - Traffic
Do You Ever Think? - Glass Menagerie
Frederick Jordan - Glass Menagerie
Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful
She Came From Hell - Glass Menagerie
Somebady to Love - Jefferson AirplaneThere might have been more, but hey! - it was a helluva long time ago!
We saw GM on a number of other occasions and by the time of the last gig witnessed by us, at the Bolton Octagon Theatre, the band had slimmed down to organ , bass and drums, but still sounded great! Alan had left to join Toe Fat with Cliff Bennett of Rebelrousers fame, and made a couple of albums with them before joining The Bee Gees on tour. GM eventually split and Lou performed and recorded with Paladin and Bill did likewise with If. I've no idea what happened to ace bass player John Medley.
Lou is currently has a band called Boogie Woogie Flu and plays mainly London pubs and clubs with what is billed as 'An infectious mixture of rhythm and blues'! Must get along to one of their gigs with Paul and Dan!
John Medley - bass guitar was at school with me as was Brian Chippendale who was drummer with The Silhouettes as did Vicky Vallans-Smith.
Tony Dixon: February 2011 |
THE SILHOUETTES
The Jensens
Nelson
The Silhouettes: 1960
Rear: Fred Smith: Guitar. Alan Holt: Guitar - Vocal. Barry Rawstron: Bass Guitar
Ian Dixon: Drums. John Horne: Lead Guitar.
Vicky Vallan was the main singer. 
"I played lead guitar with a Nelson group called The Silhouettes from 1960 through to 1967 when the group broke up. Then later with a group called The Jensens who had two records out on the Philips label and played on the John Peel show even though we were only semi-pros'.
I dont know why but there doesn't seem to be much written about The Silhouettes group even though they were probably the most well known outfit in the Nelson - Burnley area and did two Radio Shows from the BBC Playhouse Theatre in Manchester called 'Here We Go'. This was a live recorded show with an audience with the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra and because it was only a half-hour show they recorded two shows together to make it worthwhile for an audience to attend.
1963
Alan Holt: Vocal. Barry Rawstron. Bass Guitar.
John Horne: Lead Guitar. Brian Chippendale: Drums.
Front: Vicky Vallen: Fred Smith: Guitar.
The Silhouettes were the stars on one show and The Beatles were the stars on the other, having just come back from Hamburg. On that second show they had just released 'Love Me Do' so they did get a bit more attention than we did at the stage door afterwards.
We were also signed to the Tito Burns Agency in London who had on their books Dusty Springfield and The Searchers. They supplied many of the top acts to the Imp' Ballroom in Nelson, unfortunately we stayed as semi-pros' which didnt help them to promote us. At that time we had two vocalists in the group, Alan Holt and Vicky Smith - Vicky Vallan. They were both in the group from the beginning in the late 1950's. Alan left the group on the 31 October 1965 because his father died and they had a newsagents shop down Scotland Road, Nelson which he then had to run himself. Ronnie Thornton - Chad Wayne - replaced him as vocalist. Alan went onto run a cafe in Nelson with his mother and when she died he bought a farm above Haggate near Burnley and opened a gun shop in Skipton.
Although singing had been his life, he started off as a choirboy at a very young age he never came back into the music scene. He died at the age of 60 in May 2004 after having several strokes which left him unable to speak - although he could understand what you said to him.
The Silhouettes, through to 1965, played a wide variety of venues, together with almost
every well known star of the day you can name. Many of them in variety shows from seaside piers to theatres and ballrooms. Also, we were the first rock group to get into the Mecca Ballrooms starting at BlackburnMecca where audiences weren't allowed to dance to us because of problems at that time with the *Musicians Union and their stance against groups. Eventually we played at all of the Mecca's throughout the North of England and paved the way for other groups to play at them.
1966
Glen South: Vocal. Barry Rawstron: Bass Guitar. Ronnie Thornton: Chad Wayne: Vocal.
Brian Chippendale: Drums. John Horne: Guitar.
*THE JENSENS
The Silhouhettes
John Horne: Guitar - Vocal. Mike Horne: Vocal - RIP. Brian Howe: Bass - Vocal.
Off pic: Roger Greenwood: Guitar - Vocal.
This was the outfit that had two records on the Philips Label.
Alan Buck of The Four Pennies: RIP played the drums on the records.
July 1971
Jensens - Reginald
John Horne: Guitar - Bass - Guitar - Vocal. Roger Greenwood: Guitar: Violin - Vocal.
Walter Day: Drums. Brian Howe: Bass Guitar - Vocal - Trumpet. Mike Horne: Vocal.
Off pic: David Almond: Guitar.
Reginald was a more modern name to appear on The John Peel Show and this is the name that appears in the John Peel Sessions Book. You can also see we adopted a more casual Dress in the 1970's. You might recognise a few of the names that played with us over the years were in other groups during the 60's.
*"I believe the problem was they wouldn't accept 'us' as musicians because the majority of guitar player's didn't read music and also they saw as a threat to their employment. It was quite sometime before they would accept us as members. We came accross this problem where ever there was a resident orchestra although it was only Blackburn Mecca that didn't allow dancing. We were soon playing at Sale Mecca, the Ritz Mecca in Manchester and Mecca's in Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale and Wakefield."
John Horne: January 2011 |
GLEN SOUTH'S MANHATTANS
Burnley
Glen South: Lead Vocal.
*EDDIE G MARTIN
& THE SABRES
Pendle
Eddie G Martin: Lead Vocal, John 'Jimmy' Jewel: Sax. Tommy Smith: Drums.
Ian Fraser: Bass guitar. Robin Whitaker: Lead Guitar.
EGM & The Sabre's hold prestige claims to fame as support band to The Beatles when the played at The Imperial Ballroom Nelson in May 1963. The were also a support for Freddie Starr & The Midnighters.
Bill Hart: November 2010
THE DOLPHINS
The Hollies: The Skifflettes:
Burnley/Nelson
Bernie Calvert: Bass Guitar. Bobby Elliot: Drums.
Pat Belshaw: Lead Vocal. Tony Hicks: Lead Guitar.
Sixty-percent of The Hollies are here.. above. The others.. below are Eric Haydock: Bass Guitar from Stockport (Bernie replaced Eric 1966). Allan Clark: Lead Vocal. Graham Nash: Rhythm Guitar, both of Salford
LES' SKIFFLETTES
At 14 Pat Belshaw.. 3rd L; and Tony Hicks aged 12.. 3rd R; formed Les' Skifflettes.
A seven-piece skiffle-group with tea-chest bass and washboard.
THE HOLLIES
The Hollies playing at The World Famous Cavern Club, Liverpool.
A group made up from scattering of Lankyland lads from all over the County Palatine: A true LANKY BEAT Band.
This is the line-up that would make them internationally famous.
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THE INMATES
Barnoldswick
Robert Glendenning: Lead vocal. Graham Marshall. Neil Garnett. Norman Perry. Keith Prenton.
"A few years ago I put a nostalgic little booklet together about The Inmates for an anniversary and put it up on an old website. Hope it might be of interest to your readers.."
Norman Perry: September 2010
http://www.milesvanp.u-net.com/Inmates.html
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THE ABSORBERS
Burnley/Nelson/Colne
Mick Cowgill: Vocals. Mick Burrows: Drums. John Firth: Bass Guitar.
Alan Judson: Guitar. Dave Wright: Guitar.
Steve Cragg later replaced Mick Burrows on drums.
Played at the Imperial Ballroom Nelson just the once. Sunday night when the venue management were struggling to find a decent group. Mick Burrows went on to play with The Inmates.
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THE WARRIORS
Pendle
Jon Anderson: Lead Vocal joined Yes. Ian Wallace: Drums joined Bob Dylan.
Ivan Dixon played with Jethro Tull.
A Brick In the Mathew Street Wall Of Fame - Liverpool
This page comes to LANKY BEAT courtesy of S. Chapples.
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Supporting Acts:
This is a whole subject in itself, which goes far beyond the remit of my book Goin' Down T'Imp. Some members of these groups went on to bigger and better things and other changed their names and became celebrities. I’ve compiled a list of the 230 groups and artists who played the Imp' in the 60s and where possible mentioned individual band members, who subsequently achieved fame and fortune.
The Warriors were a very popular local quartet and the drummer Len Ward backed amongst others, Cleo Lane, Lulu and Tom Jones. This compilation makes interesting reading in its own right as the sheer inventiveness of the names shows how desperate the groups were to come to the attention of a Brian Epstein or Larry Parnes.
Group rivalry on each half of the revolving stage led some artists to sabotage the opposition by unplugging each other’s amps at the start of their performance leaving them literally powerless in front of the audience.
I’m sure many a local fan will spot someone they knew personally or enjoyed watching and a few will no doubt say, “I was in that group”.
Steve Chapples: July 2010
Acme Music Company
Dave Adam and the Belairs
Angels Payment
The Ashes
Billy Atom and the Fallouts
The Attack
The Avalons
Baby and the Crumblebees
Lee Barry and the MG’s
The Beat Merchants
*The Beatovens
The Bees
The Big Six
The Blackjacks
The Black Kats
Ian Black and the Knights
Black Sheep and the Sonics
The Blue Jays
The Blue Kats (Peter Eddlestone joined Marty Wilde)
Johnny Breeze and the Atlantics
Brian and the Bluejean Rockers
Bruce and the Spiders
The Carpetbaggers
The Cartwrights
The Cavedwellers
The C.C. Riders
Celia and the Imps
Certain Society
Chapter Five
The Chequers
The Chris Shakespeare
The Clayton Squares (Liverpool)
Dean Collins Sound
Cops and Robbers (backed John Lee Hooker)
The Cossacks
Michael Cox and the Stripes
Cross Town Traffic
The Cutters
The Cyan Tree
The Cyclones
The Cymarons
Terry Dale and the Dalesmen
The Dawnbreakers
The Debutantes (5 female R&B musicians)
Shirley Dee and the Invaders
Del Kados
Ricky Dene and the Vampires
The Detours
District Blues Co.
The Dominators
The Dominoes
The Downbeats (backed Eden Kane)
The Dyacks
The Dynamics
Tony Eaves and the Eavesdroppers
The Echoes (backed Dusty Springfield)
Edison’s Phonograph
The End
The Epics
The Executives (from Blackpool)
The Falcons
The Federals (from Manchester)
Ricky Fenton and the Sonics
Five of a Kind
Fleur de Lys
The Footsteps
The Forgotten Four
Forthcoming
The Fortune Tellers
Four Pete’s Sake
Jack Fordell and the Olympics
The Gamblers
The Generation
George and the Dragons
Gideon’s Ways
The Golden Eagles
The Gonks
Granny’s Intention
The Griffins
Jo Jo Grime
The Guests
The Harlems,
Harlem Shuffle,
Hearts of Oak
The Hornets,
Human Instinct
The Illusions
The Imps
The Intermediates
The Jaguars
Hank Jamison Collection
The J.D. Four
The Jensons (Mike Horne (d), Brian Howe and John Horne)
David John and the Mojo
Jonney Rebs (from Barrow)
Just Four Men
Just Uss
The Kaos (from Barrow)
Pete Kelly’s Solution
Vince Kent and the Vampires
The Kestrels
The Mark Kitto Sound
The Klan
The Knack
The Kudos
Gary Lavine and the Travellers
Gary Lavine and the Rockets
Left, Right and Centre
The Livewires (from Scotland)
Logger and the Lumberjacks
Love Trade
Ken Lloyd Trio
Long Distance Runners
The Longjohns
The Lovin
The Music Lanterns
Malcolm Bateson and Malc. Foster (d)).
Eddie G. Marten and the Falcons
Eddie G. Marten and the Sabres
Maureen and the Masquerades
The Meteors
Michael’s Angels
The Molehill Mob
Mondo Kay
The Mocking Birds
The Moodies
Jackie Montana and his Skiffle Group
The Moonshiners
The Mustangs
The Mutineers (John Medley (b) backed Bo Diddley at the Imp; Mike Horne v)
The Nevadas
The Nomads
The Originals
The Outsiders
Pancake Tuesday
Patents Pending
The Pedlars
Peter and the Alphabet
The Pezants
The Phantoms
Phil and the Argonauts
Little Phil and the Swaggers
Sebastian H. Pike (a group!)
Keith Powell
The Proud Paws
Little Black Pussycats
Pythagoras Squares
The Quare Fellows
Raging Storms (from Burnley, Keith O’Connell (k)
The Rainbows
Reasons 5
The Remo Four
Riot Squad
The Roadracers
The Roadrunners
Kris Ryan and the Questions
The Rye Catchers
The Kathy Sampson Trio
The Saracens
The Shades
The Shouts
The Shotguns
The Shouts
The Silhouettes (Glen South)
The Sinners
The Sisters of Idle Dreams
So On And So Forth (Tony Carter (v), Dave Pepper (d), Tex Corner (b), John O’Hara (v),
Dave Hayhurst (v))
Small Units
Mr Smith,
Some People
The Snipers
Socks to Match
The Solution
Somebody Else
The Sonics
The Spidermen (from Liverpool)
Lee Stewart and the Emperors
The Stirlings
The Spectres (became Status Quo)
State Express
The Strangers
The Streamliners
The Swinging Hangmen
Mike Taylor Combo
The Teddy Bears
The Thimble Riggers
The Time
Toggary Five
Traction
The Truth
Mark Twain and the Huckleberry Finns
Uncle Tom’s Express
The Untamed Four
The Uptown Go Go Band (Joey Madden (v & b), Kenny Markham and Barry Trickett (d))
The Valkyries
The Vendettas
The Vibrations
The Vipers
Bob Walker and the Detours
The Warriors (Jon Anderson (v) joined “Yes”, Ian Wallace (d), joined Bob Dylan
and Ivan Dixon played with Jethro Tull)
The Washington DC’s
Chad Wayne and the Codes (formerly The Quare Fellows)
The Wayward Sect
The Westerners
The Whispers
The Wild Ones
Ricky Wilson and the Altones
Wynder K. Frog
Mr X and the Mystery Group
Terry Young and the Youngsters
The Zephyrs
Listings kindly supplied By Steve Chapples
The
IMPERIAL
BALLROOM
Th'Imp'
Nelson
R-I-P
1911-1976
LANKY BEAT
Major Artistes
at Th'Imp..
With dates.
By Steve Chapples
A
Ronnie Aldritch
& the Squadronnaires 15/2/58 26/9/59
Amen Corner 25/5/68 4/4/69
Animals 15/8/64
P.P. Arnold 29/5/67 28/7/67 6/4/68
Ashton, Garden & Dyke 27/3/71
Eric Ashworth Jan & Feb 59 All Year
Atomic Rooster 31/12/70
The Avons 27/1/61
B
The Bachelors 9/5/59 25/9/64
KennyBall 22/9/62 10/12/62 19/10/65
8/10/69
Bunny Bakers’ Broadcasting Band 22/3/63
Kenny Baker 24/5/58 20/3/64
Long John Baldry 11/12/64 16/12/67
The Bandwagon 21/12/68
Chris Barber 9/3/57 19/10/57 8/9/62
Barron Knights 18/6/64
John Barry 12/2/61 20/5/61 8/12/61
30/3/62 18/8/62 6/3/63
Beatles 11/5/63 31/7/63
Paul Beattie Skiffle Group 27/4/57
Jeff Beck 5/8/67
William Bell 31/8/68 30/11/68 24/5/69
Cliff Bennett 15/9/62
Ivy Benson All Girls Band 25/3/61
Dave Berry 27/5/67 23/12/67
Mike Berry 19/8/61 11/8/62 23/2/63
The Big Three 8/1/66
Acker Bilk 28/5/60 5/10/63
Cilla Black 27/3/64
Blodwyn Pig 12/12/70
Bluto 2/1/71
Bob & Earl 31/5/69
Brook Bros. 6/1/62
Joe Brown 14/11/63
Eric Burdon 12/8/67
Johnny Burnette 9/11/63
The Byrds 3/8/65
C
Johnny C 22/2/69
Eddie Calvert 23/10/59
Caravelles 19/10/63
Ronnie Carroll 2/3/62
Rhodes Carroll & Orchestra 12/3/65
Casuals 9/11/68 23/8/69
The Chants 26/6/64
Dick Charlesworth & The City Gents 17/3/62
Chicken Shack 27/6/69
Chiffons 17/6/67
Clyde Valley Stompers 28/4/62
Coasters 15/2/69
Alma Cogan 23/5/59
Colosseum 16/4/71
Ken Colyer Jazzmen 3/3/62
Arthur Conley 1/4/67
Jess Conrad 6/4/62
Jimmy Crawford 23/6/62
Cream 8/4/67
Crying Shames 15/10/66
Crystals 3/8/68 23/11/68
Cuddly Duddly 12/9/59
Cupids’ Inspiration 17/8/68
Curved Air 28/2/71
D
Dallas Boys 22/9/61
Mike Daniels & The Delta Jazzmen 12/5/62
Johnny Dankworth 9/2/57 7/12/57 27/9/58 14/3/59 22/8/59 15/10/60 6/10/61
Tommy Daykin & Band 1957 All Year
Eric Delaney 6/4/57 7/9/57 24/10/59
Terry Dene 6/6/59 15/4/61
The Dennisons 16/11/63
Karl Denver Trio 30/96/61 12/5/67
Bo Diddley 15/4/67
Donovan 12/6/65
Lee Dorsey 25/10/69
Craig Douglas 23/8/63
The Drifters 14/12/68 3/5/69 20/9/69 9/5/70
Dubliners 28/7/67 24/11/67
Johnny Duncan 22/2/58 10/6/61
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 3/2/68
E
Vince Eager 7/9/63 to judge a beat contest
Eagles 25/5/63
Kenneth Earl 13/6/59
Easybeats 22/5/67
Duane Eddy 11/5/68
Ray Ellington 15/2/57 15/3/58
Equals 5/10/68
The Escorts 20/3/63
F
Adam Faith 2/12/61 14/2/64 21/8/65
Marianne Faithful 8/5/65
Georgie Fame 15/4/65
Flee Rekkers 8/4/61
Fleetwood Mac 5/6/71
Flintstones 5/8/61
Flirtations 24/8/68
Flower Pot Men 4/11/67
Eddie Floyd 1/4/67
Wayne Fontana 14/8/65 18/267
Emile Ford 22/4/60 16/10/62 16/12/62 5/5/62 19/5/62 9/3/63
Ernie Forster & Band 25/2/61
Lance Fortune 29/4/61
Fortunes 30/10/65 14/1/67
Foundations 19/1/68 20/4/68 28/12/68 12/1/69
Fourmost 14/3/64
The Four Pennies 21/9/63 29/11/63 31/12/63 22/8/64
Charlie & Inez Foxx 2/11/68 17/5/69
Freddie & The Dreamers 17/8/63 18/12/63 13/6/64 27/8/66
Free 20/2/71
Billy Fury 29/8/59 21/11/59 16/10/65 24/9/66
G
Gengis Khan 26/12/70
Gerry & The Pacemakers 4/5/63 21/9/63 7/3/64 18/12/65
Julie Grant 17/1/64
Groundhogs 14/11/70
Reg Guest Combo 16/6/62
H
Russ Hamilton 28/3/58 6/11/59
Tommy Hansen Showband 5/1/63
Wee Willie Harris 9/5/59 11/11/61
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan 8/3/63 22/6/63
Bill Hayley & The Comets 2/9/64
Ted Heath 3/5/57
Hedgehoppers Anonymous 11/12/65
Heinz 20/6/64
Jimi Hendrix 6/5/67
Clarence Frogman Henry 31/12/69
The Herd 19/8/67 30/8/69
Herman’s Hermits 4/9/65
Johnny Hobson Skiffle 8/11/57
Michael Holliday 29/3/57
Hollies 17/4/63 1/2/64 29/8/64 20/2/65 2/10/65 30/5/66 30/7/66
Honeycombs 4/12/65
John Lee Hooker 22/5/65
Engelbert Humperdinck 8/3/67
I
Impressions 16/9/68
Big Dee Irwin 4/4/64
Ivy League 13/3/65
J
J. J. Jackson 2/8/69
Root’n Jenny Jackson 6/9/69
Tony Jackson & The Vibrations 24/10/64 5/6/65
Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers 26/5/62 20/11/64
John St John 23/8/69
David John & Mood 2/5/64 17/6/65
Johnny & The Hurricanes 2/2/63
Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon 10/10/70
Juicy Lucy 24/10/70
Mary Johnson 22/3/69 4/10/69
Paul Jones 23/1/67
Tom Jones 10/4/65 26/6/65
K
Eden Kane 9/9/61 6/5/62 20/4/63 23/5/64 7/11/64 24/12/65
Johnny Kidd 4/3/61 12/10/63 11/4/64 12/9/64
Ben E. King 28/3/69
Sammy King & The Voltairs 24/5/64
King Bees 22/5/64
King Bros. 4/10/57 3/2/61
King Size Taylor & The Dominoes 19/6/64
Kinks 8/8/64 4/6/66 1/10/66 28/1/67 2/9/67 6/1/68
Kathy Kirby 10/1/64
Ivor & Basil Kirchin Band 12/5/66 22/3/57 31/5/58
Billy J. Kramer 4/5/63 2/11/63 9/5/64 5/12/64
L
Cleo Lane 9/2/57 10/3/62
Don Lang
and the Frantic Five 17/1/58 2/10/59
Jerry Lee Lewis 19/5/62 15/10/66
Vic Lewis & Orchestra 2/11/57
John Leyton 13/10/62 23/2/63 10/8/63
Terry Lightfoot 12/8/61 21/1061 15/10/68
Little Richard 17/5/64 26/11/66
Humphrey Littleton 11/5/57 11/1/58 14/11/59 14/1/61
The Locomotive 7/2/70
Dennis Lotis 22/11/57
Love Affair 15/6/68 21/9/68 18/10/69 19/9/70
Love Sculpture 1/2/69 9/8/69
Lovin’ Spoonful 8/11/69
Lulu 10/10/64
Kenny Lynch 19/8/61
M
Ken Mackintosh 7/2/58 28/11/59
Pete Maclaine and The Clan 24/8/63
Manfred Mann 15/5/64 31/7/65 16/4/66 3/12/66 13/5/67
The Marauders 10/11/62
Marmalade 27/7/68 1/11/69
Tex Matthews & The Caribbean Steel Band 26/3/65
Chas McDevitt & Shirley Douglas 6/4/58 19/6/59
Medicine Head 12/6/71
George Melly with Mick Mulligans’ Band 1/6/57 12/4/58
Merseybeats 9/1/65 24/4/65 22/1/66
Bob Miller and The Millermen 5/12/69
Gary Mills 20/1/61 5/8/61
Garnet Mimms 23/11/68
Mindbenders 11/2/67 10/8/67 30/12/67
Mojos 16/10/64
Chris Montez 12/4/63
The Mood 20/11/65
The Moody Blues 20/3/65
Lionel Moreton Four 24/8/63 21/9/63 25/2/67 5/8/67 27/10/67
Move 4/5/68
Mungo Jerry 3/4/71 4/9/71
N
Nashville Teens 23/1/65
Nero & The Gladiators 13/5/61 16/9/61
New Savona Orchestra 17/2/61
The Nice 26/10/68
Jimmy Nichol & The Shubdubs 28/11/64
P
Pacemakers 28/7/62
Jack Parnell 22/2/57
Peppi & The New York Twisters 20/4/62
Johnny Peters & The Crestas 6/10/62
Sid Phillips & Band 21/9/57
Piltdown Men (Sons of) 10/8/63
Pink Floyd 30/9/67 10/2/68
Pinkertons’ Assorted Colours 5/3/66
Robert Plant 17/2/68
Platters 19/10/68 7/6/69 6/12/69
Brian Poole & The Tremeloes 31/8/63
Mike Preston 24/3/61
Pretty Things 29/5/65 14/1/67
Dickie Pride 18/4/61
P.J. Proby 7/8/64 27/3/65 7/8/65
15/1/66 16/3/68
Bobby Purify 13/12/69
Q
Tommy Quickly 10/8/63 30/5/64
R
Rainmakers 20/7/63
The Ramrods 17/11/63
Terry Randall & Band 25/5/57
The Rattles 24/4/64
Ravens 23/6/62
Otis Redding 1/4/67
Ken Reece & Band 2/8/63
Andre Rico 5/12/58
Richie 21/2/70
Danny Rivers 17/2/62
Smokey Robinson 7/9/68
Tommy Roe 26/10/63
Rolling Stones 1/5/64 25/7/64
Max Romeo 13/9/69
Ronettes 3/8/68
Jimmy Ruffin 6/3/71
S
The Saints 27/4/57
Sam & Dave 1/4/67
Chris Sandford 22/2/64
Mike Sarne 25/8/62
Screaming J. Hawkins 25/2/65 23/2/69
The Searchers 25/1/64 16/1/65 19/6/65 20/11/65
Del Shannon 1/6/63
Helen Shapiro 2/10/64
Sandie Shaw 18/9/65
Small Faces 6/11/65 19/2/66 22/4/67 18/4/69
The Smythe Bros. 21/6/69
Sounds Incorporated 17/6/61 29/11/61 19/5/62
Spencer Davis Group 12/3/66 28/4/66 3/7/66 3/9/66 7/1/67 19/5/67
7/11/67 2/3/68
Dusty Springfield 17/1/64 8/1/66
Crispian St Peter 5/3/66
Edwin Starr 12/10/68 24/1/70
Status Quo 23/6/68 26/9/70
Cat Stevens 4/3/67 10/6/67
Swinging Blue Jeans 10/4/64 14/11/64
T
Booker T. & The M.G.s 1/4/67
Felice Taykor 19/10/68
The Temperance Seven 24/3/62
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 21/10/61
Joe Tex 18/1/69
Them 6/3/65 2/4/66
Carla Thomas 14/2/70
Johnny Thunder & The Thunderbeats 29/1/65
Johnny Tillotson 30/10/64
The Toledoes 6/5/61
Traffic 24/2/68
Tremeloes 29/4/67 13/1/68
T-Rex 23/1/71
Troggs 13/8/66 18/11/66 25/11/67 9/3/68 24/12/69
Ike & Tina Turner 27/4/68
Twinkle 1/5/65
U
The Undertakers 28/2/64
Unit 4 Plus 2 15/5/65
Uriah Heap 15/5/71
V
Ricky Valance 15/4/61
Van der Graff Generator 6/11/70
Vanity Fair 15/11/69
Malcolm Vaughn 13/6/59
Gene Vincent 28/1/61 8/3/61 17/6/61 24/11/64 2/9/64
Viscounts 17/11/61
W
Junior Walker 20/10/67 25/1/69
John Walker 26/8/67 7/10/67
Gary Walker (Leeds) 29/3/68
Walker Bros. 24/7/65 27/8/65
Bob Wallis & The Storyville Jazzmen 4/8/62
Geno Washington 2/12/67 12/4/68 14/9/68 29/11/69
Chris Wayne 28/1/61
Mary Wells 10/5/69
Alex Welsh & Band 10/8/57 2/6/62
Keith West 23/9/67
White Plains 3/10/70
The Who 11/9/65 29/1/66 1/10/66 11/11/67
Marty Wilde 8/2/64
Danny Williams 24/2/62 30/3/63
Windmill 3/1/70
Tobias Wolfe 31/7/71
Stevie Wonder 14/10/67
Brenton Wood 31/1/70
Y
Yana 16/10/59
Yankee Clippers 17/9/71
Yardbirds 26/3/66
Yes 24/4/71
Jimmy Young 18/1/57
Z
The Zephyrs 12/6/64
The Zombies 19/12/64
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