The first time The Who toured in the U.S.A. was when they opened (rather incongruously) for Herman’s Hermits on their 1967 tour which began on 14th July 1967 in Portland, Oregon. This tour marked young Bruce Springsteen‘s first ever rock concert and left an indelible...
Having been influenced by Ramases‘ music from his teenage years, in 2014, my friend Peter Stormare, through his StormVox Records, has re-released Ramases Complete Recordings. See his video here: “Ramases (Ram and Sel) arrived unannounced and unexpected sometime in...
Freddie Mercury had written “Death On Two Legs” about his manager and co-owner of Trident Studios where they had recorded many of their early hits such as Killer Queen: Queen felt that Norman had not provided the band with the support they needed, and so they parted...
By the end of the 1960’s, Herman’s Hermits had more or less split up, and released a single as ‘Peter Noone and Hermans Hermits‘ in 1970 called “Lady Barbara” which reached No. 13 on the U.K. charts. Some months later, Mickie Most suggested Peter Noone record an...
Peter Cowap was the quintessential musician’s musician. We were close throughout the 1960’s and into the 70’s with his involvement with Graham Gouldman, The Country Gentlemen and Little Frankie. At the beginning of the 1970’s he struck out on his own and I agreed to...
Hotlegs was comprised of Eric Stewart, Lol Creme & Kevin Godley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDBMXiq67ho Graham Gouldman had to come back from New York, where he had been writing songs for Kazenatz Katz, to play bass with them on tour when they supported The...
Gordon Giltrap scored his only hit single in Heartsong which was also used as the theme tune to the BBC’s long running programme Holiday. https://youtu.be/ktRsmHrLHU4 The album Perilous Journey was released on the back of the success of the single. This too was a...