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Johnny Fox, founding member of The Riot Rockers. I live in Grimsby Lincolnshire but I am proud to say I am originally from Manchester. Don't like this place much but I am told Manchester has had the heart and soul knocked out of it by what is known as progress and road building. What the Luftwaffe failed to do has been done by developers. Shame that! The down to earth Mancunian people have dwindled and been replaced by something from the Asian sub-continent. Another disaster for a great city of which I have fond memories.I love 50's Rock 'N' Roll ever since I had to scavenge for 9 old pence to go to the Stamford Cinema in Audenshaw (The flicks as we called it)to watch Rock Around the Clock in 1956 with about ten schoolmates. I love British motor bikes and currently own a 750 cc Triumph Bonneville, although over the years I have had Royal Enfields (now made in India rather than England) Norton's, various Triumphs including a brilliant little Tiger Cub. I have an old Wurlitzer Lyric Jukebox in my house full of 50's classics.
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Perhaps I should start here with who I would have liked to meet but their passing has prevented it. I would have loved to meet my hero Eddie Cochran. A real tragedy he died so young in that taxi crash. I did get to meet my other hero Gene Vincent in 1970 at a gig held at the 3C's Coffee Bar in Norwich. A great pity that Gene was so ill at that time and as we know he died the following year. I remember that October morning. My mother brought me a cup of tea up when she got me up for work and she said to me, "Your mates died" Its just been on the wireless about him." I went to work under a cloud that day.I would echo the words of East End Mark here about who else I would like to meet ( great lad Mark ) as I too had my leopardskin drape nicked at a gig in Rotterdam in 1977 so I would love to meet that git and express my discontent with him in a gentlemenly fashion as practiced by the savages of the Borneo jungle !

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