First band was "The Savages" in Bermuda 1965, band members: Jimmy O'connor, Howie Rego, Bobby Zuill and me. Made first album in late '65 "The Savages Live n' Wild" recorded live except for one track on a four track machine. It is now very collectable as one of the foremost garage bands of the sixties. Went to New York with the original Drifters, recorded by Chuck Irwin at A&R studios, three tracks "Roses are Red" being the A-side.Toured West Indies twice, very lucky then to get gig at Steve Paul's "The Scene" in New York as houseband in June /July '67 bands supported were Jimi Hendricks, The Doors, Black Flag, Stevie Winwood, Jose Feliciano, Tiny Tim, The Young Rascals and The Pigeons[ Vanilla Fudge]. Saw many of the famous jams that occured and are now posted on the net.Then made The Bermuda Jam album for Bob Crewe's label Dynovoice in the U.S. band members were: Jimmy O'connor, Andy Newmark, Glenn Mello and me. Early 1969 went to Spain to University of Madrid, did external course and studied classical guitar under Raul Pimento and signed to Columbia Discos SA and did gigs in Spain, entered song festivals in Mallorca,Malaga and Barcelona winning enough money to return to England in 1970 for birth of first son. Played folk clubs in south then signed to Polydor in 1973 released single "Horse and a Hero" which got the aclaim it deserved.Then with birth of second son, went to live in Devon worked on farms until friend from Bermuda asked if I wanted to form a band. We became "Omaha Sheriff" with Michael Spencer-Arscott, Bob Noble and Chris Birkett made first album "Come Hell or Waters High" with Tony Visconti for RCA in 1976. Album was national breakout on 104 FM stations across U.S. in 1977 then Elvis died and we were told by RCA that they couldn't press our albums. Made second album called "Long Fingers in the Soft Rain" but was not released.1st daughter born and band decided to split amicably and me and Bob Noble went to New York to write,wrote third album loosely called "Almost Nearly". Came back to England as 1st daughter born, intended to return to U.S. but met up with Judie Tzuke who was putting band together and needed keyboard player and backing vocalist, said we'd do it for six months to get her started, been there ever since doing odd jobs to keep all the balls in the air...to be continued.
Baileys single is out now on download and on cd from the 22nd of october
you can buy it here...Happy days love Horrendous xx
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