The future Led Zeppelin icon learned his trade the hard way, playing on countless mind numbing cuts most of which are better of in history’s dustbin. Lulu – Love Loves To Love Staying with guitar heroes for a second: it’s not secret that Jimmy Page was an in-demand session musician for much of the 60s. Trivia note: according to music lore, guitar duties were handled by future Deep Purple axeman Ritchie Blackmore.Ĥ. ‘Chills & Fever’ is his debut single, with the Welsh wonder managing to out do the Stateside original. ‘Yeh Yeh’ soared to number one, but it’s this later slice of out of control Freakbeat fuzz which really rattles the Go Go skirts.ģ.Tom Jones – Chills & Fever Motoring out of the Welsh valleys with a rough-as-tar-voice and an out of control libido, Tom Jones began life on the R&B scene. ![]() Quickly re-grouping as The Blue Flames, the band secured a series of residencies in London which turned them into Mod icons. Georgie Fame – Somebody Stole My Thunder Jettisoning his backing group in favour of easy listening success, Billy Fury did Georgie Fame a favour. Check out ‘What Do You Think You’re Doing’ featuring (an extremely young) Georgie Fame on keys.īilly Fury – What Do You Think You’re DoingĢ. However when he cut loose, the one time teen idol could still raise temperatures across the land. In the same fashion as Sir Cliff, the decline of the rock ‘n’ roll boom saw Billy Fury turn to slick, watered down renditions of American ballads. Billy Fury – What Do You Think You’re Doing A primordial British rocker, Billy Fury – born plain Ronald William Wycherley – was wearing leather jackets and scaring the bejeesus out of the Daily Mail when John Lennon was still strumming the ukelele. Here’s ten tracks from artists you might not expect to hear on Absolute 60s.ġ. Self-enforced cultural snobbery is simply sealing yourself off from many of the most dangerous, the most inventive, the most ground-breaking cuts around simply because the artist responsible doesn’t meet the current definition of cool. We want leather, we want sex and drugs and rock’n’roll.”īut this is missing the point entirely. The parents bought Cliff the kids didn’t. “But he was variety he was middle-of-the-road. “He made a very significant record in 1958,” presenter Pete Mitchell explained. However there was one catch: Absolute60s wanted absolutely no Cliff Richard.
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