Yes!!! it did happen in
I bought this book about a year ago at Johnny
Roadhouses shop* on Oxford st Manchester
(England) The first copy I had got nicked It was given to me by Pete Cowap who
wrote NO MILK TODAY he Told me that he never got any money or recognition for
this song, and I believed him Pete had no need to tell lies, he was yesterdays
Mark knoffler, Chet Atkins, you name it.
PETE played with THE COUNTRY GENTS, what a band, the book I’ve used as a background image tells you. Every thing about
Pete and lots of other bands, over 700 are listed in the index including us, we
are also photographed on page two, along with the Hollies and the Beatles, and
Sir Jimmy Saville,
Sadly Pete died a couple of years
ago, I went to his funeral. Unknown to me at the time, the same thing (showbiz
liver) was killing me, I Don't drink anymore. after touching death by twenty minutes Seven years ago! I am now quite well and will
never touch alcohol again
Every Saturday morning at
with a
packet of crisps and a lemonade (beats a plectrum)
A lad a year younger than me also a BEER ORPHAN was Glynn
Ellis or now known as WAYNE FONTANA we became good pals, he got a
guitar and brought it along, I used to show him what I'd learnt that day.
He was barmy! diving round doing impressions of Elvis,
I lost contact with Glynn about a year after he left school. "Spurley Hey" Levenshulme (we played together at his
leaving assembly) The next I heard he had formed the
JETS who later became Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders.
*Johnny
Roadhouse The first time i
met Johnny I was eleven years old, I had been going to guitar lessons
since my eleventh birthday (got a guitar) down the road at Reno's music shop
and i got wind of a recording studio at
Johnny's. I recorded "footprints
in the snow" by Johnny Duncan and the
bluegrass boys And "Putting on the
style" by Lonnie Donegan.
it was cut as i recorded and
you can here the traffick going loudly by, But i can still enjoy the memory.
Johnny played brass in the BBC N.D.O (Northern Dance Orchestra} now known as the BBC
Northern Radio Orchestra. When I called in the shop today Johnny was
their running the show as always (50 bloody years) that's a long time I was
6yrs old when he started the shop with his brother Bill and his sister Mary,
who are sadly no longer with us.
Johnny also played sax with the Hale Orchestra for about 12 yrs, he was
popping out to the BBC when i left the shop.
Nice Gibson J-200 for sale it's £1500.0
Here's a couple of shots of Johnny
outside his shop, I put them together today. Address:-
Johnny's still got a few copies of thisbook>>>>150
pages of sheer 60s magic, On page two is a
photograph of the Dellstars and we are amongst the some 700.... groups in the index
Here's the
second page of the book, look at the names and venues. the
money was no different either (only for a short time though! ) I wonder why???? It seems beyond my comprehension how we played at
all the below clubs, but somehow it seems like a distant dream! (mind you, I was always on another planet)
The
60s Click>>>>
With the Beatles on the same page