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Steve Andrews - guitar, Me - vocals, Bob Bucky - keyboards, John Redpath - drums
Wilf Woods - guitar, Terry? - bass |
1978 and we were now a Power Pop band with management. A super line-up with loads of song writing ability. There were two new faces: John Redpath who was a revelation on drums, he was pro and had recently been touring with The New Seekers (I kid you not!) and had already worked a sweat up at rehearsals before the rest of us had arrived!
and Terry ? a great Bass player with a real mystery attached to him, here goes: we finished recording our single Centre Pages at the first Spaceward studios in Cambridge and had agreed to take a week off as Terry had college exams. Anyway a week later we met for rehearsal and Terry didn't turn up. Phone calls to his house were greeted with the response that no one of that name lived there and we never saw him again! I hope that you're out there Terry and see this because we'd all love to know what happened to you. I mean why would anyone disappear the next week after recording a single with a band that had loads of prospects....more than weird!
Many cassettes of the single were sent out and one day upon returning home I was greeted with the mind blowing news that I had been sent a telegram (remember those?) from no other than WEA records (who we didn't send a cassette to by the way). They'd heard the song and wanted to meet with us asap....aaaaarggghhh! at last! We soon met with Mike Heap an A&R guy who'd heard Centre Pages and agreed to make a few changes to the song as the lyrics were somewhat risque (for those days) but for all intensive purposes it looked like a deal was in the offing and we would be signed by WEA shortly after the Pretenders...to be contd...
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