One day I'll run out of pictures of famous people holding cameras... before then: Jason Donovan.
You know, there are Too Many Broken Hearts in the world, but Every Day I Love You More, When You Come Back To Me on a Saturday morning to play Snapshots. Now I know that Nothing Can Divide Us. Etc etc etc.
Here are some pictures. Who are they? How might their songs be connected?
15. Naughty Ned's great-great-grandson?
14. _ _ _ ics from a Laureate.
13. Merrythought & burnt offerings.
12. Rotate Hagar.
11. Found within Rebel Tony and DJ, oh no!
10. Chesney sighted in California.
9. Tribal leaders in Western Ireland.
8. Where Martin Rossiter does his experiments.
7. Morse identifies a suspect from the block. Elementary x2.
6. Did you know that Elvis, Jonathan and Nat were all closely related?
5. Cousin... luck than good management.
4. Two retards is not an acceptable term.
3. Closely guard Van on the pitch.
2. It's hard to perform when you each have three feet.
1. Lopez advises caution.
Answers will be Sealed With A Kiss tomorrow morning...
The interweb can't tell me much about Allen Pound's Get Rich, except that they might have come from Bradford in 1966, and that they produced this "wild and weird, fuzz-ravaged freakbeat freakout. One of the oddest, rarest and best proto-psychedelic 45s of them all."
I heard it for the first time a couple of weeks back on Mickey Undertone's radio show. Mickey claimed he'd only just discovered it too. And isn't that the great thing about music - you can still turn up wonderful gems no matter how much you think you've heard before. All you have to do is listen with open ears and an open mind...
This week's post is really just a warm up act for George, who returns next week. Because when searching for bands called The Searchers, I discovered there were far more called The Soul Searchers... and as George had previously done a Namesakes about The Soul Seekers, I figured this might be right up his alley. Before we get to that though: here's John Wayne and chums...
THE SEARCHERS #1
Formed in 1955 from the remains of a skiffle group called The Army Generations, John McNally's band The Searchers gave their final performance at this year's Glastonbury Festival. McNally was the only constant member, and the band went through many, many line-up changes over the years. These Searchers were huge between 1963 and '66, producing a string of classic hits... but never bothering the charts again after that. Don't rule out another reunion though... this isn't the first time the Searchers have announced their retirement!
There were quite a few gospel bands called The Searchers, but sadly I couldn't find much evidence of their music. Fortunately, I did find "Rosie" and her Searchers, dipping God's love in 1971... that's quite a haircut "Rosie" has got going on in the video... and she appears to be modelling Richard Kiel's teeth too.
The reason I chose to do The Searchers this week, is because I came across the song below on a compilation of late 70s / early 80s power pop tunes and I was quite taken with it. Except when I tried to find the band in question on discogs, I hit a bit of a brick wall.
Until I saw the video realised that it was actually the original Searchers, still going strong in 1980...
