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Chesney Hawkes had met Billy Shears at Shane Ritchie´s wedding
in Majorca and Billy kindly gave Vince the contact. Chesney joined
Vince on the line from England just after returning from Iceland where
he´d been conducting a songwriting workshop. M
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Johnny Tillotson joined me on the line from his home in
Los Angeles. It was a real pleasure to talk with Johnny
about his fabulous career 25th February 2008
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The Walker Brothers had fabulous hits in the sixties and Gary
Walker gives us the lowdown on how it all started . He had an early
claim to fame in that he drummed for Elvis. He was also a pal of PJ
Proby and was encouraged to come to the UK by the then Rolling
Stone Brian Jones.Gary then told us about his career after the Walker
Brothers.
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Jet Harris is a legend. Jet has had an illustrious career as an
original member of The Shadows, as Jet Harris with Tony Meehan
and as the first musician to play an electric bass in the UK. Jet played
on most of the early Shadows hits including the wonderful Apache
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Everybody knows Tommy James singing Mony and Hanky
Panky but tnow there´s a brilliant new CD for
Christmas..... 29th October 2008
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John Gorman, Scaffold, went to the same school as Vince and they
remember the good old days at St Anselms College, Birkenhead.
Other old boys include Paul O´Grady and Austin Healey
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Alvin Stardust has had a variety of aspects to his career. This is
exemplified by his switch from the successful Shane Fenton to the
even more successful Alvin Stardust. Alvin jjoined Vince on the line
on 19th May 2008
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A unique, and charismatic performer, Dave Berry
performed a mixture of hard R&B and pop ballads. He was
extremely popular in Britain, and on Continental Europe.
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Albert Lee is a guitar virtuoso reckoned by Eric Clapton to
be the best in the world and he joined Vince on the line
from Los Angeles on Monday 12th May 2008
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