THEY ALSO SERVED

HITMAKER PETER SHELLEY (b.1943) was the original Alvin Stardust, singing, writing and producing 1973 hit My Coo Ca Choo: he continued to do the same when Bernard Jewry took on the Ziggy-inspired Stardust persona, and hits including the 1974 Number 1 Jealous Mind followed. Earlier, Shelley was a successful A&R man at Decca (signing Amen Corner, Ten Years After and a pre-King Crimson Giles, Giles & Fripp), co-founded Magnet Records and had solo hit singles, the biggest being Love Me, Love My Dog in ’75. ROCKER and bluesman BILLY ‘THE KID’ EMERSON (b.1925) was, until his death, the oldest living musician to have recorded for Sun Records. His 1955 single Red Hot became a rockabilly standard, while Elvis covered his When It Rains It Pours in 1957. Emerson also cut sides for Vee-Jay, Chess and his own Tarpon imprint. After, he said, waking up screaming in a mortuary, he turned to preaching in the late ’60s. BASSIST CLIFF FISH (above, b.1949) played with Nottingham rockers Paper Lace from 1967. Fame came knocking when they won ITV talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1973: a UK Number 1 with Billy Don’t Be A Hero followed in ’74, and the same year The Night Chicago Died topped the US charts. The band’s last hit was the Nottingham Forest FC tune We’ve Got The Whole World In Our Hands in 1978. After their 1980 split, Fish later played in reunions. OHIO-born soul singer and keyboardist BOOKER NEWBERRY III (below, b.1956) first played in Mystic Nights, Impact and Sweet Thunder, whose Baby I Need Your Love Today was a US R&B hit in 1978, and whose Everybody’s Singin’ Love Songs was a favourite on the UK soul scene. His debut 45 Love Town was a Number 6 UK hit in 1983. He continued to record into the ’90s. GUITARIST LASSE WELLANDER (b.1952) played with ABBA from 1974, appearing on all their LPs from 1975’s ABBA, and touring with the group. After their split, he played on Andersson and

Ulvaeus’s musical projects and Agnetha Fältskog’s solo LPs. He also worked with many Swedish musicians, recorded solo, and returned for ABBA’s Voyage reunion in 2021. TRUMPETER

DUSKO GOYKOVICH (b.1931) played jazz in Yugoslavia before moving to West Germany in 1956, where he played with Chet Baker, Stan Getz and Kurt Edelhagen. A spot at Newport in 1958 raised his profile: in the years that followed, he played with Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie among others, and recorded LPs including Swinging Macedonia, East Of Montenegro and Balkan Blue. KEYBOARDIST AND VOCALIST VIVIAN TRIMBLE (b.1963) was a founder member of New York indie-funkers Luscious Jackson, whose flexible virtuosity, irreverence and rapping skills earmarked them as a kind of distaff Beastie Boys. After breakthrough 1992 EP In Search Of Manny, Trimble played on the band’s first two albums for the Beasties’ Grand Royal label, as well as 1996 side-project the Kostars with bandmate

Jill Cunniff. Leaving in 1999, Trimble formed Dusty Trails with The Breeders’ Josephine Wiggs, and worked as a choreographer. BRITISH BEAT POET and author ROYSTON ELLIS (b.1941) was described by John Lennon as “England’s answer to Allen Ginsberg”. A precocious teenager, Ellis performed his poetry on-stage in the late ’50s, backed by The Shadows, then bonded with the nascent Beatles at a Liverpool reading in 1960. Lennon claimed Ellis had given the band their first dope and reputedly inspired Paperback Writer. Three books about music and the Big Beat Scene followed, before he left the UK at 20 and became an inveterate traveller. He did, however, reconnect with Cliff Richard for a cameo in 1964’s Wonderful Life film. SINGER APRIL STEVENS (below, b.1929) had solo hits from the early ’50s, and caused scandal with 1959’s suggestive Teach Me Tiger. Her biggest success came duetting with her brother

Nino Tempo on a Grammy-winning

US Number 1/UK Number 17 version of Deep Purple in 1963. Scoring another hit with Whispering soon after, in 1967 they covered David Gates and Warren Zevon on All Strung Out. The duo’s compositions were covered by Vashti Bunyan, John Travolta, Marc Almond and Trini Lopez.

ROCK GUITARIST GUY BAILEY (b.c.1961) joined Gateshead/London rockers the Queerboys in 1984, who renamed themselves the Quireboys in 1987. Bailey appeared on 1990’s Number 2 LP A Bit Of What You Fancy and Top 20 single Hey You before their 1993 split. After in-band disagreement on ownership of the name, Bailey joined vocalist and co-writer Spike’s Quireboys in 2022. He also fronted his own band Thirsty. BASSIST JOHN REGAN (b.1951) played with Peter Frampton from 1979 to 2011, and was a member of Ace Frehley’s Comet from 1984 to 1990. As a sessioneer he played with The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Billy Idol, Chip Taylor and David Lee Roth. He was also a radio host, broadcasting from his hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York.

STUDIO ENGINEER and producer YVES CHAMBERLAND (b.1933) presided over Paris-region recording spaces including Studio Davout and Château D’Hérouville. In 1973 he founded the Cy jazz imprint and, in 1991, co-founded the Dreyfus jazz label. Chamberland’s production credits included Jean-Luc Ponty,

Nina Simone, Michel Petrucciani and Vince Taylor. David Bowie had recently retired the Ziggy Stardust role that was partially inspired by Taylor when he recorded, under Chamberland’s management at Château D’Hérouville, 1973’s Pin Ups LP.

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