Queries YOUR

MY grandad played a Shadows LP to me. They are known for the guitar playing of Hank Marvin, but one track featured a brilliant drummer, Tony Meehan. Do you have any info on him? – K.

The track, See You In My Drums, featured on The Shadows’ first LP, released in 1961.

Tony was the original drummer with the Shadows but left in late ’61 to become an arranger/producer.

Nicknamed The Baron, he quit music in the ’90s to become a psychologist.

I REMEMBER a novelty hit from the ’80s, Nice Legs (Shame About Her Face), but can’t remember the band. I take it they were one-hit wonders? – M.

The Monks reached No 19 with the song, in 1979, their only hit.

However, three of the band – Richard Hudson, John Ford and Brian Willoughby – had been in The Strawbs and had hits with Lay Down, Part Of The Union and Shine On Silver Sun.

MY wife and I took a trip to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park – which is an absolutely brilliant day out, by the way. As we left, far in the distance, we spotted a very tall tower, several hundred feet tall, miles away. While we’re sure it wasn’t an electric pylon, we’d like to know what it was, please. – B.

It was the Emley Moor Mast.

At 1084ft high, it is the 23rd tallest tower in the world and the tallest freestanding structure in the UK – 66ft taller than The Shard in London.

Grade 2 listed, the concrete mast is used for telecommunications and broadcasting.

Emley Moor has been a transmission site since the earliest days of TV, and the present mast is the third structure to occupy the site.

I’M glad to see Bryan Cranston is making a name for himself in movies after his success in Breaking Bad – was he in any films before that? – L.

Breaking Bad began in 2008, but Bryan made his film debut 20 years before, in The Big Turnaround.

He also appeared, mainly in small roles, in Corporate Affairs, Dead Silence, Clean Slate and Argo.

Now a movie star in his own right, he was nominated for an Oscar last year for his role in Trumbo.

WHAT was the title of the song the great pianist Allen Toussaint wrote for R&B star Ernie K-Doe? – N.

That was Mother-In-Law, at No 29 UK hit for Ernie (real name Ernest Kador) in 1961.

It reached No 1 on the US Billboard pop charts.

Toussaint (above) was a giant of the New Orleans music scene and also wrote Fortune Teller, Get Out My Life Woman and Here Come The Girls.