11 - Episode 11 – Don’t Make Me Over

Object Type: Folder
In Folder: 2 - Let’s Go Down The Cavern

▲

Expand to show object metadata

11 - Episode 11 – Don’t Make Me Over

Episode 11 – Don’t Make Me Over Fame isn’t all it is cracked up to be. Chris Curtis is sacked from the Searchers, believing that he was the genius of the band. Billy J Kramer balloons up to 16 stone; Rory Storm may have committed suicide; and Brian Epstein dies unexpectedly. The Beatles lead the way with psychedelia but the other Liverpool bands are too grounded in reality to join them. There are two demos played: ‘Keep Me Warm Til The Sun Shines’ (an outstanding Swinging Blue Jeans record but EMI told them they had to stick with their producer) and ‘Sorrow’ (the first session in which the Merseys were backed by the musicians who became Led Zeppelin). Scaffold are on the road, playing silly food in motorway cafés with the Bonzo Dog Band. If you ordered cod with custard and jam, you had to eat it. Roger McGough reads a poem about being on the road in Birmingham.

Show more ▼

Title ▲ ▼

Description

Date

11 - Episode 11 – Don’t Make Me Over

AP_780-LEI-1-2-11_s1_f01_v1