8 - Episode 8 – A-Sides And Backsides

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8 - Episode 8 – A-Sides And Backsides

Episode 8 – A-Sides And Backsides This episode is largely based around the recording studies, but with a few tales of Freddie Starr’s outrageousness, hence the ‘Backsides’. Starr himself had trouble with the record producer Joe Meek, who wanted him singing at the top of his range. Similarly, Tommy Quickly never had the right songs and yet gave dynamic performances. Lee Curtis’s suggestions were turned down by Decca and yet others were going to have hits with them. When recording ‘Rosetta’, the Fourmost asked Dave Lovelady to play the piano badly, so that Paul McCartney would feel obliged to take over. There are stories of backing Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry on tour and how Vincent would hide razor blades in pieces of soap to extract revenge. There was some discussion as to whether such a nasty trick should be broadcast on radio in case somebody followed it. Cliff Hall of the Spinners finds himself on a major hit, ‘Game Of Love’, when Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders needed a deep voice and borrowed him for 10 minutes. It’s back to Germany for Kingsize Taylor overturning a bar Clint Eastwood-fashion and Freddie Starr impersonating Lee Curtis doing ‘Jezebel’.

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