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1 - Episode 1 - The Big Three

Part 1 – The Big Three, Tuesday 19 July 1988 and repeated Wednesday The Big Three had the roughest, toughest sound on Merseyside and maybe it encouraged disorder as there are plenty of stories of Johnny Hutch playing the drums with one hand and fighting off thugs with the other. They may be apocryphal but there was an element of danger around their appearances. I had seen the Orrell Park Ballroom accounts and quoted the entry for 28 June 1961. The Big Three were paid £7 and the Undertakers and the Fourmost, £6. Maybe this is one reason the Big Three was a trio: they were getting £2.6.8d each, while the five Undertakers got £1.4s each. That is, assuming the money was split correctly. The group split in 1963 largely because Brian Griffiths and Johnny Gus thought that Hutch was pocketing more than his share. The takings, incidentally, for their night at the OPB was £67, so someone was making a few bob. No unreleased material On CD with OTB 0144 Part 2,

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