Fact #101908
When:
Short story:
My Boy
Lollipop by sixteen-year-old singer Millie becomes
the first bluebeat single to enter the UK Top 10. The song is arranged by Ernest Ranglin, who also plays guitar on the track.
Full article:
Muff Winwood (Spencer Davis Group) : Millie was just happening with Island Records. He said to somebody, what's the hottest band in town? They said, go and see The Rhythm And Blues Quartet.
(Source : Interview with Johnny Black for Mojo magazine)
Chris Blackwell : I was lucky enough to see Stevie Winwood with the Spencer Davis Group, at a TV show in Birmingham. So then I started to spend more time in that area. This whole new music was emerging. It wasn't really pop, it was anti-pop. In pop, everybody dressed in uniforms. In rock, everybody would go onstage in clothes they'd been sleeping in for three days. It was much looser, and it fit with my jazz sensibility because it was musicianship, rather than a pretty face.
(Source : interview with Andrew Perry, Daily Telegraph, 20 May, 2009)
Muff Winwood : He was absolutely knocked out and wanted to be our manager. We never signed a piece of paper but developed a working relationship with him. After he took us under his wing, we decided to change our name, It was my brilliant idea to call it The Spencer Davis Group. Every group was The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Mindbenders. Blackwell had a list of names like The Crawling Snakes. And I said, well, Spencer Davis
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(Source : Interview with Johnny Black for Mojo magazine)
Chris Blackwell : I was lucky enough to see Stevie Winwood with the Spencer Davis Group, at a TV show in Birmingham. So then I started to spend more time in that area. This whole new music was emerging. It wasn't really pop, it was anti-pop. In pop, everybody dressed in uniforms. In rock, everybody would go onstage in clothes they'd been sleeping in for three days. It was much looser, and it fit with my jazz sensibility because it was musicianship, rather than a pretty face.
(Source : interview with Andrew Perry, Daily Telegraph, 20 May, 2009)
Muff Winwood : He was absolutely knocked out and wanted to be our manager. We never signed a piece of paper but developed a working relationship with him. After he took us under his wing, we decided to change our name, It was my brilliant idea to call it The Spencer Davis Group. Every group was The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Mindbenders. Blackwell had a list of names like The Crawling Snakes. And I said, well, Spencer Davis