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The Rolling Stones play their last live gig of the year at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK, supported by Dave Dee And The Bostons [later to become Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich), Twinkle, Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers and The Quiet Five.Full article:
Trevor Ward-Davies (Dozy, of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich) : Dave was a Salisbury man, from Bemerton Heath. We were all playing in different bands around the city. The Bostons was my band and when Dave joined us we changed to Dave Dee and The Bostons. (Source : interview by Lewis Cowen in Devizes Gazette, January 15, 2009)
Dave Dee : We were The Boppers first and then The Beatniks. We had jackets with 'B' on so we had to stick with that letter. We became The Bostons and then I became 'D' for David, and Tich said we should be like Cliff Richard and The Shadows and call ourselves Dave Dee And The Bostons.
The nicknames were already there. We wanted something that sounded original and we were almost The Slugs. We thought that no-one would remember it but they would know us as the band with the long hair and the long name. Once people got used to the name, they wanted to know which was which and we all had our own following.
People used to say 'Where's Sleepy? Where's Grumpy?' A lot of people didn't know that Dave Dee was one person, so it was thought that there were six of us.
(Source : The Independent, January 10, 2009)
Trevor Ward-Davies : He (Dave Dee) would charge right in and take control. If you were talking to someone important he would just step in and take over. That worked out very well for the band. You really needed someone with the gift of the gab to talk to those people. He was very easy to get on with. He was a nutcase but the, we were all nutcases.
(Source : interview by Lewis Cowen in Devizes Gazette, January 15, 2009)
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Dave Dee : We were The Boppers first and then The Beatniks. We had jackets with 'B' on so we had to stick with that letter. We became The Bostons and then I became 'D' for David, and Tich said we should be like Cliff Richard and The Shadows and call ourselves Dave Dee And The Bostons.
The nicknames were already there. We wanted something that sounded original and we were almost The Slugs. We thought that no-one would remember it but they would know us as the band with the long hair and the long name. Once people got used to the name, they wanted to know which was which and we all had our own following.
People used to say 'Where's Sleepy? Where's Grumpy?' A lot of people didn't know that Dave Dee was one person, so it was thought that there were six of us.
(Source : The Independent, January 10, 2009)
Trevor Ward-Davies : He (Dave Dee) would charge right in and take control. If you were talking to someone important he would just step in and take over. That worked out very well for the band. You really needed someone with the gift of the gab to talk to those people. He was very easy to get on with. He was a nutcase but the, we were all nutcases.
(Source : interview by Lewis Cowen in Devizes Gazette, January 15, 2009)