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Julie Driscoll With The Brian Auger Trinity, Georgie Fame, Lulu, Billie Davis, Procol Harum, The Moody Blues, Long John Baldry, Roger Whittaker, Spooky Tooth and Gordon Waller perform live at the British Gala show in the Palais Des Festivals at the MIDEM International Music Trade Event, Cannes, France, Europe.
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Hank Medress (The Tokens] : I remember one night in particular, I saw The Moody Blues perform. On stage there was a symphony orchestra, which stopped playing when the group came out. The Moody Blues started singing Nights In White Satin while the guy on keyboard played this instrument that sounded like a complete symphony orchestra!
After MIDEM we located a Mellotron in England, but we had to have an English person buy it and send it to us in the US as a gift, in order to bypass import restrictions. We kept it under wraps in the studio, took it apart and replaced rhythm loops like rumbas and cha chas, with other sound samples. We used it on Brute Force's cult classic, 'The King Of Fu' [aka 'The Fu King'], which came out on Apple Records after we made a handshake deal with The Beatles.
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After MIDEM we located a Mellotron in England, but we had to have an English person buy it and send it to us in the US as a gift, in order to bypass import restrictions. We kept it under wraps in the studio, took it apart and replaced rhythm loops like rumbas and cha chas, with other sound samples. We used it on Brute Force's cult classic, 'The King Of Fu' [aka 'The Fu King'], which came out on Apple Records after we made a handshake deal with The Beatles.
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