Fact #83385
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Billy Fury plays at The Windmill, Great Yarmouth, UK, supported by the Karl Denver Trio, Marty Wilde, Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers, The Tornados and The Vernons Girls.
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Peter Miller (The Jaywalkers] : Every year there was a spring tour, which would last a couple of months, and then the summer season would come along, that would take 14 to 16 weeks, and then we'd go out on the autumn tour, which would take us up to the end of November. And in between we'd be recording TV shows and photo shoots, and loads of ball-room gigs, just single nights in these big dance-halls: Meccas, Sloughs, Hammersmith Palais. We liked the ballroom gigs 'cause we got to play longer. On the tours we'd only get to play like 13-14 minutes of our own set -although we'd be backing most of the acts on the bill, so we'd be onstage all night. On a ballroom gig we would always be the main attraction, there would be one or two local bands, and we'd get 45 minutes.
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