OK...here's a theory. I didn't know Giorgio wasn't there on April 28th - so it couldn't have been then that I saw them. And it couldn't have been the 14th because of the Beatles. Therefore it could only have been the 21st. Bill Wyman didn't know me from Peter Jones and got us confused. Peter was wrong about the dates because he definitely saw them long before I
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Sorry for delay, wow, if I'd known at the time this stuff would be so appreciated 40 years later I'd have kept my notes. Bottom line first - I can't say for sure which Sunday I went to the Crawdaddy, only that it was definitely NOT the Sunday before the article appeared for reasons (I think) stated earlier. Also, when I went, neither the Beatles nor ALO was there...and I knew Pau
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Definitely not May 5th (we held back the article). Also I took longer than usual to write it, partly because it was the first time we'd published a feature on an act that DIDN'T have a record out (that was why we were called New RECORD Mirror). And the photographer was Bill Williams, not Dezo. Bill drove us there, unforgettable because he'd spilt milk in his car, and Ian Stewart
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Wow! Quick response. I was taking some time out from a big writing job with an ASAP deadline, idly checking out myself on Yahoo! (which I'd never actually done before), when I came across this post - which interests me too, a lot, for reasons I'll explain when I get time to (a) read all the posts (b) collate my info - which I hope will help. Sorry not to be able to do it straightaway,
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I remember it (reasonably) well. In fact I'm currently penning my Record Mirror memoirs and have now documented that episode. But it IS confusing. Is anybody out there still interested? Best to all from Norman Jopling, Record Mirror reporter from 61-68.
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