The latest joy has been an excellent interview with Muff Winwood covering his life and times in music. From playing bass in the Spencer Davis group to the very start of Island Records with Chris Blackwell. Eventually he moved on to head up the A&R department at CBS / Sony Records where the first two…

Next I had the pleasure of filming John Worth aka Les Vandyke who has been responsible for some great songs over the years with his biggest hits being for Adam Faith and Eden Kaye. He also wrote the gem “Gonna Make You an Offer You Can’t Refuse” for Jimmy Helms. What a glittering career for…

Today I have found and filmed Roland Rennie, a man whose name has turned up time and time again over the years in books and interviews about the players. So many thanks to Brian Southall and his book of numbers, and we now have on ‘film’ the man who placed the Beatles first releases in…

There’s that great story of Phil Seamen. He was doing sessions of course, and he was playing in a club at night, late night, and he was working the pit in the orchestra. So he’d take naps, obviously. I think the show was the King and I, and he fell asleep but he heard a…

making it through the John Barry Seven

“I really love this place, it has made a happy man very old.” “The food is great here, a million flies can’t be wrong.” “Quiet please, you’re not here to enjoy yourselves.”

Dr. Jim Marshall OBE who founded the British amplification company Marshall, has died at the age of 88. Now there was a man who made a difference fifty years ago when he started the company. It just grew and grew, and got louder and louder. Sadly we did not manage to film him before he…

This month, I shall mostly be doing – editing. Ah the Fast Show lives on. No interviews scheduled for a while as we try and catch up on the backlog armed only with a bottle of copydex and an old razor blade – well not really, ok it is Final Cut and a library of…