First Lecture: a history of pop based on the English language from circa 1500 to the present day
Second lecture: my life in popular music, from the fifties to the present day
The lectures are performed by myself with a guitar. All I require is a tall stol!
Views: 1010 | Enquiries: 3I was a member of 60s pop group The Springfields allong with Dusty and brother Tom. We were the first British group to have a top 10 record in the USA. After we disbanded I formed a group with Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) and then became a record producer. I disocovered Marc Bolan and Cat Stevens, and subsequently produced 50 hit records with them, also Manfred Mann, The Move, Showaddywaddy, Shakin Stevens and many more. I began lecturing on the history of popular music from the middle ages to the present day, having had a book published called Every Song Tells A Story, I have been a lecturer for 20 years, for WIs, U3As and schools and colleges.
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