The Tornados
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Report by uncredited writer, Disc, 29 December 1962
Bass guitarist wants to be a singer ...
Alan Smith On Film Sets With The Tornados and Tommy Steele
Report and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 8 February 1963
A HAUNTING theme-tune echoed across the stage of a dingy London theatre on Tuesday morning, as film cameras turned on that "Globetrotting" hit group, the ...
NMExclusive: Billy Fury by the Tornados
Interview by uncredited writer, New Musical Express, 22 February 1963
IT IS NOW almost fifteen months to the day that our group — itself only about six months old — played an audition to Billy ...
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 9 March 1963
HAS HEINZ Burt done the right thing in leaving the Tornados? Or would he have been wiser to stick with the group until they had ...
Live Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 26 April 1963
MIKE BERRY burst into the second half to the throbbing beat of 'La Bamba'. Close on its heels came his current release 'My Little Baby' ...
Top Acts Explain The Beat-Boom
Interview by Ian Dove, New Musical Express, 3 May 1963
IAN DOVE quizzes SHADOWS, TORNADOS, BEATLES, JET & TONY, and GERRY & PACEMAKERS ...
'Telstar' Still Makes Tornados Nervous!
Interview by June Harris, Disc, 13 July 1963
FIVE TIE-less, tan-less Tornados trooped into the stately lounge at the Carlton Hotel, Great Yarmouth, and shocked the residents into silence as, none too quietly, ...
Billy Fury, The Tornados, Joe Brown et al: ABC Cinema, Croydon
Live Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 12 October 1963
WHEN LARRY Parnes puts out a touring show, he puts out a big 'un. He slams in plenty of acts, plenty of variety, plenty of ...
Billy Fury, The Tornados: It Took All Day — It Was Fantastic
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 16 November 1963
WE WANT BILLY! IS BILLY FURY SINGING THE SONGS HE LIKES TO SING ...
The Tornados: Hamburg — Where The Big Beat Reigns
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 1 February 1964
CLEM CATTINI TALKS TO PETER JONES ...
The decline in power of the record Tsars
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 August 1964
ARE THE Record Companies losing their grip? There are eight British records in the Top Ten. Of these eight, only three have been recorded by ...
Obituary by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 11 February 1967
JOE MEEK, man behind the mammoth-selling 'Telstar' and many other hits, who was found dead with shotgun wounds in his Holloway, London, flat on Friday, ...
Retrospective and Interview by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, December 1972
EVEN IF HE was born in Germany as the music papers said, we always suspected that Heinz's hair wasn't really that colour. It was his ...
A Tribute to Joe Meek— Far Out Before His Time
Retrospective by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 October 1978
THROUGHOUT his career, British record producer Joe Meek showed a strong and consistent fascination with outer space and supernatural themes. A kind of backroom electronic ...
Heinz Burt: The Last Interview
Sleeve notes by Chris Welch, Repertoire Records, 1999
In 1999 Chris Welch interviewed singer and Tornados bass guitarist Heinz Burt about his early career and final years as a rock'n'roll legend. In this ...
Obituary by Alan Clayson, The Guardian, 25 May 2000
Innovative songwriter in an era before the Beatles ...
see also Heinz
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