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2 ' CLOTHES ave d :4 a, ave No 2 MARCH Geoge Newnes Ltd!' N COLOUR 2-3 The Rolling Stones 4 The Beatles 29 Elvis Pesley, Ann -Maget 30-3 Cliff Richad Dave Clak 34 Mak Wynte 35 Billy J 36 Susan Maughan, Adam Faith 62 Geoge Chakiis 63 Gene Pitney 64 The Beatles FCTON SCOOP F 22 James Bond adventue Continuing ou thilling 007 stoy, "Risico" by an Fleming SPECALS ñ fi 5 4 Beatles wold epot-six pages of supeb pictues and stoies 2 Swinging Blue Jeans-hit in the making 3 Alan Feeman-heat-to-heat with self-mádé Dave Clak 8 Billy J's blue days ove-the inside stoy 2 Kildae-Casey-staight talking fom TV's fainous doctos, Richad Chambelain and Vince Edwads 25 "Dunaving"-by Alan Field 26 Elvis-Love-and Las Vegas And Bitish pomote says "No" to tou 30 Time Off-how the famous take life easy 42 Mak Wynté's Mail Call-an intimate look at some of his lettes 44 Cliff back-it's geat to see him again 49 Fiend of the famous-deide Meehan eveals a new side to some of the atists she's met 5 Holiday camps-they could bb you stat tó 'stadom, too 52 Roge Mooe-is he eally like the Saint? 6 The Seaches-take thei pick of men's gea 40 Cilla Black's fashion tips-fo hip desses' REGULARS 0 Stabeat-Mike Gant's,inside takes, 46 Buyes' Suvey-the best of the unde 30 tape ecodes 48 Stawise-test you show biz know-how 54 Films-guide to the cuent movies 55 Tends-the way things ae moving 56 Highlights-what's happening in Mach 58 Lettes-bickbats and bouquets 59 Chat Talk-the Ameicáii Nó l's

3 5 The wold wants them They'e gee in any language i fi +w Twice ound the wold moe than fifty thousand miles that's what the Beatles aíe committed to logging this yea! That's what happens when half the wold is sceaming fo you! Fifty thousand miles of stain though long aiplane jouneys that can leave you tied and empty fifty thousand miles of tension, having to pove youself to foeign áudiences Aleady this yea, they've clocked up 8,000 'miles-including thei US tou whee they went all out to conque a TV audience of 70 million and tiumph in Ameica's geatest concet halls, amid all the ballyhoo and fenzy óf a shatteing Ameican welcome No wonde John Lennon confessed to me in the middle of it all: "Sue we feel the stain-but it's no good moaning" How will the Beatles face up to these neve-wacking pessues in Yea Two of Beatlemania? n the past 2 months, have spent asks Pete -ng ams days on end with John, Geoge, Ringo and Paul 've mavelled how they've stood up to 'it all They've still time fo thei old mates, but now they have to guad thei pivacy jealously know some of thei neaest fiends ae woied woied when they hea some people whispe: "Remembe Jet Háis? Remembe Tey Dene? Remembe how even the Spingfields boke up because they got on each othe's neves?" Woied when they head Geoge Haison snap-duing a paticulaly hectic pess confeence: "We'e fed up with all the questions" He «didn't eally mean it, of couse They all ealise such things go with the job, that lack of pivacy and the constant spotlight ae tappings of intenational fame t's vey natual that thei fiends woy And vey natuál that the Beatles' patience should occasionally snap unde the stain Look what they've faced: in Bitain, they boke all the chat ecods Then came Sweden And the conquest of Fance Then the toughest yet-ameica Each a massive hudle which took its toll of mental and physical git and concentation Playing befoe stange audiences Meeting foeign VPs and newsmen Dashing fom one place to anothe in all sots of climates and conditions And having to smile, smile, smile all the way But know these boys And can tell you why the cynics ae wong when they snee about failue t is because' John, Paul, Geoge and Ringo ac not just bunch of pofessionals woking togethe it is because they have long been eally close fiends When the going gets tough, they can take efuge" in thei own togetheness, in thei own Nothen style of comedy, in i ti! ' _, ----at, - o ' - Rae moment in Pais John, - '' ` `, \ - \ q i c?vi---"- /', Paul, Geógé and Ringo take a seat in a vintage Renault y aa,

4 j : : + : " > Y ', i ----_ - thei good old-fashioned Livepudlian common-sense Thei fiendship has stood many tests t should stand them in good stead duing this yea of intenational, stadom And what a yea' it's going to be! Afte thei Ameican tip, thee's thei FLM back hee That means some ealy nights-plus, mind you, getting up at 5 o 6 am evey wok -day Then they'll pobably do some moe CONCERTS ' n May, they'll undetake a EURO- PEAN TOUR with a seies of TV and adio dates all ove the Continent including Holland, Gemany and Belgium Duing the summe, they'e lined up fo thei WORLD TOUR-a fotnight in Austalia, then sael with South Afica to follow Afte that? Pobably Ameica again And thee's talk of a tip behind the on Cutain!' Acoss the wold, thei fans ae getting eady to give the Beatles' a eally wondeful welcome Fom AUSTRALA, club secetay Susette Belle epoted to me: "Hee, Beatle paties ae all the caze! They go on into the night with thé same few Beatles ecods that we've had ove hee spinning ove and ove again! "We don't know yet at which aipot the Beatles will be landing fo thei tou But we'e aleady oganising a eally geat eception fo them" Fom HOLLAND, ' club secetay Ha van Fulgen told fue: "We ae vowing SWEDEN: they thought it funny to' be 'geeted with flowes 4-4o t C, - = t ii, G A ' m0 3 t,, J in i- A0 H ía á H ANNO iicw i"" 9 ' - 44, M HAMBURG: thee wee FVE Beatles then, Pete Best,' Geoge, John, Paul and 'Stuat Sutclifi'eiand nowhee nea the tensions of today that the Beatles will have a bigge following in Holland than they had even in Sweden and Fance" Fom GERMANY, Axel Weiss epoted: "When they come hee, they will find vey enthusiastic audiences No mania, mind you-the Geman gils will not sceam and collapse "But we think the Beatles ae the best composes we have eve known That is, not including Bach, Beethoven and Mozat!" Fom CANADA, Tudy Medcalf-a 44 Ul t, `,, y _ a$; C- s t, l i, Í+ b disc-jockey on station CHUM in Ontaio-told me: "Beatlemania is going full foce hee now! f the Beatles come to Canada, 'm afaid they might be ton apat!" How do the Beatles cope with intenational fame? was with them on the night of that fist unfogettable show in Pais t seemed that evey photogaphe in Westen Euope wanted a pictue-and was willing to lash out fists to get one Patiently, the Beatles stuggled to find ti te ; o ' ' - " " T f, new answes to the same old questions fom jostling Fench epotes Now it was quiet in thei tiny dessing - oom backstage at the Olympia Out font, a diamond -and -mink audience of sophisticates wee waiting to put them to the test When you'e the biggest, you can't - affod a slip 'And the Beatles had that vey much on thei minds as they waited in that tiny oom Tiny? Thee was baely oom to swing a bass guita Me, got claustophobia Geoge Haison fiddled incessantly with his guita, checking and e -checking "We'e woied -they don't know us", he told me Ringo's finges beat a nevous tattoo on the wall John tied to cack a gagbut got stuck in mid -sentence Cutain up! But no sceams fom the sophisticates beyond the footlights saw a look of nea -fea shadowing Paul's cheubic face Then disaste-thee times ove! The amplification failed again and again On-stage, Ringo couldn't esist a shout of despai: "t's not us "' And afte the show, Geoge confessed to me: " think we would have laid down and died when that happened" Late-past midnight-back in thei suite at the plush Geoge V Hotel, saw the boys look as they seldom look Plain knocked out And as they lay exhausted on couches and chais, they talked wistfully of the old days back in Gemany Said Paul: "When we elaxed, we eally elaxed Nobody to bothe us Nothing to bothe about We hadly eaned enough to buy ou gub and ciggiés, but we had a ball! "Like the time John was photogaphed clinging to a TV aeial ove the club, loaded down with good old Gemán bee inside him!" "Yes", said John, "it was geat-just being a bunch of unknown Livepudlians" That's what the boys miss most of all- Backstage at hank you The day afte ave hit the bookstalls you lettes began to aive Next moning thee was a flood of mail, so we soon knew what you thought about us 've been bun - ig the midnight oil all month eading evey lette t was most ewading We'e gateful you liked, ou fesh P appoach tó the pop wold-the fank aticles, the host of new facts, the damatic: pictues One eade q called it the ''exclusiveness of ave" This, is what we will concentate t - 4, _ PARS: seclusion, but being fee Fee to have a natte about music o eligion o clothes without finding thei views splashed in the papes the next day Fee to go out with a gil without a photogaphe snatching pictues which will stat the umous flying-as happened when Paul went dancing with his fiend, Jane Ashe Fee to pop ound the cone fo a meal Why, even in a hugely -expensive estauant in Pais, the Beatles found thei 3 am suppe inteupted by equests fo autogaphs fom beautifully -dessed women t was often easie to eat in thei hotel suite Fee to enjoy the occasional coke -and - sandwich Fo although the Beatles can affod the best aboad, they can aely enjoy it Paul told me: " eally have lost a lot of weight used to be stone 4 lbs- but in six months, 0 lbs have gone t's fantastic how look so fat -faced on TV" Cacked Geoge: " think weighed moe when was bon than do now" And while they coped with all this, ave on Fo instance, this issue sees the fist colou pictues taken at Cliff Richad's new Essex home (ou cove and pages 30-3) Anothe notable captue is Noman Pakinson, one of the wold's geatest photogaphes The globe's most glamoous models have all come befoe his camea So have oyalty, politicians and statesmen But 964's exciting music has ovetaken him Now he has tuned his lens towads today's leading atists e only duing luxuious hotel meals John and Paul had to fulfil a heavy song - witing schedule: Anew numbe fo thei next single Half -a -dozen songs fo thei upcoming film A new numbe fo Tommy Quickly A song tailoed to suit Billy J A follow-up to the cuent Cilla ' Black success This had to be fitted into thei Pais tip So the boys had a piano moved into thei suite-john finds he can compose faste on a piano Nomally, he and Paul compose on guitas Thei ecoding manage, Geoge Matin of EM Recods, moved in to help So geat was the ugency that the boys ended up ecoding the new mateial in the Pathe-Maconi studios just befoe they left Fance A typical day in Pais had the boys getting up aound 3 pm-and that was only unde potest "We could sleep fo 48 ' hous", said Ringo Then pictue sessions fo pessmen Then inteviews ' They went fo a walk along the tee- You see his esults with-billy J Kame on page 8 and Cliff Richad oh page 44 We wee paticulaly, pleased so many of you liked the fist of Alan Feeman's heat-to-heat seies He's back on page 3 with some evealing facts afte a seaching talk with Dave Clak We've much moe, too Read on And let me know what you think about ave -Nó 2 Don Wedge, Edito,

5 ' 8 v,': ' "OM y lined boulevads nea thei hotel though the Pigalle distict Down in Montmate they met actess Sophie Hady Again, moe pictues Thoughoút thei stay, they ginned and smiled to ode But sometimes the Smiles faded fo a moment andthe tiedness showed though '= Stoies 'of unpunctuality got about "Pais-Match", Fance's high-class glossy magazine, complained A pictue - wod session was delayed simply because i, the boys wee so tied 5 The Beatles genuinely tied to be helpful' but the demands wee enomous Slowly Pais fell tó 'the Beatles The teenages-boys mostly-wamed to them Qtieues gew nteest ose And finally Fance fell tó the Bitish invades The enthusiasm and loyalty of thei following helps the Beatles 'enomously to give-night afte night-what thei intenational audiences expect fom them Befoe they hit the USA, the ballyhoo thee was teific Radio netwoks an Beatles Clubs fo weeks-and enolled at the ate of thousands a day Beatle wigs wee snapped up at 2 each Thei ecods oaed into the Ameican chats, winning two gold discs The telephone gils at the giant ' Capitol Recods HQ answeed evey call with: "Capitol-hone of the Beatles" Undestandably, the Beatles showed concen as they flew the 3,000 miles fom London to New Yok On the plane, head Ringo anxiously asking US ecoding tycoon Phil Specto: "Do you think ou ecods ae a 'patch on the Ameican stuff?" Thei welcome in New Yok was e-assuing-but exhausting Dozens of cas chased the Beatles' motocade-one Cadillac pe ' Beatlefom the aipot to the hotel 'Buly policemen-assigned to guad them-flinched as stuggling gils sceamed thei adoation at the hotel entance: nside, dozens of epotes and photogaphes cowded ound the Beatles as they conducted a wise -cacking pess confeence n thei hotel ooms, the phones neve 'stopped inging as ecoding executives, disc-jockeys and,fans' cane on to welcome them When John and his wife Cynthia sneaked out to' look aound 'New Yok (" can't stay in this madhouse," 'said John), thei ca was mobbed at taffic NEW ' a YORK-batteies of mikes lights by yelling gils climbing on the bonnet When a moment of est did come, wallop! Geoge was hit by a soe thoat and a high tempeatue and was odeed to bed fo a couple of days Even in bed, Geoge found himself unning a Beatles disc show by phone fo a local adio station! But soon Geoge was okay and fiece elentless eheasals began fo thei Ed Sullivan TV show A "beat-wishes" wie fom Elvis helped calm pe -show neves Came the show-and coast -to-coast success! n the studio, as the audience went into ecstasy, Ed Sullivan (who had won a Beatles wig) declaed: " don't know of any act on my show which has ceated this excitement" And even Fank Sinata-who had foecast that the boys would "die" in New Yok-had to admit he was wong Sinata's own heyday as the fist of the hysteia -attacting pop idols, was twenty-five yeas ago When teenages and paents of today's Beatlemaniacs wee called bobbysoxes! But even though he oiginated a pop music ea, Sinata's own eception and following in those days was nothing like 0 j l at the aipot indicate the fantast ' f ' t,,,,_ + eception to come Below, fa quiete moments as they discuss the TV 4 ' T ' t $ :5 Yt the Beatles expeienced duing thei hectic days in Ameica f New Yok's Plaza Hotel, usually a staid and fomal place, beathed a sigh of elief when the Beatles moved out, think of the way Phil Specto almost landed himself in touble with the Beatles accommodation poblems Specto fist met Geoge Haison at a paty duing his two-week London stay and invited the Beatle entouage, to use his luxuious 00 -a-week New Yok flat Geoge declined-because they had aleady eseved accommodation at the Plaza "Pehaps we can see something Of each othe, then", suggested Specto Phil explained to me late: "When left New Yok, thee was plenty of Beatle inteest But thee wee stoies on page 36 of the papes, athe than font-page headlines as some of the cabled epots had suggested "When, we flew in-wow! could hadly believe my eyes n the shot time 'd been away, Beatlemania had swamped Ameica like nothing else " hate to think what my neighbous would have thought of a hefty police guad all ound the apatment buildingpehaps handing out special passes to - «O v show with Ed 'Sullivan genuine keyholdes! 'm glad the 'Plaza had all that and not me!" Specto's hope to see something of the Beatles was in vain He found the hotel switchboad efusing to put him though to thei suite, Even Pesley's manage, Col Tom Pake, who telephoned with his good wishes found he couldn't get though! But by ' now thee wee calls coming in fom all ove the wold-most of them fo manage Bian Epstein Moe people wanting them oveseas, Still, amid all the ballyhoo and the stain, the Beatles ae vey poud of one thing: they've only missed one show That was in Potsmouth when Paul went sick with flu His illness was head= lined acoss Bitain, the Continent-even Ameica But the boys wee back at wok the next day And they made sue they etuned to Potsmouth on the fist available date aftewads so as not to let down the fans Real toupes, that's what the Beatles ae: And neve foget that they'e suounded by loyal fiends; led by thei manage Bian Epstein Plus all the mil lions of people acoss the wold who say: "The Beatles? 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6 ' key V ">:' REPORTNG ON CLFF, FREDDE, MANFRED MANN, STONES! d JOHN LENNON, MARK, RCK NELSON, GERRY, CRYSTALS WHCH BBC disc-jockey seies has neve playeda Beatles ecod? The distinction goes to Jack Jackson's Satuday, aftenoon "Recod Roundabout" Why should Jackson-nick-, named the daddy of Bitain's d-js--boycott the Beatles? Even though he has now etied to Teneife in the Canaies whee he wites and tapes the comedy segments, he is not cut off fom Beatles newspape coveage spoke to BBC's Jack Dabbs, the man esponsible fo poducing the pogamme "The Beatles aen't in 'Recod Roundabout' because don't like them," he explained " don't think they can sing" He went on: "Jackson is mainly concened with comedy - He schedules some ecods himself On othe occasions he leaves gaps in the scipt and asks me to slip in discs to fit with the fomat" Of couse, the pogamme's listening figue of moe than six million shows that a lack of Beatles, does not affect its audience t is, in fact, inceasing But is it ight that Dabbs should ignoe the singing sensations of the sixties? How can Jackson hope to pesent a popely -balanced pogamme when such an obvious omis- Big John Wayne had' a poblem getting Maueen O'Haa to play in wet and mucky scenes at sub -zeo tempeatues duing the making of "McLintock" "Eventually hit on an idea," he said "To get he to descend a amp into some icecold mud, whispeed: `Only an ish gil could do it!' And whoosh-you should see he go!" sion is made week afte week? Make no mistake 'm not campaigning, to get the Beatles on the pogamme am potesting at the pinciple ' which' keeps them off CLFF RCHARD used to 'have an acting ambition HO wanted to model himself on Maion Bandt! His chance to emulate Bando hasn't yet mateialised Fankly, don't think it will But have, Cliff's views changed, wondeed? His answe to my question was fank " still admie Bando," he said, "But know how futile it would be to copy him Thee's only one Maion "Since have been making films, have come to ealise how difficult it is to establish you own pesonality Let alone ty to copy, someone else" What will happen to Phil Specto when his sound wanes? LaLa Books, lead singe with the Cystals gave me some indication "We'll go back to singing fou, pat hamony, something like the - Maguie,Sistes "t may not be hit stuff, but know it will go down well, J {; "i fl f ' a t ; in nightclubs like the Copacabana We'e having hit afte hit with Phil, but then we'e being typed with one sound all the time" MANN and MANFRED wee intoduced at a sta - packed show business paty "Don't wite about me and not the est of the boys", he pleaded " am not too keen to be known pesonally" t makes you wonde why the goup is known by his name But he's got his easons, suppose "We wok' as a co-opeative", he explained "We wok togethe and shae ou money egar--tv wote to the goup's manage asking fo Manfed to wite theme tunes fo two plays "We ALL sat down and woked on them", he told me THERE'S moe than one band of Mesey sound aimed at the Ameican chats The Beatles sweep the boad, of couse, with thei own paticula chat -topping sound But CBS Recods have appointed a talented young musician to a a -and - job in New Yok His name: Bob Mesey Among the atists going into the studios to get the (Bob) Mesey sound ae Andy Williams and Dion DiMuci - '' + ;,i 9\ i 'w {::4t ' yt á 4 6t_` ' -,y,j""' P f 9,' ' 3 2 ' o { 4' -d : s _ GARRTY had FREDDE a little touble passing his diving test Thee times he failed-and he got his coveted pink pass only when he changed his móde of tanspot " was unning aound in a beat -up old van with bad steeing", the diminutive gagste told me 'Eventually, afte being failed thee times, eckoned the old cate had something to do with it " pesuaded a fiend to lend me his ca, which was in much bette condition But only got in about thity minutes' diving time befoe took test No A Luck was on my side, though" On the subject Of cas, what about the touble Mak Wynte is having with his sleek Austin Healey Spite? "t seems 'jinxed", he told me: "'ve spent 45 on epais afte vandals twice gouged the metalwok And now 've discoveed mechanical defects, too was diving down the M in a blinding blizzad when the clutch failed t was a fightening expeience" Thee stas of TV's "Bonanza" seies have won headlines because of thei efusal to appea befoe a Segegated audience Mike Landon, Dan Blocke and Lone Geene wee due to appea on stage at a, Mississippi theate But they walked out when they leaned that white and coloued ticket -buyes wee being split up TWO majo ecod companies ae planning policy changes to take effect now EM want to push thei Ameican eleases These have suffeed badly since the goup scene began They ae also launching an all-out dive on -and -b, and Manfed Mann's " " chat success has encouaged them Ove at Decca, gathe thee may be a e-shufiie in the fim's neve cente-to futhe stengthen the atists' ecoding depatment Decca is having a geat deal moe a Two Ll * `kt ' i- t : i le lá success than EM with its US ecods hee, but they would like to get a lot moe Bitish talent in the chats The Livepool sound has meant little to Decca's finances EM, with the Beatles, Billy J, Cilla Black, Gey and the Foumost have this boom faily tied up n one week ecently, the Top 30 showed EM with a total of thiteen enties-only one of them Ameican Decca had twelve, of which seven wee Bitish EDD BYRNES says that he wants to be known as Edwad Bynes fom now on "'m a big guy now 'm maied Edd sounds too juvenile", he explained JOHN LENNON is becoming moe and moe inteested in ecoding techniques: How long will it be befoe the Beatles ae cutting thei own ecods? ' li!h j ( j 0'",'",,' ''' /i/ 4, '>Zi 9 i!y' thee-hou sessions in a tiny ecoding studio in London's Denmak Steet fifty unsuccessful takes Finally, with a dozen empty coffee cups and countless fuit pie wappes litteing the floo, the Rolling Stones completed "Not Fade Away" At the fist session the Stones woked by themselves But something wasn't ight At the second session Phil Specto played maaccas and Gene Pitney took ove the piano This time they got it ight - M 4 ' ` y, AMERCAN pesidents have done it fo yeas So has de Gaulle And the astonauts What? Had thei pess confeences televised AR -TV staged one of top d -j Alan Feeman"s "They Sold A Million" shows duing Decca's pess paty fo the Ronettes ave edito, Don Wedge (above left) was amóng the jounalists questioning them "Pleasantest day's wok of the week", was all he'd say when he got back agee They'e dishes JMMY SAVLE has a wily way of beating stage neves befoe a show " always keep some tinned pawns in the dessing oom", he told Me "They'e geat when you lose you appetite though neves" RCK NELSON will ean moe than,000 a week ove the next five yeas unde a íiew contact with an Ameican TV company He splits moe than,000,000 with his bothe David and mothe and fathe, Ozzie and Haiet THE Euovision Song Contest is fast losing suppot Sweden is ntit paticipating at all this yea and looks to be out fo good: Denmak, 963 winne and hosts to this yea's competition in Copenhagen on Mach 2, has said that afte this yea it is withdawing fom festivals of this kind GERRY and the Pacemakes, the Meseybeats, the Beatles They ae losing fans daily in Livepool, thei home town Thei pe - viously loyal followes claim they have now sold out to fame and fotune and fogotten thei fans They say they neve' see Gey, Geoge, Paul, John, Tony and the est any moe Gey Masden gives the othe side of the pictue "This sot of thing is inevitable", he told me "We haven't been back hóme to play fo a whilé, it's tue, but it's not because we don't want to We owe all'ou fans and fiends in Livepool too much to foget them altogethe "But unfotunately, we can't just pick and choose whee we can pefom only wish it wee that easy:" Tony Cane, of the Mesey - beats, added: "A lot of these complaints ae uneasonable We couldn't stay in Livepool foeve But we always jump at the chance of playing home teitoy when we can" Tony Baow, Bian Epstein's publicist told me: "A lot of it is just jealousy The fans look upon these goups as thei own pesonal popety But a lot of this page 60

7 \ 4 if ` u n 4j - e 0- t ~=«,d JHAKED BUT JE4NS 'SLL SOON BE SWNGNG! vy w Pv Q'' he Swinging Blue Jeans ought to change thei name SLEEPNG Blue Jeans would be moe appopiate! Why? Well, when saw them the othe Sunday cutting sides fo LP and single eleases, they'd hadly enough enegy left even to sway They wee facing the session afte only a snatched sleep! Foced on them because they'd been woking nealy all the pevious night t was ecoding manage Wally Ridley who spued them into life "Okay, boys, the balance is fine now Let's get to wok", he said, fom the glass -fonted contol oom Lead guitaist Ralph Ellis tied a few No - - /VyME chods, one o two uns up his fetboad The deep bown tone of Les Baid's bass hummed Noman Kuhlke cashed out 3 stacatto dum oll A couple of un thoughs, and the goups' lethagy began to wea off Take one the ed light blinked on Ray shouted into the micophone Then his voice was lost in the deluge of pulsating hythm as the othe thee thumped out a pounding backing Take two: Ray fogot his wods in the thid vese Take thee: still not ight Take fou: no mistakes "Long "Tall Sally" was in the can Afte a quick un though the boys had an instumental by Les, "Wastin' Time", on tape too Then the yawns stat again, and off they went to spend Sunday aftenoon iñ bed! TONY WYNTER

8 Di±'LN FREE AN H EART-TO- H R WTH THE FAMOU CONTNUNG ave's SEARCHNG NEW SERES BY BRTAN'S 'MR POP PCKER' SELF-MADE DAVE CLARK c stopped to think, pop -pickes, about this incedible, mavellous, cazy thing that's happening to show business today? got to pondeing about it when was choosing a sta fo a heat-to-heat this month fo you, Once, the biggest thill a pefome could know was, afte yeas of stiving, to have an audience aise the oof fo himto pou a tidal wave of adoation acoss the footlights at him An old-time in show business put it this way: "Alan, it's like basking in a geat u am glow-a glow of love" Then he added thoughtfully, But now thee's something moe This new thing N 3 f` s 7/'n_ n

9 4 -instant success Being M Nobody on Monday, then having half the county at you feet by Fiday "Us old-times, we might have woked the theates fo yeas befoe anyone ecognised us in the steet Why, even Mailyn Monoe had to make seveal films befoe she hit the big time "Today people like you, Alan, have changed all that with the adio ánd TV" had to tell him he was wong well, half -wong t's you who make the hits t's you who can tell, almost in a flash, which disc has that Big Wondeful Something and which is-well, just anothe disc And it's you who can tun today's M Nobody into tomoow's M Font - Page News news that eveyone-fom you maiden aunt Emily to the Pime Ministe-is talking about Now hee's anothe thought Suppose it happened to you? Suppose, suddenly, eveyone was talking about you, wanting to see you, hea you, touch you How would you feel? poued two cups of coffee as Dave Clak elaxed contentedly into the deep cushions of the settee facing me He was looking eally shap-a6 ft of him-in a blue mohai suit and a gleaming white polo -neck sweate Then said: "Do you emembe what said to you, Dave, afte 'd spun `Glad' fo the fist time?'' Dave laughed "We met in the `Lucky Dave and could laugh now Stas' studio just befoe it was eleased and you congatulated me on it" "Yes", said, "and you pulled a face down to you boots and told me you thought it wouldn't set the chats on fie Right?" "Right!" Dave admitted "But can you blame me? When we cut this ecod, decided to make `Glad' the A side thought it was the bette tune That bomp-bomp, you know "But eveyone told me was mad! The boys and agued about it Then we took the ecod to the dance hall at Basildon whee we wee woking "You know what? All the kids thee went fo the B side! "But 'stuck to my decision- because still eckoned the stomp hythm was geat to dance to" How ight Dave's judgment was has been poved in hundeds of dance halls 9iillüüG': F llil9 luli:':;i9ai üü99 l';'illüülüiaii9 asked Dave how it all began "Well, Alan, it was all sot of an accident 'd been going to a gymnasium in Tottenham with a bunch of pals and about fou o five 'yeas ago, the gym's football team had an invitation to play in Holland The poblem was the cash "So we thought we'd un some dances But what about a band? That's how we came to stat a goup as wethought back to the " only tied my hand at the dums because no-one else could play! bought my fist set fo 0-fom a Salvation Amy bass dumme! "Anyway, we an two o thee dances and aised 200 That sot of encouaged us although we must have sounded atocious! We went 'on in fits and stats, sometimes getting fed up with the lifeuntil a couple of yeas late when we took the plunge and decided to ty to wok on a semi-pofessional basis "We went on one-nightes fo six months, then tied fo a esidency at a Mecca- balloom We got the job but it was all had gaft" poued Dave anothe coffee while he sat silent, no doubt emembeing those ealy days "How did you come to get into the disc business?" asked "We made some demonstation discs fo othe people", he ecalled "But the sound seemed teibly messy to us So we set about woking to get it ight "Eventually we felt we wee expeienced enough to begin as ecoding atists in ou own ight "The fist ecod we made, `Fist Love', was paid fo by a music publishe The second, `That's What Said', we paid fo ouselves Both wee sold to Pye We had big hopes and thought they wee both dead cets fo the chats" Dave was standing by the window of my flat, looking out into the night "What happened, Dave?" asked The oom was so quiet could hea my time fist head "Glad" asked watch ticking Then Dave tuned to me "They flopped-boy, did they flop! The second disc got just fou plays on Radio Luxemboug "We sue came down to eath with a bang" That's the way show business is, Pop - pickes The hous of had wok in the studio, the days of waiting afte the disc's elease, the fading hopes t takes a lot of detemination to cay on, to go on feeling you've got something Wothwhile to offe knew Dave has that kind of detemination so let him pick up the Stoy'in his own time "You know, afte ou fist two discs wé thought a change of ecod company might mean a change of luck So we went to EM and began ecoding again in eanest We made `Mulbey "And that flopped, too "But this time, we pofited t taught us a lesson On this disc, we back -tacked a vey deep voice Actually, ítwas a taped voice, slowed -up to get the deep effect "Of couse, when we did the numbe on stage, we found we couldn't epoduce this deep voice should have leaned befoe, actually On ou fist ecod, we double -tacked the bass playe on hamonica-and that couldn't be done on stage, eithe "Fom that moment on, vowed that the Dave Clak Five would neve ecod a numbe which couldn't be done exactly the same way on stage" "Dave, talking about studio wok", said, "how do you go about a session?" "Well, Alan, we don't wok the way many atists wok Fo one thing, we cut ou own ecods t costs us about 00- although it needn't cost evey goup that much-but we feel it's money well spent t means we own that ecod and get about thee times the nomal oyalty "Fo anothe thing, we do ou sessions the had way We don't wok out the ecod in advance-and we don't keep to a time limit in the studios even if it takes us five hous "f you get a dumme o a guitaist who's flashy and wants to be on top and the bass playe wants to be on top, too-then the whole thing becomes a mess But us, we all swing togethe" ':i77fl"''el:º''ib" ' 93(m':llnll0':':Tnni;8 Dave's got a lot of stength of chaacte -what say you, pop -pickes? asked him when he fist got inteested in show business He laughed "Guess you could say it stated when was thee -and-a-half! began going in fo talent contests" "Whát did d" Dave ocked witho? laughte " sang 'You Ae My Sunshine'-it must have been mude! "Did you e"ve think of becoming a singe?" Dave' was fim "No, definitely not sing in tune and 'm all ight when my You emembe how you pull ed a face and said it would voice is hidden in a goup-but 'm by no means note -pefect" The pecolato was peking and while poued out fesh coffee, Dave stolled about the oom "Alan, you've got a geat flat-a ton of space! 'm still living with my Mum and Dad and my bothe "They'e geat, my folks", Dave ginned "We used to get back fom jobs in the ealy hous "We'd wake all the neighbous up when we caied ou equipment upstais But Mum and Dad always defended me The clock -baomete on my mantelpiece chimed the hou t was getting late and neithe of us had had a meal "These days, baely get time to eat!" Dave told me in my Mini as we headed fo London's famous Lotus House estauant just down the oad fom my flat fo á good old-fashioned Chinese tuck -in So that's the Dave Clak stoy, a stoy with a happy ending and a petty accidental beginning Just think, if someone somewhee hadn't invited a Tottenham club's football team to Holland the DC,5 stoy might have been vey diffeent Well, pop -pickes; let's make a date fo my heat-to-heat in ave next month-all ight? Right! Stay bight! n't set the chats on fie?" 5 i s -, i,l e2m"n _ -, '! "7-> ^, "

10 - 6 -", - Take you ' ; pick anything w you like-we said And boy, did they go to town 4t94 C i L-; :, Jim ete» ; d/,i' ' _ te i e 4 49o- L 7 F, 4 4 -'w They ae one of the slickest looking goups on the beat scene"needles And Pins" clinched thei position among the geats of the beat -age And thei clothes have the same sot of polish as thei Meseyside sound On stage, they wea smat un -gimmicky suits Thee buttons down the font, slim touses, white shits, dak ties and Cuban heeled boots with seams down the middle But the Seáches like casual wea, too n one of John Stephen's shops in Canaby Steet-London's top gea maket-ave gave them the chance to be themselves and choose what they like fo off-stage wea The boys caused quite a sti One quiet City gent who háppened tp be in the shop at the same time as the goup got the bunt of thei skylaking He lost his shoes (dumme Chis ' Cutis "boowed" them) and then all the boys tuned advises They tied thei best,to put him off buying a con= ventional suit He took it all in good pat, but will vouch that as '`themselves" this Livepool fousome can be as entetaining off-stage as on They also took Jenny Moss along fo the tipshe plays Lucille in "Coonation Steet" She weighed in with some advice KETH WRGHT TONY JACKSON-"Anthony fo shot", he says-is 22 yeas old and weighs stone He fancied an all -black outfit and took some black lightweight cotton touses and coveed his stocky top half with a polo -necked jekin in black leathe He liked it t was kinky, he said, and he ated himself as a sot of ton -up Kildae Tony, lead singe and bass guitaist with the goup, has a pefeence fo black and blue, dak suits and, of ' couse, leathe clothing n fact, when he aived fo his ave date he was weaing a wine -coloued jacket, a knitted tie and black touses Vey smat, too Tony's black leathe pullove costs 2 2s The matching black poplin touses ae 2 9s 6d MKE PENDER is the quiet one of the goup He is, at 2, lead guitaist and vocalist with the Seaches, but claims that as a boy all he wanted to do was play football fo Eveton t took Mike a long, soul-seaching time in the shop to séttle on the collaless gey suede jacket with tab cuffs To set this off he chose a white shit with a button-down colla and a dak knitted tie This silve gey suede jacket with tab cuffs (othe colous: black, geen and bown) cost 3 3s with a white shit with button-down colla and a knitted tie The white shit is 2 9s 6d and the knitted tie 9s 6d, CHRS CURTS says he pefes ags He's the eal jóke of the pack He olled up in a leathe black shotie coat ove well; ags Pessed to change his clothing fo something in the shop this popula dumme -vocalist went fo a sot of Wild West kit He chose a bight ed waistcoat with plenty of pockets and saddle stitching ove a gey denim shit tucked into hipste touses in diced cod black Chis, 2, also likes suits, but given the choice would 'athe live in casual clothes He thought this ed leathe waistcoat geat Thee ae two dozen colous to choose fom-at 7 7s Hisgey denim shit cost 2 9s 6d and black diamond cod hipste slacks 3 9s 6d JOHN McNALLY, 2, sings and plays hythm guita His taste is comfotable athe than way-out He thought Tony Jackson looked "daft" in his leathe jekin, and said so He spent a futive hou in the dakest cone of the, shop and shyly emeged spoting a knitted cew -neck sweate and a pai of gey tweed touses His favouite colou is gey and he likes smat suits and smat shits as well, he says The conventional cew -necked sweate in navy blue won by John cost 2 9s 6d and the black and white tweed slacks 4 9s 6d

11 u e v o o He couldn't know-neve eve deamed-of the wondeful days that wee to come so soon 9 Concluding the Billy J Kame stoy, witten by Dick Tatham o o ---- T he supeintendent staed had at Billy J "So you want- to thow up the chance of good pay and 00 pe cent secuity fo-this-this wild gamble?" Thee was a teible silence in the office Outside, metal canked in the ailway wokshops that Billy was about to leave fo pecise eve Billy swallowed had-then he spoke quietly but fimly: "Yes-someone in show business has ageed to manage me and my folks have said should do it" t seems had to ealise that Billy J only came into show business little moe than a yea ago-on Januay 7, 963, to be Fom a 5 2s -a-week job as a Bitish Railways indentued appentice in Januay to top-of--the-bill on ATV's Palladium show in Octobe! Thee can be few show business stoies to beat that! But then back on that bittely cold Januay day last yea when he handed in his notice to the supeintendent, Billy couldn't know-neve eve deamed-of the wondeful days that lay ahead As if 'd let off a bomb `Z, Tue, Bian Epstein-Livepool's King-make-had ageed - to manage him But as he faced the supeintendent, Billy wasn't, thinking about success He told me: "The supeintendent couldn't have been moe supised if 'd let off a bomb in his office "Me- wasn't feeling all that mavellous At a time like that, you don't think about all the people who have made a fotune in showbiz "You woy about the thousands of othes who have tied to climb the ladde and come flopping back to eath" Fom the blue days to the golden days Fom being no-one to finding yoúself caught up and caied along in a beathtaking, incedible bust of fame That's the way it was with Billy in the ealy months of 963, when his fist disc went like a space ocket to the vey peak of the chats-and when it was also plain that this was just the stat of a mavellous success stoy "The fact that fame had come my way took quite a time to sink in And as it did, my mind became a whil of wondeful, wondeful feelings "Of couse, you get a kick out of going into a clothes shop and odeing whateve takes you fancy "Of couse, it's geat tavelling all ove the county and getting well paid fo doing wok which is also a pleasue "Sue thee's a thill in staying at lush hotels eating in itzy estauants and being invited hee, thee and eveywhee 'm not denying it "But thee wee two feelings in my mind fa moe impotant than these "One came fom ealising what it meant to have folks ooting Page 47 PCTURES BY NORMAN PARKNSON/JBA

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13 - 0 P =Y' e, 4 0 How tue-to-life ae TV's make-believe doctos? Does D Kildae eally know a scalpel fom a scewdive? Can D Casey even stand the sight of blood? ave's Hollywood epote Bob Heyman put Kildae (Richad Chambelain) and Casey (Vince Edwads) though a thoough check-up But fist, a glance at thei case histoies RCHARD CHAMBERLAN' 29, was bon in Bevely Hills on Hollywood's doostep and went to Pomona College whose "old boys" include Robet Taylo and Joel McCea He went into acting afte amy sevice in Koea His fist staing film is "The Chage s Mude"-due fo elease in May Did you study any facet of medical science in college? EDWARDS: When was at college, no moe thought of becoming a docto than of taking up acting Consequently, ead nothing of medicine The only ambition 'd eally set my heat on then, was to become a membe of the Ameican national swimming team took a step towads that when won a swimming scholaship to Ohio State Univesity finally made the national team-but not fo long An acute case of appendicitis put me out of the championships and a little dispiited looked elsewhee-to acting CH UNDERLAN: No, medicine was not one of my inteests At Pomona, studied at and dama and neve eally thought of becoming anything but an atist until my last yea when decided wanted to be an acto Do you ead medical books' EDWARDS: No, but have one medical wok by my bed evey night when study the scipt fo the next day's shooting t's called "Meck's Medical Manual" and it has become my bible fo checking the ponunciation and meaning of some of the technical phases CHAMBERLAN: don't eally need to-because we always have medical expets on hand whom we can consult wheneve in doubt find, anyway, that duing the couse of the seies have been soaking up quite a bit of incidental knowledge Hae you eve been to a hospital fo eseach puposes on a scipt o to consult the medical staff? EDWARDS: Befoe we stated the seies spent seveal days at Los Angeles County Geneal Hospital soaking up the atmosphee and studying the wok of ncuo-sugeons and thei eactions to cetain situations also watched seveal opeations, all of them concened in some way with the bain CHAMBERLAN: Yes, of couse spent about a wcck with a young docto at Los Angeles County Geneal Hospital, watching his evey duty and studying paticulaly his elationship with his VNCE EDWARDS 32, was bon the son of a bicklaye in Booklyn, New Yok Afte college, he enteed the city's Ameican Academy of Damatic Ats Befoe going into TV, he seved in the US Navy He has made a numbe of films, the latest being "The Victos" supeios think this pat of the chaacte of James Kildae is as impotant as his medical knowledge A docto must know how to handle people befoe he can stat teating them By the way, the young Docto-Geoge Andos-is now a esident docto at the Univesity of Chicago hospital, and he was technical advise to us until he left to take up that position Can you stand the sight of blood? EDWARDS: can-if have to! felt a little queasy watching opeations befoe the seies, but managed to stick it out and pick up a lot of useful hints CHAMBERLAN: emembe see- ing a steet accident when was about 5 This was the fist time had seen human blood like that and emembe feeling a little guilty because the sight of the victim's blood had no effect on me Do many fans consult you fo medical advice? EDWARDS: Yes, all the time 've even been asked in the steet fo advice about athitis and so on always ty to be nice when tell them-usually eldely ladies-"no, 'm soy, 'm an acto and if you want advice you should go to you docto" We get a lot of lettes too, which we tun staightove to the Ameican Medical Association CHAMBERLAN: get about 5,000 fan lettes a week and always a small pecentagc asks advice always have to tell them they should go to thei doctos When you-o someone you know wellfalls sick, do you daw on you acting expeience as a docto? EDWARDS: Of couse not As tell those eldely ladies, 'm an acto-not a docto And so aely feel unwell that don't need my own docto wok out in a Bevely Hills gym evey wcck and eat a special diet of oganically gown food can't emembe the last time had a cold CHAMBERLAN: would neve think of tying to teat a fiend fo a complaint Medical science is a pofound subject-one fo a docto, not an acto And as fa as 'm concened, 'm blessed with good health

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Jw gil-a pospeous wite who lived high and well Then, in the tempoay state of euphoia that a fist night in Venice engendes, howeve high and seious the pupose of the visito, James Bond walked back to the Gitti and had eight hous deamless sleep May and Octobe ae the best months in Venice The sun is soft and the nights ae cool The glitteing scene is kinde to the eyes and thee is a feshness in the ai that helps one to hamme out those long miles of stone and teazza and mable that ae intoleable to the feet in summe And thee ae fewe people Although Venice is the one town in the wold that can swallow up a hunded thousand touists as easily as it can a thousand-hiding them down its side -steets, using them fo cowd scenes on the piazzas, stuffing them into the vapoetti-it is still bette to shae Venice with the minimum numbe of packaged tous and Ledehosen Bond spent the next moning stolling the back -steets in the hope that he would be able to uncove a tail He visited a couple of chuches-not to admie thei inteios but to discove if % -> V Bond said dily: "Just tell Colombo that fom now on 'm witing his life stoy So long" /Y!F?Í - ''++,,,:f 4,50" t li'll` - Z 23 anyone came in afte him though the main entance befoe he left by the side doo No one was following him Bond went to Floian's and had an Ameicano and listened to a couple of Fench cultue - snobs discussing the imbalance of the containing façade of St Mak's Squae On an impulse, he bought a postcad- and sent it off to his secetay who had once been with the Geogian Goup to taly and had neve allowed Bond to foget it He wote: "Venice is wondeful Have so fa inspected the ailway station and the' Stock Exchange Vey aesthetically satisfying To the Municipal Watewoks this aftenoon and then an old Bigitte Badot at the Scala Cinema Do you know a wondeful tune called 'O Sole Mio'? t's v omantic like eveything hee JB" Pleased with his inspiation, Bond had an ealy luncheon and went back to his hotel He locked the doo of his oom and took off his coat and ' an, ove the Walthe PPK He put up the safe and pactised one o two quick daws and put the gun back in the holste t was time to go He went along to the landing -stage and boaded the twelve -foty vapoetto to Albeoni, out of sight acoss the mioed lagoons Then he settled down in a seat in the bows and wondeed what was going to happen to him Fom the jetty at Albeoni, on the Venice ' side of the Lido peninsula, thee is a half mile dusty walk acoss the neck of land to the Bagni Albeoni facing the Adiatic t is a cuiously deseted wold, this tip of the famous peninsula A mile down the thin neck of land the luxuy eal estate development has peteed out in a scatteing of cacked stucco villas and bankupt housing pojects, and hee thee is nothing but the tiny fishing village of Albeoni, a sanatoium fo students, a deelict expeimental station belonging to the talian Navy and some massive weed - choked gun emplacements fom the last wa n the no man's land in the cente of this thin tongue of land is the Golf du Lido, whose bownish undulating faiways meande aound the uins of ancient fotifications Not many people come to Venice to play golf, and the poject is kept alive fo its

15 24 snob appeal by the gand hotels of the Lido The golf couse s suounded by a high wie fence hung át intevals; as if it potected something of geat value o sececy, with theatening Vietatos and Pohibito Aound this wied enclave, the scub and sandhills have not even been cleaed of mist, and amongst the usting babed wife ae signs saying MNAS PERCOLO D MORTE beneath a oughly stencilled skull and cossbones The whole aea is stange and melancholy and in extaodinay contast to the gay canival wold of Venice' less than an hou away acoss the lagoons Bond was sweating slightly by the time he had walked the half mile aé ois the peninsula to the pláge, and he stood fo a moment unde the last of the 'acacia tees that had bodeed thedtisty oad to cool off while he got his beaings n font of him was a ickety wooden achway whose cental span said HAGN,ALBERONt in faded blue paint Beyond wee the lines of equally dilapidated wooden cabins, and then a hunded yads of sand and then the quiet blue glass of the sea Thee wee no bathes and the place seemed to be closed, but when he walked though the achway he head the tinny, sound of a adio playing Neapolitan music t came fom a amshackle hut that advetised Coca-Cola' and vaious talian soft dinks Deck -chais wee stacked against ns walls and thee wee two pedallos and a child's half inflated scahose The whole :establishment looked so deelict that Bond could not imagine it doing business even at the height of the summe aeason He stepped off the naow duckboads into the soft, buned' sand and moved ound behind the huts to the beach He walked down to the edge of the sea To the left, until it disappeaed in the autumn heat haze, the wide empty sand swept away in a slight cuve towads the Lido pope To the ight was half a mile of beach teminating in the seawall at the tip of the peninsula The seawall stetched like a finge out into the silent mioed sea, and at intevals along ts top wee the flimsy -deicks of the octopus fishemen Behind the beach wee the sandhills and a section of the 'wie fence suounding the golf couse On the edge of the sandhills, pehaps five hunded yads away, thee was a speck of bight yellow Bond set off towads it along -the tide-line "Ahem" The' hands flew to the top scap of bikini and pulled it up Bond walked into he line of vision and stood looking down The bight shadow of the umbella coveed only he face The est -of he-a buned ceam body n á black bikini on a black and white stiped bath towel-lay offeed to the sun She looked up at him though half-closed eyelashes "You ac ", five minutes ealy and told e t - ) you to knock Bond sat down close to he n the shade of the big umbella He took out a handkechief and wiped his face "You happen to own the only palm tee n the whole of this deset had tó get undeneath it as soon as could This is the hell of a place fo a endezvous" She laughed_ " am like Geta Gabo like to be alone" "Ae we alone?" She opened he eyes wide: "Why not? You think have bought a chapeone?" "Since you think all men ae pigs," "Ah, but you ae a gentleman pig," she giggled "A milod pig And anyway, it is too hot fo that kind of thing And thee is too much sand And besides this is,a business meeting, no? tell, you stoies about dugs and' you give me a diamond clip Fom Van Cleef O have you changed you mind?" "No That's how t is Whee shall we begin?" "You ask the questions What is it you want to know?" She sat up and pulled he knees- to he between he ams Flitation had gone out of he eyes and they had become attentive, and pehaps a little caeful Bond noticed the change He said casually watching he: "They say you fiend Colombo is a big man in the game Tell me about him He 'would make a good chaacte -fo my book-disguised, of couse But it's the detail need How does he opeate, and so on? That's not the sot of thing a wite can invent" She veiled he eyes She said: "Enico would be vey angy if he knew that had told any of his secets don't know what he would do to me" "He will neve know" She looked at him seiously "Liebe M Bond, thee is vey little that he does not know And he is also quite capable of acting on a guess would not be supised"- Bond caught he quick glance at his watch-"if it had,z,}a,(- cossed his mind to have me followed hee He is a vey suspicious man" She put he hand out and touched his sleeve Now she looked nevous She said ugently: " think you had bette go now This- has been a geat mistake" Bond openly looked at his watch t was thee -thity He moved his head so that he could look behind the umbella and back down the beach Fa down by the bathing huts, thei outlines dancing slightly in the heat haze, wee thee men n dak clothes, They wee walking puposefully up the beach, thei feet keeping step as f they wee a squad Bond got to his feet He looked down at the bent head - 'He said dily: " see what you mean Just tell Colombo that fom now on 'm witing his life -stoy And 'm a vey pesistent wite So long" Bond stated unning up the sand towads the tip of the peninsula Fom thee he could double back down the othe shoe to the village and the safety of people Doen the beach the thee men boke into a fast jogtót, elbows and legs pounding in time with each othe as if they wee long-distance unnes out fo a taining spin As they jogged past the gil, one of the men aised a hand: She aised hes in answe and then lay down on the sand and tuned ove-pehaps so that he back could now get its toasting, o pehaps because she did not want to watch the man -hunt, Bond took off his tie as he an and put it in his pocket t was vey hot and he was aleady sweating pofusely But so would the thee men be t was a question who was in bette taining At the tip of the peninsula, Bond clambeed -up to the seawall and looked back The men had hadly gained, but now two of them wee fanning out to cut ound the edge of the golf couse bounday They did not seem, to mind the dange notices with the skull and cossbones Bond, unning fast down the wide seawall, measued angles and distances The two men wee coning acoss the base of the tiangle t was going to be a close call Bond's shi was aleady soaked and his feet wee beginning to hut He had un pehaps a mile How much fathe to safety? At ntevals along the seawall the beeches of antique cannon had been sunk in the concete They would be mooing posts fo the fishing fleets shelteing in the potection of the lagoons befoe taking to the Adiatic Bond counted his steps between two of them Fifty yads How many black knobs to the end of the wall-to the fist houses of the village? Bond counted up to thity befoe the line vanished into the heat haze Pobably anothe mile to go Could he do it, and fast page 48

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17 t `ti : 'tµu -a' - o g =,' i \ t, '' ti w,n z - ; níp 4,,, " a, -_4-5 +, 5432 YEARS AGO! Mach 963: Beatles get fist chat -toppe with "Please Please Me" County stas Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins die in Tennessee aiplane cash on thei way to Nashville Mach 962: Kenny Ball's "Midnight n Moscow" disc eaches thé Top Five in Ameica Side Stoy" film is an immediate hit when it opens n London Mach 96: Memphis declaes an Elvis Pesley Day when he makes his fist stage appeaance in fou yeas Fist "Thank You Lucky Stas" featues Adam Faith and Caig Douglas Mach 960: Elvis Pesley is -dischaged fom US Amy afte two yeas Hollywood stike holds up Fankie Vaughan - Mailyn Monoe film, "Let's Make Love" Mach 959: Michael Holliday flies to Ameica tó meet Bing Cosby, his idol Maty Wilde ows with his label to have his goup back him on ecods i ; Anothe sue-fie box office hit is on the way fo Elvis: 'Love n Las Vegas', his latest MGM film out this month t's gat eveything! The thills of moto acing, best-selling songs, out -of -this -wold settings, shapely gils led by Ann=Maget(self-styled fiancee of the Rock King) and,'of couse, Elvis himself He plays a -moto mechanic who" loves fast cas and gils who look like Ann -Maget: By the end of the final eel he's got both

18 28, b,* 4 V 'At -, Elvis gets his gil (above) but not befoe she's given him a good un fo his money Below, he sings to quell celebating -Texans in a Las Vegas night spot' t 0-4 á )' f '5-7 v 40«=0- Pt S 6 / ELVS ON TOUR HERE- HT OR MSS? pesley's discs have taken a dive-no doubt about that So supposing he did a stage tou hee-that's if he wee willing-what would happen now? A smash hit? O a teible floppeoo? Do you believe people would queue all night fo tickets-as they did fo the Beatles? Do you think they'd pay 3? O could it possibly happen now that Elvis would be playing to empty seats? 've been putting these questions to people in the know Like ace pomoto VC LEWS He has pesented top Ameicans in Bitain He is stongly, FOR Elvis: "Maybe Pesley's disc sales have fallen off fo the moment", he says "But that wouldn't affect his pulling powe as a live pefome "He is still an enomous sta People would ush to see him They would willingly pay well above -aveage pices "A yea o two ago, went to the States to meet Elvis and the Colonel hoped to get them ove When they explained thei commitments, _ ealised had no chance "But if had a lette tomoow asking if 'm still inteested, would flash a yes back acoss the Atlantic double fast" FOR Elvis: Pomoto GEORGE COOPER, whose packages have included the Ronettes, Joe Bown, Ketty Leste, Johnny Kidd, Dee Dee Shap "Pesley would go a stom", he told me emphatically " would gab at the chance to get him You could chage highe pices than fo thé Beatles "How much? A 3 top And evey house would be a packe" But thee is anothe view: AGANST Elvis: t was put to me by ARTHUR HOWES-pomote of long expeience and high standing He has staged many Cliff Richad tous and pesented Ameicans like Bobby Dain He said bluntly; "f Pesley did a tou now, would be vey doubtful about its success Mesey beat has completely alteed the scene "To counte it-and this is being pefectly fank- would soone have the Dave Clak Five than Pesley "f wee offeed Pesley, would bagain had befoe accepting And wouldn't ask moe than 25 bob top" Which view is ight? lean towads that of Athu Howes think Pesley would pack theates at nomal pices But am sue the day is past when people would have paid seveal pounds fo a seat" Would you ush to see him? And, if so, how much would you pay fo a seat? You tell- us! Wite to 'ave', To\ve House, Southampton Steet, London, WC2 Dick Tatham ANN- MARGRET ELVS PRESLEY

19 ' ' o k oo o 0 u e ww oe 'h o /j o a v o 4 o 5 J, i 0-- J " _/ 7 i+ " ~= Home Thee months' filming in the Canaies ove, Cliff Richad can enjoy his new house at Uppe Nazeing, Essex These exclusive ave colou pictues show him elaxing in the lounge with his sistes, Jackie and Joan, and getting the gaden in ode How do the famous spend thei time off? The following pictues give a clue Thee's - a complete un-down on pages 38 and 39 i

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22 37 f O - 9 Time off t can mean a lot when you've been on the oad doing two shows a night fo thee weeks t's a chance to catch up on all the little things eveyone takes fo ganted Fo Adam Faith, getting away means isolating himself in his 5 -oom oak - panelled mansion set in its own geen aces at Eshe, Suey O a moning in the fields shooting Feddie Gaity likes to go ound Blakely golf couse nea his Mancheste home Do-it-youself hitmake Dave Clak finds his newfound fame petty hectic His scoote o sleek blue Zephy get him aound quickly to make the most of the off duty minutes Billy J Kame's idea of a good time is to get home to his paents and spend a long evening in font of the fie, heaing about homely, eveyday thiings He can't get home much, so he has to be content to phone them Diving is Mak Wynte's way of spending his time off He zooms off to some lonely oad in his zippy spots ca As fo Susan Maughan, she likes potteing aound he Highgate flat in he bae feet, cooking and doing keep -fit execises They all agee; time off is a ae and pecious thing when you'e at the top Moe details oveleaf ED BLANCHE

23 Away fom: wok: how the 39 famous spend thei time How often do you get time off to elax? What do you do?hen you'e not woking? Doyou have anyex en- p sive hobbies? What type do you like to date? Whee doyougo on a date? What kind of ca do you have? Do you dive much fo pleasue?my What bánd of cigaette youdo_ smoke? What is you favouite food and dink? Do you often meet fiends',who ae not in show biz? Do you have many, CLFF RCHARD ADAM FATH FREDDE GARRTY Vey aely just snatch the odd moment when it comes along Swim and dive, and 'm mad keen on taking my own movies Two My ca and taking my own films Gils who ae not in show business because hate talking shop "Sammy" Samwell, in show busi-myealy wote -a lot of néss? Do you see much of you goup in you spae time? How much do you spend on off-stage clothes? What is you favouite style - clothes? o f off-stage What sot 'of music do you elax by? ' What would you do if you cwoulaeé ended? - Not much t can be anything fom two hous to two days a month spend most of my time at home, but have spent quite a bit on my house Play snooke mostly ead a lot 'd also like to do moe shooting Gils who ae smat) dessed and good lookingy Depends on whee we both ' Stay at home aely go feel like going Paties out on a date sometimes la,, A Chevolet "Stingay" have two, a pale blue MG spots ca spots ca and a dak gey Jagua Mk 0 get a geat kick out of just Neve used to enjoy it, diving aound, being on but not now own Rothmans At one time don't smoke smoked 50 a day, but now 'm down to five Coca -co steak, ; teacle Cuy l don't dink pudding The only people knew see Hugie Van -Engle, an wee school fiends and old school fiend quite a 've lost contact bit and the Shadows who hits, We'e good fiends so we often knock aound togethe Not so much now, but used to spend quite a bit like loose neck shits, slacks and sweates God jazz and nego spiituals My favouite disc is "Black Nativity" Stay in the music business fo sue, eithe as a ecod poduce o on the publishing side t's _the- only thing eally know any-' thing about can't imagine doin,g anything else Only one eal fiend, comedian Dave Reid Not a lot We've all got ou own lives to lead haven't bought a suit since came back fom Hong Kong with nine ' Casual mostly, white jeans and black sweates, that sot of thing Eveything; ock'n'oll, hythm'n'blues, jazz, the classics 'd go into business of some sot, buy a chain of shops o something like that 've been told have a head fo business Maybe a day a month if lucky, but 'd like to away moe Wite golf like too plan p fos dthe fut u e Only my wife! Blondes but don't the wife! We stay at hoi occasionally sneak ou the pictues A white E -type Jagua don't smoke see a lot of my old m eewho wee in the engin ing woks with me A lot of new-found fiel -Bian Poole and Temeloes and a lot m( keep away fom th because we want to ight away fom wok Play golf Be anothe Hogan, but thee i much money in it taking up tap dancin 'm get ge Fed Astaie and Gin eat Gaity!-in, case b music goes out E tell % e, to U We dive aound so m when we'e woking that it's 'no pleasue any o oe don't touch alcohol oi bee, get dunk on oal ge juice! Hotpot and tifle ates the e get e 've got a full ~ wadoba of a boile suit and a p football boots! í\ Leathe jackets and we ist' n coats Old Fed the C' sevative one, that's me Sammy Davis Jn, Bu ddy Holly, Roy Obison, se' mental songs sn't 'm,, DAVE CLARK Life's upside down at the moment, so don't have much time off Stay at home, play my dums and go down to the gym as much as possible, haven't had time to develop any expensive hobbies Gils who ae natual and who don't put on an act Usually to a good estauant and a theate A blue Zephy, and a scoote fo town Vey little, don't have the time don't smoke don't ' touch alcohol Steak BLLY EJR KRAM About one day a week, except on along tou when don't get any time off Wande ound London, see a film, ty to get home as often as can 'm dead keen on home movies Gils who have dess sense, look petty and can talk intelligently Cinemas mostly, sometimes to a paty, vey aely to a night club Nóñe don't smoke Daught bee Steak Things haven't changed Only when 'm in Livepool that much yet They still - But see them less and come ound to my ho'use less now Not many yet, apat fom the fellows in the goup A -lot We'e all goad fiends and ae always at each othes' houses Can't say exactly because 'M still on what you could call an aveage wage Casual and mod-like highneck, button-down colla shits Moden ics and some of the classics ~ 'd definitely' stay in show business in some way, Pobably as a ecod poduce That sot of thing inteests me vey much Fellow atists ae moe - acquaintances than fiend's at the moment When 'we ;have'any timé ' off, we all go to ou homes Quite a lot because like new clothes t depends on the occasion, but like a colla and tie like Ameican dike blues, beaty stuff like that 'hate the thought of being -out- of show business t's what 've always wanted to do f couldn't sing, then 'd ty to become one of the back oom boys ' SUSAN MAUGHAN Only a day a month at the moment Believe me, 'd like moe f 'm feeling enegetic go off to a gym f not just stay in mad aboút shoes- 'm 've got 70 pais-and cuddly toys Any type, just so long as he has a good pesonality and we can talk Out to see a show and then to a estauant like to go dancing too A white Zodiac Not much, it's nealy all business when do any diving ' don't smoke Ginge bee, steak mushooms and Not vey often Most of my ' old fiends ae up noth whee used to live Many Just about eveyone in the business t's sd easy to make fiends About the same as any othe gil don't go in fo any exclusive suits, Casual, sweates, slacks neve wea shoes in the flat Smoochy stuff like Johnny Mathis and Nat Cole,also Chubby Checke - Wok in an hotel o a small club, anywhee so long as could mix with people 'd miss singing teibly, because like doing it, but it wouldn't mean the end of the wold fo me MARK - WYNTER get five weeks' holiday a yea, mostly live out of a suitcase dive, swim and go to the cinema spend quite a bit of money on my cathat's, about all Gils who let me do' the chasing and who play had to get ' Take a tip down the Thames if 'm in London A black Austin Healey "Spite" Mk -To give myself excitements calm myself down when 'm angy-and fo fun Rothmans 30 a day if 'm not singing, 2 if am, sometimes five Bandy and coke, milk, Steak, scampi Evey fou months o so see old fiends used to wok with on building sites Only fou: Rolf Hais, Cliff, Mike Peston and Tommy Steele 5 a week, on shits, touses, spots jackets, a suit evey thee months Jeans and sweates Peggy Lee, Como, Andy Williams, Sinata, Ton Bennett and some classics 'd like to be a clown because it's a disguise and clowns ae such deep, sensitive - people O a acing dive because it would give me excitement and thills,

24 40 4 BEST DRESSED 4, illa Black, even though she doesn't think so, is now, one of ou best -dessed gils Fo good eason She has a model gil'& figue and she is always on the fashion wavelength He main extavagance is make-up " am a fanatic My oóm is always litteed with bottles 've got stuff fo bags unde the eyes, gains fo the poes, all sots, luking about all ove the place, " have one big ule take evey scap of make-up off befoe going to bed Then slap on loads of ceam and tell myself how glad am going to be when am foty and have a good skin hopel" f you do leave on you make-up and find you have a few spots, Cilla suggests using a medicated foundation h fo a few days lnnoxa's Tinted Foundation 4 looks afte you skin as well as giving it a cool o a golden look, depending how you like it The pice is 7s 9d!!í Y s i "When was woking as a clek 'm sue was bette dessed than ' am now don't get much time fo shopping and when do,' ush about buying all sots of bits and pieces only wea once 've lost contol! This sping am going to buy one good suit and stop myself fom wasting my money on gimmicks ' love linen; especially the pinted ones, and think this blaze is a ave" Dávid Bond of Slimma designed this suit The oveblouse is sleeveless and the' pint is in tuquoise and lilac The outfit, with blaze, costs 6 6s 6d "How about Cilia the demue! The main dess is shocking pink and the bib and sleeves ae white with pink spots Watch out fo those puffy sleeves, they ae going to be tops this summe" Cutawea made the dess which is 2 9s d "This s the kind of outfit want to wea in the summe when go on a pesonal appeaance" The pink suit is fom Highlight Spots, about 2 5s 6d You can get a blouse ' like Cilia's fom Feminella 4 "That linen look is evey- whee this summe Even in shoes The ones like best look like deckchai mateial, all stipey and colouful" The little lace -ups ae fom Russell & Bomley, 6s d The elastic -sided boots ae fom Baatts,s, 5s d With them Cilla is weaing the newest stockings fo summe, vey, vey pale, almost white, like Taylo Woods' Blaney Stone, 4s d a pai "Bob, my manage, says look eal spoty in this outfit, as though should be out looking at the hoses Seems he meant it as a compliment so am going to invest in this shit and skit fo tavelling on tou" The linen blouse is 3 3s 6d and the hopsack weave linen skit is 3 9s d Both come fom Reldan/Digby Moton The Kangol 'Beatle Cap costs 4s d 3 to, 4 W `

25 { 42 DEAR MARK: Please help mewould you mind am in hospitalwhen you'e passingl'd like u t-* THE PR'TATE LETTERS OF RK TYNTER he mothe was woied - eally woied He 7 -yea -old daughte had walked out on the family No message Nothing Could he help he? Did he know whee she was? Mak Wyntc scatched his head, lit a cigaette and ead the lette though again: Betty is a geat admie of yous and used to hang photogaphs of you on he bedoom wall She collected all you ecods and know that she used to wite you a lot of lettes Last week,, we had a big agument because she kepe coming in late, now she has left home taking all these things with he can't tell you how tooied we ae, and wondeed if she had witten to you telling you about this Please help Me if you know whee she is as all the family ae miming he vey much and want he to come home Mak tuned to check the unopened mail which had accumulated duing the week while he had been in Coventy staing in pantomime Pehaps Betty had witten to him Although this isn't typical of the lettes that Mak gets, he always finds among the egula batch of mail fom home and oveseas, some lettes of a deep and pesonal natue Lettes asking fo sympathy, advice and even help The lette fom Betty's mothe was such a one a " can't find a lette fom Betty, so all can do is keep a close check on the mail and wite and assue the mothe that will let he know if hea anything That's the least can do," said Mik woiedly Of couse, thee is eh- yys a stack of lettes asking him ove to t nt, to bithday paties, fo weekends in the county (Mak's a county -love, of couse), and equests fo him to visit eoplc in hospitals "Natually, 'd love to do all these things", he said "but with tavelling about so much, find that am hadly eve in one spot long enough But do Susan Wane (left) and Diane Powell Because of Mak they became close fiends ty to take a special inteest in people in hospital "Not long ago eceived a lette fom the Mothe Supeio of a convent hospital in Bimingham, who asked if could go along to sec some of he patients " spent an aftenoon in the hospital t was a vey upsetting epeicncc as all the childen wee incuable spastics "A lette that stands out in my memoy came just ove two yeas ago", added Mak "t was fom a gil called Susan Wane who was laid up in hospital in London with a TB hip "She had to spend long peiods lying on he back and was only allowed to get up and go home fo a shot stay on odd occasions "t was a vey depessing sot of lette Doctos had told he that thee was nothing moe they could do Was thee any way in which could help? " suggested to he that she tied a little swimming-something 'm keen on Afte that, we coesponded egulaly "Now when she wites he doesn't even mention he illness she is completely cued "And thee was anothe nice ending to that stoyen as wellwas", added Mak "'lt appeaing in Potsmouth some time ago, met a gil called Diane Powell She said that she wanted a pen - fiend, and asked me if knew anyone gave he Susan's addess "Since then, they have become geat fiends and fequently spend weekends at each othe's homes" Mak soted though anothe pile of lettes and poduced one fom, a 7 -yea - old Waington gil, June, telling him that she wanted to become a pop singe, and asking fo advice on how to make a ecod "A lot of people wite in with the same question", he said, "and can only suggest that they do what did One gil wote to me evey othe day when ' was in Geat Yamouth last summe " advised he to get he voice down on tape, then send the esult to a ecod company f they ejected it, she should send it to anothe company She did this and, although he effots wee tuned down by two companies, she is still tying t's the only way!" Mak Wynte takes his fansand thei lettes-seiously Evey lette he eceives is eplied to-"let's face it without thei suppot whee would be?" His admies ae not the only people who appeciate his genuine inteest in them Often he gets lettes fom thei mothes thanking him fo taking the time and touble to eply to thei youngstes' lettes and many even end up by joining his club as well! BESS COLEMAN

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27 WELCOME BACK CLFF and about time too! As Cliff Richad pepaed fo his 30 -day tou of one-night stands stating Mach 28-his most extensive fo moe than two yeas -he hotly answeed complaints that it- was "about time, too!" He told me: " know some people have been saying that 've given up touing-but 'm neve going to dop onenightes as long as people wántme tó do them" Befoe 96, Cliff did thee o fou tous a yea Since then, his touing schedule has been educed by filming, tips aboad, ecoding sessions and lengthy seásón shows This tou -in Mach will be Cliff's fist fo a yea To me, Cliff stongly denied accusations that he has "lost the taste fo touing now that he's an intenational sta" He declaed: "Touing is the most satisfying pat of my wok pefe it to anything else do, "One-night stands wete my appenticeship leaned a lot fom them had a ough time at some theates But it was all expeience! "My policy now is to undetake one majo tou a yea" Cliff's fiends know how hutful to him ae suggestions that his ise to intenational stadom has made him feel diffeently about going on the oad He still enjoys being pat of "the,~ 6ee n up eo When tavelling fom one venue to anothe, pincipal atists usually, have thei own tanspot But Cliff mostly tavels in the show coach " pefe to be with the people in the show and have a good old sing -song", he told me On this tou, he will be appeaing with the Shadows plus the Bob Mille band which has accompanied him on "Paade Of The Pops" and on TV "Hank, Buce and like to sit up font in the coach, play ou guitas and stat singing Soon eveyone joins in We often make up ou own tunes and lyics, too "That's how a lot of ou musical ideas ae bon" Cliff's weight -watching diet goes to pot on tou Nomally he eats well-balanced food at egula times But on the oad this isn't easy "You have to take what's going",he ginned "Geasy bacon, egg and chips at a oadside cafeo, if you'e lucky fillet steak and salad at the best hotel in towit'y' - Once the Richad entouage have aived at the theate, they usually have to stay behind -a locked stage' doo fo the est of the evening Cliff, who gets moe tense as his act neas, finds elief in talking Cliff's tou stats on Satuday, Mach 28, at Southampton Gaumont When it is completed- ' by mid -Apil, he 'will fly to the 'Continent fo moe stage,, appeaances-in Holland, Belgium, Fance (the Olympia in Pais) and Scandinavia MKE HELLCAR you hai stays lovely with ', -u\ HAR-SPRAYS igunst, NEW kuedale MOSPLW Lacque, Lano-Spay and Cystal Clea Available in Aeosol 4/3d and 5/9d Spay Flask 3/3d, Refills 2/4d

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29 f points Lengths ' blue days ove 47 page 9 fo you n case that just sounds cony, maybe should explain," But aleady knew pat of the explanation emembeed being with Billy backstage at Southend one evening last summe He had just head he had been voted 963's most pomising pefome in a poll He was obviously poud and vey deeply touched As cies of WE WANT BLLY! came fom the steet below, he said to me quietly and eanestly: "t's had to put my feelings into wods To think, that those people out thee ae calling out fo me-and that thousands moe like them have voted fo me-stis up such stange and poweful feelings inside me, almost feel like cying" "Billy", said, "it must be a fantastic, in -obit sensationplaying to a packed audience and suddenly ealising they ac ooting fo you, come what may Some pefomes have told me it is as if a giant electic switch had been thown ove" "Exactly!" said Billy "The way it seems with me is that am pat of the audience -o they ae a pat of me --whicheve way you like to look at it t uns so deep in me that it huts- 'm so up on a cloud that when it's ove can't wait fo the next time" Family mean so much "A little while back", eminded Billy, "you said thee wee two main feelings bought into you mind by the success you have found" "Sue", he said "The one 've not yet mentioned means most of all to mc t concens my folks Also my bothes and sistes f getting ahead in show business 'means can in any way add to thei happiness, that is something eally geat" "Tell you something about Mum", said Billy "NX hen my fist disc hit the top of the chats, know what some of the neighbous said to he? 'Wizen ae you moving? That's what they said "Mum got eal mad Told 'cm that he home had been good enough fo he fo 30 yeas and that was the way it was going to stay "So though have set my mind on buying a new home fo he and Dad, 've got to go caeful know Mum's got he cicle of fiends ound ou way and she wouldn't want to be cut off fom them" "How about you bothes and sistes?" "One see most of is Athu That's because we ac both single and still living at home Athu woks in a sawmill Bothe Ronnie is a sheet metal woke Jack uns his own scap business "My sistes? Mabel and Eva ac both maied to shipping cleks Olive's husband is a joine We all get along famously and it makes me fed good to know they take an inteest in my caee " shall neve foget' when played Livepool Empie The whole family tuned out Mum, Dad, my bothes and sistesplus uncles and aunts-plus all my nieces and nephews VVe all got togethe fo a do aftewads Smashing!" "Seems you did the ight thing-packing in you job at Bitish Railways", kidded him But Billy J Kame was dead seious as he eplied, "Guess so But-like said - don't want to sound cocky Show business is a funny wold and you neve know which way the cookie is going to cumble next "But tell you this fo sue: even if my singing caee faded ight out tomoow, would have no egets fo anything 've done " could neve have asked fo moe wondeful things to have happened to me" 'VARETY' - THE _SyP C:E OF -LFE; ` a What a wondeful, exciting holiday you have at Butlin's! Just think of t-you can have a splendid evening meal, then go to a fist-class theate show and follow this with dancing et ight up to midnight evey night of you holiday, without having to spend a penny emu R POST COUPON TO Bullin't Ltd Dept, NB 439 Oxfod Sl Lend onw/ wati, on Send has Coloued bochue of Bunin's Noedey Campo NAME nata csi tu ADDRESS 2On$OnlY -?nd 9O59 ytoply/ An oulslandins bagain and an out- standin accodion-the t ONER 'CCOL A -in ed o ivoy Light weight and ideal fo beginnes of any age ilas 26 full sie Accodion keys 2 basses an instument to be poud of Complete in case with famous Pieto Docto tuto Only 2 gns cash n it Ds Od deposit and 2` monthly payments of fl is d L'mitesl numbe only so send you ode NOW! Just oot - these catalogues show actual photogaphs deta its and tems fo all types of Accodions, new and secondhand fo 2 NEW = Cash, P" Fat- ACCORDON change, o easy ' bully guaanteed CATALOGUES wite fo FREE copies now BELL MUSC (Dept RV2) 57-9 Ewell Road SURBTOKSuey c l wjee ew Open i + sa W -day!r BR A HEAD OF THE ' TÍMES 5 RRO o Q! al C THE KNTTNG PN THAT WON, ROLL AWAY? Specially designed fo feste knitt ling-iagshaped heads with size clealy mas ed- class smooth finish - The knitting pon with i the PLUS! 0' 2' 4' Sizes: 94 / p 6,78/3 p (bate gauges olio await oble to postg) Fom W0oS0o0 R Stoes ASK FOR STRTiiOl i - the BETT2R KNTTNG, tpns

30 48 STARWSE We buy thei discs, see thei films, follow thei caees But how well do we eally know the famous? Test you knowledge with this quiz -4+ f `y_, _ - e The faces ac familia, but do you know thei eal names? TV Who wee the two stas of the oiginal "Avenges" ABC-TV seies? 2 What was the fist TV beat show? 3 Robet Hoton played what ole in the "Wagon Tain" seies? FLMS Name the thee stas of "High Society" 2 Adam Faith played a teenage thug in his fist film What was its title? 3 What fou films have Fank Sinata and membes of his "clan" staed in? CHARTS Name the fist hits these singes had afte they died : Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochan and Johnny Hoton 2 What was 'the fist disc to go staight to No in the Bitish chats and who ecoded it? 3 Which Ameican singing duo had a hit with "Gonna Get Along Without You" pio to the Caavefes' ecoding? apn4 Pu maitvd -- a a4 safá 44 M an0 30L-Z H 'ni' z 0 tfton Pun uawah 02 sons atfl'taoyy tiud sattcly tusaaq anodsy,z Pt' Pu" taa io mo 4"4 tnu»s Pu " a hf sv d, c S ot YaO- 'ej P fs f 4 0 ü-t SfY7d - t4t0uly tutld- ' p!aads S'9i-Z yawcd Pum,GPuaH un -- '9Ml CuN (f) 'son '("l ) 'a?+d (P S2iMSNV `40t47S P'0 (2) `sou80 tioly 09) ` laan,alal uuuod (v page 24 enough to beat the two Hankes? Bond's beath was aleady asping in his thoat Now even his suit was soaked with sweat and the cloth of his touses was chaffing his legs Behind him, thee hunded yads back, was one pusue To his ight, dodging among the sand -dunes and conveging fast, wee the othe two To his left was a twenty -foot slope of masony to the geen tide ipping out into the Adiatic Bond was planning to slow down to a walk and keep enough beath to ty and shoot it out with the thee men, when two things happened in quick succession Fist he saw though the haze a goup of spea -fishemen Thee wee about half a dozen of them, some in the wate and some sunning themselves on the seawall Then, fom the sand -dunes came the deep oa of an explosion Eath and scub and what might have been bits of a man fountained biefly into the ai, and a Small shock -wave hit him Bond slowed The othe man in the dunes had stopped He was standing stock-still His mouth was open and a fightened jabbe cane fom it Suddenly- he collapsed on the gound with his ams wapped ound his head Bond knew the sins He would not move again until someone came and caied him away fom thee Bond's heat lifted Now he had only about two hunded yadi to go to the fishemen They wee aleady gatheing into a goup, looking towads him Bond summoned a few wods of talian and eheased them "Mi ngles Pego, dove caabiniei" Bond glanced ove his shoulde Odd, but despite the witnessing spea -fishes, the man was still coming on He had gained and was only about a hunded yads behind Thee was a gun n his hand Now, ahead,, the fishemen had fanned out acoss Bond's path They had hapoon guns held at the eady n the cente was a big man with a tiny ed bathing slip hanging beneath his stomach A geen mask was slipped back on to the cown of his head He stood with his blue swim -fins pointing out and his ams akimbo He looked like M Toad of Toad Hall in Technicolo Bond's amused thought died n him stillbon Panting, he slowed to a walk Automatically his sweaty hand felt unde his coat fo the gun and dew it out The man in the cente of the ac of pointing hapoons was Enico Colombo Colombo watched him appoach When he was twenty yads away, Colombo said quietly; "Put away you toy, M Bond of the Secet Sevice These ae -CO, hapoon guns And stay whee you ae Unless you wish to make a copy of Mantegna's St Sebastian" He tuned to the man on his ight He spoke in English "At what ange was that Albanian last week?" "Twenty yads, padone And the hapoon went ight though But -he was a fat man-pehaps twice as thick as this one" Bond stopped One of the ion bollads was beside him He sac down and ested the gun on his knee t pointed at the cente of Colombo's big stomach He said: "Five hapoons in me won't stop one bullet in you, Colombo" Colombo smiled and nodded, and the man who had been coming softly up behind Bond hit him once had in the base of the skull with the butt of his Luge: When you come to fom being hit on the head the fist eaction is a fit ofvomiting Even in his wetchedness Bond was awae of two sensations-he was in a ship at sea, and someone, a man, was wiping his foehead with a cool wet towel and mumuing encouagement in bad English "s okay, amigo Take him easy Take him easy" Bond fell back on his bunk, exhausted t was a comfot papo So

31 i FREND F THE Finus Deide Meehan, telephonist at a London hotel, wites about some of the stas she's met and made fiends with M -e e- e* =i`-mi i t i i _ u :««a; y «::: ; 7 light on my switchboad flashed was glad-it had been a quiet evening at the London hotel whee woked On the phone, my fiend on the hotel's eception desk said: "Deide, thee's a goup of scuffy -looking boys hee, booking ooms fo the night 'They don't half look peculia" A few minutes late saw them fo myself They had long hai, vey tight jeans and leathe coats They wee clowning among themselves "We've come to London to make a ecod", they told me "Well", eplied, "'m soy, but don't know you" The fou boys smiled sheepishly "We'e called the Beatles", they said "Neve head of you", said-and it was tue The boys wee in London to make "Love Mc Do" t was just impossible to talk to them any moe because they had spotted a photogaph of my favouite goup, Sounds ncopoated, by the switchboad "We met Sounds in Hambug", said Ringo "With any luck, we'll be as good as them one day" Ringo is modest like that! Yes, 've met many of show business's most likeable chaactes since came ove fom eland to wok at the hotel Gay US Bonds, anothe guest, asked me to show him some London sights when he was hee We ended up at a twist club in Soho The floo was packed with people dancing to Gay's ecods!, But no-one ealised he was thee The next night, called at tops,qops 49 his theate-and got the shock of my life when he opened the dessing -oom doo His hai was in culesand heavily lacqueed! Gay told me: " can't give a good show unless 'm sue my hai is looking neat!" Being fiendly with so many atists, quickly discoveed how to make myself useful backstage My golden ule is: Neve be without a needle and thead Stage clothes split easily Paticulaly touses Many's the time 've come to the escue My geatest ewad is when an atist tells me afte 've patched him up: "Deide, if it wasn't fo you, couldn't have tuned my back on an audience tonight!" Do you have any tue stoies to tell about the famous? t you have, send them to usave, Towe House, Southampton Steet, London WC2 We will be pleased to pint them Deide hells moe' intimate and inteesting stoies n newt month's ave on Mach 25 4' ` 6-j with all the latest ecods fom Meseybeat to Les Swingle Singes The new sound the latest eleases of you favouite pop stas, vocal and instumental goups, ae all available fom Smith's ecod depatments On -the -spot listening equipment, too Call in today at the shop with the 'new beat'! Special ecod ode sevice Latest eleaseslmmediatelyavallable Recod tokens, the ideal gift Diamond and sapphie styli, ecod dea, sold and oehanged at all caying cases, acks and othe ou ecod banches gamophone accessoies 'Stapic' pictues of favouite pop stas W H: SMTH & SON WMS RECORD DEPARTMENTS at AYLESBURY BASLDON BRMNGHAM, BOGNOR REGS BOURNEMOUTH, BRADFORD, CANTERBURY, CHELTENHAM, COWLEY (OXFORD) DARLNGTON, EALNG (BROADWAY) EARL'S COURT FLEET STREET, GLOUCESTER (EASTGATE) HARROGATE, HGH WYCOMBE, LFORD, KENSNGTON (HORNTON CT) KNGSWAY, LLANDUDNO LUTON, e#adenhead MDDLESBROUGH, MUTLEY NEWPORT (MOH) NORTH FNCHLEY, NORWCH NOTTNG HLL GATE, NUNEATON ORPNGTON, OXFORD, PORTSMOUTH, PUTNEY RCHMOND (SURREY), SLOANE SQUARE SOUTH HAMPSTEAD, STAFFORD STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, STREATHAM, TAUNTON TORQUAY, TRURO, WALSALL WATFORD, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, WEYMOUTH YEOVL YORK

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Subito okay" He ubbed the back of his neck in sympathy "t huts fo a little Soon it will only be a black Beneath the hai The gils will see nothing" 4 Bond smiled feebly and nodded The pain of the nod made him scew up his eyes When he opened them the sailo shook his head in admonition He bought his wist -watch close up to Bond's eyes t said seven o'clock He pointed with his finge at the figue nine "Mangiae con Padone, Si?" Bond said: "Si" The man put his hand to his check and laid his head on one side "Donie " Bond said "Si" again and the sailo went out of the cabin and dosed the doo without locking it Bond got gingely off the bunk and went ove to the wash basin and set about cleaning himself On top of the chest of dawes was a neat pile of his pesonal belongings Eveything was thee except his gun Bond stowed the things away in his pockets and sat down again on the bunk and smoked and thought His thoughts wee totally inconclusive He was being take fo a ide, o athe a sail, but fom the behaviou of the sailo it did no seem that he was egaded as an enemy Yet a geat deal of touble had been taken to make him pisone and one of Colombo's men had even, though inadvetently, died n the pocess t did not seem to be just a question of killing him Pehaps this soft teatment was the peliminay to tying to make a deal with him, What was the deal-and what was the altenative? 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33 5 Cliff Richad, Joe Bown, Bian Poole, Ringo Sta, Clinton Fod-they all began thei caees in holiday camps VUR CHANCE THS SUMMER? k v t`""-f o o Ñ t RNGO-Playing to the campes Going to a holiday camp this summe? t could be you chance to beak into show business! That's whee names like Cliff' Richad, Joe Bown, Bian Poole and Jimmy Tabuck fist stated woking thei way to stadom O you could find youself holidaying next to a big show business pesonality! \X hen Kenny Ball was woking at Blackpool's Empess Balloom, his wife and family wee staying at a local hoteluntil they all got so boed that Kenny moved them into a holiday camp "t was geat fun-my wife and kids could do what they wanted without estictions", he ecalls How do yoe get a beak in sho-biz at a holiday camp? Rhythm-and-blues stylist Geogic Fame was only an unknown sixteen, deaming of a musical caee, when he holidayed at a Pwllheli camp in Wales Roy Blackwell was leading a ock goup thee-and Geogic was fascinated by the' beat Afte an evening of digging thei sound, hc shyly went up to Roy "Excuse me, M Blackwell, but any chance of a job?" That was the stat Cliff Richad was spotted singing at a London theate in 955-and was immediately signed by agent Geoge Ganjou He was intoduced to ecoding manage No:* Paamo Big beak Roth Paamo and Ganjou advised Cliff to get as much expeience as he could befoe setting out on a ecod z ee ca Ganjou pomised: <'' book you in fo a season at Rutlin's" And hc did That summe, Cliff and the Diftes-now the Shadows, with some changes in pe,- sonnel-played fou weeks at Clacton "My fist big beak", Cliff says Comedian Jimmy Tabuck was a edcoat at Pwllheli in 962 He nused, an ambition to be a pofessional funny - man, so he went in fo a national talent competition un by the camp The esult he won one heat and was awaded 50 Eighteen months late, he'd been on ATV's "Sunday Night at the London Palladium" twice! Anothe comedian, Des O'Conno, was once a house captain at a Filey camp Some yeas late, Joe Bow a woked at the same camp Bian Poole and the Temelocs gained a geat deal of thei know-how in getting dancing audiences into a fenzy at an Ay camp in 96 The new ecoding goup the Contasts played at Skegness last summe as the Fou Escots They backed singe Bill Fobes Duing the season, they all got togethe' to wite a song, " Can't Get You Out Of My Mind" At the end of the engagement, they teamed up, changed thei name-and landed a ecoding contact with EM! Thei fist elease? The song they wote at Skegness! Million sales A "kiddies' uncle" at a holiday camp chain's hotel in Blackpool devoted much of his spae ime to song -witing, too His name: Russ Hamilton His song "We Will Make Love"-with its coupling, "Rainbow"-made him an intenational sta with a million disc sales in England and Ameica Down at Pwllheli camp, they still talk of the day Clinton Fod tuned up and asked to sec the entetainments manage "But you can't", he was told, "he's busy" Fod insisted-and a few 'minutes late found himself in the office demanding an audition The audition was ganted, so he paked himself on the edge of the manage's desk and sang folk songs When he finished, thee was a long silence Then he was told: "You'e inl" Clint spent thee summes at the camp, woking with the Meseysippi Jazz Band duing the winte months But pehaps the most celebated of camp musicians is Ringo Sta He played dums with Roy Stom and the Huicanes at Pwllhcli in and at Skegness in 962 n those days, he woe a bead (see pictue) Asked if his style had changed since he joined the Beatles, Ringo eplied: "Definitely used to be a shot - haied, beaded dumme, Now 'm a long-haied, bald -chinned dumme!" BLL DAYTON

34 52 ge Piiooe not li ellhe Saint - ` but he's the only one who thinks so! 'Mahe Saint looked me staight in the eye and made a vey unlikely emak: "Anyone who went aound behaving like the Saint would be a fool-thee's cetainly no esemblance between him and me" Unlikely? 'll say! Fankly, didn't believe a wod of it 'd been aound Elstcc snidios-whee TV's oaingly successful "Saint'! seies i s made-and they'd told me plenty about the man inside, the Saint, Roge Mooe Seems that the Saint and this tall, blue-eyed and incedibly handsome acto ac petty much the same man off -sceen, too The Saint is alwys im- peccably dessed So, too, is Roge, who began his caee as a photogaphe's model A studio hand told me: "'ve seen that guy scanble up off the studio floo afte a ough-and-tumble fight scene, and look as if he's just stepped out of Savile Row!" The Saint likes fast cas So does Roge, who zips to end fom the studio in a blood -ed spots job The Saint enjoys a gambleand Roge's face is wellknown in the plush gambling clubs of the West End "'ll take a bet on anything that moves", he confesses The Saint is a geat tavelle Roge owns a house in Hetfodshie, anothe in Hollywood, but confided: "My eal home is in Rome" The Saint has stong views on feminine attactiveness So has Roge: "A gil should be well dessed like pastel shades best-but no fills, nothing ostentatious * * * "Of couse, pesonality is vital That's why like talian women They'e wam, vey fetitinine n England, too many women confom-a big mistake" The Saint is toughs Roge aely uses a double when they film fight sequences and gets a black eye now and then So why does Roge insist he's not like the Saint? He thought fo a moment; "Basically, 'm a shy peson The Saint is big -headed -a supeman who can do eveything with effotless ease ", on the othe hand, can do many things quite well, but few billiantly Acting, fo instance 've yet to tun in a pefomance which poves to me that can last indefinitely as an acto" Roge, now 35, was once a newspape catoonist and still likes to doodle between "takes" at Elstec The sun hasn't always shone fo him "Thee was a time when a packet of cigaettes was a - luxuy fo mc" Now Roge is woking on anothe Saint seies to be seen all ove the wold His next taget? "To diect two films a yea" JOHN PARKYN page 50 in you estauant was coo childish fo wods " said that would walk into the tap to see what it was all about f am not out of it again by tomoow midday, you'll have ntepol as well as talian poliice on top of you like a load of bicks" Colombo looked puzzled He said: "f you wee eady to walk into the tap, why did you ty and escape fom my men this aftenoon? had sent them to fetch you and bing you to my ship, and it would all have been much moe fiendly "Now have lost a good man and you might easily have had you skull boken do not undestand" " didn't like the look of those thee men know killes when see them thought you might be thinking of doing something stupid You should have used the gil The men wee unnecessay" Colombo shook his head "Lisl was willing to find out moe about you, but nothing else She will now be just as angy with me as you ae Life is difficult " like to be fiends with eveyone, and now have made two enemies in one aftenoon t is bad" Colombo looked genuinely soy fo himself He cu a thick slice of sausage, impatiently toe the ind off it with his teeth and began to eat While his mouth was still full he took a glass of champagne and washed the sausage down with t He said, shaking his head epoachfully at Bond: "t s always the same, when am woied have to eat But the food that cat when am woied cannot digest: And now you have woied me "You say that we could have met and talked things ove- that need not have taken all this touble" He spead his hands helplessly "How was to know that? By saying that, you put the blood of Maio on my hands did not tell him to take a shot cut though that place" Colombo pounded the table Now he shouted angily alt Bond " do not agee that this was all my fault t was you fault Yous only You had ageed to kill me How does one aange a fiendly meeting with one's mudee? Eh? Just tell me that" Colombo snatched up a long oll of bead and stuffed it into his mouth, his eyes fuious "What the hell ae you talking about?" Colombo thew the emains of the oll on the table and got to his feet, holding Bond's eyes locked in hi He walked sideways, still gazing fixedly at Bond tó a chest of dawes, felt fo the knob of the top dawe, Opened it, goped and lifted out what Bond ecognised as a tape -ecode playback machine Still looking accusingly a: Bond, he bought the machine ove to the table He sat down and pessed a switch When Bond head the voice he picked up his glass of whisky and looked into it The tinny voice said: "Exact Now, befoe give you the infomations, like good commecials we make the tems Yes?" The voice went on: "Ten thousand dollas Ameican Thee is no telling whee you get these infomations fom- Even if you ae beaten The head of this machine is a bad man He is to be destutto-killed," Bond waited fo his own voice to beak though the estauant noises Thee had been a long pause while he thought about the last condidon What was it he had said? 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37 C ó BRMNGHAM HOLLY O D ' RA D_- H l ER V' =s- ' N' LLYWOOD RADO OJT T76fTNfA`Ylllf/AHfM/ 55 HAMBURG Local Geman goups have boken the stanglehold of Bitish outfits-favouites in the dubs hee fo so long Pominent among the newcomes ac the Bats The populaity of the Gemans does not seem to have affected Bitish goups' following A dozen of them ac playing aound the town And at least twenty-seven Livepool outfits ac booked to play Hambug within the next yea KLAUS MEULLER LVERPOOL This city has gone one bette with the ising -and-b inteest People hee ac now going fo the pue sound as played by Muddy Wates, John Lee Hooke and Jimmy Reed Many goups ae alteing thei style because of this and ae looking fo hamonica and teno sax playes The Maste - sounds, the Roadunnes and the Mojos speahead this tend BLL HARRY HOLLAND Rhythm-and-blues is enjoying a big boom hee And the atist way out font is guitaist -singe Chuck Bey One disc label is issuing a special LP package containing live - ecoded vesions of' many of his hits The Beatles and othe Bitish goups in the beat field ac selling well and Fats Domino has just enjoyed consideable success with "Red Sails n The Sunset" DCK MULDER NEW YORK Recod and sheet music "piates" in the Fa East ae becoming a eal theat to Ameican disc and music fims The combined annual sales total in Japan, South Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia amount to nealy 20,000,000 But unauthoised copies ac being made in neaby island of Taiwan and the industy is losing an estimated million pounds a yea SUE MLLER MDLANDS Nottingham, along with Bimingham and London, is making an all-out effot to ival Livepool as THE beat city Music is on tap evey night of the week, supplied by moe than 70 local goups And thee ae moe foming all the time So geat is the demand fo music by the city's teenages that clubs have to book goups fom as fa away as Scotland Local d -j and agent Phil Smith told me: "We shall not each, the peak of this boom fo at least anothe yea" DENNS DETHERDGE COUNTRY AND WESTERN Bitish television companies ac being offeed ights to a new county music show now being filmed in Ameica Each half-hou show is cented aound the caee of a diffeent c -and -w sta Sequences have aleady been shot with Leoy Van Dyke, Hank Thompson, Geoge Jones, Roy Clak, Bill Monoe and Sheb Wooley CHET JAMES GUTAR MUSC A evolutionay new guita is being tied out by the Dave Clak Five t is pea -dop shaped and the aim of Jennings Musical ndusties, the manufactues, is to get an acoustic sound electonically Featues ae the new shape, two pick-ups with temolo am and thee diffeent tone settings Anothe device cuts out ovetones when a playe is tuning Appoximate cost: between ED BLANCHE NASHVLLE Steel guitaist Pete Dake is now the most sought afte backing atist His new sound-poduced on a steel with unusual tuning-has helped make ecods by top -lines like Don Gibson, Maty Robbins and Duane Eddy Dake's latest achievement to amaze the Tennessee music capital is a talking guita You "beathe" the wods of a song into a tube connected to the guita and this poduces the "voice" BOB BERRY LM ;39if* V52:/lii tia[ st(0 *O0u itaw W Stl WON L LAf W an Glswa ula+/ i0 a n( UAW,Yil 44:,9 i (n tj EE 4till(ETSi ) ; S: SP n( taut um 4 lw (n UM 0 00 avt conwc ocue w wmoo - n sun,,_ tt[ (0cdK 4,b LMO f v F - e,,ssty SNOUT MO Calealga3ilA how Vi 5 - GEM 0M(,at(,ulm ewaa4 SEM (w t) H POST THS COUPON TODAY- FOR Tc of the Rips WW 4445 ~,w Ll,eli ( (» FULL -COLOUR LLUSTRATED LEARET FREE CONTANNG DETALS OF OVER 00,LPs & EPs fyl Retads Lid, Dept R EU Reese 20 Mancheste Snae loados W NAME ADDRESS -_

38 56 WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE (>0n WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE TOURS The Seaches, Dusty Spiñgfiold, Big Dee win, Bobby Vee: Walthamstow Ganada (Mach ), Maidstone Ganada (2), pswich Odeon (4), Mancheste Odeon (5), Mansfield Ganada (6), Sheffield City Hall (7), Hanky Odeon (8), Bolton Odeon (9), Leeds Odeon (), Bedfod Ganada (2), Southend Odeon (3), Tooting Ganada (4), Bistol Colston (5), Cadiff Odeon (6), Woceste Gaumont (7), Bimingham Odeon (8), Nottingham Odeon (9), Kingston Ganada (20), Bounemouth Winte Gadens (2), Leiceste de Montfot (22),!faow Ganada (23), Chelmsfod 'Odeon (24), Doncaste Ganada (25), Glasgow Odeon (26), Abedeen Capitol (27), Newcastle Odeon (28), Livepool Empie (29) Gey and the Pacemakes, Ben E King, Foumost, Sounds ncopoated, the Dennisons, Jimmy Ta - buck: Leiceste de Montfot (Mach ) Rolling Stones, Eden Kane, Jet Hais, Billie Davis, Mike Sane, the fnnócents, Mike Bey: Guest atists will make appcaaices at most shows: Livepool Empie (Mach ), Nottingham Albet Hall (2), Blackpool Opea House (3), Badfod Gaumont (4), Blackbun Odeon (5), Wolvehampton Gaumont (6), Moecambe Winte Gadens (7) Billy J Kame, Gene Pitney, Swinging Blue Jeans, Cilia Black, the Esctiti, Reno Fou, Billy Buden: Coventy Theate (Mach ), Cambidge ABC (2), Sheffield City Hall (3); Lincoln ABC (4), Huddesfield ABC (5), Wigan ABC (6), Bimingham Hippodome (8), Exete ABC (%0), Plymouth ABC (), Salisbuy Gaumont (2), Sutton Ganada (3), Nowich Theate Royal (4), Deby Gaumont (5), Dove ABC (7), Edmonton Ganada (8), Shewsbuy' Ganada (9), Cheltenham Gaumont (20), Guildfod Odeon (2) Joe Bown, the Cystals, Manfed Mann, Heinz, Johnny Kidd and the Piates,, Dayl Quist, Mike Peston, Kevin Kik, Al Paige Potsmouth Guildhall (Mach ), Kingston Ganada (2), Chelmsfod Odeon (3), Tunbidge 'X cus Essoldo (4), Guildfod 'Odeon (5), Haow Ganada (6), Nowich Gaumont (7), Leiceste de Montfot (8), Stockton Odeon (9), Sundeland Odeon (0), Yok Rialto (), Scaboough Futuist (2), Woolwich Ganada (3), Southampton Gaumont (4), Bimingham Hippodome (5), Edinbugh Ushe (6), Glasgow Kelvin (7), Dundee Caid (8), Ketteing Ganada (9), Bistol Colston (20), Slough Adelphi (2), Walthamstow Ganada (22), Cadiff Sophia Gadens (23), Stoke Essoldo (24), Stockpot Essoldo (25), Mansfield Ganada (26), Bighton Ganada (27), pswich Gaunont (28) Jey Leo Lewis: Bimingham Town Hall (Mach 20) Newcastle A'Gogo (2), Statfod Town Hall (22), Bloxw ich (23), Yok Rialto (25), Kingston Cella (26), Coventy Matix (28), Mancheste Belle Vue (29) Cliff Richad, the Shadows, Bob Mille and the Mille - men : Southampton ABC (Mach 28), Bounemouth Winte Gadens (29), Lewi sham Odeon (30), Haow ABC (3) Ella Fitzgeald, Roy EldidgeQuatet, Osca Peteson Tio : Finsbuy Pak Astoia (Mach 2), Hammesmith Odeon (22), Bimingham Odeon (25), Sheffield City Hall (26), London New Victoia (27), Bighton Dome (28), Leiceste de Montfot (29), Royal Festival Hall (30) Dave Clak Five, H'ollies, Mak Wynte, Kinks, Mojos: Coventy Theate (Mach 29), Scaboough Futuist (30), Leiceste de Montfot (3) BliLLROOMS Feddie and the Deames: Bath (Mach 2), Wallington (3), Stoubidge (4), Lowestoft (5), Gavesend (6), Red - hill (7), Badfod Gaumont, with Kathy Kiby (8), Hinck- cy (3), Cadiff (4), Woceste (7), Maidstone (2) VARETY Gey and the Pacemakes and the Bachelos at, Bimingham Hippodome fo a week fom Mach 9 Max Bygaves, the Polka Dots, and Thee Monachs at Nottingham Theate Royal fo the same peiod Dave Clak Five and Susan Maughan ae booked fo a week at Livepool Empie fom Mach 6 Fank fteld stas at Bimingham Hippodome the same wcck At that venue the fallowing week (23), the Clak Five and Susan Maughan ac booked Russ Conway and Danny Williams play Bistol Hippodome Lonnie Donegan tops the bill at Livepool Empie A stage vesion of TV's "Stas and Gates" begins a two-week engagement at Southampton Gaumont fom Mach 23, staing Vince Hilt, Al Saxon, Tommy Buce and Ray Matine Conway and Danny Williams appea at Wolvehampton Gand fo a week fom Mach 30 Susan Maughan joins Donegan' at Mancheste Palace that week Fank 'field will be at Livepool Empie DARY Lonnie Donegan ecods in Nashville Duke Elllington ends his Bitish tou with a London concet at the New Victoia (Mach ) Susan Maughan goes to Holland fo a TV show (7) The Shadows and Millicent Matin headline ATV's "Sunday Night At The London Palladium" (8) Feddie and the Deames play at the opening of the Thee Coins Club, Leeds (2) Bachelos begin a week of Mancheste club appeaances (6) BBC -TV sceens the Euovision Song Contest fom Copenhagen (2) Elvis Pesley's "Love n Lis Vegas" goes on geneal elease on _ the ABC cicuit (22) BBC - TV sceen Cal - Alan Awads pesented by Pince Philip (23) Max Bygaves opens in a evue, "Round About Piccadilly" at London's Pince of Wales (29) BRTHDAYS 2: Tony Meehan 3: Mike Pende of the Seaches 8: Ralph Ellis of Swinging Blue Jeans 3: Neil Sedaka 6: Jey Lewis 7: Nat Cole 23: Maueen Evans 29: Eden Kane 30: Ted ieath 3: Richad Chambelain

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41 ;o stat witing now would do well to be as unaffected as the Beatles - ALAN PRCE, Bighton Big-times don't last long in this business, Alan Please tell John, Paul and Geoge not to be so unpleasant to Ringo Sean Conncy is about foty while Ringo is twenty-thee Looking at Sean Conney's face it eminds me of Clapham Junction John should stick up fo handsome Ringo when Paul insults him - VCK BROWN, Bomley, Kent We think they'e ALL h and - some thought had evey pictue of the late Buddy Holly But was wong didn't have the one taken duing Buddy's Palladium show in Mach, 958, which you published last month Thank you, and hope you will continue to publish moe exclusive pictues of Buddy- MiCHAEL WALSH, Dundee We'll ty 'dig most of all the Alan Feeman -Billy Fuy talk t eally makes me feel know Billy a lot bette t was a geat idea to combine Beatles and Bond fo you cove Both tops The 007 seial is so exciting can hadly wait to ead moe - P McLAREN, Lockebie, Dumfies: shie, Scotland We hope you'll keep on wasting-until next month in a line o two at last! A magazine that is going to give the gil singes a chance-j A C K E STAMP, Bimingham, 26 Well, gils ae ou hobbies thanks fo the fashion tends, holiday suggestions and catoons - M DAWKNS, Chicheste, Sussex Ou pleasue could you tell me whethe the lady photogaphed with John Lennon of the Beatles on page 9 last month is his wife? - M P KNG, Bounemouth, Hants No t's Ms John Bloom the only thing that spoilt this geat book as the spelling of GEER on the font cove Eveybody who is with it should know it is spelt GEAR - CAROL WHGHT, Ay, Scotland Fed Gumshooie, to mention two, insists on gee tell Cliff not io be so stupid He's lovely and handsome 'll still be a fan of his when he's fat and bald and 'm a gandmothe six times ove - SONA ADAMS, Coventy Give the man a chance the aticles wee gec especially those on the Beatles, Cliff and Billy Fuy also look fowad to the next pat of Billy J fancy leaving us in that position - K M DAY, Leigh -on-sea, Essex Sony could a whole cage be developed to photos of c -and- w atists such as Jack Elliot and Jim Reeves? - KEVN NAYLOR, Ashboune, Debyshie How many want a page? picked ave up out of cuiosity expecting anothe of those expensive magazines with uninteesting aticles and dull pictues But! apologise What found was a eal value- A E LANCASTER, Pontefact, Yokshie Wait till you see what's coming s NCE SET FROM RCK AND BOBBY'S BUDDY TRBUTE RCK NELSON : Fo You Bunswick Fo You; Fools Rush in; That Some Old Feeling; Down Home: You'e Fee To Go; Rise i Fail; Thai's All She Wote; A Legend in My Time; Just Take A Moment; Hello Miste Happiness; Hey Thee Little Miss Tease; The Neaness Of You Bvey pleasant set fom Rick, spoilt by the shieking gilie chºus which sounds like a goup of maiden aunts who have Just discoveed Pesley and lost all thei inhibitions Rick lumbeed with a couple of extemely poo songs, vaies his style fom beat to ochesta -backed ballad, and shines on the title song, and Fools Rush n-his most ecent hits-and the Hoagy Camichael -Ned Washington oldie The Neaness Of You Top maks to his goup, especially guitaist Jimmy Buton BOBBY VEE : Remembe Buddy Holly 59 Lbety That'll Be The Day; it Doesn't Matte Any Moe; Peggy Sue? Tue Love Ways; it's So Easy; Heatbeat; Oh Boy!; Raining in My Heat; Think t Oye; Maybe Baby; Ealy n The Monln'; Pitying Me ho bette to ecod a Holly tibute than Bobby who filled li in fo the Texas singe the night he was killed? Some of the aangements ae simila almost to the note, to the oiginals, and feel that tho tibute would have been moe sincee if some magination and ingenuity had been used Bobby abandons his dual -tack technique, and sounds athe weak Vocal accompaniment is vey sou and does not mege with his singing VAROUS ARTSTS: Memoies Ae Made Of Hits;, Vol 4 London To Know Him s To Love Him (Teddy Beas); Geat Balls Of Fie (Jey Lee Lewis); Red Rive Rock (Johnny and the Huicanes); Splish Splash (Bobby Dain); Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (Johnny Cash); Cannonball (Duane Eddy); Tut!! Futti (tittle Richad); Just Keep lip (Dee Clak); Yakity Yak (Coastes); 'm Halin' (Roy Obison); Hee Comes Summe (Jey Kelle); Happy Ogan (Dave "Baby" Cotez) medley of vintage hits, many of them now beat standads La Some of the names may seem unfamilia, but to a lot of fans it will bing back memoies of the days when Livepool was just anothe city up noth somewhee t's a vey dated Bobby Dain singing Splish Splash, his fist big hit And how many Beatle fans have head of oganist Dave "Baby" Cotez o the Teddy Beas? This one should appeal to the old 'uns ALAN JOHNS cha' chatty Of couse, all the papes which said the Beatles wee the fist Bitish act to get a Ameican No wee hopelessly out Vea Lynn has that honou-fo "Auf Wicdesch'n" in 952 Both Acke Bilk ("Stange") and the Tonados ("Telsta") hit the hot spot in 9ó2 The Beatles cave thei own niche in chat histoy howeve by getting two US No l's No othe Bitishe has done that King of the Ameican chat toppes is undoubtedly Elvis Pesley "Billboad" went back ove 5 yeas and found Elvis had been No seventeen times His neaest ival is Pey Como with a mee five at Nº Only othe act to get to the top moe than thee Mmes was the Evely Bothes Fank Sinata, to mention one, has neve done it ROY STEELE

42 60 n next month's BR'LLiANT READNG /GREAT PGS N COLOUR GROUP SCENE '64 BACKGROUND TO BG BEAT! ALAN FREEMAN SEARCHERS MA FRED MANN BEATLES CLFF RCHARD GERRY MARSDEN --US ROLLNG STONES DUSTY SPRSGFELD PLUS BOND CHART TALK STARWSE CLOTHES PLUS STARBEAT HGHLGHTS LETTERS TRENDS Eveyone who wants to be with ít will want next month's ave Don't miss yous make sue of you copy:now by filling n the ode fom below HAND THS FORM TO YOUR NEWSAGENT - NAME OF NEWSAGENT _,,,, f Please eseve/delive ave evey month until futhe notice page moaning about neve seeing these goups just isn't tue The Beatles put on a special pefomance of thei Chistmas show in Livepool And that took a lot of doing" Meanwhile, outfits fom London and the est of the county ae being impoted to play in the Beat City's almost legenday clubs peorge CHAKRS - in '7 colou on page 62 - got 20 fo caying a spea at a Mailyn Monoe film, seveal yeas ago t was his fist film assignment " hoped to be impotant," he ecalled " wanted to be so good that fans would wite in and make me a sta" What happened? "They cut the scene fom the film", he ginned uefully goup do you ew/rch gad as Bitain's most outstanding? Beatles, Feddie and the Deames o Bian Poole and the Temoloes? These thee goups ao on the shot-list fo coveted Cal -Alan Awads-tophies given by Mecca Dancing-to be pesented by the Duke of Edinbugh at Leiceste Squae Empie on Mach 23 The shot-list fo the most outstanding vocal ecod fo dancing is: "Glad All Ove", "She Loves You" " Like t" "Don't Talk To Him" and "Secet Love" nstumental discs shotlisted ae:"washington Squae", "Steptoo And Son", "Dance On" And out of Ted Heath, Bob Mille and Joe Loss will be chosen the most outstanding dance band - loade What would you nominations be? NORMAN KUHLKE of the Swinging Blue Jeans, told me of one bet he did not mind losing even though he won When "Hippy Hippy Shake" was eleased befoe Chistmas, all fou in the goup bet on how high the ecod would- cflmb in the chats Les Baid said, Ray Ennis eckoned 5 Ralph Ellis decided it would each No 0 and Noman put his money on 3 He won, and he had to stand the othe thee a pint of -bitte each TOM SPRNGFELD, cazy about Latin Ameican music, has etuned fom a Bazilian tip with two unusual instuments A 2 -sting local guita and a Coica--a wind instument which makes a noise like a gunting pig! of citics have said Gene LOTS Pitney's "Tulsa" hit owed a lot of its success to But Bachaach's backing Gene --we've a ae colou pictue of Tim on page 63- would be vey pleased to acknowledge the tuth of this Fo behind this waxing lies a stoy of Pitney's almost fanatical attention to deail He liked the tong when, he fist head it "But a woman could intepet these lyics bette than a man", he said "My ecoding will have to have an ' exta soma hing to make it a hit" Gene cabled musical diecto BUT/ Bachaach, who was is Euope making some ecodings with Malene Dieiich Back came a eply that But would not be fee fo some time "OK, 'll wait", said Pitney And he did His peseveance paid off How ight he was about the lyics being bette suited to a woman, shows in Dusty Spingfield's mavellous vesion of the song Pojected television seies fo Cliff Richad in the autultn Light Pogamme should ai " Easy Heat " fom am Sundays Moe could listen Tommy Steele went out of' his way to paise ase No, Watch fo Elizabeth Taylo in a cameo ole in "Becket" AR -TV will give gil singes a boost in a new seies, "Gils Eye View" t's planned fo Wednesdays Expect big film news fo Cilla Black soon Billy J Kame soon eveals what the "J" means NAME ADDRESS QUOTE OF THE MONTH Asked by an Austalian adio inteviewe what he thought of the Beatles, fuzzy -haied Joe Bown eplied " They'e geat But wish they'd get thei hai cut!" L -,_, ~lashed the cast oek of each month by Gioaat N,wNn lasteiv Tow«Houle, Southampton Sweet, WC2 and pinted web olaet n Encl,od by (u2, ll6un y the Sawn of M Dolpbia, Aylesbuy 9uti Sale Attente fo Austalia and New Zealand: Gene, R Gown (Alai+% LTD,: South Afica and Rhodesia: CneT,LL News Mosey, LTD: East Afica:EAs A,i,cis STAwoaw Lie Subsciption ate iacluduad po,uge foe one %Ta: To ai put o the Wold ti less Od_

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