the US Hot 100, though further progress there was checked when executive politics caused the cancellation of a tour. Three more singles made 1963’s domestic Top 20 before The Tornados became passé with the coming of Merseybeat. Sales dwindled, too, through releases that either repeated old ideas or made token concessions to current trends. Styles & Forms | ...
1959 and 1964 included chart-topping ‘Shakin’ All Over’ (1960) and ‘I’ll Never Get Over You’ (1963, Top 5). When The Pirates left Kidd in 1961, later joining The Tornados, they were replaced by Frank Farley (drums), John Spence (bass) and Mick Green (guitar). Kidd died in a car crash, and became a cult hero. Styles & Forms ...
follow-up barely touched the Top 40 and the project was abandoned. Steve Howe (guitar) became a founder member of Yes. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | The Tornados | Sixties | Rock ...
, this paltry number rose to an astonishing 65. Previously, just two British singles – the 1962 instrumentals ‘Stranger On The Shore’ by Acker Bilk and ‘Telstar’ by The Tornados, written, produced and mixed by the legendary British producer Joe Meek – had topped Billboard’s ‘Hot 100’. In 1964, nine of the 23 Billboard chart-toppers (for 26 out ...
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